Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Office vacancy rates rising to highest levels ever in Canada Guest: Susan Thompson, Associate Director, Research, Colliers Is it time to get rid of the often misunderstood best before dates on food? Guest: Mike von Massow, OAC chair in food system leadership and a food economics professor at the University of Guelph New survey shows 25% of Britons have never boiled an egg: Are basic cooking skills...

How did forensic genealogy help crack a 1975 cold case near Ottawa? Guest: Margaret Press, co-founder, DNA Doe Project Journo Corner: Lac-Mégantic 10 years later: Covering the tragedy Guest: Mike Armstrong, Quebec Correspondent, Global National Lac-Mégantic 10 years later: What has changed and what hasn’t? Guest: Kathy Fox, Chair, Transportation Safety Board Lac-Mégantic 10 years later: Could it h...

Why diet drinks probably won’t give you cancer: Dispelling the angst over Aspartame Guest: Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, epidemiologist, author of Health Nerd science blog Cutting through the political rhetoric surrounding the most effective ways to tackle the opioid crisis Guest: Paxton Bach, clinical assistant professor, department of medicine, University of British Columbia and addiction physician at...

Canada Day Cities Tour: Halifax Guest: Clare Tidby, VP Marketing, Discover Halifax Canada Day Cities Tour: St. John’s  Guest: Paul Bugge, Acting CEO, Destination St. John’s Canada Day Cities Tour: Quebec City  Guest: Patrick Lemaire, Destination Quebec City Canada Day Cities Tour: Ottawa  Guest: Catherine Callary, Vice President, Destination Development, Ottawa Tourism Canada Day Cities Tour: Thun...

Remembering the incomparable Sue Johanson Guest: Jane Johanson, Sue’s daughter and  Lisa Rideout, documentary filmmaker and director of Sex with Sue Waterloo Police call a knife attack at the University of Waterloo a hate-motivated incident  Guest: Enakshi Dua, professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies. York University The Village of Lytton struggles to rise from the ashes two yea...

Time runs out on a winning $70 million Lotto Max ticket  Guest: Tony Bitonti, OLG spokesperson The race to map the ocean floor and why it matters Guest: Laura Trethewey, author of The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans Profiling the world’s most prolific art thief  Guest: Michael Finkel, author, The Art Thief  Journo Corner: Nepo baby politicians, Canadians fail the citi...

New report claims not enough competition in Canada’s grocery industry Guest: Stuart Smyth, Agri-Food Innovation & Sustainability Enhancement Chair, associate professor, University of Saskatchewan Olivia Chow’s victory in Toronto - are we seeing more diverse political representation in Canada? Guest: Chi Nguyen, executive director, Equal Voice What does the potential merger of Postmedia/Toronto Sta...

Olivia Chow is Toronto’s next mayor, what does that mean for the city?  Guest: Jason Chapman, executive producer, 640 Toronto What happened in Russia and what next? Guest: Ian Garner, Russia media watcher and author of Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia’s Fascist Youth Canadian legends Loverboy back on tour this summer with Foreigner Guest: Mike Reno, lead singer, Loverboy The dangers lurking...

Does the fine match the crime for Canada Bread in their price-fixing scandal? Guest: Jennifer Quaid, an associate professor and vice-dean of research in the civil law section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law How does Bill C-18 affect your Facebook and Instagram feed? Guest: Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law W...

Reaction from the vigil for victims of the highway crash in Manitoba Guest: Richard Cloutier, co-host of The News on 680 CJOB in Winnipeg The search for the Titanic submersible ends in tragedy - what’s next? Guest: Stefan B. Williams, Professor, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney  Parliament is done for the summer, a bruising session for the Liberals  Guest: David Akin, Chi...

Time running out on the search for the missing submersible Guest: Mark Norman, Canada's former vice chief of defence staff How a family run grocery store became a Canadian success story Guest: Tina Lee, CEO, T&T Supermarket National Indigenous People’s Day: The importance of Indigenous literature Guest: Michelle Good, author, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous National Indigenous...

What is it like to be inside the submersible missing in the Atlantic Ocean? Guest: Ron Toigo, B.C. businessman The window to address housing affordability is closing fast Guest: Bob Dugan, chief economist, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Famine and desperation grows in North Korea Guest: Sokeel Park, South Korea Country Director, Liberty in North Korea After gold at the Tokyo Olympics, Tea...

