Calgary Eyeopener

On today's podcast: new plans for rail connections in Alberta; a Calgarian wins a prestigious award for greeting cards; a Lethbridge football player gets drafted into the NFL.

On today's show: we speak with two members of city council as they head into week two of a massive public hearing on blanket rezoning; with political parties on the way for Calgary's local elections, we hear how the party system works in Vancouver; it's International Dance Day! We hear why you just can't help but feel good when you start groovin'.

On today's show: what a couple of city councillors think of adding parties to local politics, and the province dumping any local bylaw it doesn't like; Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister, Ric McIver, on the new provincial bill that would give cabinet new powers over municipalities; the first NDP leadership debate is in the books. The CBC's Jason Markusoff tells us what we can learn from it;

On today's show: the state of engagement between city hall and local communities; a concert tonight in Southview hopes to open up live music for folks looking to avoid the bar or save a few bucks; and you've probably heard his voice, but you might not know his name. We speak with prolific voice actor Roger Craig Smith, who's coming to town for Calgary expo.

On today's show: as Calgary's public hearing on blanket rezoning rolls on, we hear about the impacts of zoning changes in other cities; why doctors are speaking out against the tax hike in the new federal budget; and our guest may have haunted your dreams, and now he's in town for the Calgary Expo.

On today's show: Day one is done and we have a full recap of the biggest public hearing in city history, as we prep for the coming days; we speak with a developer in favour of the rezoning policy; and a CUFF Documentary about the monster hunters who spent years seeking to capture, and even kill, the Loch Ness Monster.

On today's show: Calgary's blanket zoning public hearing begins so we tell you how we got here; we hear Inglewood's argument against the blanket rezoning; and a local poet weighs in on the new Taylor Swift album, Tortured Poets Department.

On today's show: a neonatal care doctor tells us about the situation in hospital units treating sick babies; and we chat with a former Calgarian and her partner making the papers for a possible Loch Ness monster sighting.

On today's show: why you shouldn't expect Ottawa to sell the Trans Mountain Pipeline right away; you can no longer be part of the energy because Calgary is now the Blue Sky City; and what happens when someone accidentally uncovers a cursed VHS tape? Well, chaos, of course.

On today's show: Ottawa is increasing taxes on capital gains to help pay for its budget. We have reaction from the Alberta business community; a Calgary city councillor wants to double fines for speeding violations in playground zones. We speak with ward three's Jasmine Mian; it's National Canadian Film Day today! We celebrate with an inside look at the 1981 Calgary-made horror movie, "Ghostkeeper."

On today's show: the race against time to deal with the water crisis in the M.D. of Pincher Creek; a family from Airdrie just won a national Net Zero challenge. We hear about the major home improvements they made to win the competition; we check in on a hockey game that's been going for 11 days straight, right before it breaks a world record later today.

On today's show: why a group of city councilors want permanent residents to be able to vote in Calgary; if your teeth are hoping for a shot of fluoride, tell 'em to wait. we chew on the fluoride delay for Calgary's water; and the Arizona Coyotes maybe just played for the last time ever at the dome. As the Flames sad season ends, we look a team in an ever worse spot.

On today's show: the province wants a say in what research projects get approved for federal grants. We talk to an academic about what that could mean; we hear about an album being remastered, to honour bandmates killed in Brentwood ten years ago; we hear about a new piece of local music combining big band jazz with Japanese traditional drumming.

On today's show: Mayor Jyoti Gondek is with us to react to the new provincial bill that would stop Calgary from negotiating directly with Ottawa without provincial approval; Alberta's Minister of Municipal Affairs, Ric McIver, joins us to talk about why the province says it needs to sign off on deals between between Ottawa and a whole bunch of entities.

On today's show: Canada's Minister of Health will join us to talk about the Federal government's Dental Care Plan, and the challenges of getting more dentists to opt in; a look at the near-billion dollar plan to expand irrigation when some southern Alberta farmers are already being told there's not enough water to go around; the robins are back in town. We find out what they are singing about this time of year.

On today's show: we look ahead at how summer camp season is shaping up, as parents start thinking about booking spots for their kids; the new federal dental plan will begin providing coverage next month. We find out why many dentists won't be participating; tools for the trades. We hear about a new curriculum rolling out in Calgary schools this fall aimed at education around construction work.

On today's show: Jeromy Farkas on the political fallout of the latest carbon tax increase; we speak to an advocate for harm reduction and recovery who was banned from one addiction recovery conference for speaking at another; and we talk to the Calgarian who will be reffing soccer at the upcoming Olympics games in Paris.