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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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Mar 15, 2026

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Episodes

The collapse of crypto trading platform FTX and the future of cryptocurrencies 24.11.2022

Guest: Yesha Yadav, law professor, associate dean, Vanderbilt University Law School,

High interest rates are sending Canada’s housing market into a winter deep freeze 24.11.2022

Guest: Peggy Hill, real estate agent, Peggy Hill Team

Public safety minister lays out the federal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act, time for a refresher on holiday party etiquette & Team Canada gets set to play its first men’s World Cup game since 1986 23.11.2022

Public safety minister lays out the federal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act   Guest: Michael Kempa, associate professor of criminology, University of Ottawa December is around the corner, time for a refresher on holiday party etiquette Guest: Sharon Schweitzer, cultural and etiquette consultant, founder of consultancy Access to Culture, author of Access to Asia Team Canada gets...

December is around the corner, time for a refresher on holiday party etiquette 23.11.2022

Guest: Sharon Schweitzer, cultural and etiquette consultant, founder of consultancy Access to Culture, author of Access to Asia

Team Canada gets set to play its first men’s World Cup game since 1986 23.11.2022

Guest: James Griffiths, Asia Correspondent, The Globe and Mail

A Kyiv human rights lawyer on holding Russia to account and winning a Nobel Peace Prize 23.11.2022

Guest: Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian human rights lawyer, chair of the Center for Civil Liberties, co-winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

Alberta Premier promises inflation relief and to get tough on Ottawa 23.11.2022

Guest: Duane Bratt, political science professor, Mount Royal University

Colorado Springs attack revives painful memories of 2016 mass shooting in Orlando 23.11.2022

Guest: Barbara Poma, owner, Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and founder, OnePulse Foundation

Public safety minister lays out the federal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act 23.11.2022

Guest: Michael Kempa, associate professor of criminology, University of Ottawa

Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport, he Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection of Red River cereal & The story behind one of the 70s biggest hits 22.11.2022

Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport Guest: Kim Shore, a former member of Gymnastics Canada's board of directors and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change and Amelia Cline, former elite gymnast and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change The Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection of Red River cereal  Guest: Mark Rinker, co-owner, Arva Flour Mills The story...

The Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection of Red River cereal 22.11.2022

Guest: Mark Rinker, co-owner, Arva Flour Mills

The fall of Elizabeth Holmes and the myth of the silicon valley superstar 22.11.2022

Guest: Margaret O'Mara, professor of american history, University of Washington and Silicon Valley historia

The story behind one of the 70s biggest hits as Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) turns 50 in 2022 22.11.2022

Guest: Elliot Lurie, songwriter and co-lead singer of Looking Glass and former director of music at 20th Century Fox

How Canada can help put advance democracy in Belarus? 22.11.2022

Guest: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of Belarus’ democracy movement

COP27 reaches deal for rich countries to pay for developing world’s climate disasters, but little else 22.11.2022

Guest: Kathryn Harrison, professor, department of political science, University of British Columbia

Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport 22.11.2022

Guest: Kim Shore, a former member of Gymnastics Canada's board of directors and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change and Amelia Cline, former elite gymnast and co-founder of Gymnasts for Change

Why high insurance rates are driving private contractors out of the snow removal business, 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary & Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco 19.11.2022

Why high insurance rates are driving private contractors out of the snow removal business  Guest: Joe Salemi, executive director, Landscape Ontario From adulting to zonkey, 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary, get ready to embiggen your vocabulary  Guest: Peter Sokolowski, lexicographer and editor-at-large, Merriam-Webster Few men have played for Canada at the World Cup, one o...

From adulting to zonkey, 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary, get ready to embiggen your vocabulary 19.11.2022

Guest: Peter Sokolowski, lexicographer and editor-at-large, Merriam-Webster

Alberta’s premier takes a wrecking ball to the province’s health care leadership, is it about finding solutions or finding a scapegoat? 19.11.2022

Guest: Dr. Jon Meddings, professor of medicine and past dean, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Few men have played for Canada at the World Cup, one of them shares memories of wearing the maple leaf on the biggest stage in sports in 1986 19.11.2022

Guest: George Pakos, former Team Canada men’s national soccer team player and played in 1986 World Cup in Mexico

Inside the Canadian company making armoured vehicles for Ukraine 19.11.2022

Guest: Mike Drolet, Global National reporter

Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco angers music fans and raises familiar questions about fairness 19.11.2022

Guest: David Soberman, professor of marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Why high insurance rates are driving private contractors out of the snow removal business 19.11.2022

Guest: Joe Salemi, executive director, Landscape Ontario

The most important source of Canada’s inflation, A California man turns up the heat & BC tech company uses big data to help Minnesota firefighters save lives 18.11.2022

The most important source of Canada’s inflation: The federal government borrowed more than $700-billion Guest: John H. Cochrane, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, creator of the Grumpy Economist blog, author of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level  A California man turns up the heat - and sets a Guinness World Record eating 10 Carolina Reaper peppers in 33 seconds Guest...

A California man turns up the heat - and sets a Guinness World Record eating 10 Carolina Reaper peppers in 33 seconds 18.11.2022

Guest: Greg Foster, Guinness World Record holder and founder of Inferno Farms Hot Sauce

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