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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

What is the Saskatchewan First Act? 03.11.2022

Guest: Bronwyn Eyre, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, province of Saskatchewan

Lawyer tells Emergencies Act inquiry that Convoy protesters received leaked information from police 03.11.2022

Guest: Rachel Gilmore, political reporter, Global News

Will BC’s new payment plan solve a chronic shortage of family doctors and could it lure physicians away from other provinces? 03.11.2022

Guest: Dr. Lawrence Loh, Executive Director and CEO of the College of Family Physicians of Canada 

Ontario tries to force a new contract on teachers using the notwithstanding clause, How a man made his case for a cameo on CSI & ow can Canadian workplaces better address the burnout problem 02.11.2022

Ontario tries to force a new contract on teachers using the notwithstanding clause, will it backfire?  Guest: Eric Tucker, professor emeritus at York University, specializing in labour law How a man made his case for a cameo on CSI over more than 300 TikTok videos Guest: Josh Nalley,@living_dead_josh Doctors see more resistance to treatments over unfounded COVID vaccine concerns. Guest: Dr. Dave S...

How a man made his case for a cameo on CSI over more than 300 TikTok videos 02.11.2022

Guest: Josh Nalley, @living_dead_josh

Would you watch ads to pay less for a streaming service? 02.11.2022

Guest: Richard Lachman, an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University who studies digital content

Doctors see more resistance to treatments over unfounded COVID vaccine concerns 02.11.2022

Guest: Dr. Dave Sidhu, Assistant professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Southern Alberta medical lead for transfusion and transplant medicine

How foreign actors have used social media to try to influence American politics ahead of the midterms 02.11.2022

Guest: Renée DiResta, writer and Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory

How can Canadian workplaces better address the burnout problem 02.11.2022

Guest: Dr. Michael Leiter, an organizational psychologist and consultant, co-author of “The Burnout Challenge”

Ontario tries to force a new contract on teachers using the notwithstanding clause, will it backfire? 02.11.2022

Guest: Eric Tucker, professor emeritus at York University, specializing in labour law

Former Ottawa police chief denies looking for a scapegoat as convoy protests spiralled out of control, The Halloween Scare That Won’t Go Away & New briefing warns of staffing crisis in the canadian military 01.11.2022

Former Ottawa police chief denies looking for a scapegoat as convoy protests spiralled out of control Guest: Luke LeBrun, editor, Press Progress The Halloween Scare That Won’t Go Away Guest: Joel Best, professor of sociology and criminal justice, University of Delaware and author of Social Problems and Flavour of the Month: Why smart people fall for fads Man charged in Pelosi home attack allegedly...

The Halloween Scare That Won’t Go Away 01.11.2022

Guest: Joel Best, professor of sociology and criminal justice, University of Delaware and author of Social Problems and Flavour of the Month: Why smart people fall for fads

Man charged in Pelosi home attack allegedly told police he wanted to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage 01.11.2022

Guest: Wendy Via, co-founder and president, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

Brazil ops for left over right in electing in choosing a president but vote shows deep divisions remain 01.11.2022

Guest: Ken Roberts, professor of government, Cornell University

New briefing warns of staffing crisis in the canadian military 01.11.2022

Guest: Richard Shimooka, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute

Former Ottawa police chief denies looking for a scapegoat as convoy protests spiralled out of control 01.11.2022

Guest: Luke LeBrun, editor, Press Progress

The B.C. government says no to supporting the Indigenous-led Vancouver 2030 Olympic bid, The best movies to set a spooky mood this Halloween & Census shows Canadians are losing their religion 29.10.2022

The B.C. government says no to supporting the Indigenous-led Vancouver 2030 Olympic bid - why history shows that’s probably the right move  Guest: Andrew Zimbalist, Economist, Smith College, specializing in the economic of sports and author of Circus Maxius and RIO2016 The best movies to set a spooky mood this Halloween   Guest: Kevin Martin, owner, The Lobby DVD Shop There’s nothing scary about s...

There’s nothing scary about spending on Halloween candy this year 29.10.2022

Guest: Sylvain Charlebois, professor in food distribution and policy, and senior director of the AgriFood Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University

The best movies to set a spooky mood this Halloween 29.10.2022

Guest: Kevin Martin, owner, The Lobby DVD Shop

The B.C. government says no to supporting the Indigenous-led Vancouver 2030 Olympic bid - why history shows that’s probably the right move 29.10.2022

Guest: Andrew Zimbalist, Economist, Smith College, specializing in the economic of sports and author of Circus Maxius and RIO2016

Census shows Canadians are losing their religion 29.10.2022

Guest: Michael Coren, an author who is ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada

An Act of Evil - The untold story of the small-town factory worker accused of murdering a muslim family in London, Ontario 29.10.2022

Guest: Stephen Maher, contributing editor at Maclean's Magazine, journalist and author

Elon Musk gets set to transform Twitter 29.10.2022

Guest: Brandie Nonnecke, Founding Director, CITRIS Policy Lab, UC Berkeley, Technology and Human Rights Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Low voter turnout in municipal elections across Canada, The many reasons why the Dutch don’t say sorry & One month since Fiona 28.10.2022

Low voter turnout in municipal elections across Canada - why is it happening and what needs to be done to get more voters to the polls? Guest: Leah Levac, an associate professor of political science at the University of Guelph The many reasons why the Dutch don’t say sorry  Guest: Saskia Maarse, intercultural speaker and trainer A Canadian leads the Philadelphia Phillies into the World Series and...

The many reasons why the Dutch don’t say sorry 28.10.2022

Guest: Saskia Maarse, intercultural speaker and trainer

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