Media

Me in the media. Contact me at requests@kimsiever.ca or on Twitter for interviews.

News I wrote

“Hatchet Man”, AlbertaViews, June 2021.
“Poverty Problem”, AlbertaViews, March 2021.
“Misplaced Burden”, AlbertaViews, December 2020.
“Locals stepped in when the UCP took Lethbridge’s SCS away. But now police and the city are pressuring them to stop”, Progress Report, 19 November 2020.

News that quoted me

Therien, Eloise. “Pride Month: How gay-straight alliances are helping Lethbridge youth”, Global Lethbridge, 21 June 2021
Vogt, Terry. “Doctor shortage becoming health care crisis in southern Alberta”, CTV News, 15 June 2021.
Climenhaga, David. “Kenney scores an own goal with tweet that “reads like a Beaverton headline’”, rabble.ca, 25 May 2021.
Helgeson, Samantha. “Editorial: Kenney Country”, The Keep Times, 29 April 2021.
Climenhaga, David. “Alberta reluctantly adopts stricter measures to counter upswing in coronavirus variants”, rabble.ca, 7 April 2021.
Dahlman, Ryan. “Albertans’ faith continues to be tested as Faith is being tested”, Prairie Post, 7 April 2021.
“Albertans For Ethical Drug Policy Call On Government To Re-Open Lethbridge SCS”, Alberta Native News, 18 January 2021. (This story was picked up by, Welland Tribune, Toronto Star and Yahoo Finance.)
“Canadians are much less likely to be killed by police. Gun laws are a big reason why”, Wyoming Public Media, 17 January 2021. (A similar story ran on Boise State Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio, and KUNR.)
Collins, Erin. “The World at Six with Susan Bonner”, CBC News, 23 December 2020, 18:00–20:53.
Gunn, Connor. “Galt Gardens pop-up injection site moves location on 2nd night”, Lethbridge News Now, 26 September 2020.
Storrie, Jim. “White supremacists attack anti-racist rally in Red Deer”, Progress Report, 22 September 2020.
Opinko, David. “Clearing up inaccurate reports on opioid overdose deaths in Lethbridge”, Lethbridge News Now, 23 July 2020.
Kinney, Duncan. “Powerful institutions keep trying to stop us from holding them to account”, Progress Report, 7 July 2020.
Brimacombe, Jody. “Canada horrified after woman tells B.C. teens to go back to where they came from”, Fresh Daily, 29 June 2020.
Lambert, Taylor. “The Truth Behind The UCP’s Anti-Protest Law”, The Sprawl, 20 June 2020.
Donato, Al. “Filipino Front-Line Workers Risk Their Lives To Keep Canada Running”, Huffington Post, 21 May 2020.
Turner, Kevin. “Trickle-down tutorial: disqualification, resignation, health care clinics, and timely donations”, The Crowsnest Journal, 7 May 2020.
“Rural doctors hospital services”, Friends of Medicare, 20 April 2020.
“Some people are upset over the sale of Crown land in southern Alberta”, Ryan Jespersen Show, 630 CHED, 3 April 2020.
“Canadians are disgusted by Postmedia columnist and Jason Kenney’s dehumanization of safe injection site users”, North99, 23 January 2020.
“SkipTheDishes offers to reschedule interview nixed after pay inquiry”, Canadian Press, 14 March 2017
Krajewski, Paul. “Building a brighter future, one neighbourhood at a time”, Lethbridge Living, Jan–Feb 2016, 26–32.
“Former Lethbridge mayor plans legal action against election website”, CJOC, 8 November 2013.
Mabell, Dave. “‘Citizen journalism’ subject of SACPA”, Lethbridge Herald, 5 April 2013, A3.
Schmidt, Scott. “A bad sign?; Some voters are not happy with the amount of signage that’s popping up around the city heading toward the Oct. 18 municipal election”, Sun Times, 6 October 2010
“City council rejects bicycle, boarder bylaw”, Lethbridge Herald, 14 September 2010, A1.
Helmer, Joanne. “Web master vies for political seat”, Lethbridge Herald, 21 August 2001, A3.

