Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Steven Page and a new supergroup creating an homage to K-Tel classics (1:51) Guest: Steven Page, Canadian musician, member of Trans-Canada Highwaymen Journo Corner: Shaft’s legacy, Scorcese’s latest and best Canadian horror movies (34:19) Guest: Barry Hertz, film editor, Globe and Mail The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (49:04) Guest: Ken Stern, attorney and director of the Bard Center for the Stu...

Israeli hostage released by Hamas speaks of her treatment (1:47) Guest: Rutie Mizrahi, niece of released Hamas hostage Off-duty pilot tries to turn off engines of aircraft in-flight 15:55) Guest: Jeffrey Charles Price, author of Practical Aviation Security A new report claims fossil fuel growth will peak by 2030 (28:18) Guest: Lance Mortlock, managing partner, energy market segment, Ernst & Young...

Five Eyes intelligence chiefs release first ever joint statement on threat from China (1:48) Guest: Dan Stanton, Director of National Security at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute, former intelligence officer in CSIS Ottawa preparing for potential evacuations in Lebanon (16:07) Guest: Louis de Lorimier, Canada’s former ambassador to Lebanon and Belgium and fellow at the...

Saskatchewan legislature passes pronoun bill - how is this affecting Premier Scott Moe’s popularity? (1:34) Guest: Murray Mandryk, columnist, Regina Leader-Post Black and Blue: Behind the Badge (15:35) Guest: Seren Jones, host, Black and Blue: Behind the Badge The New Reality: Disability Influencers (24:27) Guest: Brennan Leffler, producer, The New Reality Sam Roberts on his band’s new album, “The...

Ken Dryden looks back at his High School years and tracks down old classmates in The Class (2:02) Guest: Ken Dryden, HofF goalie, former MP and cabinet minister, author of The Class A Little More Collecting: One of the most prized Canadian collectibles, The Wayne Gretzky Rookie Card (35:17) Guest: David Parkinson, economics columnist and reporter, The Globe and Mail, owner of a Wayne Gretzky rooki...

A tuition hike for out-of-province students causes a stir in Quebec (1:39) Guest: Daniel Beland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science, McGill University Journo Corner: PM weighs in on Alberta Pension Plan (15:58) Guest: Dave Breakenridge, Editor, Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, host of the 10/3 podcast A Lit...

Hospitals and health care under siege in Gaza (1:45) Guest: Joe Belliveau, Canada executive director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Hamilton man struggles to get his parents and siblings out of Gaza (10:11) Guest: Rani Hemaid, parents and siblings trapped in Gaza Gaza hospital tragedy threatens to derail Biden visit to the region (18:05) Guest: Zheger Hassan, Adjunct Professor,...

The evolving situation over the Israel-Hamas conflict (1:35) Guest: Chuck Freilich, former Israeli deputy national security adviser, political professor of political science at Columbia and Tel Aviv universities Families of suspected Hamas hostages continue to call for their release (16:52) Guest: Meirav Leshem Gonen, mother of 23-year-old believed to be held in Gaza A Little More Collecting: Why...

Supreme Court strikes down Federal Environmental Assessment rules (1:21) Guest: Martin Olszynski, assistant professor, faculty of Law, University of Calgary What does the SCOC decision mean for extractive industries? (15:28) Guest: Heather Exner-Pirot, Director of energy, natural resources and environment, Macdonald-Laurier Institute. What challenges does the Israeli army face in Gaza (32:08) Gues...

Brink’s sues Air Canada for its $20M in gold back from a Toronto airport heist (1:24) Guest: Glen McGregor, journalist How experts are trying to protect birds from deadly building strikes (15:43) Guest: Brendon Samuels, PhD student, Department of Biology, Western University and with the Advanced Facility for Avian Research Canadian evacuation flights begin from Israel - some are still stuck waitin...

Israel has few options for dealing with Hamas’ hostage-taking in Gaza (1:39) Guest: Aaron Cohen, counterterrorism expert, Israeli special operations veteran Journo Corner: On the ground in Israel (15:34) Guest: Jeff Semple, Senior Correspondent, Global News The Perils of Ultra-Processed foods (32:15) Guest: Chris Van Tulleken, infectious disease physician and author of Ultra-Processed People: Why...

Nearly 2000 dead as world leaders condemn Hamas for Israel attack (1:38) Guest: Jon Allen, former Canadian ambassador to Israel and Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto Hamas attack kills grandmother of Israeli man living in Kamloops (17:21) Guest: Yoav Shimoni, grandson of Braha Levinson Canada’s jewish community mourns and rallies for Israel (27:03)...

