Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Guest: Cory Haltman, lead author of the study and doctoral student in marketing at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.

Guest : Mary E. O’Toole, Professor and Director, Forensic Science Program, George Mason University

Thomas Verni, retired NYPD detective

Layla Khdir, Syrian-Canadian and the Afternoon Producer for 880 CHED Afternoons

Vanessa Percoco, Cancer patient advocate

Annie Zaleski, journalist and writer, author of This Is Christmas, Song by Song and Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs

Sara Webb, astrophysicist at Swinburne University of Technology, author of The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes

Alex Tapscott, managing director of Ninepoint Digital Asset Group and author of Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier.

Guest: Adil Dinani, real estate agent at Royal LePage West Real Estate Services in BC

Guest: Esteban Touma, linguistic and cultural expert, Babbel.

Guest: Emily MacKinnon, founder, Quasimodo & His Cathedral

Guest: Dr. Alex Poole, Whitehorse General Hospital surgeon

Guest: Daniel Sax, Founder & CEO of the Canadian Space Mining Corporation.

Guest: Garret Price, documentary filmmaker and director of Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary

Guest: Kenneth Gray, former FBI agent, Distinguished Lecturer, Criminal Justice Department, University of New Haven

Guest: Stuart Smyth, an associate professor in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and holds the Agri-Food Innovation and Sustainability Enhancement Chair

Guest: Fred Bradley former Alberta MLA and cabinet minister, member of the Revive the Roxy Theatre Building Committee.

Guest: Josh O’Kane, reporter, The Globe and Mail

Guest: Anna Akbari, sociologist and author of There is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish

Guest: Duncan Dee, former Chief Operating Officer of Air Canada

Guest: Katherine Connor Martin, head of product for Oxford Languages

Research shows that individual acts of kindness and connection can have a real impact on global change when these acts are collective Liza Hinchey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology, Wayne State University joins Ben to talk about kindness in humans.

At reports say Donald Trump joked at one point during his dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday night that if Canada can't handle the economic effects of a punishing 25 per cent tariff on its goods, it should become the 51st state of the U.S. Christopher Sands, Director of the Canada Institute, Wilson Centre joins Ben to analyze the implications of this "joke".

Seafood mislabeling not only threatens vulnerable marine populations, but makes it harder for people to make informed, ethical choices about the food they eat. Matthew R. J. Morris, Associate Professor of Biology, Ambrose University joins Ben to explain.

Born to parents who arrived in Canada from Cambodia in the 1980’s to flee the horrors of the Khmer Rouge He developed a love of cooking watching his grandmother while growing up and he spent time in Spain working under at world renowned Ferran Adria’s El Bulli Foundation, Was once personal Chef to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family.  Chanthy Yen, Chef de Cuisine at Vancouver’s Michelin-r...