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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

Comedian and author Mark Critch delivers an unapologetic look at what makes Canada worth fighting for  30.11.2025

Guest: Mark Critch, comedian, actor, writer, author of  Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Look at What Makes Canada Worth Fighting For

Why is Canada’s Dental Care Plan already over budget? 30.11.2025

Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter

How Ryan Wedding became a drug kingpin - Why's the PM so testy? - Rise in transit violence - Trump vs. Venezuela 30.11.2025
He recorded at Abbey Road, toured with Black Sabbath and signed Bon Jovi, meet the musician turned music exec with a ton of great stories to tell 29.11.2025

Guest: Derek Schulman, former record company executive and musician, author of Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey From Stage Lights To Executive Heights

Investments in Artificial Intelligence are driving US GDP growth, what happens if the bubble bursts? 29.11.2025

Guest: John Herrmann, Tech correspondent, New York Magazine

How professional women's hockey finally took off 29.11.2025

Guest: Karissa Donkin, reporter, CBC Sports and author of Breakaway

Barred from livestreaming your own kid playing hockey: Welcome to private equity's takeover of youth sports 29.11.2025

Guest: Luke Goldstein, investigative reporter, The Lever

Zelensky's top adviser resigns after Ukrainian anti-corruption raid on his home 29.11.2025

Guest: Kira Rudek, member of Ukraine's parliament and leader of the Golos Party

What makes Canada worth fighting for with Mark Critch - Pipeline response in Alberta & BC - Remembering Colleen Jones 29.11.2025
 Grammy-award winning Alex Cuba returns with his most personal album yet 23.11.2025

Guest: Alex Cuba,  Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter

The Guess Who's Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings reunite after more than 20 years for a 2026 tour 23.11.2025

Guest: Burton Cummings. Co-founder of The Guess Who

Ottawa science chief urges creation of national UFO office 23.11.2025

Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter

How the Haida found hoops and made basketball their own 23.11.2025

Guest: Patrick Shannon, filmmaker, director of Saints and Warriors

Most stolen vehicles in Canada - EV mandate stall - New energy deal for Alberta? - Bella Coola bear attack 23.11.2025
Melting point: What a reporter learned during many journies through a fast changing arctic 22.11.2025

Guest: Neal Shea, author of Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic

The Biggest Failure in a Century of Sneakers: How Under Armour and Steph Curry’s union ended in disaster 22.11.2025

Guest: Nick Engvall, journalist and author of Sneaker History on Substack

Trump ‘declassifies’ thousands of Amelia Earhart files, what did we learn? 22.11.2025

Guest: Ric Gillespie, executive director, International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and author of One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy

Cummings on Guess Who Reunion - Olympian turned drug lord - Federal NDP rebuilding - Highly skilled immigrants moving on 22.11.2025
Another major sports gambling scandal - Can Liberals pass the budget? - Fast Food price hike - AI song tops charts 16.11.2025
Why is Canada opening a consulate in Greenland? 16.11.2025

Guest: Alex Dalziel, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Feared lost forever, how one of Europe’s most famous diamonds sat in a Canadian vault for decades 16.11.2025

Guest: Richard Bessett, historian, associate fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge,  and author of For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918

How did Canada go backwards on Measles prevention and what now? 16.11.2025

Guest: Dr. Monica Kidd, family physician and journalist based in Calgary

Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga's 'shocking' $173K spending spree 16.11.2025

Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter

The Strumbellas settle into a new groove with an EP and North American tour 15.11.2025

Guest: Isabel Richie, violinist and vocalist, The Strumbellas

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 50yrs later: what really happened 15.11.2025

Guest: Ric Mixter, journalist, writer, diver and documentary filmmaker, author of Tattletale Sounds-The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations.

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