INTERVIEW: Regan Boychuk with the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project and a new report that reveals the staggering high cost of $55-billion in environmental cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells.
PALGARY ALMANAC #125 - A look at the ominous growing environmental cleanup liabilities for coal, oil and gas infrastructure in Alberta.

Playlist:

• Driveagalaxy - Airship Rising
• Von Bieker - Alberta Hospital
• Jason Sharp - Everything is Waiting For You
• Peppermoth - Light on Mars
• Dana Sipos - Light In Moon On
• Sufjan Stevens - Olympus
• The Living Picture - Lights
• TEMPOREX - Little Star
• Half Waif - Swimmer
• Japanese Breakfast - Slide Tackle
• Polo & Pan - Magic
• Courtney Barnett - Rae Street
• Elyze Venne-Deshaies - Pied-de-vent
• Status / Non Status - Find a Home
• L'Rain - Blame Me
• Fiver - For Your Sake
• John Grant - Boy from Michigan
• Tōth - Guitars are Better Than Synthesizers for Writing Through Hard Times
• Aquarian Blood - Time in the Rain
• Lord Huron - Twenty Long Years
• Crumb - Gone
• Flying Lotus - Crust
• Devours - Two Kids
• Charlotte Day Wilson - If I Could

PALGARY ALMANAC #125 - A look at the ominous growing environmental cleanup liabilities for coal, oil and gas infrastructure in Alberta.

Playlist:

• Driveagalaxy - Airship Rising
• Von Bieker - Alberta Hospital
• Jason Sharp - Everything is Waiting For You
• Peppermoth - Light on Mars
• Dana Sipos - Light In Moon On
• Sufjan Stevens - Olympus
• The Living Picture - Lights
• TEMPOREX - Little Star
• Half Waif - Swimmer
• Japanese Breakfast - Slide Tackle
• Polo & Pan - Magic
• Courtney Barnett - Rae Street
• Elyze Venne-Deshaies - Pied-de-vent
• Status / Non Status - Find a Home
• L'Rain - Blame Me
• Fiver - For Your Sake
• John Grant - Boy from Michigan
• Tōth - Guitars are Better Than Synthesizers for Writing Through Hard Times
• Aquarian Blood - Time in the Rain
• Lord Huron - Twenty Long Years
• Crumb - Gone
• Flying Lotus - Crust
• Devours - Two Kids
• Charlotte Day Wilson - If I Could

Rambler's Almanac Episode 58: Our home on native land. We go over all 94 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action, providing some context and helpful definitions along the way. Michelle Robinson joins us to share what the TRC means to her.

You can find the calls to action here: trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

Playlist:

• Willie Dunn - Ballad of Crowfoot
• Riit - Sail
• Tanya Tagaq - Snowblind
• nêhiyawak - Secret
• Quantum Tangle, Lydia Kepinski - Signal
• Zaki Ibrahim - Dangerous
• Sunfields - Boy
• G.R. Gritt - Doubt It
• Cris Derksen - Our Home On Native Land
• Jeremy Dutcher - Honor Song
• Masia One - Warriors Tongue
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids - Yuck-Sue-Yaach
• Sargeant X Comrade - Take Me Higher (Who Let the Devil In)
• Rellik, featuring Nathan Cunnigham - Idle No More
• Digawolf - Let My Body Heal
• Untrained Animals - Cosmic Logic
• Hello Moth - Stereo

INTERVIEW: Michelle Robinson, indigenous activist, politician, and host of the podcast Native Calgarian talks about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and what it means to her.
Rambler's Almanac Episode 58: Our home on native land. We go over all 94 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action, providing some context and helpful definitions along the way. Michelle Robinson joins us to share what the TRC means to her.

You can find the calls to action here: trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

Playlist:

• Willie Dunn - Ballad of Crowfoot
• Riit - Sail
• Tanya Tagaq - Snowblind
• nêhiyawak - Secret
• Quantum Tangle, Lydia Kepinski - Signal
• Zaki Ibrahim - Dangerous
• Sunfields - Boy
• G.R. Gritt - Doubt It
• Cris Derksen - Our Home On Native Land
• Jeremy Dutcher - Honor Song
• Masia One - Warriors Tongue
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids - Yuck-Sue-Yaach
• Sargeant X Comrade - Take Me Higher (Who Let the Devil In)
• Rellik, featuring Nathan Cunnigham - Idle No More
• Digawolf - Let My Body Heal
• Untrained Animals - Cosmic Logic
• Hello Moth - Stereo

INTERVIEW: Latasha Calfrobe with the Niitsitapi Water Protectors and Katie Morrison of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society on last week's Alberta Energy Regulator announcement rejecting of the proposed Grassy Mountain open pit coal mine as "not in the public interest."
PALGARY ALMANAC #124: (5th Anniversary Episode) Grassy Mountain open pit coal mine application denied, Jason Kenney vs. Alberta campgrounds, Alberta's impending self-inflicted fourth wave of COVID and a scan of the July/August double issue of Alberta Views magazine.

Playlist:

• Peppermoth - My Lasting Breath
• Red Ribbon - Renegade
• Sarah Neufeld - Unreflected
• Bachelor - Aurora
• Aim Low - My Valuable Hunting Knife
• St. Vincent - Somebody Like Me
• Fiver - Death Is Only a Dream
• Colouring Outside - Urban Myths About Eagles
• Tōth - Turnaround (Cocaine Song)
• Aquarian Blood - Bolted and Embossed
• Lord Huron - Son of a Gun
• Driveagalaxy - Tiny Orbs
• Japanese Breakfast - Kokomo, IN
• Allison Russell - Montreal
• Hotel Decor - I Can't Even Remember
• Crumb - BRN
• Devours - Grape Crush
• Flying Lotus - Black Gold (feat. Thundercat)
• Wish Lash - Losing Earth

INTERVIEW: Malgorzata Gasperowicz, Development biologist at the University of Calgary, shares insight on her COVID modelling in Alberta and the likelihood of a 4th wave with 2,000 daily new cases in the province by the end of August.
PALGARY ALMANAC #124: (5th Anniversary Episode) Grassy Mountain open pit coal mine application denied, Jason Kenney vs. Alberta campgrounds, Alberta's impending self-inflicted fourth wave of COVID and a scan of the July/August double issue of Alberta Views magazine.

Playlist:

• Peppermoth - My Lasting Breath
• Red Ribbon - Renegade
• Sarah Neufeld - Unreflected
• Bachelor - Aurora
• Aim Low - My Valuable Hunting Knife
• St. Vincent - Somebody Like Me
• Fiver - Death Is Only a Dream
• Colouring Outside - Urban Myths About Eagles
• Tōth - Turnaround (Cocaine Song)
• Aquarian Blood - Bolted and Embossed
• Lord Huron - Son of a Gun
• Driveagalaxy - Tiny Orbs
• Japanese Breakfast - Kokomo, IN
• Allison Russell - Montreal
• Hotel Decor - I Can't Even Remember
• Crumb - BRN
• Devours - Grape Crush
• Flying Lotus - Black Gold (feat. Thundercat)
• Wish Lash - Losing Earth

INTERVIEW: Annalise Klingbeil author of the weekly GoOutside newsletter, reflects on the ongoing war between the Kenney Government and Alberta campgrounds.
PALGARY ALMANAC #124: (5th Anniversary Episode) Grassy Mountain open pit coal mine application denied, Jason Kenney vs. Alberta campgrounds, Alberta's impending self-inflicted fourth wave of COVID and a scan of the July/August double issue of Alberta Views magazine.

