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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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Bracing for Fiona: Emergency Preparedness in Halifax 24.09.2022 5:24

Bracing for Fiona: Emergency Preparedness in Halifax Guest: Paul Service - Halifax Search and Rescue

Bracing for Fiona: The latest from Nova Scotia 24.09.2022 11:12

Bracing for Fiona: The latest from Nova Scotia Guest: Ross Lord - Global National‘s Atlantic correspondent

Preparing for Fiona, why are whales stranded on Australia's beaches, the surge in demand for rare coins and notes featuring Queen Elizabeth II & Russian protest over Putin's mobilization announcement - September 22nd, 2022 Atlantic Canada braces for Fiona: Where is it headed and when? Guest: Carmen Hartt, Senior Meteorologist, Environment and Climate Change Canada Atlantic Canada braces for Fiona...

The oldest recorded mammal is much older than previously thought 23.09.2022 12:02

Guest: Martha Richter, scientific associate, London’s Museum of Natural History

The surge in demand for rare coins and notes featuring Queen Elizabeth II 23.09.2022 17:46

Guest: Peter Hutchison, Senior Coin Specialist, Hattons of London

Why are huge numbers of whales stranded on Australia’s beaches? 23.09.2022 18:10

Guest: Dr Olaf Meynecke, Coastal and Marine Research Centre, Griffith University

Russians protest over Putin’s mobilization announcement 23.09.2022 16:59

Guest: Emily Ferris, Russian expert, Royal United Services Institute

The Prime Minister faces a new Leader of the Official Opposition for the first time in question period 23.09.2022 18:51

Guest: Nick Taylor-Vaisey, journalist, Politico

Atlantic Canada braces for Fiona: How one municipality is preparing 23.09.2022 6:50

Guest: Jim Parsons, mayor of Corner Brook, Newfoundland

Atlantic Canada braces for Fiona: Where is it headed and when? 23.09.2022 9:24

Guest: Carmen Hartt, Senior Meteorologist, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Canadian Hurricane Centre

The mission to feed one million kids each year by 2025 22.09.2022 10:40

Guest: Lisa Battistelli, Executive Director of President’s Choice Children’s Charity

Statistics Canada releases new data on housing - what do the numbers tell us? 22.09.2022 18:20

Guest: Craig E. Jones, Associate Director, Housing Assessment Resource Tools, Peter A. Allard School of Law and doctoral student, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

The mechanics of the Canadian lending industry and the battle against its high interest rates - Part Two 22.09.2022 7:21

Guest: Donna Borden, an ACORN leader from Toronto who became involved with the cause after her own experience with a high-interest loan in the early 2000s

The mechanics of the Canadian lending industry and the battle against its high interest rates - Part One 22.09.2022 12:47

Guest: Chisholm Pothier, Canadian Lenders Association Spokesperson

Journo Corner - Canada’s energy future 22.09.2022 17:08

Guest: David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent, Global News

Report finds Canada won’t come close to goal of eliminating plastic waste by 2030 22.09.2022 19:31

Guest: Karen Wirsig, plastics program manager at NGO Environmental Defence

Russia calls up reservists and rolls out referenda 22.09.2022 16:38

Guest: Marcus Kolga, founder of Disinfowatch.org, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Centre for Advancing Canada’s Interests Abroad

Code Blue: Who is responsible when it comes to fixing the issues plaguing Canada's ERs? 21.09.2022 18:08

Guest Host Angela Kokott speaks with Steve Morgan, Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia

The gaps that are yet to be closed as the fight for gender equality continues 21.09.2022 9:19

Guest Host Angela Kokott speaks with Andrea Gunraj, Vice President of Public Engagement at the Canadian Women's Foundation

The right fuel for school - linking nutrition to easier learning for children 21.09.2022 16:17

Guest Host Angela Kokott chats with Heidi Bates, Director of the dietitian practicum program in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences at University of Alberta

Canada’s inflation rate cools but is it dropping low enough? 21.09.2022 16:33

Guest Host Angela Kokott chats with David Macdonald, Senior Economist at Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The importance of the UN General Assembly as they tackle conflict, climate issues and poverty 21.09.2022 16:27

Guest Host Angela Kokott talks with Colin Robertson, Fellow & Vice-President Canadian Global Affairs Institute and former Canadian diplomat

House of Commons is back in session with plenty of interest in how Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre fares 21.09.2022 16:09

Guest Host Angela Kokott speaks with Laura Osman, federal politics reporter for the Canadian Press

The Future of the ArriveCan App 20.09.2022 17:25

Guest Host Angela Kokott speaks with John Gradek, Faculty Lecturer and Academic Program Coordinator, Supply Chain, Logistics and Integrated Aviation Management McGill University

A look at safe opioid supply programs and how it is leading to a drop in hospital visits 20.09.2022 16:08

Guest Host Angela Kokott chats with Gillian Kolla, Public health researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria