Why is the U.S. national anthem so tough to sing and what are the greatest renditions

A Little More Conversation with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Record rain swamps Toronto (2:01)

Guest: Anthony Farnell, Chief Meteorologist, Global News

Why infrastructure in Canadian cities is so vulnerable to extreme weather (16:47)

Guest: Slobodan Simonovic, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University; Director of engineering works, Institute catastrophic loss reduction

Why is the U.S. national anthem so tough to sing and what are the greatest renditions (36:24)

Guest: Mark Clague, musicologist and professor at the University of Michigan; author of O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"

Families of the victims wait for justice 10 years after the downing of MH17 over Ukraine (55:26)

Guest: Michael Bociurkiw, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council, former OSCE Ukraine Mission spokesperson

Canada is falling behind on living standards — can it catch up? (1:12:28)

Guest: Felix Arndt, John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph

PM Trudeau and President Biden share one big flaw, the inability to see how frustrated voters are with the status quo (1:29:48)

Guest: Melissa Gismondi, writer and audio producer, The Walrus