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The Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep.65 - Alberta NDP MLA & Leadership Candidate Kathleen Hanley on the Race, the Economy, Caucus Management and MoreIn the second live episode of Ellected in this special series of conversations with the Alberta NDP leadership candidates, host Sarah Elder-Chamanara sits down with MLA Kathleen Ganley. *Please note that due to a very unfortunate internet issue when recording, the recording cuts off abruptly.*Hear Kathleen discuss the entry of Nenshi into the race, her focus on the economy and how that the economy is what will win the Alberta NDP the next election in 2027, what the membership tent would like under her leadership, caucus management and much, much more.More about K...2024-03-0939 min
The Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep.64 - Alberta NDP MLA & Leadership Candidate Rakhi Pancholi on Hope, Optimism & Big Ideas for AlbertaIn the first ever episode of Ellected recorded in-front of a live audience, host Sarah Elder-Chamanara sits down with NDP MLA and leadership candidate Rakhi Pancholi for the first in a series of podcasts with all of the candidates running to be the next leader of the Alberta NDP.Hear from Rakhi about why she's running, her thoughts on "lending" votes to the Alberta NDP in the 2023 provincial election campaign, the return of hope and optimism in Alberta politics, her plans for all day kindergarten, the upcoming launch of her climate policies and so much more. 2024-03-0346 min
Political Pulse with Ryan PainterSarah Elder-Chamanara | The Ryan Painter PodcastIn today's episode I talk about getting off Twitter, a rally I helped organize in support of the Jewish community (with interviews from three rally attendees), and I interview the founder and creative director of Madame Premier Sarah Elder-Chamanara about feminism, antisemitism, ideological alignment, and her very successful brand.Check out Madame Premiere here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.politicalpulse.ca/subscribe2024-02-201h 37
The Political Pulse PodcastSarah Elder-Chamanara | The Ryan Painter PodcastIn today's episode I talk about getting off Twitter, a rally I helped organize in support of the Jewish community (with interviews from three rally attendees), and I interview the founder and creative director of Madame Premier Sarah Elder-Chamanara about feminism, antisemitism, ideological alignment, and her very successful brand.
Check out Madame Premiere here.2024-02-201h 37The Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 63 - Calgary City Councillor Jasmine Mian on Equitable Remote Work Policies for Parents in PoliticsIn Ep. 63 of Ellected join host and founder of Madame Premier Sarah Elder-Chamanara in discussion with Calgary City Councillor, former Olympian and mom Jasmine Mian in a discussion on the city's remote work policy for council members in response to a staff recommendation to change council’s code of conduct and procedure bylaws to limit councillors’ ability to tune in to meetings virtually because of how some members of council abused the policy. Mian introduced an amendment to make sure councillors are able to continue to work remotely as protected grounds of the Alberta Human Rights Act.Also...2024-02-1635 min
Stop Stressing Me Out[From The Vault] How to Have Difficult Conversations With People You Disagree With with Sarah Elder ChamanaraAs we prepare to launch our new season on Workplace Wellbeing and Stress Management, we’re pulling out a never-before heard episode which is quite timely. Today we’re joined by entrepreneur, activist, speaker, podcast host and incredible mom (among many other titles), Sarah Elder-Chamanara.
You may know Sarah from her incredible business, Madame Premier, which is all about empowering women in politics. What started as a t-shirt design business has grown into a full-fledged community that brings people together to talk about the tough issues we face today.
In a time th...2024-01-3154 minThe Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 62 - Orit Sulitzeanu on the Sexual Violence of October 7th in IsraelIn Ellected Ep. 62 join Sarah in conversation with Orit Sulitzeanu, the exectuvite director of The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, about the sexual violence committed on October 7th in Israel.Hear about what happened on October 7th from a leader committed to combating sexual violence on a daily basis in Israel who now educates the world on what took place that day.To learn more about The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, please click here.More about Orit Sulitzeanu:Orit has served as executive director of...2024-01-1556 min
Beyond a BallotThe Second Dinner Party - The State of the Federal-Provincial RelationshipAmanda and Rachael welcome Ginny Roth, Sally Housser and Sarah Elder-Chamanara to their second "dinner party" to talk about the state of federal-provincial relations in Canada. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/beyondaballot/2023-11-1057 minThe Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 61 - Federal Conservative Convention Recap with Allie BladesAllie Blades of Mash Strategies and Political Capital panelist joins host Sarah Elder-Chamanara to recap the federal Conservative Party convention in Quebec City with breakout discussions on the pop-up appearances by two Liberal government ministers and some of the policies passed by those in attendance.2023-09-2646 minThe Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 60 - Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on Alberta Post Secondary Campuses Ep.Read the report on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Alberta Post- Secondary Education here.More about the Council of Alberta University Students:Represents over 114,000 undergraduate students from the University of Alberta, the University of Lethbridge, Mount Royal University, MacEwan University, and Athabasca University to the public, government and other post-secondary education stakeholders. Based in Edmonton, CAUS is a non-partisan and active advocacy group driven by their members looking to ensure a fully accessible and high quality system of education in Alberta.The board is comprised of representatives