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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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How Canadian museums should approach the repatriation of Indigenous artifacts 08.12.2022 18:16
Guest: Lou-ann Neel, Curator, Indigenous Collections, and Acting Head of Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Department, Royal BC Museum
Journo Corner: Ottawa to review RCMP equipment contract with ties to China and reports of more Chinese-run police stations in Canada 08.12.2022 19:51
Guest: Jeremy Nuttall, reporter, Toronto Star
Why Canada is not poised to become a critical minerals powerhouse 08.12.2022 16:21
Guest: Philip Bazel, research associate, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Bank of Canada hikes interest rates again but signals it could be the end 08.12.2022 15:13
Guest: Don Drummond, Stauffer-Dunning Fellow and Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
Auditor General warns that billions in ineligible COVID-19 benefits are at risk of going uncollected, The Oxford Dictionaries word of the year celebrates self-indulgence & the crisis in children’s health care and what needs to be done to fix it 07.12.2022 1:04:23
Auditor General warns that billions in ineligible COVID-19 benefits are at risk of going uncollected Guest: Ian Lee, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University The Oxford Dictionaries word of the year celebrates self-indulgence - so what exactly is ”goblin mode”? Guest: Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages at Oxford University Press The future may not be as digi...
The Oxford Dictionaries word of the year celebrates self-indulgence - so what exactly is ”goblin mode”? 07.12.2022 14:58
Guest: Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages at Oxford University Press
The senate vote in Georgia and how the makeup of Congress will shape US politics for the next two years 07.12.2022 17:43
Guest: Paul Quirk, Phil Lind Chair in U.S. Politics and Representation, University of British Columbia
The future may not be as digital as we once thought, that’s a good thing 07.12.2022 19:26
Guest: David Sax, author of The Future is Analog: How to Create a More Human World
The crisis in children’s health care and what needs to be done to fix it 07.12.2022 17:23
Guest: Dr. Shazma Mithani, emergency room physician, Royal Alexandra & Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton
Medical experts call on government to delay expansion of MAID for mental illness 07.12.2022 19:14
Guest: Dr. Jitender Sareen, head of the psychiatry department, University of Manitoba
Auditor General warns that billions in ineligible COVID-19 benefits are at risk of going uncollected 07.12.2022 15:11
Guest: Ian Lee, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Why food prices will continue to climb in 2023, Why drinking eight glasses of water a day is unnecessary & Remembering the 14 women killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre 06.12.2022 57:53
Why food prices will continue to climb in 2023 Guest: Simon Somogyi, Arrell Chair in the Business of Food & Professor, University of Guelph Why drinking eight glasses of water a day is unnecessary Guest: Dale A. Schoeller, Director Isotope Ratio Core, Biotech Center and Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Remembering the 14 women killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre Guest...
Why drinking eight glasses of water a day is unnecessary 06.12.2022 11:08
Guest: Dale A. Schoeller, Director Isotope Ratio Core, Biotech Center and Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Danielle Smith says she is open to amending the Alberta Sovereignty Act, is it salvageable? 06.12.2022 17:24
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
How effective has Canadian gun control legislation been over the past three decades? 06.12.2022 19:07
Guest: Noah Schwartz, assistant professor of political science, University of the Fraser Valley and author of On Target
Remembering the 14 women killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre 06.12.2022 14:32
Guest: Serge St-Arneault, brother of Polytechnique victim Annie St-Arneault and member of gun control group PolySeSouvient
Canada welcomes the world for a major UN biodiversity conference 06.12.2022 10:18
Guest: Aerin Jacob, national director of science and research, Nature Conservancy of Canada
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is acquitted of sexual assault charges, will he be reinstated? 06.12.2022 9:14
Guest: Rory Fowler, Military law practitioner and retired Canadian Forces Lieutenant-Colonel
Why food prices will continue to climb in 2023 06.12.2022 14:56
Guest: Simon Somogyi, Arrell Chair in the Business of Food & Professor, University of Guelph
Canadian officials knew for years existing laws didn’t curb foreign influence, A Canadian scientist helps put a new face on the history of King Tut & Are unprepared drivers to blame for traffic chaos during major storms? 03.12.2022 1:05:25
Canadian officials knew for years existing laws didn’t curb foreign influence, will a foreign influence registry help? Guest: Leo Housakos, Conservative Senator from Quebec A Canadian scientist helps put a new face on the history of King Tut Guest: Andrew Nelson, anthropology professor at Western University Are unprepared drivers to blame for traffic chaos during major storms? Guest: Raheem Dilg...
How much would increased policing help address safety issues in the downtown cores of many Canadian cities? 03.12.2022 20:14
Guest: Tom Stamatakis, President of the Canadian Police Association
Are unprepared drivers to blame for traffic chaos during major storms? 03.12.2022 16:52
Guest: Raheem Dilgir, President, TranSafe Consulting and Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
A Canadian scientist helps put a new face on the history of King Tut 03.12.2022 17:55
Guest: Andrew Nelson, anthropology professor at Western University
Mother of Alberta man who disappeared from a BC resort town in 2018 chronicles her family’s journey in a new book 03.12.2022 18:05
Guest: Heather Shtuka, mother of Ryan Shtuka and author, Missing from Me
Alleged serial killings of four women in Winnipeg sparks new pleas to better protect Indigenous women and girls 03.12.2022 18:57
Guest: Hilda Anderson-Pryz, full-time chair of the National Family Survivors Circle
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