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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China, Water Main Break, Money
61 min
2
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
3
Industry keeping a close eye on talks in China
Andre Harpe, Chair of Alberta Canola
6 min
4
Water main break underscores troubling governan...
Austin Thompson is a senior policy analyst at the Fraser Institute
8 min
5
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
6
Separation, Overcrowded ERs, Greenland
76 min
7
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
8
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
9
Alberta's overcrowded ERs need system-wide fixes
Dr. Warren Thirsk is president, section of emergency medicine with the Alberta Medical Association
15 min
10
New poll suggests one-in-five Albertans would v...
Matt Smith is the western executive vice-president of Pollara Strategic Insights
6 min
11
The music industry is going all in on licensed ...
Josh O'Kane is a reporter with the Globe and Mail
11 min
12
Jasper in January, Recall Petitions, AI Musicians
58 min
13
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
14
Recall petitions give a false sense of direct d...
Timothy Wild is a social worker interested in economic, political and social change
6 min
15
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
16
Watermain break, Warm Weather, Electricity Grid
55 min
17
Crosstalk January 9, 2026
Cross Talk w/ Shaye Ganam, Mike Smyth, Lauren McNabb and Alex Pierson
39 min
18
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
19
An explainer on Alberta's electricity system gr...
Drew Anderson is the Prairies reporter for The Narwhal
8 min
20
AISH, ICE Shooting, Water-Use
80 min
21
Canada's water-use restrictions are a symptom o...
Jen Gerson is a freelance writer and co-founder of The Line
13 min
22
One-size-fits-all approach for federal infrastr...
Dylan Bressey is president of Alberta Municipalities and a Grande Prairie city councillor
5 min
23
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
24
U.S. Military, CanCon, Iran
58 min
25
STARS Lottery
Dr. John Froh is president and CEO at STARS and Jacquie Drew is a STARS Very Important Patient (VIP)
8 min