Curiouscast
Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
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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Episodes
How artificial intelligence could sort out the problems with recycling 04.06.2025 16:48
Guest: Mathew De Sa, Senior Vice President of Product, Neosort.
Why are we seeing so many devastating wildfires so early this year? 04.06.2025 19:16
Guest: Lori Daniels, Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia.
Why sidewalk robot delivery continues to hit obstacles in Canada 04.06.2025 19:25
Guest: Shauna Brail, associate professor, Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto Mississauga, senior associate at the Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Are dog owners in-tune with their pet’s emotions? Probably not. 04.06.2025 19:25
Guest: Clive Wynne, a professor of psychology and director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University.
Summer festival season heats up for multi-platinum Canadian band Marianas Trench 03.06.2025 17:05
Guest: Michael Ayley, bassist, Marianas Trench.
The Stanley Cup final begins Wednesday, why history favours one side in the Edmonton-Florida rematch 03.06.2025 19:06
Guest: Kevin Lowe, Oilers team ambassador, six-time Stanley Cup winner and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Ukraine’s remarkable covert drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet 03.06.2025 18:07
Guest: Wesley Wark, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and writes a Substack column on topical national security and intelligence issues.
PM Carney lays out his plans to premiers to build a stronger Canadian economy, were they buying it? 03.06.2025 19:37
Guest: Goldy Hyder, President & CEO, Business Council of Canada.
Christie Brinkley on her new memoir, life, love, loss, Billy Joel and meeting her favorite Canadian singe 02.06.2025 37:28
Guest: Christie Brinkley, author of Uptown Girl: A Memoir.
How are Canadians with mortgages coping with higher interest rates and economic uncertainty? 31.05.2025 18:45
Guest: Sabrina Guay, Specialist, Client Relations, CMHC
Actor reprises his iconic Seinfeld “Soup Nazi” role to help raise money for Vancouver tragedy victims 31.05.2025 19:32
Guest: Larry Thomas, actor known for playing the “Soup Nazi” in Seinfeld
CrossTalk Spotlight: Tackling youth crime after Pickering attack 31.05.2025 9:39
Guest: Mike Smyth, Shaye Ganam, Lauren McNabb, Alex Pierson
A decade after her exoneration, Amanda Knox on what it’s taken to reclaim her freedom 31.05.2025 38:54
Guest: Amanda Knox, writer, advocate and author of Free: My Search for Meaning
How Bizarre: Pigeons cause chaos on an airplane, the Gloucester cheese rolling contest, and Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater soap 31.05.2025 11:21
We discover the fear of Pigeons on an airplane, a cheese rolling contest, and learn all about Sydney Sweeny's bathwater soap.!
50-years later, how Jaws transformed the Martha’s Vineyard community where it was filmed 31.05.2025 20:12
Guest: Bow Van Riper, research librarian and film scholar, Martha’s Vineyard Museum
How the Muppets took Moscow by storm 30.05.2025 35:41
Guest: Natasha Rogoff - author of Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia.
The DEEP Project: Could humans soon work and live under the ocean? 30.05.2025 17:56
Guest: Sean Wolpert, President and Chief Commercial Officer of DEEP.
X-Files star digs into real-life government black-ops and coverups in new History Channel show called Secrets Declassifed 30.05.2025 18:57
Guest: David Duchovny, host of Secrets Declassified on The History Channel.
Trump’s tariffs are back on after US Appeals Court injunction, what does it all mean for Canada? 30.05.2025 19:46
Guest: John Boscariol, Partner, Leader of the International Trade and Investment Law Group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP.
Thousands of Manitobans forced to flee wildfires, we meet one of them 30.05.2025 13:24
Guest: Elsaida Alerta, evacuee from Flin Flon.
This B.C. woman is internet-famous for chopping wood. So, she wrote a book about it 29.05.2025 14:38
Guest: Nicola Coenen, author of Axe in Hand
Warm summer in the forecast as droughts and wildfire risks loom 29.05.2025 12:57
Doug Gillham, meteorologist and manager of the forecast center, The Weather Network
1.4 million Canadians missed credit payments in the first quarter of 2025 29.05.2025 12:14
Guest: Rebecca Oakes, vice-president of advanced analytics, Equifax Canada
Manitoba declares provincewide state of emergency over wildfires 29.05.2025 16:52
Guest: Richard Cloutier, co-host, The News on CJOB Winnipeg
As parliament resumes in Ottawa, is Canadian democracy in crisis? 29.05.2025 31:24
Guest: Andrew Coyne, columnist, The Globe and Mail and author of The Crisis in Canadian Democracy
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