Shaye Ganam

A place to talk. To come together. To be heard. Shaye Ganam is taking the conversation province-wide on 880 CHED in Edmonton and QR Calgary - 770 AM, creating a collective town square to rehash the old and imagine the new for every part of this province. Tune in Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to noon to join the conversation. Follow Shaye Ganam on Twitter to keep up with your host wherever he goes.

News
2001
Study shows caribou herds in Alberta, B.C. grow...
Clayton Lamb is a wildlife scientist with Biodiversity Pathways and the University of British Columbia
6 min
2002
The use of AI in war games could change militar...
John (Jack) Long Burnham, Senior Policy Research Analyst, Defence, University of Alberta
7 min
2003
You can blame our addiction to online shopping ...
Michael Kempa, criminologist, University of Ottawa
6 min
2004
Rezoning is causing an uproar in our two major ...
Jeff Davison was on Calgary City Council from 2017-2021
11 min
2005
The Social Fray: Understanding Crime and Social...
Dan Jones, retired EPS member (spent time with the gangs unit and homicide team), and chair of justice studies, NorQuest College
40 min
2006
U.S. approves $61-billion aid package for Ukraine
Jars Balan, Coordinator, Ukrainian-Canadian, Faculty of Arts - Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)
5 min
2007
What led to the gold heist at Pearson airport?
Ari Goldkind, criminal defence lawyer and legal commentator
14 min
2008
Southern AB water users agree to reduce consump...
Alex Ostrop with the Alberta Irrigation Districts Association
11 min
2009
It's not going to be easy to unload the $34B Tr...
Rory Johnston, commodity analyst
8 min
2010
El Nino looks to be fading. What we can expect ...
David Phillips, senior climatologist, Environment Canada
10 min
2011
Canadian con artist sentenced to 10 years for p...
Rachel Browne, journalist and documentary producer with bylines for VICE, Macleans, The Walrus and more
8 min
2012
How ideology is darkening the future of renewab...
Ian Urquhart, professor emeritus of political science, University of Alberta (he taught Canadian, Alberta, constitutional and natural resource politics)
12 min
2013
Gas prices are on the rise again: Will it get b...
Dan McTeague, president, Canadians for Affordable Energy and former Liberal MP
6 min
2014
Drought puts farmers at risk of another grassho...
Dan Johnson, a University of Lethbridge environmental science professor
9 min
2015
A new perspective on the Online Harms Bill
Sabreena Delhon is the CEO of the Samara Centre for Democracy. She has directed multi-stakeholder research and outreach initiatives across justice, academic and non-profit sectors
7 min
2016
Capital Conversations w/ Catherine Griwkowsky a...
Catherine Griwkowsky, legislature reporter, AB Today and Sophie Normand, consultant, Summa Strategies
27 min
2017
Business Council of Canada reacts to the federa...
Goldy Hyder, CEO, Business Council of Canada
9 min
2018
The odd history of on-hold music
Alan Cross, music historian and host of the Ongoing History of New Music
10 min
2019
Is it time for the feds to treat food productio...
Tyler McCann is managing director of Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute
7 min
2020
The difficulty of finding 12 unbiased jurors fo...
Tim Bakken, a New York lawyer, former prosecutor and law professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and authored a book on wrongful convictions, “The Plea of Innocence: Restoring Truth to the American Justice System”?
11 min
2021
Catching up with Premier Danielle Smith
Premier Danielle Smith
15 min
2022
Iran puts Israel on notice
Guest: James Devine, Associate Professor Politics and International Relations, Mount Allison University
9 min
2023
Vintage is back as LP sales continue to skyrocket
Josh Greenberg, professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
8 min
2024
University of Alberta researchers predict Alber...
Evan Davies with the University of Alberta’s water research centre
7 min
2025
Canada's $2.4-billion AI investment being consi...
Joël Blit is a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo, the chair of the Council on Innovation Policy and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
7 min