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Let’s get into the curiosities and constants that make Calgary a wonderful and sometimes frustrating place to call home. One story and conversation at a time. Hosted by Anis Heydari. Every Wednesday.

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Let’s get into the curiosities and constants that make Calgary a wonderful and sometimes frustrating place to call home. One story and conversation at a time. Hosted by Anis Heydari. Every Wednesday.

    How Calgary's "insane" housing market keeps defying logic

    How Calgary's "insane" housing market keeps defying logic

    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.

    • 16 min
    Calgary is a country music city, but how?

    Calgary is a country music city, but how?

    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.

    • 20 min
    Electric bikes: pathway scourge or convenient car replacement?

    Electric bikes: pathway scourge or convenient car replacement?

    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.

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

    Yes, there ARE more potholes this year in Calgary — so what's going on?

    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.

    • 16 min
    The magic that wasn't: goodbye to the 90s teal of Eau Claire Market

    The magic that wasn't: goodbye to the 90s teal of Eau Claire Market

    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.

    • 18 min
    Send us your potholes!

    Send us your potholes!

    We've got a special episode coming up on potholes in Calgary - so we need you to email anis@cbc.ca with the potholes you hate the most. Email us a voice memo with your name, where your pothole is, what's terrible about it - and heck, let us know what you named it (if you name your potholes). It could air on a future episode!

    • 1 min

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