Drew Anderson with the Narwhal helps us unpack the proposal for a massive $10-billion AI data centre in Olds Alberta that would consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton.
PALGARY ALMANAC #217

Playlist:

• Rev. LV - Relection 1 (Piano Tape Loop 4.3)
• Fruit Bats - Two Thousand Four
• Sabine McCalla - I Went to the Levee
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - casperslide
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - mythes
• Mike Cyril - Decay
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Pendulum Swing
• Diewob - Ginger Girl
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Melted Moon
• Cass McCombs - Priestess
• Helado Negro - Protector
• Bill Callahan - Stepping out for Air
• Ariel Ulysses - 0:00
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Langhorne Slim - The Dreamin' Kind
• Dean Johnson - Winter Song
• Charlotte Cornfield - Living With It (feat. Feist)
• The Science of the Heart - Here
• Alley Goop - Sizzle
• acrxxkedclwn - Current
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Eli Moore - The Power Line (feat. Ashley Eriksson & Half-Handed Cloud)
• parallel - Force
• Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
• AVI - The Way It's Always Been
• Devours - ketsbetch

Euan Thomson from Drug Data Decoded shares new information obtained showing how Alberta's health agency responsible for harm reduction may be suppressing and distorting data to facilitate the government's closures.
PALGARY ALMANAC #217

Playlist:

• Rev. LV - Relection 1 (Piano Tape Loop 4.3)
• Fruit Bats - Two Thousand Four
• Sabine McCalla - I Went to the Levee
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - casperslide
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - mythes
• Mike Cyril - Decay
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Pendulum Swing
• Diewob - Ginger Girl
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Melted Moon
• Cass McCombs - Priestess
• Helado Negro - Protector
• Bill Callahan - Stepping out for Air
• Ariel Ulysses - 0:00
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Langhorne Slim - The Dreamin' Kind
• Dean Johnson - Winter Song
• Charlotte Cornfield - Living With It (feat. Feist)
• The Science of the Heart - Here
• Alley Goop - Sizzle
• acrxxkedclwn - Current
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Eli Moore - The Power Line (feat. Ashley Eriksson & Half-Handed Cloud)
• parallel - Force
• Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
• AVI - The Way It's Always Been
• Devours - ketsbetch

PALGARY ALMANAC #217

Playlist:

• Rev. LV - Relection 1 (Piano Tape Loop 4.3)
• Fruit Bats - Two Thousand Four
• Sabine McCalla - I Went to the Levee
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - casperslide
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - mythes
• Mike Cyril - Decay
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Pendulum Swing
• Diewob - Ginger Girl
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Melted Moon
• Cass McCombs - Priestess
• Helado Negro - Protector
• Bill Callahan - Stepping out for Air
• Ariel Ulysses - 0:00
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Langhorne Slim - The Dreamin' Kind
• Dean Johnson - Winter Song
• Charlotte Cornfield - Living With It (feat. Feist)
• The Science of the Heart - Here
• Alley Goop - Sizzle
• acrxxkedclwn - Current
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Eli Moore - The Power Line (feat. Ashley Eriksson & Half-Handed Cloud)
• parallel - Force
• Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
• AVI - The Way It's Always Been
• Devours - ketsbetch

CPAWS Southern AB executive director Katie Morrison on the plans for an "amusement park" like development at Fortress Mountain in Kananaskis Provincial Park.
PALGARY ALMANAC #216

Playlist:

• Tim Hecker - Sunset Key Melt
• Ariel Ulysses - 26:42
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Rachel's Song
• Rebecca Foon - Drifters and Dreamers
• Dean Johnson - Before You Hit the Ground
• Mitski - I'll Change for You
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - cavernes
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Little Picture of a Butterfly
• The Antlers - Calamity
• acrxxkedclwn - Mirror
• Great Lake Swimmers - Running Out of Time
• parallel - Hollow
• Melody's Echo Chamber - The House That Doesn't Exist
• Damien Jurado - Keith
• Local Singles - Mother's Pearls
• Dry Cleaning - The Cute Things
• Sabine McCalla - Anything Without You
• Dylan Ella - So Much Wine
• Cass McCombs - Who Removed the Cellar Door?
• Hélène Barbier - A House
• Diewob - Marmot Meadows
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - stanley park ravers

A run-through of the March 2026 issue of Alberta Views magazine with editor Evan Osenton.
PALGARY ALMANAC #216

Playlist:

• Tim Hecker - Sunset Key Melt
• Ariel Ulysses - 26:42
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Rachel's Song
• Rebecca Foon - Drifters and Dreamers
• Dean Johnson - Before You Hit the Ground
• Mitski - I'll Change for You
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - cavernes
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Little Picture of a Butterfly
• The Antlers - Calamity
• acrxxkedclwn - Mirror
• Great Lake Swimmers - Running Out of Time
• parallel - Hollow
• Melody's Echo Chamber - The House That Doesn't Exist
• Damien Jurado - Keith
• Local Singles - Mother's Pearls
• Dry Cleaning - The Cute Things
• Sabine McCalla - Anything Without You
• Dylan Ella - So Much Wine
• Cass McCombs - Who Removed the Cellar Door?
• Hélène Barbier - A House
• Diewob - Marmot Meadows
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - stanley park ravers