Blogs that linked to me

Fingas, Greg. “Tuesdau morning links”, Accidental Deliberations, 15 June 2021.
Fingas, Greg. “Sunday afternoon links”, Accidental Deliberations, 13 June 2021.
Climenhaga, David. “A twitterer’s tale: Kenney scores an own goal with tweet that ‘reads like a Beaverton headline’”, Alberta Politics, 25 May 2021.
MacPherson, Jody. “A do-over for downtown, emergency departments close but caucus meetings bust wide open”, Jody MacPherson, 16 May 2021.
“Kenney undermined ability of Alberta’s biggest pensions to get the best deal for workers and retirees”, Alberta Federation of Labour, 7 May 2021.
MacPherson, Jody. “Following in Ford’s footsteps, rejecting childcare support and defending “whiteness””, Jody MacPherson, 25 April 2021.
Gordon, Richard. “Weekend Update for April 18th, 2021”, Albertastan.ca, 18 April 2021, (29:35).
Climenhaga, David. “On a wing and a prayer, Alberta reluctantly adopts stricter measures to counter frightening upswing in coronavirus variants”, Alberta Politics, 7 April 2021.
Gandhi, Sohail. “Alberta Doctors Should Reject the Tentative Agreement”, justanoldcountrydoctor, 19 March 2021.
Climenhaga, David. “UCP explains away jason kenney’s lost $1.3-billion KXL gamble by lumping it into ‘historic’ infrastructure budget”, Alberta Politics, 10 March 2021.
Nabert, Michael. “Alberta Canada’s Cycle of Abuse with Big Oil”, Michel Nabert, 25 February 2021.
MacPherson, Jody. “Doing nothing helpful on jobs, economy or pipelines”, Jody MacPherson, 20 December 2020.
Ogbogu, Ubaka, Hardcastle, Lorian. “Alberta eroding independence of key health institutions”, Healthy Debate, 17 August 2020.
Payne, Scott. “Is 2015 a blueprint for beating Jason Kenney?”, Scott Harold Payne, 15 August 2020.
Eaton, Sarah. “Is the Hon. Demetrios Nicolaides, Alberta Minister of Advanced Education involved with contract cheating?”, Learning, Teaching and Leadership, 15 August 2020.
Lambert, Brett. “fACT Sheet — Child Benefits in Alberta and Canada”, Edmonton Social Planning Council”, 4 August 2020.
Dubois, Roxanne. “What is a union and what is it not?”, Citizens’ Press, 9 July 2020.
Fantin, Richard. “Phase 1 of operation ‘fuckwad UCP’ is complete”, Canadian Trends, 13 June 2020.
Wikler, Maia. “5 Key Indigenous-led protests that could be illegal under Alberta’s draconian new Bill 1”, Raven, 11 June 2020.
Koshan, Jennifer. “Protests Matter: A Charter Critique of Alberta’s Bill 1”. ABlawg, 9 June 2020.

Podcasts

The Breakdown – Episode 3.02 – Kim Siever, 10 January 2021

ELMNT FM · MOT – Jack Rozdilsky & Caroline Hodes (June 23rd, 2020).

I wasn’t interviewed, but I got a shoutout by interviewee Caroline Hodes at 25:35.

“Some people are upset over the sale of Crown land in southern Alberta”, Ryan Jespersen Show, 630 CHED, 3 April 2020.

“Kim Siever of Hot Pepper Communications”, Hans Island National Radio, 26 February 2015.

YouTube interviews

“Catch Up With Kim Siever For May”, Albertastan.ca, Youtube, 2 June 2020.

“045 Kim Siever Catch up!”, Albertastan.ca, Youtube, 22 April 2020.

“Albertastan ca Kim Siever 02:23:20”, Albertastan.ca, Youtube, 26 March 2020.

“047 Kim Siever May 11th 2020”, Albertastan.ca, Youtube, 11 May 2020.

“UCP Donor Land Grab and Safe Consumption Sites”, Albertastan.ca, Youtube, 6 April 2020.

Academic papers that cited me

Littlewood, Case. “Are Protests Illegal in Alberta? Charter Issues with Bill 1”, Centre for Constitutional Studies, 26 June 2020.

Panel discussions & presentations

“Get the Word Out – Communication”, SOWK 397, University of Calgary, 12 March 2019.
“Getting the Word Out”, SOWK 397, University of Calgary, 29 February 2016.

Presented to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs on citizen journalism, 4 April 2013.

I participated in this media panel discussion as editor-in-chief for Lethbridge News, 17 April 2013.

Contact me at requests@kimsiever.ca or on Twitter for interviews.