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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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15 de mar de 2026

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Episódios

The mysterious rise of food allergies in North America 28.10.2022

Guest: Douglas Mack, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at McMaster University

A Canadian leads the Philadelphia Phillies into the World Series and into the history books 28.10.2022

Guest: Rick Corner, longtime friend of Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson

Looking ahead to the US midterm elections - impact on Canada? 28.10.2022

Guest: Christopher Sands, Director, Canada Institute, Woodrow Wilson Centre

One month since Fiona: Newfoundland and Labrador 28.10.2022

Guest: Andrew Parsons, MHA for Burgeo-Lapoile, Minister of Industry, Energy & Technology, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador,

One month since Fiona: Cape Breton 28.10.2022

Guest: Amanda McDougall, Mayor, Cape Breton Regional Municipality

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? 28.10.2022

Guest: Leah Levac, an associate professor of political science at the University of Guelph

Immigrants and permanent residents now make up the largest share of the population in the Canada's history, An ode to ginger beef & the ongoing stigma of strokes 27.10.2022

Immigrants and permanent residents now make up the largest share of the population in the Canada's history, are there enough services in place?  Guest: John Shields, professor, politics and public administration, Toronto Metropolitan University Why new arrivals to Canada continue to settle in smaller communities Guest: Tara Bedard, Executive Director, Waterloo Region Immigration Partnership An ode...

What life skills do young adults today feel they aren’t learning enough about before moving out their own 27.10.2022

Guest: Alyssa Mairanz, founder, online platform Adulting In The Real World

An ode to ginger beef: the hidden history of Chinese Canadian cuisine and the bigger story it represents 27.10.2022

Guest: Paula Tran, digital journalist, 770 CHQR and Global News Calgary

Pennsylvania’s senate debate reveals the ongoing stigma of strokes 27.10.2022

Guest: Dr. Sean Dukelow, an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Calgary and the Medical Director of Stroke Rehabilitation for the Calgary Stroke Program

Journo Corner: The Bank of Canada pushes ahead with Interest rate hikes continue and the blame game dominates the Emergencies Act inquiry 27.10.2022

Guest: John Ivison, Ottawa-based political columnist, National Post

Why new arrivals to Canada continue to settle in smaller communities 27.10.2022

Guest: Tara Bedard, Executive Director, Waterloo Region Immigration Partnership

Immigrants and permanent residents now make up the largest share of the population in the Canada's history, are there enough services in place? 27.10.2022

Guest: John Shields, professor, politics and public administration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Should Ottawa be doing more to repatriate Canadians held in ISIS detention camps in Syria? 27.10.2022

Guest: Lawrence Greenspon, criminal defence lawyer, attorney representing Kimberly Polman

Canadian women released from camp for ISIS detainees in Syria, Need a floppy disk, there’s still a company in California that recycles and sells them & A look behind the scenes of hockey broadcasts 26.10.2022

Canadian women released from camp for ISIS detainees in Syria, is Canada doing enough to repatriate suspected ISIS members and their families?  Guest: Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Need a floppy disk, there’s still a company in California that recycles and sells them  Guest: Tom Persky, Owner, Floppydisk.com...

Need a floppy disk, there’s still a company in California that recycles and sells them 26.10.2022

Guest: Tom Persky, Owner, Floppydisk.com

A look behind the scenes of hockey broadcasts with the longtime executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada 26.10.2022

Guest: John Shannon, sportscaster and producer, author of Evolve or Die: Hard-Won Lessons from a Hockey Life

Did China’s Communist Party fool the West into believing in the country’s “peaceful rise" and why? 26.10.2022

Guest: Alex Joske, senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Insitute and author of Spies and Lies: How China’s Covert Operations Fooled the World 

Bank of Canada expected to hike interest rates again on Wednesday, how will it impact Canadians already coping with debt? 26.10.2022

Guest: Doug Hoyes, co-founder of debt counselling firm Hoyes Michalos

Former senior advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister on Canada’s relations with Israel, the war in Ukraine, and more 26.10.2022

Guest: Mark Regev, Chair of Abba Eban Institute at Reichman University; former Senior Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister and Israeli Ambassador to the UK

Canadian women released from camp for ISIS detainees in Syria, is Canada doing enough to repatriate suspected ISIS members and their families? 26.10.2022

Guest: Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs

Canada’s competition watchdog wants to know what’s driving up grocery prices, How a portrait artist uses her brush to help through the grief of losing a pet & BC doctor gets set for a third trip to the frontlines in Ukraine 25.10.2022

Canada’s competition watchdog wants to know what’s driving up grocery prices and what government can do about it  Guest: Jake Edmiston, food business reporter, Financial Post How a portrait artist uses the healing powers of her brush to people get through the grief of losing a pet  Guest: Erica Eriksdotter, fine arts painter specializing in pet portraits BC doctor specializing in emergency medicin...

How a portrait artist uses the healing powers of her brush to people get through the grief of losing a pet 25.10.2022

Guest: Erica Eriksdotter, fine arts painter specializing in pet portraits

Two Canadians were kidnapped and killed by terrorists in the Philippines more than six years ago, a reporter tracked down those responsible 25.10.2022

Guest: Stewart Bell, National Online Journalist, Global News

As Russia’s war in Ukraine falters, how much is it hurting Vladimir Putin and who is taking the blame? 25.10.2022

Guest: Andrei Soldatov, Russian journalist at , co-author of the The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad

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