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Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

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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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Latest episode

Mar 15, 2026

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Episodes

How Bizarre: Vancouver Record store owner discovers Beatles demo 22.03.2025

Guest: Rob Frith, owner, Neptoon Records Vancouver.

Are Canadians “Nasty” negotiators when dealing with the US? 22.03.2025

Guest: Alan Wolff, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The Bay will be reduced to just six stores, not one west of Toronto 22.03.2025

Guest:  Bruce Winder, retail analyst and author of RETAIL Before, During & After COVID-19.

U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic border-straddling library and opera house 21.03.2025

Guest: Matthew Farfan, past-president, Haskell Free Library and Opera House.

Investigators start to piece together why a Delta Airlines plane crash landed at Toronto’s airport 21.03.2025

Guest: David McNair, former Transportation Safety Board of Canada Investigator.

The inside story of one of Canada’s most brazen, baffling, and mysterious art heists and how the police cracked it 21.03.2025

Guest: Brett Popplewell, associate professor of journalism, Carleton University, author of Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past

A federal election could be called on Sunday, why it promises to be close fight 21.03.2025

Guest: Tim Powers, chair, Summa Strategies

Advice on how to deal with Trump from his former National Security Advisor 21.03.2025

 John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations and  National Security Advisor to President Trump

Glass Tiger’s lead singer celebrates Canada in song 20.03.2025

Guest: Alan Frew, lead singer, Glass Tiger.

What savings will consumers see with the end of the carbon tax? 20.03.2025

Guest: Randall Bartlett, Deputy Chief Economist, Desjardins.

Journo Corner: Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla over safety worries 20.03.2025

Guest: Andrew McCredie, senior editor, Postmedia Driving.

B.C. man returns library book 64 years late, credits it for saving lives 20.03.2025

Guest: Robert Murray, returned library book 64 years late.

Do newly declassified documents tell us anything new about the JFK assassination? 20.03.2025

Guest: John T. Shaw, Director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, author, JFK in the Senate: A Pathway to the Presidency

Four Canadian citizens executed in China over 'drug-related crime' 20.03.2025

Guest: Vina Nadjibulla, vice-president of research and strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

How Canada can stand up to Donald Trump 19.03.2025

Guest: Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations

How Putin is trumping Trump on Ukraine 19.03.2025

Guest: Kathryn Stoner, senior fellow at the Freemon Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and author of Russia Resurrected

Landfill remains in Winnipeg-area landfill search identified as Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran 19.03.2025

Guest: Melissa Robinson, cousin to Morgan Harris Guest: Melissa Ridgen, network managing editor and journalist, Global News

NASA astronauts splash down in capsule after 9 months in space 19.03.2025

Guest: Jack Fischer, an American engineer, test pilot and a former NASA astronaut

The wreck of a state-of-the-art ship that went down on Lake Superior in 1892 has finally been found 19.03.2025

Guest: Bruce E. Lynn, Executive Director, Great Lake Shipwreck Historical Society 

Trump is wrong, our border was not created by “some guy with a ruler” 19.03.2025

Guest: Craig Baird, host of the Canadian History EhX podcast and author of Canada’s Main Street

Canadian visits to the US plummet as warnings about crossing the border increase 19.03.2025

Guest: Richard Kurland, immigration lawyer

Was a first official trip to Paris and London and not Washington the right call for PM Mark Carney? 18.03.2025

Andrew MacDougall, director of Trafalgar Communications and former Director of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper

All Hudson’s Bay stores could start liquidation sales as early as Tuesday 18.03.2025

Guest: Susan Krashinsky Robertson, retailing reporter, The Globe and Mail

Things you never knew about St. Patrick’s Day in Canada 18.03.2025

 Mark McGowan, Professor of History & Celtic Studies, University of Toronto

F35 deal under review 18.03.2025

Guest: David Pugliese, defense reporter, Ottawa Citizen

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