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 Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, January 12, 2026.

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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, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, December 8, 2025.

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Instagram: ⁠⁠@KeepMovingPodcast⁠

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 Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, July 14, 2025.

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Instagram: ⁠⁠@KeepMovingPodcast

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" by Audio/Rocketry

Suggested reading:

“Appreciate the assist”: Oilers pass the puck as City and Police purge unhoused from homes

There's Always This Year On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano

Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, June 30, 2025.

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Instagram: ⁠@KeepMovingPodcast

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 [email protected].

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 community care, we briefly chat about the next wave of publicly-funded gentrification being planned for city-centre Edmonton. City council is holding public hearings this Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27, on whether or not to funnel more public money into subsidizing the private interests of the Katz Group, the owner of the Edmonton Oilers.

If you wish to speak on this issue, call the city clerk at the city clerk at 780-496-8178 or click here and choose item 3.1.

Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, June 23, 2025.

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Instagram: @KeepMovingPodcast

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 the crucial role it played in the everyday lives of many Edmontonians, whether they were housed or resided in encampments.

We also talk about the next community BBQ being hosted at CO*LAB on Sunday, June 29, 2025.

Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, June 2 2025.

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Instagram: ⁠@KeepMovingPodcast⁠

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 community BBQ being hosted at CO*LAB on Friday, April 18, 2025, a settler holiday when formal services are typically closed.

Donations to purchase to purchase necessary items including food, drinks, plates, napkins, and cutlery can be made through [email protected].

Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, April 7, 2025.

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Instagram: ⁠@KeepMovingPodcast⁠

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 the river valley.

Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, March 10, 2025.

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Instagram: ⁠@KeepMovingPodcast⁠

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, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, March 3, 2025.

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Instagram: ⁠@KeepMovingPodcast⁠

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 residents . Instead, city council voted to enhance punitive and carceral measures against our neighbours most impacted by intersecting crises including commodified housing and unsafe drugs.

The bylaw's prohibitions are coupled with the consequences of first responders' indifference, and general public indifference, towards our unhoused neighbours. We discuss examples of this indifference in public spaces, and how it is tied to the further exploitation of the houseless community as a burden of “unsafeness” in order to increase collective empathy for first responders and justify their salary increases. Meanwhile, funding is cut to programs that increased safety for all Edmontonians, and our unhoused community is further stigmatized and harmed.

So what can we do if we can't rely on our so-called municipal leaders? We can rely on each other. We finish this episode by beginning a discussion on how to disrupt the indifference prevalent in our city.

Keep Moving is a podcast about life in the beautiful Beaver Hills, houseless encampments, Pekiwewin, and much more. This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday, February 24, 2025.

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/keepmovingpodcast⁠

Instagram: ⁠@KeepMovingPodcast⁠