What It’s Really About
This month, we launched Between Peaks, a new podcast from the Banff Canmore Foundation featuring candid conversations about life in the Bow Valley.
Hosted by Nancy Dadalt, the podcast explores community leadership, relationships, and the shared realities that shape how we live, work, and support one another in this place we call home.
Between Peaks opens the space between perspectives and potential, between data and lived experience, and between challenges and the work required to address them.
Why We Created It
In a region as dynamic as the Bow Valley, conversations about housing, climate, food security, economic vitality, and reconciliation often happen in separate rooms.
Between Peaks brings those conversations into one shared space.
Each episode features voices from across our community. People who are doing the work. People who see the challenges up close. People who understand that thriving mountain communities do not happen by accident.
They happen because individuals, nonprofits, businesses, and funders step forward together.
Season One: Shared Responsibility in Action
Throughout our first season, guests reflect on what shared responsibility looks like in a community like ours.
Episode 1: What Is a Community Foundation?
Our first episode features Laurie Edward, who explores how community foundations connect donors, nonprofits, and local priorities to support pressing needs and long-term opportunities that enhance quality of life in the Bow Valley. Listen Now
Episode 2: Reinvesting in Community
In Episode Two, Cathy Geisler discusses how the Pauw Foundation uses philanthropy to support nonprofit capacity and reinvest industry success back into the Bow Valley. Listen now
Episode 3: Climate Action, From Data to Decisions
Featuring Edmund Ong, research scientist and community advocate, this episode explores how climate action moves from global data to local decision-making, and how communities like the Bow Valley can play a meaningful role in shaping a more sustainable future. Listen now
More Voices This Season
Season One also features:
- Quinn Currado, who shares how food insecurity often begins long before an empty cupboard, is shaped by the pressures families face when basic needs become harder to meet.
- Kaylee Ram and Chelsea Cudmore–Vloet, who reflect on how strong communities and strong local economies depend on each other.
- Travis Rider and Daryl Kootenay share Indigenous teachings that place responsibility on individuals to support their community's health and well-being.
These are just a few of the voices featured in Season One. New episodes drop weekly until April 7, 2026.
Listen and Join the Conversation
Between Peaks is now available wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts, including:
We invite you to listen, reflect, and share episodes with friends and neighbours.
Strong communities are not built by a few. They are built between us.
