Sprawlcast
Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast. A show for curious Calgarians who want a deeper understanding of the city they call home.
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October 10, 2026 • 49 mins
Calgary had a record year of pedestrian deaths in 2025, after city hall dithered on its pedestrian strategy. Meanwhile the Alberta government drastically curtailed photo radar—and now it's threatening to rip out bike lanes. We dug into what's happening here, and what's next.
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August 9, 2026 • 59 mins
In July, Rogers yanked two longstanding Calgary radio stations off the air: 660 News and 960 The Fan. What happens when stations go silent? We look at what Calgary is losing. We also hear from Jacqueline Donoghue, a former AM 960 broadcaster, about breaking into the radio industry as a woman in the 1950s.
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May 23, 2026 • 24 mins
Calgary cartoonist and author Teresa Wong is the author of the 2024 graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories." Her great-grandfather came to Calgary more than a century ago—but the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 kept the rest of his family from following. Now Wong has created a new piece of artwork specifically to be printed on The Sprawl's Pop-Up Press in homage to Chinatown. Jeremy Klaszus speaks with Wong about her family&r...
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April 18, 2026 • 64 mins
All grew up in Calgary—but only one stayed. Featuring Don Stewart of MacLeod's Books (Vancouver), Céline Chuang of Paper Birch Books (Edmonton), Rodney Clarke of The Paper Hound Bookshop (Vancouver) and David Sidjak of Sigla Books (Calgary).
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March 21, 2026 • 39 mins
A slowdown on sprawl? New councillors consider it as Calgary city hall reckons with a looming $49 billion price tag for infrastructure over the next decade.
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February 14, 2026 • 28 mins
After opposing Calgary 2026, Mayor Farkas considers 2038. We speak with the mayor about what changed—and ask city councillors what they think about the prospect of another Calgary Winter Games.
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February 9, 2026 • 34 mins
A decade ago, under Mayor Nenshi, city council started work on a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. It went downhill from there.
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December 17, 2025 • 31 mins
With 40+ new communities being built on Calgary’s outskirts, city hall is struggling to reach them all with services, including transit. We look at how Calgary's new city council is tackling an old problem.
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November 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Can local journalism be... joyful? You bet it can. Sprawl editor Jeremy Klaszus catches up with roving election reporter Asad Chishti to reflect on Calgary's 2025 election and why we covered it the way we did.
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October 11, 2025 • 52 mins
Mayoral candidates are bickering about which arena deal was best and who got fleeced. The Sprawl dug into how the $1.2B deal for Scotia Place—which has city hall putting up $853 million—got approved by council with no public debate. (Most of this episode originally aired in 2023.)
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June 21, 2025 • 35 mins
Fort Calgary's anniversary has traditionally been celebrated as the city's "birthday" but this time city hall isn't celebrating. Is this historical awareness—or amnesia?
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April 26, 2025 • 29 mins
Calgary’s urban tree canopy coverage is among the lowest in Canada. We dig into why—and what city hall is doing about it.
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March 22, 2025 • 29 mins
In the 1970s, a new freeway cut one side of Calgary off from the other. We dig into why the city remains divided when it comes to amenities and infrastructure on each side of Deerfoot Trail.
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February 15, 2025 • 55 mins
We dig into a 60-year fight against density by the reservoir shores in southwest Calgary. It's a saga about class, conservation and community politics. History is repeating itself at Glenmore Landing—but with some new twists.
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December 7, 2024 • 28 mins
Will municipal parties strengthen local democracy or undermine it? We speak with some of the candidates and parties that will be on the ballot—and dig into how the 2025 election will be different.
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November 9, 2024 • 32 mins
City hall's decision to close Inglewood's swimming pool left many Calgarians scratching their heads. We dig into why city council cut inner-city pools in the first place after oil prices crashed a decade ago.
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September 28, 2024 • 34 mins
When it comes to rail projects in Alberta, the Green Line is one piece of a larger puzzle. We dig into who's been setting the agenda when it comes to these projects—and to what extent they are complementary or competing with each other as Calgary city hall's Green Line plans collapse.
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August 10, 2024 • 34 mins
A week after the groundbreaking for the new Flames arena, city hall cut the Green Line nearly in half. We dig into the Green Line's delay-plagued history—and how one city megaproject has affected the other.
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July 13, 2024 • 33 mins
Where does our water come from—and how is climate change altering that water source? We zoom out from the feeder main that broke in June, following a drop of water from the Rocky Mountains and glaciers west of Calgary, into the pipes beneath our feet, and out the taps in our homes.
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June 8, 2024 • 35 mins
City hall went big—and is feeling the pinch. We dig into what it really cost to build a new convention centre building and what it means for the city's finances.
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