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
Comedian and author Mark Critch delivers an unapologetic look at what makes Canada worth fighting for 30.11.2025 18:42
Guest: Mark Critch, comedian, actor, writer, author of Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Look at What Makes Canada Worth Fighting For
Why is Canada’s Dental Care Plan already over budget? 30.11.2025 10:45
Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter
He recorded at Abbey Road, toured with Black Sabbath and signed Bon Jovi, meet the musician turned music exec with a ton of great stories to tell 29.11.2025 19:21
Guest: Derek Schulman, former record company executive and musician, author of Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey From Stage Lights To Executive Heights
Investments in Artificial Intelligence are driving US GDP growth, what happens if the bubble bursts? 29.11.2025 19:15
Guest: John Herrmann, Tech correspondent, New York Magazine
How professional women's hockey finally took off 29.11.2025 17:55
Guest: Karissa Donkin, reporter, CBC Sports and author of Breakaway
Barred from livestreaming your own kid playing hockey: Welcome to private equity's takeover of youth sports 29.11.2025 17:33
Guest: Luke Goldstein, investigative reporter, The Lever
Zelensky's top adviser resigns after Ukrainian anti-corruption raid on his home 29.11.2025 10:51
Guest: Kira Rudek, member of Ukraine's parliament and leader of the Golos Party
Grammy-award winning Alex Cuba returns with his most personal album yet 23.11.2025 17:24
Guest: Alex Cuba, Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter
The Guess Who's Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings reunite after more than 20 years for a 2026 tour 23.11.2025 18:24
Guest: Burton Cummings. Co-founder of The Guess Who
Ottawa science chief urges creation of national UFO office 23.11.2025 9:00
Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter
How the Haida found hoops and made basketball their own 23.11.2025 9:43
Guest: Patrick Shannon, filmmaker, director of Saints and Warriors
Melting point: What a reporter learned during many journies through a fast changing arctic 22.11.2025 17:08
Guest: Neal Shea, author of Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
The Biggest Failure in a Century of Sneakers: How Under Armour and Steph Curry’s union ended in disaster 22.11.2025 17:40
Guest: Nick Engvall, journalist and author of Sneaker History on Substack
Trump ‘declassifies’ thousands of Amelia Earhart files, what did we learn? 22.11.2025 19:30
Guest: Ric Gillespie, executive director, International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and author of One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
Why is Canada opening a consulate in Greenland? 16.11.2025 9:50
Guest: Alex Dalziel, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Feared lost forever, how one of Europe’s most famous diamonds sat in a Canadian vault for decades 16.11.2025 17:54
Guest: Richard Bessett, historian, associate fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge, and author of For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
How did Canada go backwards on Measles prevention and what now? 16.11.2025 18:41
Guest: Dr. Monica Kidd, family physician and journalist based in Calgary
Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga's 'shocking' $173K spending spree 16.11.2025 7:44
Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter
The Strumbellas settle into a new groove with an EP and North American tour 15.11.2025 18:08
Guest: Isabel Richie, violinist and vocalist, The Strumbellas
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 50yrs later: what really happened 15.11.2025 18:14
Guest: Ric Mixter, journalist, writer, diver and documentary filmmaker, author of Tattletale Sounds-The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations.
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