Podcasts about Manitoba, Canada

The Winnipeg Jets are the largest single subject on this page, and the shows about them converge on one story: a team falling out of the playoff race in April 2026. That is Winnipeg's listening rather than the province's, as are the city history and talk-radio shows beside it; much of what plays under Manitoba's name is really its capital's, and the Winnipeg page is where to go for more. What the province adds in its own name is different in kind: interviews with Manitoba musicians, a roundtable on rural broadband, health-sciences news from the University of Manitoba, gardening for a range that includes southern Manitoba, and letters from a Manitoba farm in the 1880s, read aloud.

What Manitoba is

Manitoba is the easternmost of Canada's Prairie provinces, between Saskatchewan and Ontario, with Winnipeg as its capital and by far its largest city. The south is farmland; the north is lakes, boreal forest and a short stretch of Hudson Bay coast.

The Jets, from several angles

"Locked On Jets - Daily Podcast On The Winnipeg Jets" titles its episodes in capitals, and one week in April 2026 runs from "RUH ROH: The Winnipeg Jets Are Flirting With NO Playoffs And NO Big Draft Pick" through "THEY'RE OUT: Scheifele Scores Point 101 As The Winnipeg Jets MISS Playoffs" to "HELLES BELL'S: Hellebuyck Goes THERMONUCLEAR On The Winnipeg Jets And Chevy". Underneath, the clips argue that Hellebuyck may have only a handful of championship chances left and Winnipeg is burning them, and that the Jets lack the assets to turn around quickly while Florida may have the pieces to acquire him. A March clip calls the province's prospect-development project expensive and the hockey it produces disorganized, with a 0.542 points percentage to show for it.

"Illegal Curve Hockey" is the game-report show, covering the Manitoba Moose as well as the Jets. Its titles are scorelines with a verdict attached, "Flyers cruise to 7-1 win as Winnipeg Jets waste critical must-win game with no-show effort", but the clips range wider than the titles: a shootout loss to the Predators weighed against the Western Conference race, the hosts arguing over onion-cutting tears before getting to a loss in Boston, one host announcing a new legal name and promising content well beyond hockey.

"Skates & Plates" describes itself as Winnipeg Jets, food and anything in between. Its playable clips are predictions, Brandon Rewucki tipping Conor Bedard to pass 100 points and drag Chicago into the playoffs in "Fortune Favours the Bold", while its recent titles, "Misery in Missouri", "A Presser To Forget", "Just Like That... It's Over", read the season the other way.

Music and history, in the province's own voice

Outside hockey, the province's own voice is strongest in music and history, and on this page the two run into each other. "Witchpolice Radio" interviews Manitoba artists with the Winnipeg scene at its centre, asking open-ended questions and letting guests answer at length. In "WR1024: Adele M. Wilding", the guest traces how spirituals carry the African-American experience from the transatlantic slave trade to Black History Month 2026 and argues for keeping original lyrics because history cannot be changed. In "WR1023: Yaadies", Neville describes Steinbach as about the whitest community in Canada and reggae as how he built a different feeling there. Titles like "Mr. Loopy Pants", "Ozconscious", "Screaming at Traffic" and "From the Vault: Union Stockyards (2014)" show the range.

"One Great History", hosted by Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge, takes Winnipeg's set pieces, "Return of the Bison", "Portage and Main: How an Iconic Intersection Shaped Winnipeg's History, Politics and Urban Life", "The Manitoba Schools Question", but the clips go smaller. "Haynes Chicken Shack" plays a 1967 archive recording of Winnipeg musician Del Wagner, tells how Percy Haynes used a letter-writing campaign to become the first Black person to serve in the Canadian Navy, and has the hosts urging listeners to support the North End Historical Association and Christian Cassidy at West End Dumplings. From the interview with Craig Baird comes a Manitoba First Nation settlement moved because officials considered it unattractive to highway tourists.

The earliest history is "Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba, A by Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall", letters from a visitor whose brother had gone to Manitoba to farm in 1881. In "21 - Letter 21" the Canadian Pacific is going down at twenty-five miles a week, Brandon has grown to 3,000 residents, and a government inspector on the train admits that he and two colleagues spent three hours naming new stations and came up with three.

Away from the city: broadband and soil

"ConnectedMB", from the Internet Society Manitoba Chapter, treats internet access as infrastructure with people attached and sounds like a roundtable thinking out loud in long, layered sentences. In "Season One: Reflections", Sarah Breen says rural connectivity is about people and relationships rather than technology, Wayne Kelly sets three school-division stories side by side, Park West, Argyle/Prairie Spirit and St. Francis Xavier, and the heard passage wonders whether connectivity could have been built like provincial electricity, a single grid with equal access for every home, before overlapping infrastructure closed that option. In "ISOC and CIRA", Natalie Campbell says Canada is behind on tracking affordability even after the Auditor General's 2023 report.

"Growing Together: A Gardening Podcast" is a different kind of rural. Don Kinzler and John Lamb talk gardening for the upper Midwest, and southern Manitoba is in the range the show names alongside North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and eastern Montana, so most of its ground is south of the border. It sounds like a kitchen-table conversation that starts from a listener question and wanders toward the useful point: late blight and the Irish potato famine, a basswood that looked healthy and was hollow, meteorologist Jesse Ritka on a North Dakota summer of more than 75 tornadoes.

News from a medical faculty and a talk-radio desk

"RadyUs Podcast: Monthly Roundup of Rady News" is the University of Manitoba's Rady Faculty of Health Sciences reporting on itself, with episodes titled by month. The heard passage from "October 2025 News Roundup" moves from a study on environmental tobacco smoke and hypertension to the dental hygiene class of 2025 donating a $3,400 bake-sale surplus to patient support funds. The other clips carry more weight: Dr. Jennifer Rabin on more than fifty years of neuroscience conducted mostly on male brains, Elder Charlotte Nolan on sharing ceremonies with healthcare students, and Grand Chief Kyra Wilson saying the child welfare system is essentially doing what the residential school system did.

"Connecting Winnipeg with Hal Anderson" is local talk radio and sounds it: fast, practical, on to the next question. The heard window cues a newscast and a trivia contest with pizza as the prize, then brings on Maddie Kennedy, biking 7,500 kilometres from Halifax to BC to raise $1 million for cancer. Other clips have Farimer Hakamzadeh describing her arrest by Islamic regime police over pants judged too tight, and Dan Murray on seven days carrying 35 pounds on the Pacific Crest Trail. The July 2026 run has Kathy Kennedy as guest host: "Heat Wave Fatigue (w/ guest host Kathy Kennedy)", "The Latest From The Whiteshell (w/ guest host Kathy Kennedy)".

Where to start

• For the Jets: "Locked On Jets - Daily Podcast On The Winnipeg Jets" for the argument about Hellebuyck's remaining chances; "Illegal Curve Hockey" for the game, score first.
• For the province's music: the "WR1023: Yaadies" clip on "Witchpolice Radio", reggae in Steinbach.
• For history: "Haynes Chicken Shack" on "One Great History", then "21 - Letter 21" from the Hall letters for the railway arriving.
• For civic Manitoba: "Season One: Reflections" on "ConnectedMB", or the Grand Chief Kyra Wilson clip on "RadyUs Podcast: Monthly Roundup of Rady News".

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