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Ryan Jespersen
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Host of #RealTalkRJ. Emcee. Keynote speaker.

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Lest we forget. At 99 years of age, D-Day veteran Marty Jones remembers...

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"Forgiveness and Grace" - WWII Veteran Marty Jones
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November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Mark Carney calls pipeline talk "so boring" in front of a Toronto audience, triggering most of Alberta. @supriya.bsky.social says there's a different (and positive) way to interpret the PM's comment. What do you make of it?

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November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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YOUCAN Youth Services is doing such important work helping young people out of harm's way and onto paths of economic independence. I'm honoured to host their annual Celebration of Success.

Please support YOUCAN's capital campaign to raise $2.5M to transform their new #yegdt location: youcan.ca #yeg
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"By continuing to live their lives, it's a resistance to what's being carried out."

Alberta's Dr. Ian MacNairn checks in with #RealTalkRJ from the ER at Al-Aqsa Hospital in #Gaza.

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November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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WHISKY LOVERS: pick up a bottle of limited edition Whisky Rose to help raise $25,000 for YWCA Edmonton's Rose Campaign! $100/bottle at Hansen Distillery -- 17412 111 Avenue in #yeg. 100% of proceeds go to the YWCA!

#RealTalkRJ is proud to support this campaign: ywcaofedmonton.org/events/rose-... 🥃🌹
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Free transit. A rent freeze. Universal child care. City-owned grocery stores. Zain Velji and and Puneeta McBryan on the strategy behind Zohran Mamdani's historic rise as NYC's next mayor, and whether or not it would work in Canada...

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November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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How did "the banker" do on his first federal budget? @edmontonchamber.bsky.social's Heather Thomson, BILD Edmonton Metro's Kalen Anderson, and Qualico's Mike Saunders dig into the details on #RealTalkRJ.

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November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"If they put me on a stretching rack, I wouldn't apologize." Ontario Premier Doug Ford and PM Mark Carney don't exactly see eye to eye on dealing with POTUS...

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November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Physicist & engineer @davidkeith.bsky.social heard CCS Knowledge Centre's James Fann was joining us on the next episode of #RealTalkRJ, so he preloaded a question on carbon capture & storage.

Thoughts?

KEITH: rtrj.info/103125RTRT

FANN: rtrj.info/110325CCS

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Is Carbon Capture All It's Cracked Up To Be?
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November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Canada needs to catch up! @energyvsclimate.bsky.social hosts @davidkeith.bsky.social, @shastingssimon.bsky.social, & Ed Whittingham lay out how we're lagging behind in matters of energy, environment, and the economy...

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November 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Will opposition parties force a Christmas election, or will PM Mark Carney's minority government garner enough budget support to survive? @supriya.bsky.social and I discuss...

📺 FULL: rtrj.info/110325Supriya

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November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Does Premier Danielle Smith plan on normalizing use of the notwithstanding clause in Alberta? Strategist Sharan Kaur gets into the "grey areas" of strikes and suspending rights...

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October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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"There's no prosthetic for an amputated spirit." Hundreds of teachers, principals, students, and parents poured out their hearts to talk@ryanjespersen.com throughout the teachers' strike. Where's your head at today?

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"There's No Prosthetic for an Amputated Spirit."
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October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Evan Li's life changed when his mic was cut at an #AlbertaNext town hall. The grade 12 student talks to us about becoming a sounding board for other frustrated students, and backing Alberta teachers' right to strike.

📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102925Evan

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"Classroom conditions directly affect our learning conditions."
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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Nearly HALF A MILLION signatures on his #ForeverCanadian petition, but @lukaszukab.bsky.social says he doesn't actually want a referendum on Alberta's future in or outside of 🇨🇦. I say bring it on.

How about you?

📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102925Thomas

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Do You Want a Referendum on Alberta Separation?
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October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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With the relationship between teachers & government badly damaged, will Alberta be able to recruit 3,000 new hires? Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides talks to #RealTalkRJ about the risk of invoking the notwithstanding clause...

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October 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Premier Danielle Smith goes with the nuclear option in ending Alberta's teachers' strike. Political scientist Dr. @duanebratt.bsky.social says teachers are under attack, and the worst could be yet to come...

📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102825Bratt

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October 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Thousands of Alberta separatists rally at the Legislature grounds, and I'll be honest - I don't love it.

@supriya.bsky.social asks me to "Albertasplain" what's going on...

📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102725Supriya

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October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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ICYMI, here's our exclusive with Edmonton mayor-elect @andrewknack.bsky.social: rtrj.info/102325Knack
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Former education minister @lukaszukab.bsky.social says Danielle Smith's UCP hasn't done enough to end the teachers' strike, and should reevaluate private school funding in Alberta.

Do you agree or disagree?

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Former Alberta Education Minister Calls Out Private School Funding
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October 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"The government has failed to signal that they even respect education."

@cherylanneo.bsky.social, Erika Barootes, and I discuss what's next for Alberta's teachers. Do you support the government ordering them back to work?

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October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Alberta's independent schools have become "a lightning rod" through the teachers' strike, says John Jagersma.

The AISCA executive director says defunding private schools would cost Alberta more, not less. Thoughts?

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October 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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What qualifies as a "nation-building" project, anyway?

@supriya.bsky.social and I debate the merits of Premier Danielle Smith's ask for a new pipeline to the West Coast. Where do you stand on it?

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October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Edmontonians were apparently furious at a "dysfunctional" #yegcc, yet fewer than one in three showed up to vote, and all but one councillor won re-election.

Sarah Hamilton tries to make sense of it all...

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🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102225 #yeg

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"Dysfunction" at Edmonton City Hall
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October 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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An excellent conversation! #yeg #yegcc #abpoli #RealTalkRJ
timquerengesser.bsky.social Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 21d
I joined @maxfawcett.bsky.social and Karen Leibovici on @ryanjespersen.bsky.social this morning to discuss the #yeg and #yyc elections. Karen and I then talked privately for 20 minutes afterwards about how Edmonton's mayor could, possibly, get the province on board.

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Albertans Wait for Results // Jays Punch Their Ticket
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October 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM