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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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
2
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
3
Alberta's overcrowded ERs need system-wide fixes
Dr. Warren Thirsk is president, section of emergency medicine with the Alberta Medical Association
15 min
4
New poll suggests one-in-five Albertans would v...
Matt Smith is the western executive vice-president of Pollara Strategic Insights
6 min
5
The music industry is going all in on licensed ...
Josh O'Kane is a reporter with the Globe and Mail
11 min
6
Jasper in January, Recall Petitions, AI Musicians
58 min
7
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
8
Recall petitions give a false sense of direct d...
Timothy Wild is a social worker interested in economic, political and social change
6 min
9
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
10
Watermain break, Warm Weather, Electricity Grid
55 min
11
Crosstalk January 9, 2026
Cross Talk w/ Shaye Ganam, Mike Smyth, Lauren McNabb and Alex Pierson
39 min
12
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
13
An explainer on Alberta's electricity system gr...
Drew Anderson is the Prairies reporter for The Narwhal
8 min
14
AISH, ICE Shooting, Water-Use
80 min
15
Canada's water-use restrictions are a symptom o...
Jen Gerson is a freelance writer and co-founder of The Line
13 min
16
One-size-fits-all approach for federal infrastr...
Dylan Bressey is president of Alberta Municipalities and a Grande Prairie city councillor
5 min
17
Alberta's new disability benefits plan unfair o...
Colton Stevenson is a volunteer member of Justice & Equity Alberta and work as a Staff Lawyer with the Edmonton Community Legal Centre in the areas of social benefits and poverty law and was one of the authors of the op-ed
8 min
18
U.S. Military, CanCon, Iran
58 min
19
STARS Lottery
Dr. John Froh is president and CEO at STARS and Jacquie Drew is a STARS Very Important Patient (VIP)
8 min
20
What's happening in Iran?
Dr. Michael Bonner is a political consultant with Atlas Strategic Advisors and former director of policy within the Ontario government. He is a senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation for public policy, a historian of ancient Iran and is the author of In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present
8 min
21
Capital Conversations with Colin Aitchison and ...
Colin Aitchison, director, Western Canada with Enterprise Canada and formerly a staff member with the Kenney and Smith governments & Shannon Greer is a senior consultant with New West Public Affairs
19 min
22
We need to prepare for the possibility that the...
Adam Gordon, visiting fellow at the Cascade Institute
8 min
23
Can Canadian culture survive the age of AI slop?
Vass Bednar is the managing director of the Canadian SHIELD Institute
11 min
24
Boomers, Water Main Break, Pets
59 min
25
The latest on the water main break in Calgary
Jeromy Farkas is the Mayor of Calgary
9 min