Podcasts about Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Jets take up more of this page than anything else, and the hockey it catches is a season going wrong. On Locked On Jets the argument is about Connor Hellebuyck. The host says he may have only a handful of championship chances left and Winnipeg is burning them. He says the team lacks the assets to turn things around quickly, and that Florida may have the pieces to trade for him. The other shows here are about other things entirely. One works through the city's past, one interviews Manitoba artists, and one is a talk-radio show whose clips keep landing on guests' own stories rather than the day's issue.

What Winnipeg is

Winnipeg is Manitoba's capital and by far its largest city. It sits on the prairie where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet, near the middle of the continent. It grew as a rail and grain centre, it is known for long, cold winters, and it is home to the NHL's Jets.

Following the Jets

Locked On Jets - Daily Podcast On The Winnipeg Jets is hosted by Harrison Lee. Every title in its April run names the team, mostly in capitals: "THEY'RE OUT: Scheifele Scores Point 101 As The Winnipeg Jets MISS Playoffs" sits beside "The LOTTO Pick Hopes Are Well And Truly ALIVE For The Winnipeg Jets!!!" The clips are argument, not recap. Besides the Hellebuyck material, the host turns to the Manitoba Moose. He says the organization's expensive prospect-development project is producing disorganized hockey and a 0.542 points percentage.

Illegal Curve Hockey comes from Dave Minuk, Drew Mindell and Ezra Ginsburg, and it also covers the Manitoba Moose. It titles its episodes like the top of a game story, for example "Flyers cruise to 7-1 win as Winnipeg Jets waste critical must-win game with no-show effort". The phrase must-win keeps coming back in its April titles, alongside dated editions of the Illegal Curve Hockey Show. The clips hold both halves of the show. One weighs a shootout loss to the Predators against the Jets' playoff hopes in a tight Western Conference. In another, one host announces a new legal name and promises more entertaining content than hockey talk alone. In a third, the hosts argue about onion-cutting tears before they get to a crushing loss in Boston.

Skates & Plates is harder to place from its titles, which don't name the team ("Just Like That... It's Over", "Misery in Missouri"). Its description pairs the Jets with food. Its clips come from prediction episodes in earlier seasons and range across the league. Brandon Rewucki calls for Connor Bedard to pass 100 points and drag Chicago into the playoffs. Ivan Provorov is picked as the top defenseman traded at the deadline. The show also notes that Tyson correctly predicted Mike Babcock's Columbus exit nine days before Babcock left without coaching a practice. The Winnipeg moment comes in a predictions episode where the hosts learn that the Jets have signed Hellebuyck and Mark Scheifele to matching seven-year, $59.5 million extensions.

Winnipeg's past, from the edges

One Great History is hosted by Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge. Its titles move between landmarks, institutions and provincial history: "Portage and Main: How an Iconic Intersection Shaped Winnipeg's History, Politics and Urban Life", "The Winnipeg New Theatre", "Return of the Bison", and "The Manitoba Schools Question" with its follow-up, "The Manitoba Schools Question 2: Even More Guys!" The clips go further than the landmarks. "Haynes Chicken Shack" plays a 1967 archive recording of Winnipeg musician Del Wagner singing. It also tells of the letter-writing campaign that got Percy Haynes into the Canadian Navy, where no Black person had served before him. In the same episode the hosts name Christian Cassidy's West End Dumplings as a constant source. They urge support for local history groups, from the North End Historical Association and the Black History Month Celebration Committee to the Manitoba Genealogical Society. An interview with Craig Baird of Canadian History Ehx describes a Manitoba First Nation settlement that was moved because officials considered it unattractive to highway tourists.

Manitoba music, at length

Black history also runs through Witchpolice Radio, an interview show centred on Manitoba artists. It has the feel of a friendly radio interview: open questions, long guest answers, and a host who knows the scene well enough to ask the next useful question without tightening things up. Adele M. Wilding argues that spirituals can carry the African-American experience from the transatlantic slave trade to Black History Month 2026. She adds that the original lyrics should be kept because history cannot be changed. The conversation around her moves to the West Indian presence in Canadian culture and to West Indian music's influence on Britain after the Second World War. In the Yaadies conversation, Neville describes Steinbach as about as white a community as Canada has and says reggae was a way to build a different vibe there. The show's titles are mostly bare names ("Masak", "Ozconscious", "Mr. Loopy Pants"), and they include "Bankside Music Festival" and "From the Vault: Union Stockyards (2014)".

The city on the radio

Connecting Winnipeg with Hal Anderson moves at a different speed. It is live local talk radio, quick and practical, and it keeps pushing guests toward what a story means here: bills, streets, transit, taxes, city services. One clip shows the machinery around the interviews. There is a newscast promised for 11:30, tough trivia with Santa Lucia pizza as the prize, and a segment set up on whether governments and companies should give up on getting workers back to the office. Then comes Maddie Kennedy, introduced as a fitness influencer, who is biking 7,500 kilometres from Halifax to BC to raise $1 million for cancer. The other clips also land on guests' own experiences, in episodes whose titles point at gas prices and the grocery PST. Farimer Hakamzadeh describes being arrested by Islamic regime police for wearing pants judged too tight. Dan Murray describes carrying 35 pounds for seven days on the Pacific Crest Trail, which he calls the most physically grueling thing he has done. The summer titles, with Kathy Kennedy as guest host, turn to heat waves, air conditioning and the Whiteshell.

Where to start

• For the Jets: Locked On Jets for the Hellebuyck argument, or Illegal Curve Hockey for game-by-game talk with the hosts' tangents left in.
• For Winnipeg history: One Great History, starting with the Haynes Chicken Shack clips.
• For Manitoba music: Witchpolice Radio, especially the Adele M. Wilding and Yaadies conversations.
• For the city day to day: Connecting Winnipeg with Hal Anderson.

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