Celebrating 59 Video Podcasters across B.C. and Alberta!

We’re thrilled to introduce a new wave of storytellers with the official selections for the 2026 season of the TELUS STORYHIVE Video Podcast program!

This year, 59 projects from emerging creators across British Columbia and Alberta have been selected to bring their locally reflective video podcast series to life. From brand-new ideas to returning shows in their second and third seasons, these podcasts showcase the depth, creativity and diversity of stories being told across our communities.

Each selected project will receive $10,000 in production funding as well as training, a community of support and distribution on TELUS Optik TV, Stream+ and STORYHIVE’s YouTube channel.  

Alberta

• Akemi Holly Hashimi | Creative Conversations: The Heart of Collaboration | Fort McMurray

• Amin Ahmed | Chai With Changemakers: Meet The Successful Newcomers Who Shaped Edmonton | Edmonton

• Annie Stehr | Shared Ground | Lethbridge

• Arshdeep Purba | You THINK You Know Yourself? | Calgary

• Chloe Gust | The Secret Lives of Languages | Lethbridge

• Claire Marrec | Bilingual à Calgary | Calgary

• Dion Wiebe | Central Alberta Stories | Red Deer

• Jamie Matchullis | Hot Takes & Hot Flashes | Calgary

• Miriam Minshull | Stay Safe, Love You | Edmonton

• Najib Saliu-Ahmed | Around the World in 60 | Medicine Hat

• Sarah Parker | Wrong Number | Calgary

• Steve Kootenay-Jobin | Becoming the First: Stories of Indigenous Student Success | Calgary

• Terrence DeMarce | Access Stony Plain Podcast | Edmonton

• Timothy Truax | Fandom | Calgary

• Ufuoma Muwhen | Behind The Curve | Edmonton

Season 2

• Andrew Nicholson | Levelling Up Mental Health | Calgary

• Caroline Parke | Songs and Stories with Caroline Parke | Lloydminster

• Danielle Wintrip | Indie Quest: In The Prairies | Lethbridge

• Demar Anderson | LetsChat GP - From The Eyes of An Immigrant | Grande Prairie

Season 3

• Charlene Bonnar | Âsokan: Building Bridges | Lloydminster

• Corey Sadlemyer | Motivation Local: Career Harvest | Medicine Hat

• Josh Webber | Music Makes Sense "Decades" | Fort McMurray

• Meghan Westelmajer | Albertans In Space: A Podcast | Calgary

• Tyler McKinney | Voices of Resilience | Red Deer

British Columbia

• Aleisha Hendry | Lit in the North | Dawson Creek

• Alex Beaucage | Living Under a Rock | Vancouver

• Alexis Walch | The Williams Lake Sports Scene | Williams Lake

• Assetou Coulibaly | Roots and Routes | Victoria

• Ayumi Nakamura | Mapping Unreconciled Japanese Settlements, Vanished in the West Coast | Victoria

• Brittany Clough | Vows & Vines | Kelowna

• Candace Pellew | Awkwardly Visible: Living Life Above the Crowd | Vancouver

• Charlie Karumi | More of That, Please | Nanaimo

• Chelsea Kanstrup | De-Influencing Weddings | Victoria

• Dayna Meredith | Big Feels, Bad Decisions Podcast-Beginner series: People & Places in Cranbrook | Cranbrook

• Deirdre Kennedy | The Teacher Isn’t Just Tired | Nanaimo

• Dylan Raine | Our Queer hiSTORIES | Kelowna

• Jared Braun | Shining Brighter Podcast | Fort St John

• Jeanette Merrick | The in-between spaces & places of landscapeCARE & relationshipCARE | Penticton

• Jenelle Brewer | The Aunties Talk | Vernon

• Joshua Robertson | Reasonin' Room: Unpacking the Block | Vancouver

• Lily Briggs | Autism Uncensored | Nanaimo

• Rhidoy Hasan | Sky to Soil | Kamloops

• Ross Reid | Nerdy About Nature Podchat Series | Vancouver

• Ryan Weichel | Ryan from Kamloops: Community Connections | Kamloops

• Seong Woo Chung | The Point | Vancouver

• Shannon Hecker | Stoop Stories: The Scoop from the Stoop | Vernon

• Thomas Hunter | Intuitive Oracles: Women’s Gifts for Healing & Harmony | Penticton

Season 2

• Amanda Kao | The Bad Women Podcast | Vancouver

• Anne Isabelle Leonard | Creative Voices of Change - The Podcast | Terrace

• Johanna Martens | The Oddball Podcast | Dawson Creek

• Laura Mueller | Designing the Future | Prince George

• Mick Miller | Adaptive Podcast | Terrace 

• Ovvian Hill | Life Love and Lumpia with Ovvian Hill | Fort St John

• Pam Muir | Confessions of a Nerdy Girl | Prince George

• Saul Gomez | Immigrants Unplugged – The Okanagan Tapestry | Kelowna

Season 3

• Cierra Carlyle | The Real Talk | Vernon

• Hana Huggins | Film Picnic | Vancouver

• Kelly Coulter | Meant to Pause: The Menopause Series | Victoria

• Manny Manuel | Small Town Big Screen | Kamloops

Please join us in congratulating the selected storytellers on social media! We’re on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and LinkedIn. 

Your Mic, Your Platform. Stay tuned for these video podcast series coming in 2027! 

Video Podcast Pitch Analysis Report

In total, 470 pitches from across B.C. and Alberta were submitted to the 2026 Video Podcast program. Pitches ranged from modern life and culture to career growth, entrepreneurship and more. Curious what themes, trends and insights emerged from all 470 pitches? We’ve broken it all down in our latest Pitch Analysis Report.