Alberta's Past: A New Lens

Seven episodes that examine why Alberta is one of the most innovative jurisdictions in Canada. The series looks past the “great men” version of history and into the underlying machinery: institutions, disruptions, leadership, resources, incentives, and the stories we keep telling about ourselves.

Episode 2: Being Alberta
Episode 2 · 38 Min

Being Alberta

How is Alberta shaped by experimentation, and what gets left outside the frame when we only tell the familiar stories?

Episode 4: Political Alberta
Episode 4 · 39 Min

Political Alberta

What does it mean for Alberta to be “innovative” in politics, and what happens when those experiments succeed, fail, or harden into habit?

Episode 5: Cultural Alberta
Episode 5 · 36 Min

Cultural Alberta

How do you define “culture” in Alberta, and what counts as innovation when it’s happening in classrooms, community halls, galleries, and kitchens?

Episode 6: Extracting Alberta
Episode 6 · 40 Min

Extracting Alberta

How did resource development actually work in Alberta, and how did that work reshape communities, safety standards, and the province’s relationship with land and water?

Episode 7: Researching Alberta
Episode 7 · 41 Min

Researching Alberta

Alberta’s science and technology story isn’t a string of lucky breakthroughs. It is a long, systems-driven build: universities, hospitals, research councils, philanthropic funding, political decisions, and the leaders who turned ideas into institutions that could scale.