Rambler's Almanac #85: The annual Summer Bucket (play)List! Sarah and Nicole serve up music evocative of the summer, quintessential summer experiences, things we're hoping to do before fall!

Playlist:

• Abigail Lapell - Night Bird and Morning Bird
• Andrew Bird - Underlands
• Astral Swans - Bird Songs
• The Lost Lonely Souls - Can't Look Back (on yesterday)
• The Garrys - Hwy-11 Tumbleweed
• Jennah Barry - The Real Moon
• Basement Sweet - BREATHE
• hello moth - echoes of a summer afternoon
• Johnny Johnny & The Johnny's - Slowly Melting Johnny
• Childish Gambino - 42.26
• Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
• MISZCZYK - The Garden
• Röyksopp - How the flowers grow
• BADBADNOTGOOD, featuring Katrynada - Lavender
• Fish Memory - Feels Like A Dream
• Samantha Savage Smith - Sunset Rip
• Sylvan Esso - Dreamy Bruises
• Yves Jarvis - Bootstrap Jubilee
• Begonia - It's Too Quiet
• Born Ruffians - Don't Fight the Feeling
• Islands - (We Like To) Do it With the Lights On
• CARRTOONS, featuring Nigel Hall - Groceries
• MODLEE - Birds
• Dirty Computer - Make Me Feel
• Kavinsky, featuring Romuald - Reborn
• Sophia Bel - Everything I Touch Falls Apart
• Duke Domino - Dreamwaves
• Viagra Boys - Sports

Playlist:

• Elysian Spring - Blue Sands
• Oberon - Epitaph
• Justine - See Saw
• Shira Small - My Life's All Right
• Female Species - Tale of My Lost Love
• Julien Gasc - Amour velours
• P'tit Belliveau - J'aimerais d'avoir un John Deere
• Bennett Mitchell - Baby
• Daniel Romano - Joys Too Often Hollow
• Sylvie - Falls On Me
• Feel Alright - A Lengthy End To A Bullfight
• Hayden Pedigo - Field
• Lovelet - Bully
• Purple Mountains - Darkness and Cold
• Michael Nau - Hoops
• Aladean Kheroufi - Sorry If I Hurt You
• Luke Reed - Just Want To Hold You Baby
• Big Rig - Clozer
• Andy Shauf - To You
• Big Search - To Feel In Love
• Yves Jarvis - Victim
• Eiafuawn - No More Like That
• Cola - Water Table
• Airiel - Firefly
• The Besnard Lakes - Feuds With Guns
• Alex G - Runner
• Samantha Savage Smith - Spun Out
• A Beacon School - Fade In Nylon
• Dehd - Empty In My Mind
• Triptides - Wake
• Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
• Jons - In The Yard
• Corridor - Le grand écart
• Mild High Club - Undeniable
• CATWALK - (Please) Don't Break Me
• Gitkin - Chicha Nola

Rambler's Almanac #84: David Macdonald (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) joins to talk about all things inflation. Before that, we enjoy some chill tracks to take off the edge of this heatwave and get pumped for Calgary Folk Fest.

Playlist:

• hello moth - echoes of a summer afternoon
• Sylvie Simmons - Waiting for the shadows to fall
• BADBADNOTGOOD, Jonah Yano - Goodby Blue
• Zoon, featuring Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Astum
• Western Bloc - Always on the Outside
• Samantha Savage Smith - Different
• Helado Negro - We Don't Have Time For That
• Lala Lala, Baths - € € € €^^%%!!!!!heaven!!!!!!
• Black Pumas - Colors
• Jay Som, Living Hour - Feelings Meeting
• Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
• Paris Paloma - the fruits
• Allison Russell, featuring Sa-Roc, Dim Star - All of the Women
• Haley Heynderickx - Oom Sha La La
• Astral Swans - Bird Songs
• Spoon - Feels Alright
• La Dame Blanche - Veneno
• Etran De L'Aïr - Toubouk Ine Chihoussay
• TEKE::TEKE - Chicchana Toki Kara
• No-No Boy, featuring Robert Vifian - Imperial Twist
• Andrew Bird - Atomized
• Animal Collective - Walker
• Shout Out Out Out Out - Forever Indebted
• Astrolith, Cadence Weapon, Rham - Savings
• Sheenah Ko - Wake Up
• Guerilla Toss - Cannibal Capital

David Macdonald is an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. David joins the show to talk about all things inflation.

