{"id":133569,"date":"2025-09-10T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133569\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:08:09","slug":"national-newswatch-ben-mulroney-to-host-globals-political-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133569\/","title":{"rendered":"National Newswatch | Ben Mulroney to host Global&#8217;s political affairs\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Mulroney is taking the reins of Global News&#8217; political affairs program, &#8220;The West Block.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Global News says Mulroney will serve as interim host while Ottawa bureau chief Mercedes Stephenson takes parental leave.\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>The son of former prime minister Brian Mulroney begins his stint Sept. 14 when a 15th season launches on Global and streams live on StackTV.\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>Mulroney says he feels privileged to be part of the network&#8217;s flagship national political affairs program, which airs Sundays and repeats Sunday nights on Global and StackTV.\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>The longtime TV personality also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, &#8220;The Ben Mulroney Show,&#8221; carried across Corus&#8217; network of talk radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>Mulroney is a former co-host of CTV&#8217;s &#8220;Your Morning,&#8221; &#8220;Etalk&#8221; and &#8220;Canadian Idol.&#8221;\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>This report by  was first published Sept. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Mulroney is taking the reins of Global News&#8217; political affairs program, &#8220;The West Block.&#8221; Global News says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,19953,75,894,19952,19954,898],"class_list":["post-133569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conservative","tag-entertainment","tag-federal-government","tag-liberal","tag-ndp","tag-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}