from of...2023-09-1939 minThe Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 59 - Calgary City Councillor Kourtney Penner on Housing - A Madame Premier PodcastHousing, housing, housing. It’s a hot topic across Canada as we struggle with affordability, inflation and access to housing. This week Calgary City Council will chose between action on housing or the status quo and in episode 59 of Ellected, Calgary city councillor Kourtney Penner joins the podcast to talk about the decision she and her colleagues face in accepting or rejecting an 80 point plan to address the housing crisis. It’s one of the 80 recommended points in the report to update a type of zoning in certain areas to allow for more types of housing and instead of bein...2023-09-1227 minThe Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 57 - Campaign University with George Affleck & Mike WilsonIn episode 57 of Ellected, learn about Campaign University, a new initiative for anyone discontent with the current state of politics and interested in running or getting involved. Created and run by three political veterans, former Vancouver city councillor George Affleck and veteran campaigners Mike Wilson and Emile Scheffel, they are disrupting the status quo of politics by telling you exactly how things work.More about George Affleck:George Affleck won his first election by doing his own marketing and was able to secure his seat despite a p...2023-09-0141 minThe Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 56 - Kate McKenzie Co-Director of The Secret MarathonIn this episode of Ellected, your Host Sarah Elder-Chamanara speaks with Kate McKenzie, the co-director of the film The Secret Marathon, the true story of women training and running a marathon in Afghanistan.The majority of the women's world take running for granted. Why? Because we run when we want, in whatever dress we want and where we want for the most part. Women in Afghanistan? Running is something that wasn't allowed for a very long time and the short window in which it was allowed has closed yet again. Hear Sarah and Kate speak about how T...2023-07-0537 minThe Briefing Note PodcastEllected Ep. 55 - Julia Anderson, CEO of Canadian Partnership for Women & Children's HealthIn this episode of Ellected, Sarah chats with Julia Anderson, the CEO of Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health (CanWaCH), a membership organization of more than 100 Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOS), academic institutions, health professional associations and individuals partnering to improve health outcomes for women and children in more than 1,000 communities worldwide.Julia and Sarah discuss the work of CanWaCH, how the organization came to be under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the current government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, why the work of international investment in the areas of women's and children's health is critically...2023-06-0833 minThe Briefing Note PodcastAlberta Provincial Election Midpoint Recap - Ellected Ep. 54Welcome to a the second special Alberta provincial election edition of Ellected with your host Sarah Elder-Chamanara and special guest to the podcast Sarah Biggs.In this halfway point recap of the Alberta election campaign, Sarah and Sarah go over the debate, polling, the ongoing issue that is Artur Pawlowski, they do a check-in on where the NDP and UCP are going into the last week (hurrah!), advance voting and more.More about Sarah Elder-Chamanara:Sarah Elder-Chamanara is the founder, creative director, designer and owner of Madame Premier, a feminist, political...2023-05-2457 minThe Briefing Note PodcastAlberta Provincial Election Week 1 Recap - Ellected Ep. 53Welcome to a special Alberta provincial election edition of Ellected with your host Sarah Elder-Chamanara and special guest to the podcast Sarah Biggs.In what will be a weekly podcast leading up to Election Day on May 29th, Sarah and Sarah talk through their thoughts on the first week, Danielle Smith being MIA, the Calgary arena deal, Danielle S mith's newly unearthed comments equating vaccinated Albertans with followers of Hitler during World War 2, the ongoing fire situation and more.More about Sarah Elder-Chamanara:Sarah Elder-Chamanara is the founder, creative director, designer...2023-05-0953 minThe Briefing Note PodcastKristin Raworth - Ellected Ep. 52Content Warning - This episode contains discussions of sexual assault.In Ellected Ep. 52 host Sarah Elder-Chamanara talks with victim advocate Kristin Raworth about her article in The Line titled Sexual Violence Survivors Are Still Being Let Down. Kristin and Sarah talk about what it means for Prime Minister Trudeau to call himself and his government "feminist", what the #MeToo movement meant to Kristin, Hockey Canada, the Canadian military, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, toxic masculinity and more but most of all, the lack of action in all ways in ending violence...2022-12-3139 minThe Briefing Note PodcastSabrina Grover - Ellected Ep. 51In Episode 51 Ellected’s host Sarah Elder-Chamanara sat down for an in-person conversation with Sabrina Grover, fresh off her win as Mark Sutcliffe’s campaign manager in the hotly contested Ottawa mayoral elections. Sabrina and Sarah talk about the Ottawa campaign, including what you need to do to win outside of party politics, how talking with people you don’t agree with can be a good thing, why elections aren’t won on Twitter, the long overdue participation of women in colour in lead campaign roles and so much more. More about Sabrina Grover:Sabrina is...2022-12-1447 minThe Briefing Note PodcastPremier Caroline Cochrane - Ellected Ep. 5050 episodes of Ellected! And what an episode to share to mark the milestone - a conversation with the Premier of the North West Territories Caroline Cochrane. In this episode of Ellected, Premier Cochrane shares some very personal stories of her youth including be homeless as a teenager and young mother with a grade nine education. Premier Cochrane is very deliberate and intentional in her actions and her advocacy to see more people, more women, more Indigenous people, more improvised people in politics because, as you hear often on Ellected, it matters who is at the...2022-11-3038 min