Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

A family from Abbotsford helps at the scene of the Christmas Eve bus crash in BC 29.12.2022 17:44 ↓

Guest: Bill Gerber, helped victims at crash site

How a huge winter storm exposed bigger problems at VIA Rail 29.12.2022 10:38 ↓

Guest: Greg Gormick, owner, On Track Consulting

How did VIA passengers wind up stuck on a train for 20 hours? 29.12.2022 8:13 ↓

Guest: Meaghan Wray, VIA passenger

Buffalo digs out from a historic blizzard 29.12.2022 14:29 ↓

Guest: Stephen Vermette, professor, department of Geography, SUNY Buffalo College

Feeling like a real Grinch? How can we best manage the pressure, stress, and anxiety that can be felt around the holidays? 23.12.2022 11:39 ↓

 Guest Host Chelsea Bird speaks with Abby Chow, Clinical Director, Venturous Counselling

From cold weather to staffing shortages: Why are there so many delays at our Canadian airports? 23.12.2022 17:24 ↓

Guest host Chelsea Bird speaks with John Gradek, faculty lecturer in the department of aviation management at McGill University

A traveller from BC stranded in Peru during civil unrest - and his story about how he got back home to Canada 23.12.2022 18:21 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird talks with Tony Hepburn, Vancouver realtor

How is the retail industry during the most “normal” holidays since before the pandemic? How will they advertise for Boxing Day and how can people grab the best deals? 23.12.2022 15:35 ↓

 Guest Host Chelsea Bird talks with Bruce Winder, retail analyst & author

A man who researches mass shootings tells his story from living inside the same condo where the Vaughan shooting occurred 23.12.2022 17:38 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird with Jack L. Rozdilsky, Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada

How are robots helping Canada’s aging population connect? 23.12.2022 13:55 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird talks with Goldie Nejat, Canada Research Chair for robots in society at the University of Toronto

How can we think of more thoughtful presents? Holiday advice to master the art of gift-giving 22.12.2022 13:37 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird chats with Julian Givi, assistant professor of marketing, West Virginia University, has authored numerous studies about gift-giving

What are the latest developments in the investigation of the alleged Hockey Canada group sexual assault involving the 2018 Canadian World Junior men’s hockey team? 22.12.2022 17:30 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird speaks with Grant Robertson, senior writer, The Globe & Mail

Is Canada’s healthcare system stuck in the past? 22.12.2022 13:50 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird speaks with Dr. Alika Lafontaine, president of the Canadian Medical Association

What is it like to be a LEGO Master? A Kelowna woman wins the crown. 22.12.2022 15:48 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird chats with Stacey Roy, winner of season three of LEGO Masters

A daughter fighting for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, including her own mother 22.12.2022 16:30 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird speaks with Cambria Harris, daughter of Morgan Harris, one of four Indigenous women Winnipeg police believe were killed by Jeremy Skibicki

2020 intel warned the Trudeau government that China’s interference in Canadian elections will likely be ‘pervasive’ 22.12.2022 17:03 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird speaks with Sam Cooper, National Investigative Reporter, Global News

Living in a van down by the river? Why some people choose to live the nomadic van lifestyle 21.12.2022 16:08 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird speaks with Angus Duff, Associate Professor, Human Resources, Thompson Rivers University

How is lab-grown seafood made? Could it be key to helping our oceans and fish populations? 21.12.2022 17:19 ↓

Guest Host Chelsea Bird talks with Justin Kolbeck, co-founder, WildType

Celebrating ugly Christmas sweaters: Why do we love to wear these gaudy garments? 21.12.2022 15:49 ↓

Guest host Chelsea Bird chats with Chris Boyd & Jordan Birch, authors, The Ugly Christmas Sweater Rebellion

Is Canada’s immigration policy at a crossroads? 21.12.2022 18:50 ↓

Guest host Chelsea Bird chats with Jennifer Elrick, an associate professor in the department of sociology at McGill University and Canadian studies director at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

Did the federal government undercut its own momentum on Bill C-21? Are they making the right changes to decrease gun violence? 21.12.2022 18:17 ↓

Guest: Heidi Rathjen, gun control advocate, founder of PolySeSouvient

What is going on with Elon Musk and Twitter now? Journalists seeing suspended accounts, accused doxxing, and lots of polls 20.12.2022 16:46 ↓

Guest host Chelsea Bird talks to Brandie Nonnecke, Founding Director, CITRIS Policy Lab, UC Berkeley, Technology and Human Rights Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Why do humans laugh and what do we find so funny? What are the origins of humour? 20.12.2022 18:50 ↓

Guest host Chelsea Bird talks to Joseph Polimeni, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba

Looking back on the 2022 FIFA World Cup: A reflection on the tournament’s best moments, surprises, and controversies 20.12.2022 16:51 ↓

Guest host Chelsea Bird talks to Tim Elcombe, associate professor, Kinesiology & Physical Education; Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University

What did we learn from the last episodes of the Harry and Meghan documentary series on Netflix? 20.12.2022 18:47 ↓

Guest host Chelsea Bird talks to Patricia Treble, has been writing about the royals for more than 20 years and is based in Toronto