INTERVIEW: First Nations are organizing in response to the attack by the Alberta Government on their water, lands, rights, and people from the proposed new open pit coal mines on the eastern slopes of the Rockies. Latasha Calf Robe of the Niitsítapi Water Protectors tells us how the Blackfoot are organizing to protect their traditional lands from destruction.
PALGARY ALMANAC #119 - Everyone's a fact checker and the Niitsítapi Water Protectors take up the fight to protect the eastern slopes of the Rockies against open pit coal mines.

Playlist:

• Lost Girls, Jenny Hval, & Havard Volden - Menneskekollktivet
• Dark Time - Radiation
• Sunny War - Like Nina
• El Michels Affair - Ala Vida
• Dorothea Paas - Anything Can't Happen
• Claud - Gold
• The Fragments - Get Lost
• Chad VanGaalen - Inner Fire
• Karate Boogaloo - Bumpy's Lament
• Dom La Nena - Oiseau Sauvage
• Buck Meek - Pareidolia
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Balcony Man
• doohickey cubicle - Mildly Concerned
• Small Sins - Stuck With Each Other
• dad sports - nvrs again
• POSTDATA - Haunts
• Kinlaw - The Road
• magpie - Hair Day
• Rone, Odenne - Sot-l'y-laisse
• Edwin Raphael - Mild Sanity (feat. Juletta)
• TOVI - Wandering
• Badlands - Let Go
• The Antlers - Green to Gold
• Lumière - AMITIÉ.DÉCHUE
• June Thrasher - Blue Skies of Warsaw
• Noga Erez - Knockout

INTERVIEW: Writer and former Walrus editor and chief of research, Viviane Fairbank looks back at whether the push for greater accuracy in the news in the post-truth era is working.
PALGARY ALMANAC #119 - Everyone's a fact checker and the Niitsítapi Water Protectors take up the fight to protect the eastern slopes of the Rockies against open pit coal mines.

Playlist:

• Lost Girls, Jenny Hval, & Havard Volden - Menneskekollktivet
• Dark Time - Radiation
• Sunny War - Like Nina
• El Michels Affair - Ala Vida
• Dorothea Paas - Anything Can't Happen
• Claud - Gold
• The Fragments - Get Lost
• Chad VanGaalen - Inner Fire
• Karate Boogaloo - Bumpy's Lament
• Dom La Nena - Oiseau Sauvage
• Buck Meek - Pareidolia
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Balcony Man
• doohickey cubicle - Mildly Concerned
• Small Sins - Stuck With Each Other
• dad sports - nvrs again
• POSTDATA - Haunts
• Kinlaw - The Road
• magpie - Hair Day
• Rone, Odenne - Sot-l'y-laisse
• Edwin Raphael - Mild Sanity (feat. Juletta)
• TOVI - Wandering
• Badlands - Let Go
• The Antlers - Green to Gold
• Lumière - AMITIÉ.DÉCHUE
• June Thrasher - Blue Skies of Warsaw
• Noga Erez - Knockout

PALGARY ALMANAC #119 - Everyone's a fact checker and the Niitsítapi Water Protectors take up the fight to protect the eastern slopes of the Rockies against open pit coal mines.

Playlist:

• Lost Girls, Jenny Hval, & Havard Volden - Menneskekollktivet
• Dark Time - Radiation
• Sunny War - Like Nina
• El Michels Affair - Ala Vida
• Dorothea Paas - Anything Can't Happen
• Claud - Gold
• The Fragments - Get Lost
• Chad VanGaalen - Inner Fire
• Karate Boogaloo - Bumpy's Lament
• Dom La Nena - Oiseau Sauvage
• Buck Meek - Pareidolia
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Balcony Man
• doohickey cubicle - Mildly Concerned
• Small Sins - Stuck With Each Other
• dad sports - nvrs again
• POSTDATA - Haunts
• Kinlaw - The Road
• magpie - Hair Day
• Rone, Odenne - Sot-l'y-laisse
• Edwin Raphael - Mild Sanity (feat. Juletta)
• TOVI - Wandering
• Badlands - Let Go
• The Antlers - Green to Gold
• Lumière - AMITIÉ.DÉCHUE
• June Thrasher - Blue Skies of Warsaw
• Noga Erez - Knockout

PALGARY ALMANAC #118 - Ballooning environmental clean up liabilities in the Alberta oil patch with the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project plus new Leonard Cohen covers from Canadian artists from the forthcoming future film inspired by the late musician, Death of a Ladies Man.

