We're excited to announce the rollout of a new flagship CCS podcast, The 7/50 Podcast.

In the past, the Centre has published a variety of thematically distinct podcast miniseries, including our recent student series on the notwithstanding clause, Clause for Concern? Notwithstanding Canada's Charter.

This new series, by contrast, is much broader in scope. In short, the series will host conversations with leading scholars and lawyers about a wide range of current Canadian constitutional debates, from debates over the balance of power between Canada's federal and provincial governments to debates over how to interpret our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In the first season of the podcast, we keep things close to our institutional home by reflecting on Alberta's constitutional politics, culminating in a breakdown of some of the ballot questions that will feature in the province's October 2026 referendum. Our first guest in episode 1, Chantal Hebert (CBC's The National, Toronto Star) discusses some of the burning questions surrounding the Alberta sovereignty movement, including its relationship with the Quebec sovereignty movement and the roles that might be played by different actors (e.g. Indigenous communities, the Government of Canada) if discussions about AB sovereignty move further forward.

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Special thanks go to the Centre's 2025 and 2026 summer students: Alexis Vander Linden, Areeba Ismail, Claire Adam, Kiera Fischer, Maria Kalapurayil, and Nicole Ibalio. The new series wouldn't have been possible without many months of hard work from each of them, and without their shared commitment to public education on constitutional issues.

You can listen to The 7/50 Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, including via Apple and Spotify. You can now listen to episodes 1 to 6 below, and you can access the series homepage here: The 7/50 Podcast