Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

 A new Omicron subvariant is spreading quickly   Guest: Isaac Bogoch, a staff physician at University Health Network, clinical investigator at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, and associate professor at University of Toronto. Why do fewer Canadians believe in the benefits of childhood vaccines?   Guest: Tim Caulfield, professor of health law and science policy, University of Alberta, A...

Teck Resources fails to split - what does that mean for Canada’s mining industry? Guest: Niall McGee, mining reporter, The Globe and Mail Does investing huge amounts of public money in NHL arena development projects make financial sense?  Guest: Andrew Zimablist, economics professor, Smith College, author of Sports, Jobs & Taxes: The economic impact of sports teams and stadiums Is Joe Biden too ol...

How far apart are the two sides in the PSAC strike?  Guest: Alison Braley-Rattai, Associate Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University Why are sports fans so superstitious?  Guest: Jason Parker, a senior lecturer, Department of Psychology. Old Dominion University The latest on Sudan, and Canada’s efforts to airlift citizens out of the country Guest: Khalid Medani, associate professor of political...

He’s played for every team in the NHL. Meet the man behind the tunes at Maple Leafs home games  Guest: Jimmy Holmstrom, organist, Toronto Maple Leafs Wrexham FC delivers a soccer storybook ending for Ryan Reynolds  Guest: Maxine Hughes, journalist, Wrexham FC supporter, Welsh translator, on the FX Series “Welcome to Wrexham” Why humans have always been under the weather Guest: Peter Frankopan, Pro...

Was the heist at Pearson Airport an ‘inside job?’ Questions swirl after $20M in gold and goods stolen Guest: Desmond Ryan, retired Toronto Police detective, crime fiction writer Library violence on the frontlines  Guest: Cameron Ray, Toronto librarian The New Reality: Library Violence  Guest: Lis Travers, producer, Melissa Ridgen, network managing editor, Global News and reporter Canada promises V...

SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas Guest: Jordan Bimm, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago Close Canadian friend on the fight to free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich being held in Moscow  Guest: Jeremy Berke, writer, Cultivated, friend of Evan Gershkovich In Kyiv, NATO chief says Ukraine’s ‘rightful pl...

PSAC strike is a delicate balancing act for the Trudeau government  Guest: Shachi Kurl, president, Angus Reid Institute PSAC strike and the fight over remote work  Guest: Alexandra Samuel, an authority on remote work and the digital workplace and author of Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work...Wherever You Are Get out the popcorn eh! It’s the 10th annual National Canadian Film Day  Guests: Jack Bl...

How does the PSAC strike affect Canadians? Guest: David Camfield, coordinator of the labour studies program and an associate professor at the University of Manitoba Trudeau family vacationed with wealthy friends who donated to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Guest: Geneviève Tellier, professor, school of political studies, University of Ottawa Galen Weston steps down as Loblaws president - why d...

 Can a Canadian team finally end our 30-year Stanley Cup drought? Guest: Jonathan Willis, hockey writer, The Athletic What to Know About the Fox-Dominion Defamation Trial Guest: RonNell Anderson Jones, Lee E. Teitelbaum Professor of Law, College Of Law, University of Utah, Affiliated Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project Shedding some light on how lighting at home affects your mood ...

Why the ash cloud from volcanic eruption In Russia's Far East is impacting Canada and the US   Guest: Glyn Williams-Jones, professor and chair, department of earth sciences, Simon Fraser University co-director, Centre for Natural Hazards Research  Katie Telford hearing Guest: Christian Leuprecht, a professor at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, senior fellow at the Macdonald Lauri...

What’s Canada’s role in supporting Taiwan amid potential Chinese aggression? Guest: Jeff Semple, senior correspondent, Global National Intelligence file leaks Guest: Wesley Wark, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation Where is the economy going and what does the newest interest rate announcement mean for you?  Guest: Don Drummond, a fellow-in-residence at C.D. Howe...

What triggered the massive resignation of the board at the Trudeau Foundation? Guest: Robert Fife, Ottawa bureau chief, The Globe and Mail Journo Corner: Danielle Smith’s unshakable scandal, and more  Guest: Dave Breakenridge, editor, Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, host of the 10/3 podcast Revisiting Canada’s biggest ever art heist: the 1972 Skylight Caper   Guest: Chris Hampton, freelance jou...

April 11, 2023 - Guest host Syd Smith in for Ben O'Hara-Byrne Retirement - the best financial advice to retire faster and with the most money possible Guest: Rubina Ahmed-Haq, personal finance journalist, host of “For What It’s Worth” on the Corus Radio Network Retirement - So you’ve retired, what now?  The psychological look at how to use your new found free time and find purpose after retirement...

An Ice storm in Quebec knocks out power to more than one million people across the province. Mike Armstrong ( Global National Quebec Correspondent) joins us to give a update on the situation. Lucy Hacker (Abbots Kitchen, St. Albans Cathedral) tells us where hot cross buns come from, and their origin story. We dive into carbon tax increases/oil production cuts with Richard Masson (Chief Commercial...

Wally Oppal (senior counsel, Boughton Law and former Attorney General of British Columbia) joins us to talk about Vancouver authorities making the move to clear away one of Canada’s most notorious inner city encampments. David Moscrop (journalist, writer at davidmoscrop.substack.com) joins us for this weeks Journo Corner, we talk about bad spring weather, 24 Sussex drive, and much more. Peter Ivan...

 Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen to become the first Canadian to orbit the moon, he joins us to talk about it. Dr. Caitlin Dunne (Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine) talks about one in six people worldwide are affected by infertility, reported in a new study by the WHO (World Health Organization). We get into Trump’s arraignment with Jessica Henry (Professor, Department of Justice Studies,...

Jeremy Hansen will be the first Canadian astronaut to orbit the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission. Thomas Orbax (University of Guelph) to talk all about it. Shelly Palmer (CEO, Palmer Group, Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University) joins us to chat about AI technology getting very good at making music. Former Presi...

We dive into the Shaw/Rogers deal and what it means for Canadian consumers with John Lawford (Executive Director and General Counsel of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC)). . 8 bodies were recovered from St. Lawrence River, after trying to cross the border - will the amount of human smuggling in Canada rise? Yvon Dandurand (Professor Emeritus, Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of...

Derek Muller (Ben V. Willie Professor in Excellence & Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law) joins us to talk about Donald Trump indicted in alleged hush-money criminal probe. We get into the mass shooting inquiry report with Sandra McCulloch (Litigation Lawyer, Patterson Law) and Scott Blandford (assistant professor and program co-ordinator for policing and public safety programs at...

Families of the victims prepare for release of final report into Nova Scotia mass shooting. Michael Scott,(partner, Patterson Law and lawyer representing several families of the victims of the Nova Scotia mass shooting) joins us to talk about it. Abraham Josephine Riesman (author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America) joins us to discuss their new book on Vince McMahon. This wee...

Tonight, we get into the Canadian Budget with Kevin Page (former Parliamentary Budget Officer and current Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa). Safety concerns grow in Canadian cities after more deadly random attacks over the weekend. We get into it with Amanda Butler (independent research consultant, postdoctoral research fellow in...

Tyler Meredith ( a Founding Partner at Meredith Boessenkool Policy Advisors, former economic policy advisor to Canada’s governing party, senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto) joins us to discuss the Finance minister looksing to strike a tricky balance in Tuesday’s federal budget. Yael Aronoff (Director, Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and...

Kate Choi (Associate Professor in Sociology, Director of the Centre for Research on Social Inequality, Western University joins us to chat about Canada’s demographic trends. We talk about lots of Canadians moving to Alberta with Mel Chow (real estate agent ) who moved to Alberta from Toronto in 2015. President Joe Biden’s visit to Canada continues; and is government travel spending too lavish? We...

As president Biden arrives in Ottawa today, the US and Canada reach a deal on Roxham Road crossing in Quebec. Aaron Ettinger (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University) joins us to talk about the details. Clay Routledge (Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab at Archbridge Institute) joins us to chat about why shoppers are flocking to Z...

We talk about President Joe Biden making his first official visit to Canada with Bruce Heyman (Former United States Ambassador to Canada) and we get into the History of Presidential Visits to Canada with Craig Baird (historian, host of the Canadian History EHX podcast). Sources tell Global News that Liberal MP Han Dong secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing Two Michaels, Karen...