We start with the basics and then get into the role of corporate profit as a driver of this particular inflation, why increasing interest rates is misguided, and alternative policies that would have a more direct impact on inflation.
Rambler's Almanac #84: David Macdonald (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) joins to talk about all things inflation. Before that, we enjoy some chill tracks to take off the edge of this heatwave and get pumped for Calgary Folk Fest.

Playlist:

• hello moth - echoes of a summer afternoon
• Sylvie Simmons - Waiting for the shadows to fall
• BADBADNOTGOOD, Jonah Yano - Goodby Blue
• Zoon, featuring Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Astum
• Western Bloc - Always on the Outside
• Samantha Savage Smith - Different
• Helado Negro - We Don't Have Time For That
• Lala Lala, Baths - € € € €^^%%!!!!!heaven!!!!!!
• Black Pumas - Colors
• Jay Som, Living Hour - Feelings Meeting
• Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
• Paris Paloma - the fruits
• Allison Russell, featuring Sa-Roc, Dim Star - All of the Women
• Haley Heynderickx - Oom Sha La La
• Astral Swans - Bird Songs
• Spoon - Feels Alright
• La Dame Blanche - Veneno
• Etran De L'Aïr - Toubouk Ine Chihoussay
• TEKE::TEKE - Chicchana Toki Kara
• No-No Boy, featuring Robert Vifian - Imperial Twist
• Andrew Bird - Atomized
• Animal Collective - Walker
• Shout Out Out Out Out - Forever Indebted
• Astrolith, Cadence Weapon, Rham - Savings
• Sheenah Ko - Wake Up
• Guerilla Toss - Cannibal Capital

We unpack the misogyny, white supremacism, and settler colonialism of the Calgary Stampede with associate professor in Women's and Gender Studies at Mount Royal University, Dr. Kimberly Williams.
PALGARY ALMANAC #150

Playlist:

• hello moth - Echos of a summer afternoon
• Patrick Watson - Blue
• Flore Laurentienne - 1991
• Perfume Genius - Pop Song
• Σtella - The Truth Is
• Matthew Cardinal - May 24th
• Samantha Savage Smith - Siren
• Angel Olsen - This Is How It Works
• Damien Jurado - Meeting Eddie Smith
• Basement Sweet - Breathe
• Julie Doiron & Dany Placard - Vénus
• Ghostkeeper - The Trees
• Nation Of Language - Across That Fine Line
• Steven Lambke - Turn the Planet Over
• wihtikow - 1879
• Sanctums - Neon Wraith
• Hermitess - Stillist City ft Selci - Selci Remix
• Zoon - Oil pastel/Dope sick (ft. Cadence Weapon)
• Sheenah Ko - Wake Up
• Kellarissa - After Hours
• Helado Negro - Ya no estoy aqui
• Central Heat Exchange & Teen Daze - Fortnight (Teen Daze Remix)

PALGARY ALMANAC #150

Playlist:

• hello moth - Echos of a summer afternoon
• Patrick Watson - Blue
• Flore Laurentienne - 1991
• Perfume Genius - Pop Song
• Σtella - The Truth Is
• Matthew Cardinal - May 24th
• Samantha Savage Smith - Siren
• Angel Olsen - This Is How It Works
• Damien Jurado - Meeting Eddie Smith
• Basement Sweet - Breathe
• Julie Doiron & Dany Placard - Vénus
• Ghostkeeper - The Trees
• Nation Of Language - Across That Fine Line
• Steven Lambke - Turn the Planet Over
• wihtikow - 1879
• Sanctums - Neon Wraith
• Hermitess - Stillist City ft Selci - Selci Remix
• Zoon - Oil pastel/Dope sick (ft. Cadence Weapon)
• Sheenah Ko - Wake Up
• Kellarissa - After Hours
• Helado Negro - Ya no estoy aqui
• Central Heat Exchange & Teen Daze - Fortnight (Teen Daze Remix)

Rambler's Almanac #83: Last year on the show we went through all 94 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commision’s calls to action, providing some context and helpful definitions along the way. Nicole compares where we are now with these calls to action, and (spoiler) it is short because not much has changed.

