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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
The sad and soggy end to Vancouver Expo 86’s iconic McBarge 28.03.2025 8:02
Stacey McLachlan, editor-in-chief, Vancouver Magazine
What lies beneath Antarctica’s ice? 28.03.2025 15:39
Christine Dow, a glacial hydrologist at the University of Waterloo
Why does Trump love tariffs? 28.03.2025 14:13
Everett Eissenstat, partner in the Public Policy Practice Group, former senior vice president of global public policy for General Motors, and Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs in the first administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Why thousands of Bay employees are being stiffed out of severance payments 28.03.2025 8:14
Daniel Lublin, an employment lawyer with Whitten and Lublin in Toronto and careers employment law expert, The Globe and Mail
Trump’s lumber tariffs will hit US bathrooms where it hurts 28.03.2025 8:23
Guest: Brian McClay, chairman, TTOBMA
No fly zone: Number of Canadians flying to the US nosedives 28.03.2025 8:04
Duncan Dee, former COO, Air Canada
How Trump’s auto tariffs crashed into the election campaign 28.03.2025 15:17
Guest: Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Ottawa bureau chief, POLITICO
Reaction to Trump’s auto tariffs announcement from the auto industry 28.03.2025 15:17
Guest: Jan Griffiths, veteran automotive supply chain executive and host of the Automotive Leaders podcast
Journo Corner: Why the Conservative and Liberal campaigns are so similar so far 27.03.2025 19:15
Guest: Tasha Kheiriddin, columnist for National Post, author of The Right Path
Why is Trump so fixated on Greenland? 27.03.2025 19:11
Guest: P. Whitney Lackenbauer, professor and Canada Research Chair in the study of the Canadian North at Trent University
Election: Carney and Poilievre promise to axe GST on new homes, will it help? 27.03.2025 17:29
Guest: Mike Moffatt, Founding Director, PLACE Centre. Co-Host, "Missing Middle".
Election: Canadian defense spending in the spotlight 27.03.2025 20:30
Guest: Vice-Admiral (Ret’d) Mark Norman, Canada's Former Vice Chief of Defence Staff, retired leader, Royal Canadian Navy
What impact will Trump’s auto tariffs have on Canada? 27.03.2025 18:28
Guest: Peter Frise, Professor of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering University of Windsor.
Trump slaps 25% tariffs on vehicles made outside the US 27.03.2025 19:25
Guest: Flavio Volpe, president of Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association
Is hockey already into a new Cold War on Ice? 26.03.2025 39:03
Guest: Gary J. Smith, former Diplomat at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, author of Ice War Diplomat.
23andMe files for bankruptcy protection, what do you need to know? 26.03.2025 17:38
Guest: Kerry Bowman, Professor of Bioethics and Global Health, University of Toronto.
How did Trump officials leak Yemen attack plans to a journalist 26.03.2025 19:29
Guest: Wesley Wark, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and writes a Substack column on topical national security and intelligence issues
Is Mark Carney and is he ready to lead and handle Trump? 26.03.2025 18:10
Guest: Theo Argitis, Editor-At-Large, The Hub.
What do Liberal and Conservative tax cut promises mean for you? 25.03.2025 9:37
Guest: Trevor Tombe, a Professor at the University of Calgary’s Department of Economics and the Director of Fiscal and Economic Policy at The School of Public Policy.
Covid lockdowns came with a big price, were they worth it? 25.03.2025 38:26
Guest: Stephen Macedo, co-author of In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us.
The Bangles: New book pulls back the curtain on one of the biggest bands of the 80s 25.03.2025 16:46
Guest: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, author of Eternal Flame.
What does each party need to do to stand out in this campaign? 25.03.2025 19:20
Guest: Warren Kinsella, lawyer, author and consultant, former special assistant to Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Sizing up the first days of the federal campaign, are party leaders off to a good start? 24.03.2025 19:57
Guest: Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief, The Globe and Mail.
WestJet looks to hire temporary foreign workers to solve pilot shortage 24.03.2025 20:15
Guest: Tim Perry, president, Canadian Airline Pilots Association.
The uncommonly loaded way politicians use the term “common sense” 22.03.2025 19:53
Guest: Dannagal Young, associate professor, communications, University of Delaware
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