It all started in late 2015 when overnight, the Alberta government raised the beer tax on out-of-province beers by up to 166 per cent.

Two Canadian brewers, one based in Saskatoon and the other in Toronto, took the Alberta government to court, arguing that the tax hike amounted to an interprovincial barrier to free trade which was a violation of the constitution.

After three years of legal wrangling, a court ruled in favour of Great Western Brewing and Steam Whistle Brewing, awarding $2M total in restitution to the two companies.

Consequently, Alberta taxpayers are on the hook to two out-of-province companies because the NDP thought they could do things that were not allowed.

But instead of cutting their losses, the NDP continue to drag these two private companies back to court to appeal the restitution order.

My guest tonight suspects the NDP don't want to be associated with the bad optics of a two million dollar payout and a court loss on the eve of an election. And she should know, since she fought the same battle against the unconstitutional tax hike, only she did it before a trade tribunal — and she won.

Joining me tonight to discuss the Notley NDP’s latest attack on private enterprise is Bo Vitanov of Calgary's Artisan Ales.

• How bad is LavScam getting for Justin Trudeau? Would you believe that dozens of young women who would’ve given him a standing ovation in the House of Commons just a few months ago, are now literally turning their backs on the PM?

Rebel Commander Ezra Levant has the latest on the ongoing SNC-Lavalin dumpster fire.

• So our Calgary Mission Specialist was in the riding of Calgary Varsity the other day doing what all reporters do: asking questions. But current NDP candidate/former communist Ann McGrath didn’t care for his questions. So she called the cops!

Keenan Bexte joins us with the details!

• Our Tinsletown Rebel recently attended a screening of the entire Dark Knight trilogy, an event hosted by director Christopher Nolan himself. Unsurprisingly, many on the left loathe the right-of-centre narrative of these films.

Ben Davies joins us to explain why these leftists are really a bunch of jokers.

• And finally letters. I’ll share some of your responses regarding the removal of a high-risk transgender pedophile from a female halfway house in Brampton, Ontario. Apparently he violated his parole conditions in less than a week – gee, who saw that coming?

The second week was even crazier than the first.

NDP activists and their proxies in the left-leaning media are oozing desperation. This week, NDPers protested proposed UCP changes to GSA laws that would bring Alberta in-line with nine other provinces in Canada.

The changes if implemented, would allow teachers to use their discretion to notify parents if their child joins a gay-straight alliance support group. The current law prohibits parental notification under any circumstances.

There was only one reporter at the astro-turf protest bringing you the other side of the story. And he was harassed and abused by a so-called “anti-bullying” tolerance mob, catching all of it on camera.

There is only one reporter asking Notley hard questions about her alleged drug-abusing cabinet Minister Deron Bilous, and only one reporter tracking down failed Education Minister David Eggen to ask him about Alberta’s failing test scores.

Of course, I’m talking about my Calgary based Rebel colleague, Keean Bexte.

Keenan joins me tonight in an interview we recorded yesterday to look back at the first half of Notley’s last campaign as Premier of Alberta.

P.S. To get your copy of Stop Notley: The Case For Throwing Out The NDP, and to sign up to get your very own orange lawn sign to help promote my book - because you know the mainstream media won’t give it any coverage - go to StopNotley.com.

• What a turn of events! It looked like Jussie Smollett was going to be doing some time in the slammer for that outrageous hoax he masterminded. But then, all charges were dropped.

Amanda Head will explain why it’s very convenient to have friends in high places these days – and why this story is far from over.

• Are you transphobic? If you’re not sure, you can take the transphobia quiz in a new book called, “Transphobia – Deal With It and be a Gender Transcender.” Did I mention that the propaganda in this book is being foisted on 11-year-old kids in Nova Scotia schools?

Keean Bexte has all the unbelievable details.

• Our resident trouble-maker, Sheila Gunn Reid, has been criss-crossing Alberta with her Stop Notley signs. Judging by the size of the crowd that greeted her in Nisku, and what they had to say about why many of them drove so far to get their sign, it would appear major regime change will occur in the weeks ahead.

Sheila Gunn Reid joins us tonight to talk about how the pop-up sign stops across the province to promote her new book, “Stop Notley: The Case For Throwing Out The NDP,” are going.

• And finally letters. I’ll share some of your responses regarding my brief interview with Jordan Hunt, that Toronto male feminist who seems to have a fetish for physically assaulting women who espouse opinions that… trigger him. Spoiler alert: he didn’t lay a hand on me during our encounter. I wonder why?

Alberta's Liberation Day from the NDP will come on April 16th, 2019, but in the meantime, they’re going as low as they possibly can to attack the United Conservative Party.

We’ve seen thirty year old allegations of homophobia, leaked Facebook messages, and accusations of racism and white supremacy galore from the NDP and their enablers in the mainstream media.

But, character assassination is all the NDP really have since they don’t have a record of fiscal competence, economic growth, job creation, pipeline construction, or standing up for Alberta against Trudeau to campaign on.

The rhetoric coming from the NDP camp is over the top and the policy announcements are nearly nonexistent.

Joining me tonight to try to make sense of the NDP hyperbole and innuendo, and to dissect the first week of what is going to be an insufferable 28 days, is William McBeath of Save Calgary.

Next fall, Canada will be plunged into the depths of a Federal election campaign.

That means we have a big job ahead of us - especially for me and my Alberta Rebel colleague, Keean Bexte. The mainstream media in Alberta, with the exception of a select few, has completely abdicated their duty to hold the government to account on behalf of the people.

Instead, the media holds the people to account on behalf of the government, often naming and shaming private citizens who are guilty of “wrong-think” - scolding normal people for not protesting the government in an MSM approved manner, and for not taking the destruction of the Alberta economy (and often their own lives) in stride.

Keean has been making waves since the day he started with us. He punches up, and he is not afraid of a fight, taking on the Alberta Education Minister, David Eggen, for failing Alberta students, and confronting convicted terrorist Omar Khadr outside of the Edmonton courthouse.

Today on the show, in an interview we recorded New Year’s Day, Keean and I discuss some of his favourite stories since he came on board, who takes top spot for worst NDP cabinet minister and to share his plans for 2019.

Almost immediately after taking office, they enacted protectionist policies against beer imports and simultaneously started subsidizing Alberta microbrewers every single month with grants.

It was a poorly thought-out plan to bolster Alberta's small brewing industry that picked winners and losers and brought unintended consequences as importers were then burdened with trying to sell a much more expensive product into a market proliferated with government subsidized beers.

The protectionist policies and beer tax hikes spawned trade disputes between provinces and legal challenges pitting Alberta small businesses against the government.

Trade tribunal after trade tribunal ruled against the government but they persisted with frivolous appeals that kept importers embroiled in expensive legal battles in order to exhaust their resources.

But now, those small businesses have utterly defeated the government, forcing them to repeal their taxes and tariffs, bringing them back to 2015 levels before the government tried to “fix” what was never broken.

And a six pack of beer is about to get a whole lot cheaper in Alberta in 2019.

Joining me tonight to tell her side of the story about how she fought the government behemoth and won, is Bo Vitanov from Artisan Ales.