Podcasts about Alberta, Canada

Hockey is the loudest thing in Alberta's listening, and in the clips on this page the province's two NHL cities are in opposite moods in the same April week. On Sportsnet Today 960 the Calgary desk is counting down to a loss: one more defeat to Los Angeles locks in a top-five draft position, and the studio is openly rooting for it. In Edmonton, Locked On Oilers - Daily Podcast On The Edmonton Oilers is setting a Game 1 lineup against Anaheim and pointing at a Draisaitl, Kapanen and Podkolzin trio that has outscored opponents 12-3 together. Around that split sit the shows about Alberta as a whole: provincial politics, land-use and clean-tech research, and baseball at the college and summer-league level.

Much of what plays here is really the cities' listening. The Calgary and Edmonton sports desks are the largest share by a distance, with an Edmonton city-council show and a Lethbridge baseball report beside them; a reader who wants one city can go to the Calgary, Edmonton or Lethbridge page directly.

What Alberta is

Alberta is a western Canadian province between British Columbia and Saskatchewan, running from the Rocky Mountains across prairie to boreal forest in the north. Its economy is closely tied to oil and gas; Calgary and Edmonton are its two large cities, and Edmonton is the capital.

Two hockey cities, two seasons

Calgary's shows are working through a lost year. Locked On Flames - Daily Podcast On The Calgary Flames is a solo monologue thinking in real time: the host declares Craig Conroy headed into a "full rebuild" after a fourth straight playoff miss, then has one of the Flames Unfiltered hosts on to grade the 2025-26 season. Flames Unfiltered - Calgary Flames Hockey Podcast itself is two fans thinking out loud, frustrated and blunt when the day calls for it; its trade-deadline clip relives the Nazem Kadri deal from inside a day spent watching a Colorado deal die and a Montreal one appear. Sportsnet Today 960 has Ryan Huska's line that the players showed "zero mail-in" effort on locker cleanout day; Big Show with Rusic & Rose has the number that sums up the season, Calgary rookies playing 403 games, more than the previous four seasons combined; both tell the story of Arseny Sergeyev's overnight promotion from the minors to an NHL net.

Edmonton's shows have the opposite problem: a good team that keeps frustrating its watchers anyway. The Austin Hockey Podcast, in a day-after discussion of a 5-2 win over Utah in which the Oilers gave up 18 shots, asks why a team that can defend like that does not do it every night. Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer is the measured, numbers-aware desk of the group, with Louie DeBrusk on Zach Hyman, who "plays the game the right way", and on staying disciplined against a Vancouver defence that is 22 or younger across the board. The Hockey Edmonton Show is filed under hockey but is not about the Oilers; its clips are interviews, Brock McGillis on coming out after a text from Brendan Burke, Danielle Gregg on qualifying for the Olympics.

Football and baseball

The Edmonton desks do not stop at hockey. Both Inside Sports and Oilers NOW carry the Elks' 36-34 win in Regina, decided by Vincent Blanchard's 57-yard kick: Inside Sports, with Gord Hinse on, makes the case that a kicker with that range lets an offence play less conservatively, and Morley Scott on Oilers NOW walks through how Edmonton recovered from its own eight-yard line to get there. In Calgary, Sports Talk with Jock Wilson is the looser hangout, with clips reaching back to 2020: golfer Graham DeLaet on why Rio felt more special than Augusta, Nik Lewis on Michael Irvin's physical receiving style.

Baseball is the sport followed at the provincial level. Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast moves briskly through CCBC and WCBL business: Logan Wedgwood on UBC's new CCBC team with "top-of-the-line" turf and shorter travel, a six-team playoff race that makes "those last two weeks of the season really matter", and a coach who spots a submarine arm slot and gets the best bullpen of a pitcher's life out of it. The Bullhorn: The Lethbridge Bulls Baseball Report does the same for one WCBL club, with brothers Carlin and Cardell Dick on hitting together in the winter and their expectations for the 2026 Bulls.

Provincial politics from different seats

The Breakdown With Nate Pike is rapid and interruptive, and allowed to be indignant. Geoff Dembicki lays out Danielle Smith's membership in a governors' group whose chair was later named Trump's Greenland envoy, the host asks why Smith will not say "we do not support the annexation of independent states or countries", and an episode with Duane Bratt works through a majority report warning that the minority map echoes U.S.-style gerrymandering and risks a Charter challenge. Alberta Advantage Podcast is political economy rooted in Alberta but not confined to it: Bill 2, which imposed a rejected teachers' contract, banned strikes and used the notwithstanding clause to block legal challenges, sits beside Canadian mining companies in Panama and Ecuador. Alberta Election Podcast is the campaign-side view, two friends unpacking the 2023 provincial election; its look-back clip starts from Acadia flipping by seven votes, and another lays out a persuasion playbook built on listening, trust and repeated conversations at the door. Below the province, Speaking Municipally covers Edmonton city council as two locally fluent people explaining votes: the Riverhawks' pitch to turn the Remax Field parking lot into housing, and the city's case that removing Whyte Avenue's scramble crosswalks cuts delays by 30 to 50 percent.

Land, carbon and ventures

Land Use Podcast, filed under environmental science, has Nicole Bonnett on climate-induced relocation, citing the voluntary home buyout program after the 2013 Bow River flood in Calgary, whose uptake was so limited it was essentially scrapped, and Fangliang He arguing that the province's boreal forest carbon potential was underestimated because the tree count came out 30% higher. Carbon Copy, from ERA, covers clean-tech engineering and money: Wyvern's Gen 2 instrument aimed at methane leaks below 50 kilograms per hour and at Alberta wildfire prediction, and a guest, Peter, who calls AI data centres basically a heater. Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas - the Rainforest podcast is the entrepreneur interview series, warm and plain-spoken: Bibiana Kala on tending your "small corner" instead of trying to change the world, and Damien saying sign-ups are noise if nobody is paying.

History and campus

RadioKBPV's Podcast is local history from the Pincher Creek and Waterton country, told in the first person. Its Talking Tombstones run stages cemetery-style biographies as monologues: Father Albert Lacombe recalling the log church he designed with Remy Beauvais and the residential school whose first winter he called "hell on earth"; Bertha Ecklund, at 11, riding 14 hours alone from Waterton to Raymond to get help for her grandmother. Choose UCalgary Podcast covers programs, admissions and campus life at UCalgary, and its clips are practical: a rocket exchange that flew a dual honours student to Norway, micro placements with no interview, English proficiency rules for GCE applicants.

Where to start

• For the hockey argument at full volume: the Flames Unfiltered trade-deadline clip for Calgary, The Austin Hockey Podcast's day-after discussion for Edmonton.
• For the province's politics: The Breakdown With Nate Pike on Danielle Smith and Greenland, then Alberta Advantage Podcast on Bill 2.
• For Alberta as land and industry: Land Use Podcast on relocation after the 2013 flood, and Carbon Copy on methane seen from space.
• For a change of pace: RadioKBPV's Podcast and its Talking Tombstones, or Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast as the baseball season turns.

The Alberta feed on this page plays clips from these shows.