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.
Charles St. Arnaud is chief economist with Alberta Central
7 mins; September 17, 2025
Tuition, Public Service, ATA Negotiations
73 hours 24 mins; September 16, 2025
Allen Sutherland is the president and CEO of the Institute on Governance
8 mins; September 16, 2025
Wendy Kaur is a Toronto-based journalist whose work has been published by the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, ELLE U.S., Elle Canada, and others
10 mins; September 16, 2025
Shauna MacDonald is president of the Alberta Colleges and Institutes Faculties Association
7 mins; September 16, 2025
Parliament Preview, Civic Elections, Homelessness
77 hours 36 mins; September 15, 2025
Joe Humphries is the lead project coordinator for the research project Aging in the Right Place
9 mins; September 15, 2025
Robert J. Johnson is director, energy and natural resources at The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
9 mins; September 15, 2025
Bryce McRae managed stakeholder relations for Pierre Poilievre through the recent federal election and is now a senior consultant with Summa Strategies
8 mins; September 15, 2025
Jonathan Berkshire Miller is the co-founder and principal of Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory
8 mins; September 15, 2025
Charlie Kirk, LNG Production, Stablecoin
64 hours 20 mins; September 12, 2025
Shaye Ganam Alex Pierson and Richard Cloutier
41 mins; September 12, 2025
Richard Masson is an executive fellow at the University of Calgary school of public policy and is the former chief executive at the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission
6 mins; September 12, 2025
An Alberta company is launching a Canadian stablecoin
9 mins; September 12, 2025
Charlie Kirk, Teachers Strike, Major Projects Announcement
77 hours 57 mins; September 11, 2025
Ken Glazebrook, president, Alberta School Councils' Association
10 mins; September 11, 2025
Tim Powers, chairman of Summa Strategies and managing director for Abacus Data
7 mins; September 11, 2025
City Council, Liberals in Alberta , Alberta Teachers Strike
64 hours 17 mins; September 10, 2025
Kaitlyn Mitchell is a lawyer and director of legal advocacy with Animal Justice, a national animal law-advocacy organization
9 mins; September 10, 2025
Medeana Moussa is the executive director of Support Our Students Alberta
8 mins; September 10, 2025
Fatima Sheikh, is a PhD candidate in the department of health research methods, evidence and impact, McMaster University
7 mins; September 10, 2025
Alberta Book Ban, Pro-Union, Green Bin
59 mins; September 09, 2025
Marcus Kolga is the founder of DisInfo Watch dot org and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad
10 mins; September 09, 2025
Bryce McRae managed stakeholder relations for Pierre Poilievre through the recent federal election and is now a senior consultant with Summa Strategies
10 mins; September 09, 2025
John Hilton-O'Brien is the executive director of Parents for Choice in Education
18 mins; September 09, 2025
Canola Sector, Queen of Canada, Strikes
74 hours 25 mins; September 08, 2025
Andre Harpe, Chair for the Alberta Canola Council
8 mins; September 08, 2025
Chris Davison is the CEO of the Canola Council of Canada
9 mins; September 08, 2025
Dan Jones, retired EPS member (spent time with the gang’s unit and homicide team), chair of justice studies, NorQuest College
21 mins; September 08, 2025
Christine Sarteschi, is a professor at Chatham University who researches and monitors cults
5 mins; September 08, 2025
EV's, Canola Tariffs, Artificial Sweeteners
58 mins; September 05, 2025
Cross Talk 09-05-25
41 mins; September 05, 2025
Soon, even your Starbucks latte can come with protein. Is the trend healthy, or just big business?
5 mins; September 05, 2025
Artificial sweeteners aged the brain by over 1.5 years, study says
8 mins; September 05, 2025
Temporary Foreign Workers, NDP Leadership, Man Van
85 hours 10 mins; September 04, 2025
The Man Van - Driving Change for Men's Health
7 mins; September 04, 2025
Poilievre calls for temporary foreign worker program to be scrapped
9 mins; September 04, 2025
The CRA needs 100-day plan to fix ‘unacceptable’ services according to minister orders
10 mins; September 04, 2025
Carney meets with cabinet amid an unresolved trade war and looming budget
11 mins; September 04, 2025
The Federal NDP officially launches their race to find their next leader
10 mins; September 04, 2025
Condo Market, Book Ban, Xi, Putin and Kim
77 hours 30 mins; September 03, 2025
Split the Pot Lottery
6 mins; September 03, 2025
The condo market is struggling. Are they still a good retirement plan?
13 mins; September 03, 2025
'Capital Conversations' with Melissa Caouette and Colin Aitchison
18 mins; September 03, 2025
Xi, Putin and Kim meet for first time in show of solidarity against West
10 mins; September 03, 2025
Teacher Strike, Book Ban, Names
77 hours 15 mins; September 02, 2025
Is it time to end the U.S. liquor ban?