Interesting facts about the summer solstice Guest: Brian Brettschneider, climatologist

Guest: Zac Jeaurond, a runner from Calgary

A submersible with five people onboard goes missing on its journey to find Titanic Guest: Don Muth, Senior Technical Advisor, International Submarine Engineering Ltd. in Port Coquitlam Manitoba tragedy shows the danger of intersections on Canada’s highways, how can they be made safer? Guest: Raheem Dilgir, TranSafe Consulting Ltd and past president, Canadian Association of Road Safety Professional...

An update from the aftermath of the collision near Carberry, Manitoba Guest: Richard Cloutier, co-host of The News on 680 CJOB in Winnipeg Canada’s population hits 40 million  Guest: Kate Choi, Associate Professor in Sociology, Director of the Centre for Research on Social Inequality, Western University Is there enough housing for Canada’s increasing population? Guest: Matti Siemiatycki, Professor...

 Fifteen people dead after a tragic collision outside Carberry, Manitoba Guest: Skylar Peters, Multimedia Journalist, 680 CJOB in Winnipeg The mayor of Dauphin discusses how the Carberry tragedy has impacted his community Guest: David Bosiak, mayor of Dauphin, Manitoba How the Humboldt tragedy could give insight into a collision investigation in Manitoba Guest: Alex Crizzle, Associate Professor, D...

Is Volkswagen’s new battery plant even worth it to Canada? Guest: Jerome Gessaroli, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and leads “The Sound Economic Policy Project” at the British Columbia Institute of Technology Why we aren’t we winning the war on dirty money and what can be done about it  Guest: Nicholas Gilmour, co-author of The War on Dirty Money Opposition calls for Marco Men...

Ottawa Senators fetch record for NHL franchise sale of nearly $1B Guest: Moshe Lander, Senior Lecturer of Economics at Concordia University The long road to an NBA championship for Kitchener’s Jamal Murray included a stop at famous Canadian sitcom motel  Guest: Jesse Tipping, President of the Athlete Institute and Pretty River Sports & Entertainment True Crime: Marking the anniversary of the Air I...

Four kids survive 40 days in the Colombian jungle after plane crash: A pilot hoping to share lessons after surviving a plane crash  Guest: Matt Lehtinen, pilot, flight instructor and plane crash survivor Facing possible inquiry, Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown retires Guest: Chris Levy, retired law professor, University of Calgary Why Canada needs a remote work masterplan  Guest: Penny Wise, P...

 David Johnston steps down from role as special rapporteur on foreign interference Guest: Stephanie Carvin, an associate professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa How much are natural disasters affecting insurance? Guest: Daylan McNamara, golf instructor, lost his home in the wildfires near Halifax How much are natural disasters affecting ins...

Car thefts across Canada on the rise  Guest: Bryan Gast, vice president, investigative services, Equite Association Why is the Tesla Model Y the best-selling car in the world?   Guest: Jay Kana, automotive and travel writer, photographer and videographer What is fueling the wildfires - and what resources are the Americans sending to Canada to help? Guest: Chris Stockdale, Fire research scientist,...

Canadian wildfires cover US cities in haze, we learn what it like to be n NYC with Duncan Dee (former chief operating officer at Air Canada). This week on Journo Corner: we cover more smokey skies outside and fireworks inside, with John Ivison (political journalist, National Post, author of Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister). As interest rates climb, Canadians let non-mortgage debt pile u...

Canadians face another potential interest rate hike  Guest: Jean-Paul Lam, a professor in the University of Waterloo's Department of Economics and former assistant chief economist and principal researcher at the Bank of Canada How can one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers be transferred to a medium-security facility? Guest: Lee Chapelle, president, Canadian Prison Consulting, Wildfire smok...

Guest host Syd Smith is joined by Jonathan Wilkinson (minister of resources, Liberal MP for North Vancouver) to talk about the federal government’s plans to tackle wildfires across the country. We dive into Pride Month and what it means to the LGBTQIA2S+ community in 2023 with Kristopher Wells (Canada Research Chair (Tier II) for the Public Understanding of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth, Grant...