Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed and spending for the holidays is ramping up, but many charities are asking us to take a pause from rampant consumerism and think about helping others. And so Giving Tuesday, a global generosity movement. It began in 2012 in New York City. The day, which falls on the first Tuesday after American Thanksgiving — this year on Dec. 3 — encourages donations to n...

A study on the "Thermostat Battle" by The Ohio University identified three types of interactions around thermostat settings: agreement, compromise and conflict. The research also found that men were more likely to report their interactions with other household members around the thermostat as compromises or agreements, and women were a bit more likely to describe their interactions as conflicts. ...

Guest: Joshua Coleman, clinical psychologist, author of Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict

Guest: Andrew Smith, Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts, Queen Mary, University of London

Guest: Adam Pesce, President, Reunion Coffee Roasters

Guest: Frank Bowman, professor emeritus, school of law, University of Missouri

Guest: Zaitoon Murji, Head of Communications, YouTube Canada.

Guest: Brenda McPhail, director of executive public policy in digital society program, McMaster University

Guest: Alan Cassels, Pharmaceutical policy researcher and author

Guest: Ryan Ford, retired mixed martial artist and current boxer

Guest: Tim Cain, auto industry analyst and contributor to Driving.ca 

Guest: Kim Laureen, director of Losing Coach Mac: When Football Creates a Mentor then slowly takes him away

Guest: Gordon Osinski, Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Western University, the principal investigator for Canada’s first rover mission to the moon and a member of the science team for the upcoming Artemis III mission

Guest: Kelly Weinersmith, adjunct assistant professor, Rice University, co-author of “A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?”

Guest: Rob Carrick, personal finance columnist, The Globe and Mail and host of the Stress Test podcast

Guest: Diana Skakavac, the Toronto woman behind the Have Coupons Will Travel social media accounts

Guest: John Manley, former MP, deputy prime minister and minister of finance

Guest: Catherine McDonald, crime specialist, Global News Toronto

Guest: Christopher Epplett, teaches in the History Department at the University of Lethbridge

Guest: Kim Bolan, crime reporter, Vancouver Sun

Guest: Chantal Braganza, deputy editor, Chatelaine Magazine and author of the upcoming Story of Your Mother

Guest: Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy program and co-author of the book The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

Guest: Greig Mordue, Associate Professor, ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Advanced Manufacturing Policy, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University

Guest: Gordon Giffin, former U.S. ambassador to Canada

Guest: Jennifer Shaw, documentary filmmaker and director of The Secret of the Spy Whale