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Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

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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 Russia is spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine 08.04.2022 19:29

Guest: Dr. Christopher Paul, senior social scientist at the Rand Corporation specializing in information warfare.

Is co-ownership a reasonable answer to affording a home? 08.04.2022 17:42

Guest: Lesli Gaynor, a real estate agent with Forest Hill Downtown Real Estate and owner of GoCo Solutions, a company dedicated to helping people into co-owned homes

When will Canada’s real estate market correct, if ever? 08.04.2022 6:39

Guest: Hilliard MacBeth, author ‘When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash’

How effective is help for housing in the federal budget? 08.04.2022 11:36

Guest: Steve Pomeroy, housing research consultant and part time lecturer at Carleton and McMaster Universities

The politics of affordability and real estate for the Liberals 08.04.2022 9:03

Guest: Stewart Prest, Lecturer in Political Science, Simon Fraser University

Did the Liberals just deliver a sensible budget? 08.04.2022 9:09

Guest: John Ivison, Postmedia Ottawa Bureau Chief

Unprecedented COVID lockdown in one of the world’s biggest cities, Traces of giant prehistoric crocodiles found in northern B.C., Is it time to send a message to aliens again?, Russia is killing civilians in Ukraine and ignoring international law, how c 07.04.2022 1:05:20

Unprecedented COVID lockdown in one of the world’s biggest cities Guest: Carl Breau, CEO of Saimen Engineering and Shanghai resident Traces of giant prehistoric crocodiles found in northern B.C. Guest: Guy Plint, professor of earth sciences at University of Western Ontario Is it time to send a message to aliens again? Guest: Kristen Fahy, a science systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo...

Stolen Charles Darwin notebooks returned to Cambridge Library 07.04.2022 13:13

Guest: Mark Purcell, deputy director, research collections, Cambridge University Library

Traces of giant prehistoric crocodiles found in northern B.C. 07.04.2022 16:24

Guest: Guy Plint, professor of earth sciences at University of Western Ontario

Is it time to send a message to aliens again? 07.04.2022 15:44

Guest: Kristen Fahy, a science systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Russia is killing civilians in Ukraine and ignoring international law, how can they be stopped? 07.04.2022 16:37

Guest: Bob Rae, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations

Unprecedented COVID lockdown in one of the world’s biggest cities 07.04.2022 17:04

Guest: Carl Breau, CEO of Saimen Engineering and Shanghai Resident

What more should Canada do to help Ukraine and defense spending in the upcoming budget, The woman behind the very popular Instagram account that reveals the strangest entries on Wikipedia, What caused a 100-meter high tsunami in Northern B.C., A Canadian who went to Ukraine to fight, instead finds himself on the frontlines of the humanitarian effort - April, 5th, 2022 What more should Canada do...

A Canadian who went to Ukraine to fight, instead finds himself on the frontlines of the humanitarian effort 06.04.2022 11:08

Guest: Paul Hughes, volunteer with Helping Ukraine Grassroots Support (HUGS)

What caused a 100-meter high tsunami in Northern B.C. in 2020? 06.04.2022 17:56

Guest: Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia

The woman behind the very popular Instagram account that reveals the strangest entries on Wikipedia 06.04.2022 19:23

Guest: Annie Rauwerda, creator @depthsofwikipedia

How Lithuania ended its dependence on Russian energy and what it means for the rest of the European Union 06.04.2022 17:36

Guest: Darius Skusevičius, Lithuania’s Ambassador to Canada

Why evidence of war crimes must compel the west to provide more military aid to Ukraine 06.04.2022 17:02

Guest: Olena Halushka, board member for the Anti-Corruption Action Center in Ukraine, writer and political commentator

What more should Canada do to help Ukraine and defense spending in the upcoming budget 06.04.2022 16:52

Guest: Robert Huebert, associate professor, department of political science, University of Calgary

Bracing for a 6th Covid wave , Why Ukraine is worth fighting for, Civilians executed by Russian forces in Kyiv suburb & Final International Panel on Climate Change report 05.04.2022 1:10:43

Bracing for a 6th Covid wave , Why Ukraine is worth fighting for, Civilians executed by Russian forces in Kyiv suburb & Final International Panel on Climate Change report - April 4th, 2022 Bracing for a 6th Covid wave Guest: Colin Furness, infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor in the faculty of information at the University of Toronto Why Ukraine is worth fighting for G...

What are Canada’s odds of a successful World Cup 05.04.2022 14:19

Guest: Josh Kloke, staff writer at The Athletic and author of the upcoming book ‘Voyageurs: Canada’s men’s national team’s quest for the World Cup’

A look at the 2022 Grammy awards 05.04.2022 16:39

Guest: Eric Alper, a music commentator and publicist

Final International Panel on Climate Change report 05.04.2022 9:27

Guest: Patricia Perkins, professor, faculty of climate and urban change, York University, and lead author of a chapter in the latest IPCC report.

Why Ukraine is worth fighting for 05.04.2022 25:20

Guest: David Frum, author and staff writer at The Atlantic

Civilians executed by Russian forces in Kyiv suburb 05.04.2022 18:59

Guest: Dmytro Gurin, member of Ukraine’s Parliament