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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Internal trade reform is finally moving and Can...
Ryan Manucha is a contributor to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, is the author of the award-winning book Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups
9 min
2
Buffalo Sabres, Economic Update, Domestic Trade
65 min
3
Why Alberta also needs its own domestic trade o...
Carlo Dade is the director of international policy at the school of public policy at the University of Calgary
11 min
4
Defence industrial policy is a key security too...
Steve Lafleur is a research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, leading the Building New Foundations for Economic Growth research program
10 min
5
On the economy, Carney remains committed to the...
Jake Fuss is the director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute
9 min
6
'Capital Conversations' with Melissa Caouette, ...
Melissa Caouette, principal at MC Consulting and Founder of Pocket Lobbyist, Shannon Greer is a senior consultant with New West Public Affairs & Colin Aitchison, Managing Director, Western Canada at Enterprise Canada and is a Strategic Advisor at Creative Currency and formerly a staff member with the Kenney and Smith governments
17 min
7
Spring economic update & BoC interest rate anno...
Moshe Lander, senior lecturer of economics at Concordia University
8 min
8
Separation, Alberta Advantage, AI
71 min
9
What do gas prices look like one week since the...
Dan McTeague, Canadians for Affordable Energy President
9 min
10
Mark Carney’s biggest economic challenge: Canad...
Tony Keller is a columnist with The Globe and Mail
9 min
11
Separating from Canada would be an economic dis...
Tyler Dawson is an editor for The Globe and Mail opinion section
9 min
12
The latest in Iran and the Middle East
Dennis Horak was Canada's ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Yemen from 2015-2018 and charge d'affaires in Iran from 2009-2012
8 min
13
Learning about the Our Alberta Advantage group
Avnish Nanda is an Edmonton lawyer who helped create the group, Our Alberta Advantage
9 min
14
Alberta's AI gold rush. Who risks getting left ...
Stephen Murgatroyd teaches at the University of Alberta
9 min
15
Social Media Ban, Pipelines, Wealth Fund
75 min
16
Carney announces creation of Canada's first sov...
Tim Powers, chairman, Summa Strategies and managing director for Abacus Data
7 min
17
Canada wants investment. Let's make it an easy ...
Mike Holden is chief economist at the Business Council of Alberta
9 min
18
Enbridge launches $4-billion expansion of B.C. ...
Joe Calnan is VP Energy and Calgary Operations at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute
8 min
19
Manitoba moves to ban social media for children
Carmi Levy, technology analyst & journalist
11 min
20
How to address the demand for online gambling
Keldon Bester is the executive director of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project and a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He has worked as a special advisor for the Competition Bureau
9 min
21
Extreme Weather, US Trade, Chernobyl
62 min
22
40 years after the Chernobyl disaster, its lega...
David Marples is a professor of Russian and East European History at the University of Alberta
12 min
23
Crosstalk, April 24, 2026
Cross Talk w/ Shaye Ganam, Mike Smyth, Lauren McNabb
39 min
24
Weekly economic recap
Dr. Eric Kam, economics professor at Toronto Metropolitan University
8 min
25
Food prices in March rose over 4% year-over-year
Kevin Grier, a livestock market analyst based in Guelph
6 min