Keep Moving

Josh is a community advocate and helper. And he's our guest in this episode! He joins us to share his thoughts on how bylaws and other rules are enforced in Edmonton’s downtown, how to show up for the unhoused community, and what it means to exercise autonomy over oneself and one's surroundings when experiencing precarious circumstances. Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful...

Our guest this time on Keep Moving is Russell Auger. Russell is from Big Stone Cree Nation and is a warm, kind, and positive influence on everyone he meets. Russell was an Elder and guiding helper at Pekiwewin. In this episode, Russell shares stories of discrimination, love, and growing up on the trapline. Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pe...

Mike Tulley is our guest on this episode! We talk about the Dutch Settlement , an encampment sustained from the 1890s-1980s, cooperative housing, and Mike providing "technical support for the revolution" in Edmonton for more than five decades! We also discuss Malcolm Archibald , Tooker Gomberg , the McGowan Family Band , and current gentrification resistance efforts at CO*LAB . Keep Movi...

Latitude 53 is hosting the upcoming show OILY: ON FANDOM from July 5 to August 2. Michelle from Latitude 53 joins the podcast to discuss the complexities of cheering for a professional sports franchise amidst the ongoing harms of dispossession and displacement in Edmonton's new urban sports frontier. Suggested listening: "Two Houses" by Cassia Hardy "Shit District" by Latcho Drom "The Way Ahead" b...

Sarah and Jen return to the show to discuss the community BBQ coming up at  ⁠⁠CO*LAB⁠⁠  on Sunday, June 29. Please get in touch if you'd like to volunteer or e-transfer funds to keepmovingpodcastyeg@gmail.com. We also talk about several other community events, including RE:VITA's Chinatown After Dark , and Hope Stoves, which offer encampment residents a safer way to stay warm. Contrasting...

In this episode, we discuss how Edmonton's city-centre community is navigating the loss of a harm-reduction drop-in centre. We are joined by Sarah and Jen, who worked in the drop-in before it was defunded on March 31, 2025. Before it was defunded, the drop-in was a daytime space of respite, support, creativity, and visiting. We talk about the importance of the drop-in before its closure, and t...

It's spring! A great time of year to get more comfortable with the fact that people who live outside are part of your community! Even though it's warming up, spring is not the slowdown season of community care. In this episode, we discuss how to know when it's time to offer support, intervene in medical emergencies, or just leave your unhoused neighbours alone. We also talk about a com...

In this episode, researcher Matt Ormandy from ⁠ ⁠HARES Outreach⁠ joins the show to discuss the settler colonial history of private clubs and golf courses in Edmonton's river valley. We also talk about the racialized and working-class community that was displaced to build Commonwealth Stadium, and Edmonton's city council's recent unanimous support for a private nordic spa development in...

In this episode, Sam from the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights and HARES Outreach , and Professor Anna Lund from the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta join the show to discuss the Canadian legal system and encampments, the Edmonton Encampment Injunction, and the Public Spaces Bylaw. Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin,...

This episode of Keep Moving was recorded the day before Edmonton's city council voted unanimously in favour of a new public spaces bylaw. The bylaw heightens prohibitions of life-sustaining practices by the city's unhoused residents. Voting against the bylaw was yet another opportunity for Edmonton's municipal government to be brave, and meaningfully support the city's unhoused res...

In this episode of Keep Moving, we have a conversation with Jessy Cook. Jessy was a camp Pekiwewin organizer and security volunteer. He is an Indigenous man with family ties to the Cree Community in Cross Lake Manitoba. Jessy was born in Edmonton and raised in Winnipeg. He is currently federally incarcerated and has lived experience with addiction and houselessness. Jessy is a strong advocate for,...

In this episode of Keep Moving , we discuss how to best check-in with your unhoused neighbours in cold winter weather. We also talk about Edmonton's proposed Public Spaces Bylaw, which is going to the Community and Public Services Committee on February 10, 2025, fire safety in encampments, and how seemingly compassionate approaches to encampments can still heighten harms for encampment residen...

In this episode of Keep Moving , we talk with Katy Ingraham about the Edmonton Police Commission and the Public Spaces Bylaw. It’s important to consider the role of the Edmonton Police Commission in overseeing policing policies in our city, and the role of ordinances set to regulate the use of public space. The number of encampment evictions in the city has been steadily increasing since 2016, the...

