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Hosted by Paula Simons · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 67 episodes
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In this podcast, Paula Simons, an Independent senator from Alberta, sets out to debate and deconstruct some of the myths that define and bind her province.
Paula Simons hosts Alberta Unbound, a news show with 67 episodes published.
The 2026 Kreisel lecturers, Richard Van Camp, Shani Mootoo and Lise Gaboury-Diallo, join Paula Simons onstage to discuss place, truth, and story as community medicine You can listen to Part 1 & 2 of the lecture here: htt
In Part 2 of the Kreisel Lecture, Authors Shani Mootoo and Lise Gaboury-Diallo reflect on place, identity, and the purpose of narrative. You can listen to Part 1 of the lecture here: https://senatorpaulasimons.podbean.co
The fate of Alberta’s separatist referendum is up in the air. But Alberta’s premier and Alberta separatists aren’t the only ones who want a vote to go ahead. There’s mounting evidence of foreign-backed social media campa
Edmonton playwright, documentary-maker and award-winning children’s author Marty Chan on growing up Chinese-Canadian, book bans, Bill 28 and racism’s revival tour. To see more of Chan's work, visit his website https://ma
Political scientists Melanee Thomas and Yasmeen Abu-Laban, political strategists Ken Boessenkool and Zain Velji, and former Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta Patricia Paradis,
An Alberta Unbound special episode: a live recording of a panel discussion titled "Alberta and the New World Disorder," happened on February 6th, 2026, as part of the University of Alberta's International Week. Panelists
Pilar Martinez, outgoing CEO of the Edmonton Public Library, on the role of libraries in the age of AI and book bans.
Acclaimed Metis scientist David Wishart, a pioneer in the study of metabolomics, and Debby Waldman, an award-winning Jewish-American children's author and journalist, talk about the alchemy that brought them together, an
Born in Toronto. Raised in Khartoum. Launched in Lethbridge. Calgary-based stand-up Faris Hyttia has a life story, and a comic sensibility, like no other. His parents sent him from Sudan to Alberta to become an engineer.
Once, Thomas Lukaszuk was the Conservative deputy premier of Alberta. Today, he's leading the campaign to keep Alberta in Confederation. So is his anti-separation petition a great way to drum up Canadian patriotism? Or i
Award-winning spoken word poet Nonso Morah on growing up Nigerian-Canadian in rurban Alberta - and on what it means to be an Albertan in Canada today
Former Deputy PM Anne McLellan, former Alberta NDP Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and CPC strategist Ken Boessenkool examine the entrails of the federal election - and confront the threat of Alberta separatism
Chief Conroy Sewepagaham of the Little Red River Cree Nation talks about “making noise up north” as he works to lead his community through recovery from not one, but two, devastating wildfires.
Bloomberg’s White House correspondent Josh Wingrove reports in from the front lines of Trump’s trade war.
Activist and author Jesse Lipscombe on Alberta’s Black history, the power of radical patience, and building coalitions of resistance. Link to Return to Amber Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsRkZz1KJB0
Political pundit Graham Thomson on why and where Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland and Pierre Poilievre are all playing up their Alberta roots.
Dishing the dirt on soil health and regenerative agriculture with Kimberly Cornish, Shorty Fensky and Yamily Zavala.
How Narwhal editor Emma Gilchrist’s childhood in oil and gas country shaped her commitment to environmental journalism.
The Hon. Ron Ghitter was an architect of Alberta’s first human rights legislation. Now, undaunted at 89, he’s fighting to protect it.
Right wing trolls have dubbed Dr. Kristopher Wells Canada’s most dangerous Senator. Now meet the real Kris Wells, Alberta’s “proudest” new Senate representative.
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