Nine months after decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs, proposed B.C. law makes drug use illegal in almost all public spaces (1:51) Guest: Brad West, mayor of Port Coquitlam How does the Las Vegas sphere work? The Canadian connection behind Sin City’s newest wonder (15:53) Guest: Jonathan Labbee, CO-CEO of SACO The New Reality: The future of fungi (26:56) Guest: Carol McGrath, prod...

Canada’s most famous astronaut returns to Earth for his new novel called The Defector (1:34) Guest: Chris Hadfield, retired astronaut, and author of The Defector Why do government IT contracts have such huge cost overruns? (33:03) Guest: Roberto Rocha, reporter, the Investigative Journalism Foundation New documentary digs into the tickle trunk to reveal more about the life and legacy of Ernie Coom...

A former campaign manager breaks down the Manitoba election  Guest: David McLaughlin, former Chief of Staff for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and former campaign manager, Manitoba Progressive Conservatives Journo Corner: Manitoba election aftermath Guest: Richard Cloutier, co-host of The News on 680 CJOB in Winnipeg RCMP funeral/how to fight back against the spike in officer deaths?  Guest: Rick...

Alberta takes aim at federal government’s future clean energy grid (1:46) Guest: Danielle Smith, Alberta Premier  Canada doesn’t take national security seriously enough, why recent debacles make that even clearer. (15:55) Guest: David Frum, columnist, The Atlantic and author of Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy Deaths in Banff National Park highlight spike in bears encounters (33:15) Gue...

 Wildfires have a disproportionate impact on Indigenous communities, Indigenous knowledge could help mitigate the fire risk in the future (1:36) Guest: Nicole Redvers, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry; Western Research Chair and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health, Western University  How translating classic hits into Inuktitut became...

Protesters set up Winnipeg Landfill blockade in response to election ad (1:57) Guest: Cathy Merrick, Grand Chief, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Saskatchewan to invoke notwithstanding clause over pronoun rules (15:38) Guest: Rebecca Johnson, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria How do parliamentary guest lists really work? (31:56) Guest: Roy Norton, adjunct professor, university of Water...

Google at 25: How a search engine changed the World  (1:36) Guest: Carmi Levy, Tech analyst and journalist Google at 25: Too big for comfort? (16:06) Guest: Brett Caraway, associate professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, & Technology and Program Director, Digital Enterprise Management program, University of Toronto Journo Corner: Trudeau apologizes for invite debacle (31:24)...

Continued calls for the Speaker of the House to resign  Guest: Michael Levitt, president and CEO, Canadian regional office, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. Canada raises issue of foreign interference at the UN   Guest: Bob Rae, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations Canada and almost all provinces and territories get a poor grades in first poverty report card  Gues...

Speaker’s Nazi guest casts shadow over Zelenskyy’s parliament visit (1:31) Guest: David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent, Global News Fallout from Speaker’s Nazi guest at Ukrainian president’s speech (15:34) Guest: Marcus Kolga, DisinfoWatch founder, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute One year later, how is Port aux Basques moving on from Fiona? (32:36) Guest: Andrew Parsons, Minister o...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Canada (1:45) Guest: Jane Boulden, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and research fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for International and Defence Policy. Ukrainians eager to see President Zelenskyy on Canadian soil (14:11) Guest: Olga Iavolenko , Ukrainian refugee living in Ontario An RCMP officer killed, two other officers injured in Coquitlam sh...

Doug Ford reverses the Greenbelt land swap, admits it was “a mistake” (1:38) Guest: Mark Winfield, a political scientist and professor of environmental and urban Change at York University Alberta to move ahead with plans to leave Canada Pension Plan (14:58) Guest: Trevor Tombe, Professor of Economics, University of Calgary Wildfires taking a toll on the mental health of Canadian firefighters (30:5...

Why are people protesting over LGBTQ rights in schools? (1:31) Guest: Nadine Ness, designated coordinator for protests in Saskatchewan What are the problems with protesting over LGBTQ rights in schools? (12:40) Guest: Kristopher Wells, Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair for the Public Understanding of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth at MacEwan University Journo Corner: A strain of...

Was Canada right in calling out India’s potential involvement in the murder of a prominent Canadian Sikh separatist? ( 1:30) Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh, former Minister of Health, former BC premier How will the international community react to Canada’s claims? ( 16:14) Guest: Michael Kugelman, Director, South Asia Institute, Wilson Centre How police chiefs hope to address random violence in cities ( 31:...