• How the Green Line became a runaway train with no track
    Oct 30 2024

    We backtrack the saga of the Green Line LRT project over the past few years to explain how and why it's stalled. Josh Pagé walks Anis Heydari through the votes, studies, politics and money that's led to a lot of cash being spent on a train that doesn't go anywhere yet.

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    25 mins
  • Behind the scenes of Calgary's iconic honky-tonk, Ranchman's
    Jun 19 2024

    With the Calgary Stampede looming closer, we take you behind the scenes of one of the city's most legendary hotspots for cowboys and cowgirls alike. We peek behind the saddles at Ranchman's, with someone who has worked there for nearly four decades!

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    16 mins
  • All about the downtown penetrator (we swear, it was for cars)
    Jun 12 2024

    You read that name right. Calgary almost had a freeway called the 'downtown penetrator' — almost! The CBC's Jason Markusoff drops by to explain how Calgary nearly pierced through the core of the city, with what could be the worst name ever for major civic infrastructure.

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    15 mins
  • How Calgary's "insane" housing market keeps defying logic
    Jun 5 2024

    Another month, another bump in housing prices. Condos, duplexes, detached - doesn't matter. Real estate agent Nadine Faule walks us through what it's like to be a buyer out there.

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    16 mins
  • Calgary is a country music city, but how?
    May 29 2024

    All that twang had to come from somewhere! Local ethnomusicologist Mike Tod offers us a history lesson, and Southern Alberta's own country star MacKenzie Porter joins us from Nashville to talk about today's country sound.

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    20 mins
  • Electric bikes: pathway scourge or convenient car replacement?
    May 22 2024

    It's cycling season in Calgary (if you're not one of the hardcore winter riders putting us all to shame) and the e-bikes are out. We talk about what you can — and what you can't — do on an e-bike, with someone who really loves them.

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    15 mins
  • Yes, there ARE more potholes this year in Calgary — so what's going on?
    May 15 2024

    Yeah, it's pothole season. And this year, it FEELS like there are more cracks and crevices than usual. It's not just a feeling! We have facts! The city's chief pothole filler tells us how many there are, and how you can get the one that wrecked your alignment fixed.

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    16 mins
  • The magic that wasn't: goodbye to the 90s teal of Eau Claire Market
    May 8 2024

    The Eau Claire Market is soon to be demolished, so it's time to look back at what went right, what went wrong and what's next for the downtown project that never really worked. Failure or not, Calgarians felt strongly about the now-dead mall and the magic it promised, so we talk to a literal magician about what it was like to perform there, and a former city councillor about what it's like to finally say "eau" revoir.

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    19 mins