The World Famous Annalise and Carter Show: Episode 2: Carter Tells All!

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It's the world-famous Annalise and Carter Show, featuring

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featuring Annalise Klingbeil and Stephen Carter!

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Welcome to the world-famous Annalise and Carter Show. I thought I got top, Ellie. Carter

Annalise 0:21

Carter and Annalise. It's Carter and Annalise. Yeah,

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mean, we had it all set. Stephen and Annalise.

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Annalise. Annalise and Carter. Can we go back and, here, let's try it again. again welcome

Carter 0:30

simple cut it welcome sorry

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sorry i'm talking welcome over here i'm sorry welcome okay

Carter 0:34

okay now try it okay welcome

Annalise 0:36

welcome it's annalise and carter we've been stampeding all week you did it wrong

Annalise 0:42

oh my god carter

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carter i hardly recognize you without a cowboy hat on i

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i know it's been crazy i've seen you a hundred times i've seen

Annalise 0:49

seen you so many times in the whole

Annalise 0:51

get up you've you've had a smile plastered on your face for the last how many

Annalise 0:56

days has it been eight days it's

Carter 0:57

it's been a fairly happy stampede for me why it's been pretty good why why yeah because because uh i got a performing party i got a i got shit going on i got things that are making me happy okay you know like i

Carter 1:09

i am motivated by achieving great things and uh you know right now we're achieving those great achieving

Annalise 1:15

achieving great things and pissing people off i i did witness uh some some anger some hostility towards stephen carter at uh at one

Annalise 1:23

event that we were at i don't know if you want want to talk about that on the podcast that was

Carter 1:29

janet didn't turn janet brown i told her to uh fuck off janet brown and uh she took it seriously and uh we apologized to her we behind the paywall can

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can we just i'm gonna are you apologizing carter

Annalise 1:45

who's we you apologize mostly

Carter 1:47

i mean it was the other guys too i mean the guys led me there obviously you

Carter 1:52

i wouldn't just do that on my own yeah but today we're putting this one behind the paywall too so uh perfect

Carter 1:57

there's another apology to to janet brown uh behind the payroll are

Annalise 2:01

are you actually apologizing

Carter 2:06

really i think it was a joke that she didn't get any

Annalise 2:09

any other uh any other people get matched at you at stampede events or it's just been all smiles and handshakes smiles

Carter 2:15

smiles and handshakes i mean there was a few people that i run into like ward sutherland who used to be a counselor in ward one yeah who hates me with the passion of seven sons uh so i uh i i like that fiery hot intensity whenever i see him do

Annalise 2:32

do you talk do you talk when you see him no

Carter 2:35

we walk past each other

Annalise 2:36

other we brush past

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past each other there's a few people in the brush past category jyoti gandek shania sharp ward sutherland okay just

Annalise 2:45

just a short list

Carter 2:48

there's another list list of people who who i go up to and i talk to but we visit you know we physically don't like each other and the body language the body language and i enjoy those yeah

Carter 2:59

i enjoy those more than i should i think yeah and

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i think that should be not a good thing and

Annalise 3:04

and then there's people that you like that you just keep seeing annalise

Carter 3:07

annalise clingbeil that top of the list yeah

Annalise 3:10

uh we're gonna do something a little different stephen carter it's just you and i we keep bumping into to each other at these things we keep uh seeing municipal people about we're gonna talk a whole episode this is like cory and zane's worst nightmare a whole episode about municipal politics are you ready i

Carter 3:27

am so excited because this would i i don't think cory and zane will even listen they

Annalise 3:32

they won't they won't so you can say brings

Carter 3:34

brings me great joy say

Annalise 3:35

say anything you want about cory

Carter 3:37

cory and zane right

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right throughout the episode uh

Annalise 3:40

yeah they're not gonna listen i okay before Before we get into it, and there's a lot I want to get into because I know we're often not allowed to talk about municipal politics on

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on this episode. I know, because they don't understand how important municipal politics is. Why

Carter 3:55

Why? Because it's literally the water going uphill and the poop going downhill. It's the roads that we drive on. It's everything that we use on an everyday basis. Without municipal government, our lives would grind to a halt. and i would argue that without the federal government uh nothing would change nothing would change so that's

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yeah that's that's for you buddy nothing would change and

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and obviously zane has nothing has ever changed from what zane does yeah

Annalise 4:26

but snow clearing and potholes and the house going up aside you selling both of us are experiencing right now like yeah

Carter 4:32

yeah i'm actually watching it's supposed to be coming down in the next day or two video

Annalise 4:36

video it so i can and show my child he is the my three-year-old is obsessed with demolition videos as long as you assure him that our house is not getting demolished um

Annalise 4:46

yeah but i'm gonna

Carter 4:47

gonna do your house is next just end

Annalise 4:49

end it with that don't he will have nightmares um but yeah municipal municipal no seriously there's so much development where i live that it's like every third day on the walk to daycare we see something being torn down and he's really worried that our house is next so So we've had to explain the

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criteria of when a house gets knocked down.

