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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Jasper in January, Recall Petitions, AI Musicians
58 min
2
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
3
Recall petitions give a false sense of direct d...
Timothy Wild is a social worker interested in economic, political and social change
6 min
4
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
5
Watermain break, Warm Weather, Electricity Grid
55 min
6
Crosstalk January 9, 2026
Cross Talk w/ Shaye Ganam, Mike Smyth, Lauren McNabb and Alex Pierson
39 min
7
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
8
An explainer on Alberta's electricity system gr...
Drew Anderson is the Prairies reporter for The Narwhal
8 min
9
AISH, ICE Shooting, Water-Use
80 min
10
Canada's water-use restrictions are a symptom o...
Jen Gerson is a freelance writer and co-founder of The Line
13 min
11
One-size-fits-all approach for federal infrastr...
Dylan Bressey is president of Alberta Municipalities and a Grande Prairie city councillor
5 min
12
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
13
U.S. Military, CanCon, Iran
58 min
14
STARS Lottery
Dr. John Froh is president and CEO at STARS and Jacquie Drew is a STARS Very Important Patient (VIP)
8 min
15
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
16
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
17
We need to prepare for the possibility that the...
Adam Gordon, visiting fellow at the Cascade Institute
8 min
18
Can Canadian culture survive the age of AI slop?
Vass Bednar is the managing director of the Canadian SHIELD Institute
11 min
19
Boomers, Water Main Break, Pets
59 min
20
The latest on the water main break in Calgary
Jeromy Farkas is the Mayor of Calgary
9 min
21
Would you clone your pet?
Brian Hare is founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center at Duke University and co-author of Puppy Kindergarten: The New Science of Raising a Great Dog
7 min
22
It's time to bring the boomers back into the Co...
Royce Koop is a professor of political science at the University of Manitoba
11 min
23
New Time, Venezuela, Reading Tests
73 min
24
A predawn op in Latin America? The US has been ...
Alan McPherson is a professor of history at Temple University
8 min
25
The situation in Venezuela and its impact on th...
Heather Exner-Pirot is the director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
9 min