Playlist:

• Air - Alone in Kyoto
• Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall
• St.Arnaud - Catching Flies
• Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme
• Helado Negro, featuring Kacy Hill - Wake Up Tomorrow
• Washed Out - It All Feels Right
• Babe Rainbow - Smile
• Here We Go Magic - Alone But Moving
• Eve Parker Finley - Come With Me
• Thomas Thomas - Right Place Wrong Time
• Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
• Love Language - Lucked Out
• Cobra & Vulture - Waking Early
• The Cave Arcade - Undertow
• The Wilderness of Manitoba - Oblivion
• Frog - Judy Garland
• Chad Van Gaalen - Bare Feet on Wet Griptape
• Kurt Vile - Fo Sho
• Parquet Courts - Tenderness
• Animal Collective - We Go Back
• Born Ruffians - Don't Fight the Feeling
• The Cröwn Corporation - Only Words That Live
• MGMT - Of Moons, Birds & Monsters
• Islands - Where There's A Will, There's A Whalebone
• Santigold - Disparate Youth
• Ice Cream - Peanut Butter
• We Are the City - Only Ones
• Carmanah - Best Interests
• Digging Roots - Sweetwater
• iskwē, Tom Wilson - Long Way Down
• Satellite and the Harpoonist, featuring Matt Peters - Ballet in a Phone Booth

PALGARY ALMANAC #144

Playlist:

• Flore Laurentienne - Petit Piano
• Matthew Cardinal - Aug 23rd
• WKO - 3D))]
• Perfume Genius - Photograph
• Cola - Landers
• Osmanthus - [Untitled]
• Grouper - Unclean Mind
• OMBIIGIZI - Cherry Coke
• Ghostkeeper - Doo Wop
• Michael Rault - Right On Time
• Eine Kleine China - Disko Bay
• Samantha Savage Smith - Different
• Patrick Watson - Height of the Feeling
• Angel Olsen - Dream Thing
• Julie Doiron & Dany Placard - Dégèle
• Sheenah Ko - Are you Listening
• Steven Lambke - April, May, and June
• Wet Leg - Supermarket
• Warpaint - Proof
• Yves Jarvis - Endless Tube
• LIKE MINT - Constantly Growing
• wihtikow - ocihci-kiskiskiw
• Sunalta - Turn
• Lykke Li - Happy Hurts

Preview of the July/August issue of Alberta Views magazine.
PALGARY ALMANAC #144

Playlist:

• Flore Laurentienne - Petit Piano
• Matthew Cardinal - Aug 23rd
• WKO - 3D))]
• Perfume Genius - Photograph
• Cola - Landers
• Osmanthus - [Untitled]
• Grouper - Unclean Mind
• OMBIIGIZI - Cherry Coke
• Ghostkeeper - Doo Wop
• Michael Rault - Right On Time
• Eine Kleine China - Disko Bay
• Samantha Savage Smith - Different
• Patrick Watson - Height of the Feeling
• Angel Olsen - Dream Thing
• Julie Doiron & Dany Placard - Dégèle
• Sheenah Ko - Are you Listening
• Steven Lambke - April, May, and June
• Wet Leg - Supermarket
• Warpaint - Proof
• Yves Jarvis - Endless Tube
• LIKE MINT - Constantly Growing
• wihtikow - ocihci-kiskiskiw
• Sunalta - Turn
• Lykke Li - Happy Hurts

How oil lobbyists persuaded Alberta to weaken rules for dirty facilities.

Leaked emails and memos from the Alberta Energy Regulator reveal how industry lobbied a cabinet minister to weaken rules designed to slash methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to the climate crisis.
PALGARY ALMANAC #144

Playlist:

• Flore Laurentienne - Petit Piano
• Matthew Cardinal - Aug 23rd
• WKO - 3D))]
• Perfume Genius - Photograph
• Cola - Landers
• Osmanthus - [Untitled]
• Grouper - Unclean Mind
• OMBIIGIZI - Cherry Coke
• Ghostkeeper - Doo Wop
• Michael Rault - Right On Time
• Eine Kleine China - Disko Bay
• Samantha Savage Smith - Different
• Patrick Watson - Height of the Feeling
• Angel Olsen - Dream Thing
• Julie Doiron & Dany Placard - Dégèle
• Sheenah Ko - Are you Listening
• Steven Lambke - April, May, and June
• Wet Leg - Supermarket
• Warpaint - Proof
• Yves Jarvis - Endless Tube
• LIKE MINT - Constantly Growing
• wihtikow - ocihci-kiskiskiw
• Sunalta - Turn
• Lykke Li - Happy Hurts