Annalise 5:08

But municipal is exciting, and it's different this year with the party system. So we're going to get into it. We're going to talk about Calgary, talk a bit about Edmonton. Before we do, Stephen Carter, can

Annalise 5:23

who you are helping? Who I

Carter 5:26

I am helping? Yeah,

Annalise 5:26

Yeah, because, yeah, I have questions. I've got some tough ones. But I think we got to disclose at the beginning our interests, our conflicts.

Carter 5:35

I'm working with Better Edmonton in Edmonton, Tim Cartmell, and 12 candidates up there running for council. Full slate, full party. I'm working with the Calgary Party in Calgary with Brian Thiessen and a current slate of 11 people, although it looks like I might be able to go up to 14 in the next two weeks.

Annalise 5:55

Okay. So those are your interests out there. Those

Carter 5:59

Those are my conflicts of interest. Yeah.

Carter 6:02

I don't have any.

Annalise 6:03

any. I have some friends who are running who I advise, but I am currently not being paged by any campaigns. I did used to cover City Hall as a journalist, so I get it. I know City Hall.

Carter 6:14

You're kind of a big deal. I know

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know how important it is.

Annalise 6:17

I'm not a big deal, but I'm very plugged in municipally.

Carter 6:21

Yes, you are. You're one of my go-to people to find out the latest rumors,

Annalise 6:24

rumors, the latest scandal. I have friends in high places.

Annalise 6:27

Okay, so first segment, party, party, party. Let's talk about the parties, Stephen

Annalise 6:34

Stephen Carter. So for those who are still listening, who are interested in municipal politics, a part of why I wanted to talk municipal is that it's different this year in Calgary and Edmonton specifically. So last year, Daniel Smith's UCP government tabled legislation that introduces political parties to our municipal elections only

Annalise 6:53

only in Alberta's two big municipalities in Calgary and Edmonton.

Annalise 6:57

I guess it's worth noting that a government survey kind of at the time that Post Media Access by FOIP showed

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showed more than 70% of respondents opposed to adding political parties. And there's been other polling that shows the same thing. Alberta municipalities have done polling that shows similar. So in Calgary, we have the Calgary Party, which Stephen Carter can tell us more about. But is it fair, Carter, to call the Calgary Party center, center-left? What are we calling it?

Carter 7:26

I think we're going really center. I think that we're going for a really pragmatic party that approaches

Carter 7:31

approaches problems from the left and the right.

Annalise 7:33

Oh, center, of course. We'll get into why you're branding it that way. But so we have the Calgary Party center, communities first, First, which I think it's fair to say is a conservative party that several incumbent conservative leading councillors are running with.

Annalise 7:47

Also, a better Calgary party. I don't know if you know more than I do. I don't think they have any candidates yet.

Carter 7:53

They do. They have six or seven candidates. Do

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Mostly in the south. You know

Annalise 8:00

your suburban conservative politics than

Carter 8:03

Well, I'm running against them.

Annalise 8:07

Fair. You're doing your job. Good.

Carter 8:09

Good. I need to pay attention. Okay,

Annalise 8:10

Okay, so three parties in Calgary. None of them have the full 15 yet, full slate of 15 candidates yet. And I guess worth mentioning in the race for mayor is our incumbent mayor, Jody Gondek. Jeremy Farkas, who was a city councillor who ran last time for mayor, came in second. And Jeff Davison, who also was a city councillor who ran for mayor last time, came in third. So both of them have had a term away from council. And then also running for mayor is Sonia Sharp, who is running with Communities First, who is a current city councillor. And then Stephen Carter's guy, Brian Thiessen, he's been everywhere this stampede, who's running with the Calgary party.

Annalise 8:50

Give me a brief rundown of the Edmonton scene. There's Better Edmonton.

Annalise 8:55

And then are the two, the PACE, Principled Accountable Coalition for Edmonton party? party

Carter 9:02

pace is running a few candidates i think that they've got six that are running right now uh they're a right of center party they're right wing uh they combined with tap yeg um which was going to be a third party but these guys wound up being able to merge uh whereas communities first and a better calgary uh weren't able to merge they weren't able to to pull it off so uh we have have uh two parties in edmonton three parties in calgary and

Annalise 9:30

and how would you brand better edmonton it's more right of center it's

Carter 9:36

it's center right tim cartmell i think is is more right wing but uh he's a pretty pragmatic guy he always likes to talk about his engineering background and approaching uh problem solving from that engineer's background rather than an ideological point of view so

Annalise 9:51

so why so province introduced these rules and i feel like people went two very different There's people who are like, I'm an independent. We don't need political parties in municipal politics. People don't want political parties in municipal politics. Other people, such as you, who are like, hey, there's parties. I'm going to run some parties. Not just one, but two. So talk to me about why.

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