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 Bizarre: Vancouver Record store owner discovers Beatles demo 22.03.2025 9:58
Guest: Rob Frith, owner, Neptoon Records Vancouver.
Are Canadians “Nasty” negotiators when dealing with the US? 22.03.2025 19:44
Guest: Alan Wolff, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
The Bay will be reduced to just six stores, not one west of Toronto 22.03.2025 18:24
Guest: Bruce Winder, retail analyst and author of RETAIL Before, During & After COVID-19.
U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic border-straddling library and opera house 21.03.2025 19:07
Guest: Matthew Farfan, past-president, Haskell Free Library and Opera House.
Investigators start to piece together why a Delta Airlines plane crash landed at Toronto’s airport 21.03.2025 16:08
Guest: David McNair, former Transportation Safety Board of Canada Investigator.
The inside story of one of Canada’s most brazen, baffling, and mysterious art heists and how the police cracked it 21.03.2025 19:45
Guest: Brett Popplewell, associate professor of journalism, Carleton University, author of Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past
A federal election could be called on Sunday, why it promises to be close fight 21.03.2025 19:56
Guest: Tim Powers, chair, Summa Strategies
Advice on how to deal with Trump from his former National Security Advisor 21.03.2025 21:11
John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor to President Trump
Glass Tiger’s lead singer celebrates Canada in song 20.03.2025 17:20
Guest: Alan Frew, lead singer, Glass Tiger.
What savings will consumers see with the end of the carbon tax? 20.03.2025 16:18
Guest: Randall Bartlett, Deputy Chief Economist, Desjardins.
Journo Corner: Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla over safety worries 20.03.2025 21:01
Guest: Andrew McCredie, senior editor, Postmedia Driving.
B.C. man returns library book 64 years late, credits it for saving lives 20.03.2025 16:43
Guest: Robert Murray, returned library book 64 years late.
Do newly declassified documents tell us anything new about the JFK assassination? 20.03.2025 18:21
Guest: John T. Shaw, Director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, author, JFK in the Senate: A Pathway to the Presidency
Four Canadian citizens executed in China over 'drug-related crime' 20.03.2025 19:33
Guest: Vina Nadjibulla, vice-president of research and strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
How Canada can stand up to Donald Trump 19.03.2025 18:28
Guest: Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations
How Putin is trumping Trump on Ukraine 19.03.2025 18:50
Guest: Kathryn Stoner, senior fellow at the Freemon Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and author of Russia Resurrected
Landfill remains in Winnipeg-area landfill search identified as Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran 19.03.2025 18:48
Guest: Melissa Robinson, cousin to Morgan Harris Guest: Melissa Ridgen, network managing editor and journalist, Global News
NASA astronauts splash down in capsule after 9 months in space 19.03.2025 18:47
Guest: Jack Fischer, an American engineer, test pilot and a former NASA astronaut
The wreck of a state-of-the-art ship that went down on Lake Superior in 1892 has finally been found 19.03.2025 19:05
Guest: Bruce E. Lynn, Executive Director, Great Lake Shipwreck Historical Society
Trump is wrong, our border was not created by “some guy with a ruler” 19.03.2025 19:16
Guest: Craig Baird, host of the Canadian History EhX podcast and author of Canada’s Main Street
Canadian visits to the US plummet as warnings about crossing the border increase 19.03.2025 18:53
Guest: Richard Kurland, immigration lawyer
Was a first official trip to Paris and London and not Washington the right call for PM Mark Carney? 18.03.2025 14:15
Andrew MacDougall, director of Trafalgar Communications and former Director of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
All Hudson’s Bay stores could start liquidation sales as early as Tuesday 18.03.2025 16:08
Guest: Susan Krashinsky Robertson, retailing reporter, The Globe and Mail
Things you never knew about St. Patrick’s Day in Canada 18.03.2025 14:29
Mark McGowan, Professor of History & Celtic Studies, University of Toronto
F35 deal under review 18.03.2025 14:38
Guest: David Pugliese, defense reporter, Ottawa Citizen
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