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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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50th Anniversary of Paul Henderson’s Summit Series winning goal 29.09.2022 17:21

Guest: Paul Henderson, forward on Team Canada in 1972

Journo Corner: On the frontlines of Hurricane Fiona 29.09.2022 19:45

Guest: Rene J. Roy, editor,-in-chief, Wreckhouse Press, Port aux Basques, NL

Hurricane Ian latest from Florida 29.09.2022 15:19

Guest: Ryan Truchelut, President/Chief Meteorologist, WeatherTiger

Prime Minister tours storm destruction in PEI, Creative ways to reduce single-use packaging & Author's new book is a love letter to a son lost to an overdose 28.09.2022 1:06:47

Prime Minister tours storm destruction in PEI, Creative ways to reduce single-use packaging & Author's new book is a love letter to a son lost to an overdose - Sept 27th, 2022 Prime Minister tours storm destruction in PEI and Cape Breton Guest: Amanda McDougall, Mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Adding up the insurance costs of Fiona Guest: Amanda Dean, Vice President, Insurance Bur...

Vancouver author’s new book is a love letter to a son lost to an overdose 28.09.2022 18:06

Guest: Tara McGuire, author of Holden, After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

Why are Chinese police operating in Canada, while our own government and security services apparently look the other way? 28.09.2022 16:52

Guest: Charles Burton, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, former Canadian diplomat in Beijing

Poilievre denounces Diagolon 'losers' over threat of sexual assault against his wife 28.09.2022 17:31

Guest: Justin Ling, freelance investigative journalist

New poll shows Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre with healthy lead over the Trudeau Liberals 28.09.2022 8:40

Guest: Shachi Kurl, president, Angus Reid Institute

Adding up the insurance costs of Fiona 28.09.2022 10:31

Guest: Amanda Dean, Vice President, Insurance Bureau of Canada

Prime Minister tours storm destruction in PEI and Cape Breton 28.09.2022 16:22

Guest: Amanda McDougall, Mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality

Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona, NASA’s DART mission & .Ottawa drops remaining COVID travel and border restrictions 27.09.2022 1:06:06

Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona, NASA’s DART mission & .Ottawa drops remaining COVID travel and border restrictions - Sept 26th, 2022 Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Port aux Basques damage Guest: Andrew Parsons, Newfoundland and Labrador’s minister of Industry, Energy and Technology, and MHA for Burgeo-La Poile. Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Red Cross res...

NASA’s DART mission to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid is a success, what now? 27.09.2022 14:40

Guest: Dr. Betsy Congdon, DART Mission Mechanical Systems Engineer, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University

Canadians take drastic steps to save on groceries with food prices continuing to rise 27.09.2022 17:27

Guest: Ransom Hawley, CEO of Caddle

Italy elects its first far-right government in nearly a century 27.09.2022 18:53

Guest Kurt Huebner, professor of political science, Interim Director, Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia

Ottawa drops remaining COVID travel and border restrictions, were they effective? 27.09.2022 17:24

Guest: Dr. Zain Chagla, Associate Professor of Medicine Faculty of Health Science, McMaster University, Consultant Physician, St. Joseph’s Hospital

Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Extreme weather events 27.09.2022 10:29

Guest: Gordon McBean, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University

Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Red Cross response 27.09.2022 15:10

Guest: Dan Bedell, Canadian Red Cross Atlantic Region

Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Port aux Basques damage 27.09.2022 11:58

Guest: Andrew Parsons, Newfoundland and Labrador’s minister of Industry, Energy and Technology, and MHA for Burgeo-La Poile.

Bracing for Fiona, Protests in Iran over death of 22-year-old woman & Aaron Judge seeking baseball history 24.09.2022 1:30:38

Bracing for Fiona, Protests in Iran over death of 22-year-old woman & Aaron Judge seeking baseball history - Sept. 23, 2022 Bracing for Fiona: The latest from Nova Scotia Guest: Ross Lord - Global National‘s Atlantic correspondent Bracing for Fiona: Emergency Preparedness in Halifax Guest: Paul Service - Halifax Search and Rescue Bracing for Fiona: Cape Breton Guest: Amanda McDougall, Mayor of t...

Aaron Judge quietly chases home run history in New York 24.09.2022 19:22

Aaron Judge quietly chases home run history in New York Guest: Bill Humber - Baseball historian

How the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman sparked a wave of protests in Iran? 24.09.2022 19:30

How the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman sparked a wave of protests in Iran? Guest: Jasmin Ramsey, Deputy Director, Centre for Human Rights in Iran

Is Vladimir Putin starting to lose his iron grip on power in Russia? 24.09.2022 19:50

Is Vladimir Putin starting to lose his iron grip on power in Russia? Guest: Kathryn Stoner - Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Can Canada be part of the solution to Europe’s energy woes? 24.09.2022 17:06

Can Canada be part of the solution to Europe’s energy woes? Guest: Werner Antweiler - Associate Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Bracing for Fiona: Prince Edward Island 24.09.2022 6:17

Bracing for Fiona: Prince Edward Island Guest: Basil Stewart, Mayor of Summerside

Bracing for Fiona: Cape Breton 24.09.2022 12:59

Bracing for Fiona: Cape Breton Guest: Amanda McDougall, Mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality