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Here we go again: Calgary developers push for more. New communities undermine city’s growth and climate plans.

The Albertans who are fleeing the province. Affected by the UCP government, many are choosing to leave.

The Jason Kenney we need right now.

Cheryl Foggo has been writing about racism and Black life in Alberta for more than 30 years—as an award-winning author, playwright and filmmaker. Her first book was just republished this year in a 30th anniversary edition. It’s called Pourin’ Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West. And her latest project is the upcoming John Ware Reclaimed, a myth-busting documentary about...

Green Line At The Crossroads. A crucial moment — yet again.

Sprawlcast - April 2020 The Shandro Fiasco. Alberta’s health minister takes on doctors — and his critics

Sprawlcast - May 2020 Racial Disparity And The Cargill Outbreak

Plan It Calgary, 10 Years Later In 2009, city council approved Plan It—a long-range blueprint to shift growth into established neighbourhoods and introduce more transportation choice. But a decade later, we're falling short on key targets and moving backwards on transit.

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Steve Allan and the push for Calgary's arena deal

The Sprawl is investigating how Calgary's city council prioritized an NHL arena over the Green Line, assisting the UCP in jeopardizing the biggest public transit project in Calgary's history.

The realities of supervised consumption sites. As Alberta's UCP government reviews supervised consumption sites, we look at what these places mean for the people who live in and around them.

Ep 19: Green Line Revisited (Part II) The Green Line drama continues. Two years after city council approved the Green Line alignment, Councillor Jyoti Gondek wants to revisit it. Meanwhile Councillor Evan Woolley is calling for a pause on the project. We take a closer look at what was originally decided and why—and how new changes could affect the project, for better and worse.

Ep 18: Green Line Revisited (Part 1) City admin no longer wants to build a tunnel under the Bow River for the Green Line. Meanwhile, a group of wealthy, well-connected businessmen are trying to halt the project. We take a closer look at what's going on.

Ep 16: The Segregated City Calgary has become the most income-unequal city in Canada, with Calgarians increasingly being sorted into different parts of the city by income. We take a closer look at what's changed since the 1970s, when most neighbourhoods were middle-income—and take a tour of the 3 distinct cities that have emerged within the larger city of Calgary.