Podcasts about Alberta, Canada

Early in Bill 25, Straight of Hormuz, Gerrymandering, an April episode of Shaye Ganam, a guest defending the government's school bill says parents have raised concerns about bias in classrooms. The follow-up comes at once: "In what capacity do you have any data? Do you have any evidence?" The guest concedes there is no survey data. The rest of the segment works in the space between a stated problem and a measured one.

That demand for receipts runs through the school-bill discussion. The loudest argument is constitutional. In May 2026, AP reported that a proposed October vote would ask whether Alberta should remain in Canada or pursue the constitutional steps toward a binding separation referendum. The political shows fight over the process around that question as hard as over the question itself. Beside them sits a deep layer of hockey talk, where the same instinct to audit decisions is turned on general managers and draft odds.

Many of these shows, and most of the sports talk, are about Calgary or Edmonton. The Calgary page and the Edmonton page go further into each city, and the Canada page holds the national picture.

What Alberta is

Alberta is a Canadian province between British Columbia and Saskatchewan, with Edmonton as its capital. Canadian Heritage lists its total area as roughly 661,000 square kilometres. Its economic identity is closely associated with its substantial oil and natural-gas resources.

Arguing over the rules

The Breakdown With Nate Pike is a provincial politics show whose makers say they are not journalists, and it is the most direct route into the separation fight. Pike is openly critical of the government, so the guests carry the weight. In Episode 8.15 - Are the UCP Gerrymandering? - with Dr Duane Bratt!, the political scientist defends electoral boundaries commissions with a line worth keeping: "It is good to be boring." He walks through the shift from the commission's unanimous report to its majority report, choosing those labels deliberately. He also says he has no problem with some of the changes, including the handling of Lesser Slave Lake.

In Episode 8.16 - Forever Canadian with Thomas Lukaszuk!, recorded April 7, Lukaszuk says the Forever Canadian petition sits before an all-party committee that had yet to meet. The 111-minute Episode 8.09 - Alberta Recall Panel! is rawer. Residents, including two veterans and a Calgary Board of Education teacher, describe unanswered emails. One describes about an hour spent waiting in the cold for a session that turned out to have no public viewing.

Shaye Ganam belongs with the Calgary page. Its publisher describes it as a weekday show on 880 CHED in Edmonton and QR Calgary, and it works with a radio desk's range. Pipelines, Poilievre, Prediction Markets ranges from a Yale researcher on prediction markets to a caller on a coal project in the south. The caller says it "maybe it never should have been given a go-ahead," while still complaining that investors keep getting booted out. The show's strength is the plain follow-up question.

Alberta Advantage Podcast comes at the same legislature from the left, a perspective its publisher states outright. In Solidarity With Trans Children places Bill 25 beside three bills the hosts say directly target trans kids, then turns to how childhood itself has been defined. It is dense, essayistic and firmly on one side. In Student Power with Dr. Roberta Lexier, Lexier traces her book on student movements to the response to the 2024 Palestinian encampments at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. She sets Calgary's conservative reputation beside campus protest going back to the 1960s.

Council, the grievance file and the floodplain

Speaking Municipally, from Taproot Edmonton, does the most to make local power legible, and it belongs on the Edmonton page. In I am Dunluce with this conversation, Mac and Stephanie warm up on Oilers playoff nerves. Then they follow a council motion on surplus school sites through "an amendment to the amendment to the amendment." It ends with Councillor Michael Janz's version, which keeps Dunluce and Sifton Park for affordable housing and Deschenes as open space. The same episode reports a 7 to 5 vote dropping a weekday daytime bus lane so businesses can have parking. Swing for the fences gives Rossdale its history, including the freeway plan under which the city demolished 80 houses there.

Calgary's civic machinery appears from other directions. Canadian Union Podcast for Employees' is made for CUPE Local 37, which represents Calgary's outside city workers. It is blunt in The Grievance Procedure L37 Clause 3.00: "They own your grievance." Scheduling an arbitration, the speaker warns, can take years. On the Land Use Podcast, Nicole Bonnett notes that a voluntary home buyout after the 2013 Bow River flood in Calgary drew so little participation it was essentially scrapped.

Builders after oil and gas

Collisions YYC, hosted by Tyler Chisholm, wrapped up a run with Kevin Crowe, Five Years of Western Growth - A Wrap Up Conversation, dated January 2026. Crowe recalls pushing for the show so that Calgary's isolated conversations about diversifying beyond oil and gas could meet. Treat it as an archive; its closing minutes point listeners to a new podcast.

Hugo Lafontaine, Future-Proofing Canadian Industry is the clearer explainer. Lafontaine defines co-bots and argues that a firm delaying automation ends up ten years behind instead of five. Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas - the Rainforest podcast is brisker. In From Advisor to Architect: Building a SaaS with Vibe Coding and Claude, a former grant writer describes building GrantsEase.ai without a technical co-founder. Energy listeners can turn to Carbon Copy and Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems.

Two cities, two moods on ice

Edmonton's hockey shows are talking like contenders. Struddy's World - Got Yer Back is led by Jason Strudwick. STRUDDY's WORLD: Hyman to Return - Pronger Story Reaction mixes Darren Dreger's playoff read with the fan-base hurt stirred up by Chris Pronger's account of how he arrived in and left Edmonton.

Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer reaches past hockey. In Edmonton Elks Radio Play by Play voice Morley Scott (7/24/26), Scott relives Vincent Blanchard's 57-yard winner in Regina, a reversal after the walk-off losses the Elks had absorbed. Inside Sports, with Brenden Escott, adds the Elks and the Edmonton Stingers.

Calgary's shows are living through a rebuild, and they disagree about how to feel. Locked On Flames - Daily Podcast On The Calgary Flames, hosted by Ryan G, is patient arithmetic. OUTLOOK: Calgary Flames Can Only CLOSE the Contender Gap With TIME argues that only time will close the distance to Colorado. In the Dome: Calgary Flames Fan Podcast is profane and gleefully pro-tank, cheering losses for draft position. Yet Gold for Gaudreau turns tender when the talk reaches Johnny Gaudreau: "it was Johnny's gold medal." Sports Talk with Jock Wilson is an older archive, with its latest episodes from 2023.

Baseball has its own diligent chronicler. Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast, hosted by Joe McFarland, tracks Alberta players from the minors to college rosters. In one interview, a guest admits defensive work is a little hard "with the snow out here." The Bullhorn: The Lethbridge Bulls Baseball Report keeps watch on Lethbridge's summer club.

The past, voiced

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam, hosted by Suzanne Wilton for CBC and the BBC World Service, is the richest narrative listening in this guide. It reaches from a Calgary hotel to Jakarta. Its Alberta thread is human: 2. The believers spends its early minutes in St. Paul, a small prairie town with a UFO landing pad. There an interviewee says he knew of about maybe 15 or 20 people who invested in Bre-X. The series includes references to suicide and death.

RadioKBPV's Podcast takes a stranger route. Talking Tombstones 2025 - Ep 11 - Father Albert Lacombe voices Lacombe in the first person: "I truly wish they had left me alone."

Where to start

• Following provincial politics: The Breakdown With Nate Pike, Episode 8.15 - Are the UCP Gerrymandering? - with Dr Duane Bratt!, where patient explanation outweighs outrage.
• Curious how a city decides things: Speaking Municipally, I am Dunluce with this conversation.
• In the mood for a story: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam, 2. The believers.
• Oilers loyalists: Struddy's World - Got Yer Back, STRUDDY's WORLD: Hyman to Return - Pronger Story Reaction.
• Flames fans who can take the language: In the Dome: Calgary Flames Fan Podcast, Gold for Gaudreau.

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