8 mins; September 02, 2025
What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions
10 mins; September 02, 2025
Canadian economy shrinks 1.6% in second quarter as U.S. tariffs squeeze export
5 mins; September 02, 2025
Back to School Crisis: Report reveals record child poverty, bullying, and mental health risks
9 mins; September 02, 2025
Why Alberta teachers are threatening to walk off the job
11 mins; September 02, 2025
Education Minister, ATA President, Playing Politics
73 hours 55 mins; August 29, 2025
Crosstalk - August 29, 2025
40 mins; August 29, 2025
Gerrymandering, 'Kids These Days', Housing
85 hours 32 mins; August 28, 2025
Keith Gerein is a columnist with the Edmonton Journal
10 mins; August 28, 2025
Paul W. Bennett is the director of the Schoolhouse Institute and a senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute
8 mins; August 28, 2025
Dr. Christian Leuprecht is professor and defence expert at the Royal Military College and Queen's University and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, currently visiting at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels. His latest book is Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics
10 mins; August 28, 2025
Immigration, Gambling, Health Care
62 hours 39 mins; August 27, 2025
Brett McKay is an Edmonton-based journalist with the Investigative Journalism Foundation
7 mins; August 27, 2025
Ori Freiman is a post-doctoral fellow at McMaster University’s Digital Society Lab
7 mins; August 27, 2025
Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner, Shadow Minister for Immigration and MP for Calgary Nose Hill
14 mins; August 27, 2025
Ken Glazebrook, president, Alberta School Councils' Association
8 mins; August 27, 2025
Heat Wave, Trade War, Taylor Swift
71 hours 22 mins; August 26, 2025
Daryl Janzen is an observatory manager and instructor of astronomy at the University of Saskatchewan
10 mins; August 26, 2025
David Phillips, senior climatologist, Environment Canada
9 mins; August 26, 2025
David Moscrop is a contributing writer for The Walrus
9 mins; August 26, 2025
Hon. Nathan Neudorf, Minister of Affordability and Utilities and MLA for Lethbridge-East
11 mins; August 26, 2025
Fen Hampson, one of the report’s authors and a chancellor's professor and professor of international affairs at Carleton University
11 mins; August 26, 2025
Post-secondary education reform, social disorder, U.S. mail-in voting system
75 hours 25 mins; August 25, 2025
Jeremy Paul is a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law who studies elections
9 mins; August 25, 2025
Dan Jones, retired EPS member (spent time with the gang’s unit and homicide team), chair of justice studies, NorQuest College
39 mins; August 25, 2025
Vass Bednar is managing director of the new Canadian SHIELD Institute for Public Policy
11 mins; August 25, 2025
Lee Easton is president of the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations
10 mins; August 25, 2025
Tariffs, Assault of Intruder, Equalization
63 hours 40 mins; August 22, 2025
Crosstalk 08-22-25
40 mins; August 22, 2025
Tegan Hill is director of Alberta Policy with the Fraser Institute
8 mins; August 22, 2025
Ari Goldkind, defence lawyer and legal commentator
11 mins; August 22, 2025
Steven Tufts is an associate professor in the faculty of environmental and urban change at York University
8 mins; August 22, 2025
Teacher Strike, Air Canada, Harm Reduction
73 hours 47 mins; August 21, 2025
Mark Hill is an editor at Inverse and a writer whose work has appeared in Wired, the National Post, Maclean's, and VICE, among other publications
9 mins; August 21, 2025
Bonnie Larson is a clinical assistant professor in the University of Calgary Department of Family Medicine
13 mins; August 21, 2025
Gerard Di Trolio is a PhD candidate in labour studies at McMaster University
10 mins; August 21, 2025
Childcare, Air Canada, Putin and Zelenskyy
85 hours 24 mins; August 20, 2025
Rick MacSwain, managing director and founder, Network Travel
8 mins; August 20, 2025
James Devine, associate professor of politics and international relations at Mount Allison University
8 mins; August 20, 2025
Moshe Lander, economics professor at Concordia University
9 mins; August 20, 2025
Krystal Churcher, chair of the Association of Alberta Childcare Entrepreneurs
9 mins; August 20, 2025
Solar Power, Pierre Poilievre, Reviews
83 hours 35 mins; August 19, 2025
I’m a physicist who studies fossils, and I recently discovered preserved blood vessels in the world’s largest T. rex
10 mins; August 19, 2025
Online reviews influence what we buy, but should they have that much power over our choices?
11 mins; August 19, 2025
Alberta planning to power some of its jails with solar energy
11 mins; August 19, 2025
Poilievre wins Alberta by-election, regaining a seat in Parliament
9 mins; August 19, 2025
Air Canada cancels plans to resume operations as flight attendants defy back-to-work order