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.

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It's time head hunt some Americans
Matthew Holmes is the executive vice president and chief of public policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
6 min
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French debate recap and English debate lookahead
Ian Skipworth, consultant with Summa Strategies
10 min
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Ukraine just suffered its deadliest attack on c...
Andrew Rasiulis, defence and Eastern European affairs expert with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute
6 min
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French Debate, Coal , Measles
With all the talk around tariffs and unity, some people believe the province needs to stop downloading expenses on to municipalities. When it comes to coal in Alberta, public outrage nor waning global demand seem to matter to Premier Smith. Measles cases continue to rise in the Province. Autism experts are reacting to the U.S.'s goal to identify cause by September. And the French language debate is tonight; what can we expect to see?
63 min
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When it comes to coal in Alberta, public outrag...
Ian Urquhart, professor emeritus of political science, University of Alberta
7 min
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'Capital Conversations' with Catherine Griwkow...
Catherine Griwkowsky, legislature reporter, AB Today and Colin Aitchison, director, Western Canada with Enterprise Canada and formerly a staff member with the Kenney and Smith governments
18 min
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Stop downloading expenses onto Alberta's munici...
Paul McLauchlin is the reeve of Ponoka County, a fifth-term councillor and former president of Rural Municipalities of Alberta
7 min
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Bank of Canada faces a close-call rate decision...
7 min
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What Alan Cross has learned about Canadian musi...
Alan Cross, music historian and host of the Ongoing History of Music
8 min
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Crime, Buy Canadian, Alan Cross
Crime is getting a lot of attention on the campaign trail. The shop Canadian trend is going strong; are business's taking advantage of it? And Alan Cross joins us to share what he learned about Canadian music fans on his cross-country tour.
71 min
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Crime is getting a lot of attention on the camp...
Ari Goldkind, criminal defence lawyer and legal commentator
10 min
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Polling, World Markets, Buy Canadian
We go through the in's and outs of Election Polling with Janet Brown. Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domestic sales amid 'Buy Canadian' movement. World markets rally after Trump gives tariff exemption to electronics. And Canada must plan for life without Elon Musk's Starlink.
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Canada must plan for life without Elon Musk's S...
Rob McMahon is an associate professor in media and technology studies and in political science at the University and a member of the First Mile Connectivity Consortium
9 min
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Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domest...
Melise Panetta, lecturer of marketing in the Lazaridis School of Business Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
8 min
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World markets rally after Trump gives tariff ex...
Dr. Eric Kam, economics professor at Toronto Metropolitan University
4 min
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The ins and outs of polling during an election ...
Janet Brown, owner, Janet Brown Opinion Research
9 min
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Listen Next - Global National with Dawna Friese...
21 min
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Alberta's lost tax advantage
Tegan Hill, director of Alberta Policy at the Fraser Institute
5 min
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How to interpret election rally crowd sizes
Spencer Fernando is a Canadian writer, political commentator and campaign fellow. He has previous experience in policy analysis and communications
7 min
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Canadians are scared to travel to the U.S.
Arash Abizadeh, political science professor, McGill University
8 min
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Less Canadians traveling to the U.S., election ...
Data is showing less Canadians are interested in going to the United States. Much of the pushback has to do with the new border security measures. Shaye speaks with an academic who decided to cancel multiple trips. Hear his reasoning. Crowd sizes - - a lot of chatter about crowd sizes. Are parties reporting them accurately? How does it reflect the polls? Will it help influence or sway voters? Spencer Fernando digs into those questions and more.
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Price of oil, surge in young gun owners, cuttin...
On Wednesday we talked about the up and down stock market. Today, we jump into the fluctuating price of oil. How damaging is it to our economy? When will it rebound? Those questions and more answered by Joe Calnan, energy security analyst and energy security forum manager at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. How are young gun owners approaching this election? An interesting conversation with Rod Giltaca, head of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights. Advocates are up in arms over the provinces decision to cut the child and youth support program. Holly Mathias goes in-depth on how severely this will impact our kids.
58 min
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Cutting child and youth support harms vulnerabl...
Holly Mathias is a doctoral candidate, 2023 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and Killam Laureate in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta
6 min
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Surge in young gun owners hitting voting age am...
Rod Giltaca, head of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights Coalition
8 min
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The U.S. economy reacts to ongoing trade war
Marc Goldwein, a Washington-based economics professor and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which advises both major U.S. parties
5 min