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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
How a 40-year old fossil BC fossil mystery was finally solved and the bizarre sea creature it revealed 28.05.2025 18:57
Guest: Robin O’Keefe, paleontologist, Marshall University.
How King Charles’ Canadian visit sends a message to the rest of the world 28.05.2025 20:27
Guest: Patricia Treble, royal commentator and author of Write Royalty on Substack.
How do you better protect public gatherings from vehicle attacks? 28.05.2025 15:33
Guest: Jeffrey Halaut, president, Halaut Consulting.
Why Britain was paying very close attention to the Kings’ Speech 28.05.2025 21:13
Guest: Andrew MacDougall, director of Trafalgar Communications and former Director of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The Throne Speech hints at how Canada will move to meet NATO defense spending targets 27.05.2025 18:52
Guest: Anessa Kimball, international relations professor, University of Laval and author of Beyond 2%.
A Throne Speech fit for a King 27.05.2025 20:04
Guest: Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief, The Globe and Mail.
Judge approves $500M settlement in Loblaw, parent company bread-fixing case 27.05.2025 15:33
Guest: Sylvain Charlebois, senior director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.
Who is the Chinese billionaire buying up Bay leases? 27.05.2025 19:05
Guest: Craig Patterson, Founder and CEO, Retail Insider.
Revenge Is the New Addiction - Here’s How to Break Free 27.05.2025 35:08
Guest: James Kimmel Jr., Yale University, author of The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction – and How to Overcome It.
The King’s visit and its audience of one: Donald Trump 26.05.2025 9:26
Guest: Colin Robertson, former Canadian diplomat and president and fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
King Charles III arrives in Canada for a historic visit 26.05.2025 10:16
Guest: Justin Vovk, European Royal History Researcher, McMaster University.
The “Soup Nazi” cooks up relief for Lapu Lapu tragedy victims 26.05.2025 17:31
Guest: Larry Thomas, actor known for playing the “Soup Nazi” in Seinfeld.
How a Canadian tobacco tin almost donated to a thrift shop is about to sell for tens of thousands of dollars at auction 24.05.2025 8:47
Guest: Ben Lennox, head of sales, Miller and Miller Auctions Ltd.
Why a viral sleep and snoring hack doesn’t live up to scrutiny 24.05.2025 11:22
Guest: Dr. Brian Rotenberg, an otolaryngology specialist and sleep surgeon at London Health Sciences Centre, St. Joseph’s Health Care London and Western University.
As travel to the US plummets again, advice for anyone planning on crossing the border this Summer 24.05.2025 18:36
Guest: Len Saunders, US immigration lawyer, The Immigration Law Firm.
Harvard vs Trump: How international students including Canadians are caught in the crossfire 23.05.2025 18:50
Guest: John Gobin, Harvard Law student and co-prime minister of of the Canadian Law Students Association.
ow a AI prompted a US Newspaper to publish a Summer reading list full of books that don’t exist 23.05.2025 17:00
Guest: Laura Rock Gaughan, Executive Director, Literary Press Group of Canada.
How Harvard bought an original copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. 23.05.2025 20:11
Guests: David Carpenter, a medieval history professor at King’s College London, and Nicholas Vincent, a professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia.
Why are so many people so ticked off about everything these days? 23.05.2025 37:28
Guest: Frank Bruni, New York Times columnist and author of The Age of Grievance.
Should Canada take part in Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense plan? At what cost? 22.05.2025 19:19
Guest: David Pratt, Principal of David Pratt & Associates, former minister of national defense.
Shock, sorrow and concern after Israeli embassy staffer couple shot and killed in Washington in act of targeted terrorism 22.05.2025 19:19
Guest: Matthew Levitt, Director, Reinhard program on counterterrorism & intelligence, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, former State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security.
Modular Housing, how does it work, is it a solution for Canada? 22.05.2025 18:05
Guest: Carolyn Whitzman, Adjunct Professor and Senior Housing Researcher School of Cities, University of Toronto and author of Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis.
Journo Corner: The biggest surprises so far in the Sean “Diddy” Combs racketeering and sex trafficking trial 22.05.2025 19:07
Guest: Jack Queen, legal correspondent, Reuters.
A world-renowned endurance swimmer on why he's swimming in shark-infested waters 22.05.2025 17:35
Guest: Lewis Pugh, endurance swimmer and Patron of the Oceans, UN Environment Programme.
Everyone Knew His Name: George Wendt, Norm and the enduring legacy of Cheers 22.05.2025 19:50
Guest: Joseph Darowski, author of Cheers: A Cultural History.
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