Playlist:

• AVRIG - Parvanimity
• Fly Pan Am - Scanner
• Rone - Polichinelle (feat. Flavien Berger)
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Lavender Fields
• doohickey cubicle - Milano Sport
• Kinlaw - The Mechanic
• POSTDATA - Behind You
• Julien Baker - Ringside
• Chad Van Gaalen - Nightwaves
• Chad Van Gaalen - Sisters of Mercy
• magpie - Ghosts
• Dennis Ellsworth - Bound by Love
• Edwin Raphael - Staring at Ceilings
• Bernice - Big Mato
• TOVI - Hard Feelings
• Sunfields - Just Like the Young (feat. Angela Desveaux)
• Jenn Grant - Bird on the Wire
• LUMIERE - LA.BELLE.JOURNÉE 1971
• Altin Gün - Bulnur Mu
• June Thrasher - Windmill City
• Burdy - The Heebs
• Perfume Genius - One More Try (Actress Remix)
• Sébastien Guérive - Bellatrix
• Jacques Green - Stars
• Arlo Parks - For Violet
• Dominique Fils-Aimé - While We Wait

INTERVIEW: Regan Boychuk, co-founder of the the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project, on the latest default of environmental clean up liabilities in Alberta by foreign-owned SanLing Energy.
PALGARY ALMANAC #118 - Ballooning environmental clean up liabilities in the Alberta oil patch with the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project plus new Leonard Cohen covers from Canadian artists from the forthcoming future film inspired by the late musician, Death of a Ladies Man.

Playlist:

• AVRIG - Parvanimity
• Fly Pan Am - Scanner
• Rone - Polichinelle (feat. Flavien Berger)
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Lavender Fields
• doohickey cubicle - Milano Sport
• Kinlaw - The Mechanic
• POSTDATA - Behind You
• Julien Baker - Ringside
• Chad Van Gaalen - Nightwaves
• Chad Van Gaalen - Sisters of Mercy
• magpie - Ghosts
• Dennis Ellsworth - Bound by Love
• Edwin Raphael - Staring at Ceilings
• Bernice - Big Mato
• TOVI - Hard Feelings
• Sunfields - Just Like the Young (feat. Angela Desveaux)
• Jenn Grant - Bird on the Wire
• LUMIERE - LA.BELLE.JOURNÉE 1971
• Altin Gün - Bulnur Mu
• June Thrasher - Windmill City
• Burdy - The Heebs
• Perfume Genius - One More Try (Actress Remix)
• Sébastien Guérive - Bellatrix
• Jacques Green - Stars
• Arlo Parks - For Violet
• Dominique Fils-Aimé - While We Wait

INTERVIEW: Hannah Gelderman is an activist with Climate Justice Edmonton. We discuss the parallels between bold proposals like the Green New deal and Alberta's history of innovation and massive public investments in the oil sands.
Rambler’s Almanac Ep 49: Alberta's Oil Sands past, present and future. We start off by outlining the history of development in this industry and the important role that public investment played, Joël Laforest talks to us about Alberta's present economic relations to the industry, and Hannah Gelderman articulates a better future that Albertans can win.

Playlist:

• NETRVNNER - Exodus
• mara wild - Flying
• No False Suns - 7000 Oaks
• Jennifer Castle - Broken Hearted
• Anthea Feaver - Swan Serenade
• Owen Meany's Batting Stance - Krakow
• Gaspard Eden - Automatic Dream
• Widowspeak - The One I lOve
• David Nance - Learn The Curve
• Babeheaven - Human Nature
• Babeheaven - Moi Aussi
• Danny Bell and His Disappointments - Riverbank
• Jocelyn Mackenzie - There She Goes
• Like A Motorcycle - Back Burner
• Jeans Degrees - My Mind's Got A Mind of It's Own
• Hello Moth - Inside
• Rae Spoon - Go Away
• Krill Williams - Squil

INTERVIEW: Joël Laforest joins us to talk about the current economic woes facing Alberta due to Jason Kenney's pie in the sky ideological schemes.

His recent article on the subject can be found here: www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/alberta-kenney-ucp-fossil-fuels-keystone-xl
Rambler’s Almanac Ep 49: Alberta's Oil Sands past, present and future. We start off by outlining the history of development in this industry and the important role that public investment played, Joël Laforest talks to us about Alberta's present economic relations to the industry, and Hannah Gelderman articulates a better future that Albertans can win.

