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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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Curiouscast

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News

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Latest episode

Mar 15, 2026

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Episodes

Tariffs, Trump, reports, and rumours shake Canada’s auto sector again 15.04.2025

Guest: Flavio Volpe, president, Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association of Canada.

Ozempic for youth? Childhood obesity care gets an overhaul in Canada 15.04.2025

Guest: Dr. Ian Patton, Director of Advocacy and Public Engagement at Obesity Canada.

How a McMaster economist’s work is being used by Trump to justify tariffs 15.04.2025

Guest: Pau Pujolas,  Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster University.

As trade war tensions rise, one U.S. city sends love to Canadian tourists: ‘We’re with you’ 15.04.2025

Guest: Ron DeHarte, mayor of Palm Springs.

Debate week is here, what’s at stake? 15.04.2025

Guest: Fred DeLorey, Partner, NorthStar Public Affairs, 2021 federal Conservative national campaign manager.

The Explorer’s Gene: Why curiosity and trying new things is good for you 15.04.2025

Guest: Alex Hutchinson, author of Endurance and The Explorer’s Gene.

45 years later, Terry Fox's brother retraces the first steps of the Marathon of Hope 14.04.2025

Guest: Fred Fox, Terry Fox’s brother

Will Jennifer Pan go free? Supreme Court orders news trial for Toronto woman who arranged hit on her parents 12.04.2025

Guest: Jeremy Grimaldi, crime reporter for the GTA, Torstar and author of A Daughter’s Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story.

Could Trump’s tariffs drive up the price of tech in Canada? 12.04.2025

Guest: Carmi Levy, technology analyst and journalist.

Polls, how they work and why some people doubt them 11.04.2025

Guest: Andrea Perrella, associate professor of political science, Wilfrid Laurier University.

A memoir of food, restaurants, chefs, addiction, and assisting Anthony Bourdain 11.04.2025

Guest: Laurie Woolever, writer and author of Care and Feeding: A Memoir.

Do big election campaign promises on housing add up? 11.04.2025

Guest: Kevin Lee, CEO, Canadian Home Builders’ Association.

One week from the debates, how solid is the Liberal lead? 11.04.2025

Guest: Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief, The Globe and Mail.

Is one of America’s most dangerous volcanoes preparing to blow? 11.04.2025

Guest: Matt Haney, scientist-in-charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

The incredible true story of an FBI agent who went undercover to bring down a prominent neo-nazi group 10.04.2025

Guest: Scott Payne and Michelle Shephard - authors of Code Name: Pale Horse.

How and why key Canadian supporters of India’s PM Modi are backing Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives 10.04.2025

Guest: Stewart Bell, investigative reporter, Global News.

Confessions of a Restaurant Kid: A story of immigration, family, coming of age, and a Chinese restaurant 10.04.2025

Guest: Rachel Phan, author of Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging.

New 3D scan reveals truths about Titanic’s final hours 10.04.2025

Guest: Anthony Geffen, producer, Titanic: The Digital Resurrection.

How will consumers get hit by counter-tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles? 10.04.2025

Guest: Ross Ferguson, Operations Advisor and EV Product Specialist, Key West Ford.

Oil prices surge as Trump pauses tariffs but uncertainty remains 10.04.2025

Guest: Eric Nuttall, partner and senior portfolio manager, Ninepoint Partners.

A national project to create a new beer from 100 percent Canadian ingredients 10.04.2025

Guest: Josh McJanett, co-founder, Dominion City Brewing Co.

Canada tariffs left unchanged, but uncertainty lingers 09.04.2025

Guest: Jackson Proskow, Washington Bureau Chief, Global News.

Trump blinks first in his global trade war, except on China 09.04.2025

Guest: Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy, University of Michigan.

Saving Drumheller’s big, beloved dinosaur, Tyra 09.04.2025

Guest: Heather Colberg, Drumheller Mayor.

Is the dire wolf back from extinction? 09.04.2025

Guest Christopher Preston, professor of environmental philosophy, University of Montana.

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