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
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When evidence can be deepfaked, how do courts d...
Linda Besner is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Guardian, The Atlantic, Maclean's and The Globe and Mail. Her most recent book if the poetry collection Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
14 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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Alberta government should focus on what it can ...
Tegan Hill is the director of Alberta Policy with the Fraser Institute
6 min
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Canada's aging infrastructure is a ticking time...
Emre Erkmen is an assistant professor of building, civil and environmental engineering at Concordia University
10 min
5
Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in t...
Pete Poovanna is a Canadian sustainability strategist, clean transportation analyst and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Forest Bean, a tech-enabled, regenerative coffee enterprise that connects Indo-Pacific farmer cooperatives with global consumers
7 min
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Extreme Weather, Ryan Wedding, Evs
50 min
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Crosstalk Jan. 23, 2026
Cross Talk w/ Shaye Ganam, Mike Smyth, and Alex Pierson
39 min
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Weekly economic recap w/ Dr. Eric Kam
Dr. Eric Kam, economics professor at Toronto Metropolitan University
8 min
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Canada's AI strategy stops at city limits
Dr. Suresh Neethirajan is professor and chair in digital livestock systems at Dalhousie University
7 min
10
Venezuela, China Trade, Public Grocery Stores
65 min
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How public grocery stores could work in Canada
Aaron Vansintjan is Policy Manager at Food Secure Canada and has worked as a consultant for non-profits and governmental bodies
12 min
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Trump's stated reasons for taking Greenland are...
Steven Lamy is professor emeritus of political and international relations and spatial sciences at USC's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
7 min
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How Carney's China trade deal benefits Western ...
Falice Chin is The Hub's Alberta Bureau Chief
11 min
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Venezuela can't deliver the oil America needs. ...
Robert J. Johnston is the director of energy and natural resources policy at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy
9 min
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City Spending, Greenland, World Order
66 min
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'Capital Conversations' with Melissa Caouette ...
Melissa Caouette, principal at MC Consulting and Founder of Pocket Lobbyist & 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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Organized labour continues to make gains in Alb...
Andrew Stevens is an associate professor in the faculty of business administration at the University of Regina
5 min
18
Examining federal debt by prime ministers since...
Jake Fuss is the director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute
8 min
19
Trump's Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th ce...
Donald Heflin is the executive director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
8 min
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NATO, Separation, ER Deaths
76 min
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Only the richest Canadians are able to afford h...
David Clement is the North American Affairs Manager at the Consumer Choice Center
11 min
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Ending Alberta's family-violence committee puts...
Lana Wells is an associate professor and Brenda Strafford Chair in the prevention of domestic violence at the University of Calgary
7 min
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Why Trump's tariffs didn't break Canada
Andrew DiCapua is principal economist at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
9 min
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Greenland has become the epicenter of the growi...
Paul Waldie is the Europe Correspondent with The Globe and Mail
7 min
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Canada has plans to send soldiers to Greenland ...
Dr. David Perry is the President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, host of the institute’s Defence Deconstructed Podcast and a co-director of the Triple Helix MINDs Collaborate Network
10 min