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
The collapse of crypto trading platform FTX and the future of cryptocurrencies 24.11.2022 17:38
Guest: Yesha Yadav, law professor, associate dean, Vanderbilt University Law School,
High interest rates are sending Canada’s housing market into a winter deep freeze 24.11.2022 15:34
Guest: Peggy Hill, real estate agent, Peggy Hill Team
Public safety minister lays out the federal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act, time for a refresher on holiday party etiquette & Team Canada gets set to play its first men’s World Cup game since 1986 23.11.2022 1:03:13
Public safety minister lays out the federal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act Guest: Michael Kempa, associate professor of criminology, University of Ottawa December is around the corner, time for a refresher on holiday party etiquette Guest: Sharon Schweitzer, cultural and etiquette consultant, founder of consultancy Access to Culture, author of Access to Asia Team Canada gets...
December is around the corner, time for a refresher on holiday party etiquette 23.11.2022 15:41
Guest: Sharon Schweitzer, cultural and etiquette consultant, founder of consultancy Access to Culture, author of Access to Asia
Team Canada gets set to play its first men’s World Cup game since 1986 23.11.2022 18:04
Guest: James Griffiths, Asia Correspondent, The Globe and Mail
A Kyiv human rights lawyer on holding Russia to account and winning a Nobel Peace Prize 23.11.2022 16:47
Guest: Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian human rights lawyer, chair of the Center for Civil Liberties, co-winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Alberta Premier promises inflation relief and to get tough on Ottawa 23.11.2022 17:45
Guest: Duane Bratt, political science professor, Mount Royal University
Colorado Springs attack revives painful memories of 2016 mass shooting in Orlando 23.11.2022 18:52
Guest: Barbara Poma, owner, Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and founder, OnePulse Foundation
Public safety minister lays out the federal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act 23.11.2022 15:26
Guest: Michael Kempa, associate professor of criminology, University of Ottawa
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport, he Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection of Red River cereal & The story behind one of the 70s biggest hits 22.11.2022 1:02:02
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport Guest: Kim Shore, a former member of Gymnastics Canada's board of directors and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change and Amelia Cline, former elite gymnast and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change The Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection of Red River cereal Guest: Mark Rinker, co-owner, Arva Flour Mills The story...
The Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection of Red River cereal 22.11.2022 14:34
Guest: Mark Rinker, co-owner, Arva Flour Mills
The fall of Elizabeth Holmes and the myth of the silicon valley superstar 22.11.2022 16:03
Guest: Margaret O'Mara, professor of american history, University of Washington and Silicon Valley historia
The story behind one of the 70s biggest hits as Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) turns 50 in 2022 22.11.2022 18:12
Guest: Elliot Lurie, songwriter and co-lead singer of Looking Glass and former director of music at 20th Century Fox
How Canada can help put advance democracy in Belarus? 22.11.2022 16:30
Guest: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of Belarus’ democracy movement
COP27 reaches deal for rich countries to pay for developing world’s climate disasters, but little else 22.11.2022 17:27
Guest: Kathryn Harrison, professor, department of political science, University of British Columbia
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport 22.11.2022 15:22
Guest: Kim Shore, a former member of Gymnastics Canada's board of directors and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change and Amelia Cline, former elite gymnast and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change
Why high insurance rates are driving private contractors out of the snow removal business, 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary & Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco 19.11.2022 1:08:00
Why high insurance rates are driving private contractors out of the snow removal business Guest: Joe Salemi, executive director, Landscape Ontario From adulting to zonkey, 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary, get ready to embiggen your vocabulary Guest: Peter Sokolowski, lexicographer and editor-at-large, Merriam-Webster Few men have played for Canada at the World Cup, one o...
From adulting to zonkey, 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary, get ready to embiggen your vocabulary 19.11.2022 19:01
Guest: Peter Sokolowski, lexicographer and editor-at-large, Merriam-Webster
Alberta’s premier takes a wrecking ball to the province’s health care leadership, is it about finding solutions or finding a scapegoat? 19.11.2022 16:05
Guest: Dr. Jon Meddings, professor of medicine and past dean, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Few men have played for Canada at the World Cup, one of them shares memories of wearing the maple leaf on the biggest stage in sports in 1986 19.11.2022 17:32
Guest: George Pakos, former Team Canada men’s national soccer team player and played in 1986 World Cup in Mexico
Inside the Canadian company making armoured vehicles for Ukraine 19.11.2022 15:13
Guest: Mike Drolet, Global National reporter
Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco angers music fans and raises familiar questions about fairness 19.11.2022 18:54
Guest: David Soberman, professor of marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Why high insurance rates are driving private contractors out of the snow removal business 19.11.2022 15:21
Guest: Joe Salemi, executive director, Landscape Ontario
The most important source of Canada’s inflation, A California man turns up the heat & BC tech company uses big data to help Minnesota firefighters save lives 18.11.2022 1:17:24
The most important source of Canada’s inflation: The federal government borrowed more than $700-billion Guest: John H. Cochrane, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, creator of the Grumpy Economist blog, author of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level A California man turns up the heat - and sets a Guinness World Record eating 10 Carolina Reaper peppers in 33 seconds Guest...
A California man turns up the heat - and sets a Guinness World Record eating 10 Carolina Reaper peppers in 33 seconds 18.11.2022 15:39
Guest: Greg Foster, Guinness World Record holder and founder of Inferno Farms Hot Sauce
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