Alberta Unbound

Cheryl Whiskeyjack and Omar Yaqub on what Indigenous and immigrant Albertans can accomplish together.

Aaron Paquette on truth, reconciliation and bringing light.

Lawyer Avnish Nanda on looking for justice.

Calgary entrepreneur Lourdes Juan, on the burden of the model minority.

Chaldeans Mensah on the bus ride from Toronto to Edmonton that changed everything.

Natalie Pon, on one Chinese-Albertan’s Covid-19 epiphany.

Barry Morishita, mayor of Alberta’s most multicultural city: Brooks.

Journalist Tomi Ajele on Afros in Alberta, BLM, and true meaning of the Calgary Flames.

Political scientist Yasmeen Abu-Laban on multiculturalism’s forgotten Alberta roots.

They said he’d never amount to anything. Indigenous MD Alika Lafontaine on beating odds and labels.

After years of being locked into a boom-and-bust resource economy, after years of battling against redneck stereotypes, after years of fighting for their future, how do Albertans create the Alberta they want? And what should that Alberta look like? In the fifth and final installment of Alberta Unbound, host Paula Simons, and her panelists -- Dr. Jared Wesley, a professor of political science from...

Who gets to tell the story of Alberta? What are the stories Albertans tell themselves – and what are the stories that get told about them? Whoever controls those narratives controls the way Albertans see themselves and are seen by others. In Part Four of Alberta Unbound, host Paula Simons debates the stories and myths of Alberta with five provocative guests: Shannon Stubbs, the Conservative MP for...

Alberta alienation seems as old as Alberta itself. It has become a touchstone and a trope of Canadian politics. But what does that alienation spring from? And how has it changed over the last hundred years. In Part Three of Alberta Unbound, host Paula Simons discusses Alberta struggles and Alberta stereotypes with panelists Dr. Jared Wesley, a professor of political science from the University of...

There are so many divides in Alberta: rural and urban, north and south, right and left, Indigneous and settler, myth and reality. With so much diversity, how to do we find an coherent identity? And how do we confront, honestly, the complexity of our history? In part two of Alberta Unbound, host Paula Simons puts those provocative questions to five diverse panelists: Dr. Jared Wesley, a political s...

What does it mean to be an Albertan? When you think of a “typical” Albertan, do you imagine a rancher? A rigger? A cowboy? A construction worker? How do we define, and redefine, what it means to be of this place? In part one of Alberta Unbound, host Paula Simons puts those provocative questions to five diverse panelists: Dr. Jared Wesley, a political scientist from the University of Alberta, Shann...