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The Strategists

The Strategists Media Corporation

Stephen Carter does campaign strategy. Corey Hogan does communications strategy. Zain Velji sometimes remembers how to buckle his pants. Described as "sports talk radio for politics" by Face...

The Strategists Podcast Guide

Listen to The Strategists, a News & Politics podcast by The Strategists Media Corporation. Stream 114 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episode 4046: Ride Until Die

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips talk about what happens when the strategist becomes the spokesperson, whether the political backroom sti...

52:29Aug 11, 2026

Episode 4045: From the DMs

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips break down the increasingly crowded campaign to keep Alberta in Canada and ask whether anyone has the mo...

43:47Aug 7, 2026

Ministry of Podcasts: Episode 7

Be it resolved that the Minister of Podcasts, Stephen Carter, together with the Chair of Oral Questions, Zain Velji, do hereby call this sit...

51:25Jul 31, 2026

Episode 4044: How Carney Falls

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips break down the ways Mark Carney’s extended political honeymoon could finally come to an end, from a weak...

48:51Jul 27, 2026

Episode 4043: The Money vs The Many

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips break down the emerging fight between moneyed interests and economic populists in the Democratic Party,...

51:22Jul 22, 2026

Episode 4042: How Not to Be Seen

Stephen Carter and Zain Velji break down the politics of being seen, from Naheed Nenshi’s controversial Stampede photo with the Israeli amba...

40:43Jul 16, 2026

Episode 4040: The Ground Games

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips break down the latest referendum fundraising numbers and ask why conservative federalists seem to be get...

54:52Jul 6, 2026

Episode 4039: Amateur Lobbying Hour

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips break down Alberta’s increasingly murky referendum campaign, from the rules governing signs and fundrais...

58:17Jun 30, 2026

Episode 4038: The War on Fun

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips dive into Alberta’s referendum campaigns, the NDP’s struggle to turn a pro-Canada message into partisan...

55:06Jun 23, 2026

Episode 4035: The 45 Million Ballot Problem

Stephen Carter and Zain Velji dive into Elections Alberta’s plan to recruit 60,000 workers and count 45 million ballots, and what that could...

40:47Jun 10, 2026

Balance of Power: The Most Expensive Option

In a moment when Prairie politics feels increasingly untethered from reality, what happens when governments start making generational decisi...

43:38May 20, 2026

Balance of Power: Sit up Straight

In a province where politics increasingly feels like performance, what happens when the people who understand the stage best start talking o...

1:09:19May 14, 2026

Episode 4030: Man on a Journey

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips take the stage live in Edmonton for Carter’s accountability episode on the Edmonton Accelerants, the mil...

1:03:20May 12, 2026

Balance of Power: A Polluted Process

In a week where Alberta politics somehow got even messier, what happens when the process itself becomes the problem? This week on Balance of...

42:05May 8, 2026

Episode 4028: List Price

Stephen Carter and Shannon Phillips talk about the Alberta Liberal Party rejecting Carter’s referendum campaign plan, and what that means fo...

1:04:16May 5, 2026

Balance of Power: Gay Enough?

In a moment when trust in democracy feels fragile, what happens when the basic machinery of politics becomes the story? This week on Balance...

41:20May 1, 2026