On the benefits to protecting local industry and business amidst the calls for deregulation and bolstering interprovincial trade.
PALGARY ALMANAC #216

Playlist:

• Tim Hecker - Sunset Key Melt
• Ariel Ulysses - 26:42
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Rachel's Song
• Rebecca Foon - Drifters and Dreamers
• Dean Johnson - Before You Hit the Ground
• Mitski - I'll Change for You
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - cavernes
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Little Picture of a Butterfly
• The Antlers - Calamity
• acrxxkedclwn - Mirror
• Great Lake Swimmers - Running Out of Time
• parallel - Hollow
• Melody's Echo Chamber - The House That Doesn't Exist
• Damien Jurado - Keith
• Local Singles - Mother's Pearls
• Dry Cleaning - The Cute Things
• Sabine McCalla - Anything Without You
• Dylan Ella - So Much Wine
• Cass McCombs - Who Removed the Cellar Door?
• Hélène Barbier - A House
• Diewob - Marmot Meadows
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - stanley park ravers

The story of the last Cree workers who have been an integral part of Southern Alberta's agricultural landscape for decades, with investigative reporter Virgil Grandfield.
PALGARY ALMANAC #216

Playlist:

• Tim Hecker - Sunset Key Melt
• Ariel Ulysses - 26:42
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Rachel's Song
• Rebecca Foon - Drifters and Dreamers
• Dean Johnson - Before You Hit the Ground
• Mitski - I'll Change for You
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - cavernes
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Little Picture of a Butterfly
• The Antlers - Calamity
• acrxxkedclwn - Mirror
• Great Lake Swimmers - Running Out of Time
• parallel - Hollow
• Melody's Echo Chamber - The House That Doesn't Exist
• Damien Jurado - Keith
• Local Singles - Mother's Pearls
• Dry Cleaning - The Cute Things
• Sabine McCalla - Anything Without You
• Dylan Ella - So Much Wine
• Cass McCombs - Who Removed the Cellar Door?
• Hélène Barbier - A House
• Diewob - Marmot Meadows
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - stanley park ravers

PALGARY ALMANAC #216

Playlist:

• Tim Hecker - Sunset Key Melt
• Ariel Ulysses - 26:42
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Rachel's Song
• Rebecca Foon - Drifters and Dreamers
• Dean Johnson - Before You Hit the Ground
• Mitski - I'll Change for You
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - cavernes
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Little Picture of a Butterfly
• The Antlers - Calamity
• acrxxkedclwn - Mirror
• Great Lake Swimmers - Running Out of Time
• parallel - Hollow
• Melody's Echo Chamber - The House That Doesn't Exist
• Damien Jurado - Keith
• Local Singles - Mother's Pearls
• Dry Cleaning - The Cute Things
• Sabine McCalla - Anything Without You
• Dylan Ella - So Much Wine
• Cass McCombs - Who Removed the Cellar Door?
• Hélène Barbier - A House
• Diewob - Marmot Meadows
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - stanley park ravers

Esker Foundation Winter 2026 exhibitions featuring works by four contemporary painters and a conversation about what it means to "slow look" at art.
PALGARY ALMANAC # 215

Playlist:

• Those Who Walk Away - First Degraded Hymn - Alessandro Cortini Remix
• Diewob - Duplicity
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Perpetual Adoration
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - escaliers
• The Antlers - Pour
• parallel - Rock ledge
• M83 - Sullen Passage
• Alley Goop - u&me
• Bruce Springsteen - Minneapolis
• Dean Johnson - Carol
• Rebecca Foon - Midnight Shadow
• Dylan Ella - Sushi Joint in a Western Town
• Whitney K - Rosy
• Upper Lakes - TURNING HANDS
• Otis Wilkins - Ministry of Death And Rebirth
• Local Singles - Mother's Pearls
• AVI - Diamonds
• Emily Yacina - Battle
• Melody’s Echo Chamber - In the Stars
• Adrian Quesada - Primos
• Phantom Orchid - No Crumbs
• Tim Hecker - Morning (Piano Version)
• Hélène Barbier - Plastique Couch
• Mitski - Where's My Phone?

After leading the country for years in renewable energy development, private investment in renewables in Alberta now lags according to a report from the Business Renewables Centre Canada.
PALGARY ALMANAC # 215

Playlist:

• Those Who Walk Away - First Degraded Hymn - Alessandro Cortini Remix
• Diewob - Duplicity
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Perpetual Adoration
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - escaliers
• The Antlers - Pour
• parallel - Rock ledge
• M83 - Sullen Passage
• Alley Goop - u&me
• Bruce Springsteen - Minneapolis
• Dean Johnson - Carol
• Rebecca Foon - Midnight Shadow
• Dylan Ella - Sushi Joint in a Western Town
• Whitney K - Rosy
• Upper Lakes - TURNING HANDS
• Otis Wilkins - Ministry of Death And Rebirth
• Local Singles - Mother's Pearls
• AVI - Diamonds
• Emily Yacina - Battle
• Melody’s Echo Chamber - In the Stars
• Adrian Quesada - Primos
• Phantom Orchid - No Crumbs
• Tim Hecker - Morning (Piano Version)
• Hélène Barbier - Plastique Couch
• Mitski - Where's My Phone?