This episode, the return of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods—our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives rooted in a 3-day gathering at UBC of journalists, scholars and experts in late 2025. An event co-convened by MEDIA INDIGENA regular Candis Callison and host/producer Rick Harp, so far we've shared its first two days of discussion. And with one still to come, this episode is about something that's always nagged at us: the fact long-time roundtabler Ken Williams wasn't able to be at BFF. So we came up with the next best thing, a check-in with the man himself about what he's heard so far, and what he might've said had he been there.

// CREDITS: Our intro/extro theme is 'nesting' by birocratic; 'Cloud Seven' by Joseph Sacco (CC-BY); 'Pink Shores' via ZapSplat.com

In this fourth and final instalment of "Petrostate Pushback"—our 2026 mini-summer-series on Indigenous resistance to energy extraction and exploitation—the back half of our investigation into infrastructure, from the material to the relational.

Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Trina Roache, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of King's College

• Kenneth T. Williams, playwright and Associate Professor of Drama, University of Alberta

• Candis Callison, Professor with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

• Kim TallBear, Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

• Max Liboiron, Professor of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, director of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)

• Clifford Atleo Jr., Senior Advisor and Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs, UBC

• Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos, Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy at the University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Studies in Health, Suicide, and Environmental Justice

// CREDITS: Creative Commons music this episode includes 'Lemongrass' by 1000 Handz; 'Coalescence' by Masteredit; 'Baryon' by Grumplefunk; 'Grounded' by Ketsa; 'After The Train Left' by Pamela Yuen; 'Artificial Rain ( LoF i, Chill )' by Lo-Fi Astronaut. Our series' opening theme is 'Ice Temple' by HoliznaCC0; its closing theme is 'Upstream Color' by Mark Wilson X. This episode was hosted/produced/edited/written by Rick Harp.

On the third instalment of "Petrostate Pushback," our 2026 mini-summer-series on the Indigenous-led struggle for climate justice, we look at the climate implications of infrastructures, structures which invariably reflect and reinforce the priorities of power. (Part one of two.)

Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearance):

• Clifford Atleo Jr., Senior Advisor and Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs at the University of British Columbia

• Candis Callison, Professor with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC

• Max Liboiron, professor of geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, director of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)

• Jeannette Armstrong, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy at UBC Okanagan

• David Suzuki, award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster

• Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos, Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy at the University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Studies in Health, Suicide, and Environmental Justice

// CREDITS: Creative Commons music this episode includes 'Photo Album' and 'Vanish' by 1000 Handz; 'On the Wing' by Mr Smith; 'Attempting to Chill' and 'A Bit Redundant' by Gagmesharkoff. Our series' opening theme is 'Ice Temple' by HoliznaCC0; its closing theme is 'Upstream Color' by Mark Wilson X. This episode was hosted/produced/edited/written by Rick Harp.