Playlist:

• NETRVNNER - Exodus
• mara wild - Flying
• No False Suns - 7000 Oaks
• Jennifer Castle - Broken Hearted
• Anthea Feaver - Swan Serenade
• Owen Meany's Batting Stance - Krakow
• Gaspard Eden - Automatic Dream
• Widowspeak - The One I lOve
• David Nance - Learn The Curve
• Babeheaven - Human Nature
• Babeheaven - Moi Aussi
• Danny Bell and His Disappointments - Riverbank
• Jocelyn Mackenzie - There She Goes
• Like A Motorcycle - Back Burner
• Jeans Degrees - My Mind's Got A Mind of It's Own
• Hello Moth - Inside
• Rae Spoon - Go Away
• Krill Williams - Squil

Rambler’s Almanac Ep 49: Alberta's Oil Sands past, present and future. We start off by outlining the history of development in this industry and the important role that public investment played, Joël Laforest talks to us about Alberta's present economic relations to the industry, and Hannah Gelderman articulates a better future that Albertans can win.

Playlist:

• NETRVNNER - Exodus
• mara wild - Flying
• No False Suns - 7000 Oaks
• Jennifer Castle - Broken Hearted
• Anthea Feaver - Swan Serenade
• Owen Meany's Batting Stance - Krakow
• Gaspard Eden - Automatic Dream
• Widowspeak - The One I lOve
• David Nance - Learn The Curve
• Babeheaven - Human Nature
• Babeheaven - Moi Aussi
• Danny Bell and His Disappointments - Riverbank
• Jocelyn Mackenzie - There She Goes
• Like A Motorcycle - Back Burner
• Jeans Degrees - My Mind's Got A Mind of It's Own
• Hello Moth - Inside
• Rae Spoon - Go Away
• Krill Williams - Squil

INTERVIEW: Esker Foundation's Director/Curator Naomi Potter shares about the latest exhibitions including Liz Magor, Samuel Roy-Bois, Jon Sasaki and Kasia Sosnowski.
PALGARY ALMANAC #109: Stocking your cabinets with fresh new tunes for the forthcoming 2nd COVID lockdown plus the Esker Gallery Director/Curator shares about the latest exhibitions.

Playlist:

• Hermitess - Spacewalk I: Spooky Action at a Distance (feat. Wayne Garrett)
• Ariel Ulysses - A Blowing Wind Howls Against a Stretching Highway
• Robbie Bankes - So I Might
• Gord Downie - Hotel Worth
• Dan Mangan - There's a Tumor in the White House
• Aidan Knight - Rolodex
• Krill Williams - In Space (Sqwil)
• Harmony Trowbridge - Hera
• Plants and Animals - The Jungle
• Helena Deland - Pale
• Nana Adjoa - National Song
• Antoine Corriveau - Le bruit des os
• Yves Jarvis - Emerald
• Peel - Persona
• Bretton Lee John - Rock Show
• Close Talker - The Change It Brings
• Chad Van Gaalen - Stow Aways
• Young Neighbours - Famous (If I Look Strong You Look Strong Remix)
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Just Space for Light (feat. Jennifer Castle)
• Beat Sexü - Seulement si tu veux
• Yolanda Sargeant & Hello Moth - Hold Me Up (single)
• Marie-Clo - Shell
• Matthew Cardinal - Aug 23rd
• Suuns - Pray
• Linaire - I'll Buy You Lunch
• CRi - From Me (feat. Bernache)

PALGARY ALMANAC #109: Stocking your cabinets with fresh new tunes for the forthcoming 2nd COVID lockdown plus the Esker Gallery Director/Curator shares about the latest exhibitions.

Playlist:

• Hermitess - Spacewalk I: Spooky Action at a Distance (feat. Wayne Garrett)
• Ariel Ulysses - A Blowing Wind Howls Against a Stretching Highway
• Robbie Bankes - So I Might
• Gord Downie - Hotel Worth
• Dan Mangan - There's a Tumor in the White House
• Aidan Knight - Rolodex
• Krill Williams - In Space (Sqwil)
• Harmony Trowbridge - Hera
• Plants and Animals - The Jungle
• Helena Deland - Pale
• Nana Adjoa - National Song
• Antoine Corriveau - Le bruit des os
• Yves Jarvis - Emerald
• Peel - Persona
• Bretton Lee John - Rock Show
• Close Talker - The Change It Brings
• Chad Van Gaalen - Stow Aways
• Young Neighbours - Famous (If I Look Strong You Look Strong Remix)
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Just Space for Light (feat. Jennifer Castle)
• Beat Sexü - Seulement si tu veux
• Yolanda Sargeant & Hello Moth - Hold Me Up (single)
• Marie-Clo - Shell
• Matthew Cardinal - Aug 23rd
• Suuns - Pray
• Linaire - I'll Buy You Lunch
• CRi - From Me (feat. Bernache)