Shima Aisha Robinson was Pekiwewin's media liaison. She is also Edmonton's 10th Poet Laureate. She's a community builder, a spoken-word artist, and a friend. Shima joins this episode of Keep Moving to talk about her role at Pekiwewin and daily life at the encampment. She also discusses engaging with the world through an activist lens, and the importance of storytelling, relationship bu...

Winter is returning to Edmonton, a hostile settler city where the majority of the houseless community is Indigenous. In 2023, 421 Edmontonians died of issues related to houselessness. This almost doubled the previously unprecedented 222 deaths in 2021. Now in 2024, the number of houseless Edmontonians has increased by at least 47% . Frostbite amputations have reached a new high . And more life-sav...

This episode of Keep Moving is an interview with Chris Weibe, a lawyer from Engel Law Office and co-counsel for the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights (CJHR). Chris discusses the CJHR, the No Fixed Address report, the erosion of trust in the settler-state and its institutions including the police, and how encampment evictions cause harmful relational disconnections. Keep Moving is a podcast on...

In this episode, we speak to Noor and Simon, two of the student organizers of ⁠The People’s University for Palestine⁠ , and members of ⁠SJP UAlberta⁠ .   On May 9, 2024 at 5AM, students, faculty, and community members set up an encampment  at the University of Alberta’s main quad. The People’s University for Palestine encampment was erected in solidarity with the Palestinian peoples facing a genoc...

This episode of Keep Moving is an interview with Robbie, the police liaison at Pekiwewin (Nêhiyawak/Cree for the act of coming home). Keep Moving is a podcast on houseless encampments in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Nêhiyawak/Cree for Beaver Hills). Colonially known as Edmonton, it is a hostile settler city. Since the onset of COVID-19, it is even more hostile. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired...

This episode of Keep Moving is an interview with a community outreach nurse who helped at Pekiwewin (Nêhiyawak/Cree for the act of coming home), and continues to support unhoused residents today. Keep Moving is a podcast on houseless encampments in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Nêhiyawak/Cree for Beaver Hills). Colonially known as Edmonton, it is a hostile settler city. Since the onset of COVID-19, it is e...

This episode of Keep Moving was originally released in March 2020. Intended as an introductory episode to a series on houselessness, leisure, and gentrification, further episodes were halted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Four years later, airing the episode helps situate the current situation in the wider context of neoliberal governance, large-scale sport-related gentrification, and ongo...

This episode of Keep Moving is an interview with Rob Jackson. Rob was a resident of Rossdale when Pekiwewin (Nêhiyawak/Cree for the act of coming home) began nearby in July 2020. Rob started helping out at camp, and built relationships with his unhoused neighbours that have lasted to this day. Keep Moving is a podcast on houseless encampments in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Nêhiyawak/Cree for Beaver Hills...

Keep Moving is a podcast on houseless encampments in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Nêhiyawak/Cree for Beaver Hills). Colonially known as Edmonton, it is a hostile settler city. Since the onset of COVID-19, it is even more hostile. This episode of Keep Moving is an interview with Piyêsiw Crane. We talk about life at Pekiwewin (Nêhiyawak/Cree for the act of coming home) a houseless encampment with roughly 40...

Keep Moving is a podcast on houseless encampments in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Nêhiyawak/Cree for Beaver Hills). Colonially known as Edmonton, it is a hostile settler city. Since the onset of COVID-19, it is even more hostile. This episode of Keep Moving is a discussion of current events, including Edmonton's proposed public spaces bylaw, Red Deer voting to shut down its Overdose Prevention Site, a...

Keep Moving is a podcast on houseless encampments in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Nêhiyawak/Cree for Beaver Hills). Colonially known as Edmonton, it is a hostile settler city. Since the onset of COVID-19, it is even more hostile. This episode of Keep Moving is an interview with kookum Kathy Hamelin about Pekiwewin, and what's happening now with encampments in the city. This episode of Keep Moving orig...

Keep Moving is a podcast on houseless encampments in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Nêhiyawak/Cree for Beaver Hills). Colonially known as Edmonton, it is a hostile settler city. Since the onset of COVID-19, it is even more hostile. This introductory episode of Keep Moving is a primer on encampment evictions currently occurring in the city. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on...