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Weekends with Ben O’Hara Byrne will showcase Ben’s signature curiosity, good humour, and love for great Canadian stories - whenever you're listening. Learn new things, hear surprising perspectives, and head into your day with fresh stories to talk about. Ben O’Hara Byrne brings decades of experience in journalism, broadcast, and connecting with people to the microphone. Throughout his career, he’s held reporting & anchor roles across Canada, from Quebec City to Ottawa to Victoria. He’s been a network bureau chief in Beijing and London, U.K. And, he’s reported on stories around the world, inclu...

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How Ben traced his Christmas present back to Kyiv and what’s happened to the family-run business that made it 06.05.2022 14:43

Guest: Bogdan Kyrychenko, owner of Kyiv-based 79Street on Etsy.com

New racial data and how it will be put to use in BC 06.05.2022 17:12

Guest: Kasari Govender, British Columbia’s first independent Human Rights Commissioner.

How a Toronto-born entrepreneur leveraged an iconic image to raise more than a million dollars for Ukraine 06.05.2022 20:05

Guest: Christian Borys, Saint Javelin

Why is the Lytton cleanup still progressing so slowly? 06.05.2022 17:29

Guests: Jennifer Thoss, Lytton property owner and Dr. Rosalin Miles of Lytton First Nation

Why last Summer’s heat dome in western Canada was one of the most extreme on record 06.05.2022 8:57

Guest: Alan Kennedy-Asser, Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

Covid-19 - two new variants in South Africa 06.05.2022 10:12

Guest: Jason Tetro, Host of the Super Awesome Science Show on the Curiouscast Network, Author of “The Germ Code” and “The Germ Files”

CPC leadership race 06.05.2022 15:49

Guest: Nick Taylor-Vaisey, journalist, POLITICO

What’s causing long security waits at Canadian airports, A new book looks at why the 1972 war on ice between Canada and the USSR remains the series that changed hockey, Why did Anglo-Saxon kings eat such a vegetable-heavy diet & The widespread impact on India of a blistering spring heat wave - May 4th, 2022 What’s causing long security waits at Canadian airports? Guest: Catherine Cosgrove, Dir...

Why did Anglo-Saxon kings eat such a vegetable-heavy diet? 05.05.2022 14:31

Guest: Sam Leggett, bioarecheologist, University of Edinburgh

How a US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade could impact other rights beyond abortion access 05.05.2022 17:07

Guest: Emily Wills, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa

The widespread impact on India of a blistering spring heat wave 05.05.2022 19:20

Guest: Polash Mukerjee, Lead, Air Pollution & Climate Resilience, Lead - Air Quality & Climate Resilience Consultant, Natural Resources Defense Council India

A new book looks at why the 1972 war on ice between Canada and the USSR remains the series that changed hockey. 05.05.2022 19:07

Guest: Scott Morrison, sports journalist and author of 1972: The Series That Changed Hockey Forever

Journos Corner: Talking Defence with David Pugliese of the Ottawa Citizen 05.05.2022 16:42

Guest: David Pugliese, military affairs reporter, Ottawa Citizen

What’s causing long security waits at Canadian airports? 05.05.2022 15:39

Guest: Catherine Cosgrove, Director, Communications & Public Affairs Teamsters Canada

A preview of the 2022 Ontario election campaign ,The hockey world says goodbye to Guy Lafleur, Why does the icing in an Oreo usually stick to one side, Cannabis prices plummeting in Canada & Leaked ruling suggests the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade, what impact could that have in Canada? - May 3rd, 2022 A preview of the 2022 Ontario election campaign Guest: Alan Carter, Anchor, Glo...

Why does the icing in an Oreo usually stick to one side? 04.05.2022 14:13

Guest: Crystal Owens, PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Montreal and the hockey world says goodbye to Guy Lafleur 04.05.2022 15:49

Guest: Pat Hickey, Montreal Gazette hockey reporter and columnist

Why are so many Canadian drivers distracted behind the wheel? 04.05.2022 8:43

Guest: Kristine D’Arbelles, Senior Director of Public Relations, Canadian Automobile Association

Why are cannabis prices plummeting in Canada? 04.05.2022 10:47

Guest: Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research, Goodman School of Business, Brock University.

Leaked ruling suggests the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade, what impact could that have in Canada? 04.05.2022 18:46

Guest: Kelly Gordon, Assistant Professor of Political Science, McGill University

A preview of the 2022 Ontario election campaign 04.05.2022 15:48

Guest: Alan Carter, Anchor, Global News at 5:30 and 6 - Host, Focus Ontario - Host, The Alan Carter Radio Program

Comparing protests and how Canada reacts to them 03.05.2022 17:15

Guest host Martin Strong talks with Bill Tieleman, political columnist and former NDP political strategist

The risks and rewards of single-game sports gambling in Canada 03.05.2022 19:46

Guest host Martin Strong talks with Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations at the University of New Haven & the lead of its Sports Integrity Center. Author of The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime and The Insider’s Guide to Match-Fixing

260,000 tossed masks recycled for furniture, playground surfacing 03.05.2022 17:09

Guest host Martin Strong talks with Katherine Flynn, General Manager, Centre for Climate Change Management at Mohawk College.

Should Elon Musk remove dictators from Twitter? 03.05.2022 19:23

Guest host Martin Strong talks with Kaveh Shahrooz, a lawyer and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Centre for advancing Canada’s interests. He is also a former advisor on human rights to Global Affairs Canada.