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Every weeknight, you can count on Conversations with Ben O’Hara-Byrne to feature compelling stories, diverse viewpoints, thoughtful questions, and frank conversations on topics that matter to all Canadians. From politics to public health, diplomacy to discrimination, affordability to artificial intelligence, and the environment to entertainment, the show will deliver a fresh approach to current affairs from a genuinely Canadian perspective. Who is Ben O’Hara-Byrne? Currently the host of Conversations with Ben O’Hara-Byrne, Ben has more than 20 years broadcast journalism experience. He started in radio in Quebec City in 1998 before working for Global News in Montreal and Global News in Toronto. He moved to Global National’s Ottawa/Parliamentary Bureau in 2005 and served as the network’s Asia Correspondent based in Beijing from 2009 to 2011. He’s also worked as a network bureau chief in Beijing and London, U.K., and an evening news anchor in Victoria, B.C. He has reported from across Canada and from several countries including Afghanistan, North Korea, China, Libya, Egypt, South Africa, Ukraine, and Russia.
Guest: Alan Cassels, Pharmaceutical policy researcher and author
Guest: Ryan Ford, retired mixed martial artist and current boxer
Guest: Tim Cain, auto industry analyst and contributor to Driving.ca
Guest: Kim Laureen, director of Losing Coach Mac: When Football Creates a Mentor then slowly takes him away
Guest: Gordon Osinski, Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Western University, the principal investigator for Canada’s first rover mission to the moon and a member of the science team for the upcoming Artemis III mission
Guest: Kelly Weinersmith, adjunct assistant professor, Rice University, co-author of “A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?”
Guest: Rob Carrick, personal finance columnist, The Globe and Mail and host of the Stress Test podcast
Guest: Diana Skakavac, the Toronto woman behind the Have Coupons Will Travel social media accounts
Guest: John Manley, former MP, deputy prime minister and minister of finance
Guest: Catherine McDonald, crime specialist, Global News Toronto
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
