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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How Canada can use China to deliver a counterpu...
Drew Fagan is a professor at the University of Toronto and a visiting professor at Yale University
11 min
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Oilpatch, Iran, Grok
76 min
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Canada's universities are in crisis as money ge...
Jonathan Malloy is the Bell chair in Canadian parliamentary democracy at Carleton University. He is co-editor of The Politics of Ontario
7 min
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Why Canada's reaction to the Grok scandal is so...
Eric Van Rythoven is an instructor of political science at Carleton University
12 min
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Some Canadians are ready to work in Venezuela's...
Barry Blacklock is with SurCana Energy Inc.
9 min
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The use of military force in Iran could backfir...
Dr. Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
10 min
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China, Water Main Break, Money
61 min
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Why you're bad with money
Kelley Keehn is an expert in the world of personal finance and popular author with a passion for helping readers transform their relationships with money
11 min
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Industry keeping a close eye on talks in China
Andre Harpe, Chair of Alberta Canola
6 min
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Water main break underscores troubling governan...
Austin Thompson is a senior policy analyst at the Fraser Institute
8 min
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A first-hand account of experiencing Greenland
Yvonne Su is a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an associate professor in the department of human rights and equity studies at York University
10 min
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Separation, Overcrowded ERs, Greenland
76 min
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Trump is serious about Greenland. What does Car...
Wesley Wark is an expert on national security and intelligence issues. He is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a fellow with the Balsillie School of International Affairs
9 min
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Why geopolitics still matters for our pipelines
Jerome Gessaroli is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and leads the Sound Economic Policy Project at the B.C. Institute of Technology
8 min
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Alberta's overcrowded ERs need system-wide fixes
Dr. Warren Thirsk is president, section of emergency medicine with the Alberta Medical Association
15 min
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New poll suggests one-in-five Albertans would v...
Matt Smith is the western executive vice-president of Pollara Strategic Insights
6 min
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The music industry is going all in on licensed ...
Josh O'Kane is a reporter with the Globe and Mail
11 min
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Jasper in January, Recall Petitions, AI Musicians
58 min
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The Social Fray - Understanding Crime and Socia...
Dan Jones, retired EPS member (spent time with the gang’s unit and homicide team), chair of justice studies, NorQuest College
20 min
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Recall petitions give a false sense of direct d...
Timothy Wild is a social worker interested in economic, political and social change
6 min
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In Venezuela, a mighty U.S. will again meet an ...
Ben Rowswell is a consultant with Catalyze4 who served as Canada’s chargé d’affaires in Iraq from 2003 to 2005, and ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 to 2017
13 min
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Watermain break, Warm Weather, Electricity Grid
55 min
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Crosstalk January 9, 2026
Cross Talk w/ Shaye Ganam, Mike Smyth, Lauren McNabb and Alex Pierson
39 min
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Who's to blame for the watermain break?
David Barrett is a research manager at the University of Calgary and the United Nations University Hub at UCalgary, as well as the board chair of Sustainable Calgary
9 min
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An explainer on Alberta's electricity system gr...
Drew Anderson is the Prairies reporter for The Narwhal
8 min