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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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Episodes
U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets will cost Canada nearly 50% more than anticipated 11.06.2025 19:22
Guest: Duff Conacher, co-founder, Democracy Watch.
How the Los Angeles protests over Trump’s immigration crackdown evolved and why the President sent in troops 11.06.2025 19:37
Guest: Gustavo Arellano, columnist, LA Times .
Triumph lays it on the line and storms back into the spotlight 10.06.2025 17:33
Guest: Mike Levine, bassist and keyboardist, Triumph.
What do you do when a bird flies into your home? 10.06.2025 17:21
Guest: Tina B. Phillips, assistant director of the Center for Engagement in Science and Nature at the Cornell Lab.
Why building one Canadian economy won’t work without indigenous consultation 10.06.2025 17:31
Guest: Jody Wilson-Raybould, former federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General, author of True Reconciliation.
AI is playing a big role in how companies hire new employees. What are the risks? 10.06.2025 19:33
Guest: Hilke Schellmann, journalism professor, New York University, author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now.
The Prime Minister lays out an ambitious plan to boost defense spending, will it work? 10.06.2025 21:20
Guest: Vice-Admiral (Ret’d) Mark Norman, Canada's former vice chief of defence staff, retired leader of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Tariffs are already taking a bit out of the Canadian economy, how much worse could it get? 10.06.2025 19:35
Guest: Don Drummond, a Stauffer-Dunning Fellow at Queen’s University and a Fellow-In-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.
Defense argues complainant created a “false narrative” as closing arguments begin at World Junior trial 09.06.2025 18:59
Guest: Sean O’Shea, consumer and investigative reporter, Global News.
Why the Musk/Trump bromance imploded so quickly, one psychologist has a convincing theory 07.06.2025 20:59
Guest: Geoffrey Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University.
Do NHL teams in tax-free states have an edge? Does the league need to level the ice? 06.06.2025 17:39
Guest: Jim Weese, Professor of Kinesiology, Western University.
Far Away in Time: How Canadian song Echo Beach conquered the world 45-years ago 06.06.2025 19:18
Guest: Mark Gane, co-founder of Martha and the Muffins.
Oilers Cup tickets are a very pricey proposition 06.06.2025 8:21
Guest: Kurt Badenhausen, sports valuations reporter, Sportico.
Is a River Alive? Renowned nature author Robert Macfarlane looks for an answer 06.06.2025 17:29
Guest: Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive?
Debunking 5 myths about when your devices get wet 06.06.2025 17:39
Guest: Rachel Plotnick, author of License to Spill: Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.
How the 1982 Tylenol murders changed how we all take medication 06.06.2025 17:35
Guest: Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine and George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Friend and fellow Canadian astronaut and space shuttle veteran remembers Marc Garneau 06.06.2025 19:56
Guest: Dave Williams, former Canadian astronaut and space shuttle veteran.
Elon Musk vs Donald Trump reaches a new level of feud 05.06.2025 19:03
Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent, Global News.
Fans from all over the world travel to Edmonton for the Stanley Cup Finals 05.06.2025 9:52
Guest: Richard Fairhead, Oilers fan from Brisbane.
Wildfire smoke is already spreading far and wide. How much do we know about the health impacts? 05.06.2025 17:57
Guest: Jeffrey Brook, professor, Occupational & Environmental Health, University of Toronto.
The Bay stores are closed, what happens to all the retail space? 05.06.2025 18:03
Guest: Kate Camenzuli, vice-president of retail, CBRE.
How Aluminum tariff hike will hit Canadian consumers 05.06.2025 9:27
Guest: Greg Taylor, CEO and co-founder, Steam Whistle Brewery.
What’s the logic behind Trump’s steel and aluminum tariff hike? 05.06.2025 10:03
Guest: Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy, University of Michigan.
Remembering Marc Garneau: Canada’s first astronaut in space dies at the age of 76 05.06.2025 17:52
Guest: Ivan Semeniuk, Science Reporter, The Globe and Mail.
Will the Trump and Musk bromance turn bitter 04.06.2025 20:11
Guest: Niall Stanage, White House Columnist, The Hill.
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