A Little More Conversation with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

The Latest from Lebanon (1:28)

Guest: Jeff Semple, senior correspondent, Global National

New book dives into the life outside of running for Canadian legend Terry Fox (15:56)

Guest: Barbara Adhiya, author and editor of “Hope by Terry Fox”

The Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World (33:32)

Guest: Ben MacIntyre, author of "The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World"

Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds long-lost vintage liquor at bottom of a lake (51:09)

Guest: Jason Ploeger, a Northern Ontario man who found a bottle of whiskey

How will Canada cope with a surge in asylum claims? (1:54)

Guest: David Thomas, a Vancouver-based lawyer and mediator with over 20 years in immigration law

How are new school cell phone rules working out? (16:19) 

Guest: Dana Kam, Toronto teacher (middle school gr.7/8s - tough age for pushing boundaries)

Lucky loser: How Donald Trump Learned to Pass the Buck (27:00)

Guest: Susanne Craig, NY Times reporter and co-author of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Canadian bestselling author returns with tribute to music and the 90s (46:23)

Guest: Marissa Stapley, author of The Lightning Bottles

Blind Spots: Exposing Groupthink In The Medical Establishment (1:01:26)

Guest: Dr. Marty Makary, John Hopkins University, author of Blind Spots

Guest: Jeff Casello, professor of transportation, engineering planning at the University of Waterloo

Big idea or Bad Idea: Ontario’s premier vows to build 50km traffic tunnel under Toronto’s busy Highway 401 

Guest: Jeff Casello, professor of transportation, engineering planning at the University of Waterloo

Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre reveals he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, what’s the link between concussions and the disease? 

Guest: Ravi Menon, professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University

Journo corner: What you need to know about the BC election 

Guest: Keith Baldrey, legislature bureau chief, Global BC 

Meet the man behind one of Canada’s most beloved TV themes and the petition to get the Littlest Hobo theme composer a Walk of Fame star 

Guest: Terry Bush, musician and composer of the Littlest Hobo theme 

Grin and Bear it: A BC man fends off a bear that charged him from inside his garage 

Guest: Alex Gold, BC man who was charged by a bear

Why aging speeds up and slows down at certain periods of our lives 

Guest: Michael Snyder, geneticist, director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University

Trudeau can bank on his celebrity in the U.S., could his appearance on The Late Show hurt him back home? (1:50)

Guest: Andrew Perez, Principal, Perez Strategies. Political Commentator & Liberal Strategist

Six weeks to go in what is shaping up to be one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in memory (16:58)

Guest: Brooks Simpson, , Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University

What more are we learning about the implosion of the Titan at a US Coast Guard inquiry? (36:12)

Guest: Peter Girguis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Adjunct Oceanographer, Applied Ocean Engineering and Physics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Canadian woman among 37 accusing former Harrod’s owner Mohamed El-Fayed of sexual assault shares her story (47:23)

Guest: Amy

How climate disaster survivors cling to the precious few items they managed to salvage (1:09:35)

Guest: Lorna Fandrich, executive director of the Lytton Chinese History Museum, and Lytton fire survivor

How to save democracy from Silicon Valley (1:23:23)

Guest: Marietje Schaake, author of The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

 Guest: Craig Baird, host of the Canadian History Ehx podcast

Disgraceful’ school trip to Toronto protest needs to be investigated, Ontario premier says (2:00)

Guest: Melissa - TDSB parent

Instagram rolls out teen accounts, other privacy changes designed to protect those under 18 (17:11)

Guest: Elaine Uskoski, video gaming addiction specialist, coach and author, her books include Cyber Sober: A Caregiver’s Guide to Video Gaming Addiction. , “ Seeing Through the Cracks”

Public system spent at least $1.5-billion on private nurses last year, a sixfold increase since 2020 (35:12)

Guest: Dr. Joan Almost, professor of nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University

Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Greg Keeler about to join the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (49:23)

Guest: Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, Blue Rodeo and 2024 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees

Think your dog understands words? You might be right (1:09:06)

Guest: Federico Rossano, associate professor, department of cognitive sciences, University of California, San Diego

They call him Bear but you can call this lifesaving puppy Hero (1:25)

Guest: Darren Cropper, Bear’s owner

How to admire nature’s wonders in unexpected urban places (17:10)

Guest: Christopher Brown, author of The Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

Woman nearly shut out of mother's estate sues brother in B.C. Supreme Court – and wins (35:54)

Guest: Ginny Lam, plaintiff; Aubrie Girou, estate lawyer, Alexander Holburn

Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains (52:15)

Guest: Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology, Royal B.C. Museum

What's behind a dramatic rise in illegal migrants crossing from Canada into the U.S. and how do you stop it? (1:31)

Guest: Kelly Sundberg, former CBSA officer and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies, Mount Royal University

Inflation is easing, interest rates are falling but a softening job market is a now a concern (16:14) 

Guest: Eric Kam, professor of economics, Toronto Metropolitan University

Commemorative coin rekindles talk of 50-year-old alleged UFO sighting in rural Sask. (35:00)

Guest: Ron Morier, former RCMP Constable

The war bonds that endure: How the Second World War brought Canada and the United States together to defend something that mattered (49:04)

Guest: Tim Cook, historian and author of The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War

After 35 years, China closes door to foreign adoptions (1:06:58)

Guest: Delia Jane Ramsbotham, Sunrise Family Services

Another former NHL enforcer dies young and research shows he’s not the only one (1:23:40)

Guest: Charles Popkin, Orthopedic Sports Medicine, Columbia University and team physician, USA Hockey

Why the Canadian Medical Association is apologizing for past harms to Indigenous Peoples (1:23)

Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross, past president, Canadian Medical Association

How AI helped cut unexpected deaths in one Toronto hospital by 26% (16:47)

Guest: Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, vice-president of data science and advanced analytics at Unity Health Toronto

New explosions hit Lebanon a day after pager attacks hit Hezbollah (32:55) 

Guest: US Army Col. (Ret’d) Jeff McCauslan,.visiting professor of national security at Dickinson College, former Dean of Academics, US Army War College

U.S. cuts interest rates as inflation eases, but the affordability crunch on both sides of the border isn’t over (51:15)

Guest: Pedro Antunes, Chief Economist, The Conference Board of Canada

Five rudest co-worker behaviors, according to a new survey by Monster (1:07:45)

Guest: Elana Sures, clinical counsellor and owner of Open Space Counselling in Vancouver

Journo Corner: Daughter's quest to learn the truth about her Russian mother’s time as a Soviet soldier and Nazi prisoner in the Second World War (1:22:58)

Guest: Roxana Spicer, journalist and author, The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past