Alberta Unbound

S2 Episode 8: Straight Out Of Millwoods

Lawyer Avnish Nanda on looking for justice.

S2 Episode 7: Essential

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

S2 Episode 6: The Science Of Politics

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

S2 Episode 5: The Other Side Of Gold Mountain

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

S2 Episode 4: A Hundred Hellos

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

S2 Episode 3: Afros In Tha Cities

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

S2 Episode 2: Giving Social Credit

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

S2 Episode 1: Defying Prophecies

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

S1 Episode 5: The Alberta We Want

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 the University of Alberta; Shannon Stubbs, the Conservative MP for the riding of Lakeland, northeast of Edmonton; Dr. Diana Steinhauer, the president of Yellowhead Tribal College, and an elder with the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Treaty Six territory; acclaimed journalist and documentary-maker Omar Mouallem,  and author and former Alberta cabinet minister Doug Griffiths – tackle some tough questions from an Edmonton audience. 

S1 Episode 4: Reclaiming our Stories

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 the riding of Lakeland, award-winning magazine writer Omar Mouallem, Jared Wesley, a professor of political science at the University of Alberta, Doug Griffiths, an author and former Conservative provincial cabinet minister, and Cree elder and academic Diana Steinhauer.