Participatory Democracy at Work in Alberta
From The Gravity Well with Jenny Yeremiy by The Gravity Well
June 1, 2026 · 31 min · Season 3
About this episode
The episode discusses participatory democracy and the need to recenter Alberta's economy around public and planetary health.
Thanks to Raul of Charlie Angus / The Resistance ’s Meidas Canada, I am thrilled to share the presentation that University of Calgary Public Health Professor, Lindsay McLaren, and I gave at the Public Interest Alberta (PIA) Common Purpose, Collective Action 2026 conference in Edmonton last month. The presentation outlines our backgrounds, a better vision, our experience, an action, and how to join us! Lindsay and I outline the need to recenter Alberta and Canada’s economies around public and planetary health. That comes with: * Recentering decision-making around water and land restoration, not energy growth. * Recognizing we are in a polycrisis: seeing multiple and additive crises with the common root causes: extraction, accumulation, and exploitation. * Unwinding the neoliberal playbook of manufactured scarcity (cutting of public services), division, deregulation, private wealth accumulation, and stunting of our imaginations. * Reclaiming the term “economy” as “caring for one another”. Own the economy you wish to foster. * Grow alternatives which include principles of reciprocity, solidarity, and equity. * Look to other jurisdictions, including the Canadian Quality of Life…
People in this episode
Host: Jenny Yeremiy
Guest: Lindsay McLaren
Topics covered
- Participatory Democracy
- Public Health
- Economy
- Environmental Health
- Collective Action
- Neoliberalism
Keywords
- Alberta
- public health
- economy
- collective action
- neoliberalism
- environmental health
- reciprocity
- solidarity
- equity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Calgary, Public Interest Alberta, TheBreakdownAB, Meidas Canada, Charlie Angus / The Resistance
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