Playlist:

• Peppermoth - My Lasting Breath
• Red Ribbon - Renegade
• Sarah Neufeld - Unreflected
• Bachelor - Aurora
• Aim Low - My Valuable Hunting Knife
• St. Vincent - Somebody Like Me
• Fiver - Death Is Only a Dream
• Colouring Outside - Urban Myths About Eagles
• Tōth - Turnaround (Cocaine Song)
• Aquarian Blood - Bolted and Embossed
• Lord Huron - Son of a Gun
• Driveagalaxy - Tiny Orbs
• Japanese Breakfast - Kokomo, IN
• Allison Russell - Montreal
• Hotel Decor - I Can't Even Remember
• Crumb - BRN
• Devours - Grape Crush
• Flying Lotus - Black Gold (feat. Thundercat)
• Wish Lash - Losing Earth

INTERVIEW: Alberta Views magazine Editor Evan Osenton shares his rundown of the hefty July/August double issue focusing on the environment.
PALGARY ALMANAC #124: (5th Anniversary Episode) Grassy Mountain open pit coal mine application denied, Jason Kenney vs. Alberta campgrounds, Alberta's impending self-inflicted fourth wave of COVID and a scan of the July/August double issue of Alberta Views magazine.

Playlist:

• Peppermoth - My Lasting Breath
• Red Ribbon - Renegade
• Sarah Neufeld - Unreflected
• Bachelor - Aurora
• Aim Low - My Valuable Hunting Knife
• St. Vincent - Somebody Like Me
• Fiver - Death Is Only a Dream
• Colouring Outside - Urban Myths About Eagles
• Tōth - Turnaround (Cocaine Song)
• Aquarian Blood - Bolted and Embossed
• Lord Huron - Son of a Gun
• Driveagalaxy - Tiny Orbs
• Japanese Breakfast - Kokomo, IN
• Allison Russell - Montreal
• Hotel Decor - I Can't Even Remember
• Crumb - BRN
• Devours - Grape Crush
• Flying Lotus - Black Gold (feat. Thundercat)
• Wish Lash - Losing Earth

PALGARY ALMANAC #124: (5th Anniversary Episode) Grassy Mountain open pit coal mine application denied, Jason Kenney vs. Alberta campgrounds, Alberta's impending self-inflicted fourth wave of COVID and a scan of the July/August double issue of Alberta Views magazine.

Playlist:

• Peppermoth - My Lasting Breath
• Red Ribbon - Renegade
• Sarah Neufeld - Unreflected
• Bachelor - Aurora
• Aim Low - My Valuable Hunting Knife
• St. Vincent - Somebody Like Me
• Fiver - Death Is Only a Dream
• Colouring Outside - Urban Myths About Eagles
• Tōth - Turnaround (Cocaine Song)
• Aquarian Blood - Bolted and Embossed
• Lord Huron - Son of a Gun
• Driveagalaxy - Tiny Orbs
• Japanese Breakfast - Kokomo, IN
• Allison Russell - Montreal
• Hotel Decor - I Can't Even Remember
• Crumb - BRN
• Devours - Grape Crush
• Flying Lotus - Black Gold (feat. Thundercat)
• Wish Lash - Losing Earth

INTERVIEW: Alberta Vax Hunters Sara and Sarah join us to talk about stepping up to support communities. You can find them on twitter, @AB_VAX
Rambler's Almanac Episode 57: We talk with Sara and Sarah from Alberta Vax Hunters about their work. We discuss the City of Calgary contracting out black bin collection and Mumilaaq Qaqqaq's departure from Parliament.

Playlist:

• Sarah Neufeld - Shed Your Dear Heart
• Cris Derksen - 2 Hours Parking
• Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Faint Lights In the Distance
• Anastatica - The Theory of Forms
• BADBADNOTGOOD, Sam Herring - Time Moves Slow
• De Bouquet - Broke 'n' Broken
• Islands - A passionate Age
• The Fragments - While you can
• Monodrone - Tastes like iron
• Burdy - Oolong time
• MARINERO - Outerlands
• Teenage Fanclub - The Sun Won't Shine On Me
• Colouring Outside - Urban Myths About Eagles
• NIGE B - Obsolete
• Devours - Exposure
• CHAI - ACTION
• The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer - Get Ready
• Jex Opolis - Gem