Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

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, including Afghanistan, North Korea, Libya, Ukraine and Russia.

News
Politics
2601
A parent’s guide to raising a transgender child
16 min
2602
Longtime AP Afghanistan correspondent from Timm...
19 min
2603
With patio season on the way, restaurants strug...
16 min
2604
Are Doug Ford and the Ontario PC’s cruising to ...
17 min
2605
Manitoba flooding pushes town to a state of eme...
5 min
2606
Reconciliation is the focus as Prince Charles a...
8 min
2607
Remembering David Milgaard’s life and legacy, W...
67 min
2608
What lessons Canada learned from the Grenfell T...
12 min
2609
Families of the victims still searching for ans...
16 min
2610
What’s up with cryptocurrencies?
16 min
2611
The lessons for Canada in the deadly attack on ...
16 min
2612
The Buffalo attack and the rise of violent whit...
17 min
2613
Remembering David Milgaard’s life and legacy
15 min
2614
What’s causing a baby formula shortage in the U...
75 min
2615
Why the Indigenous incarceration crisis demands...
16 min
2616
The need to improve internet speed in indigenou...
17 min
2617
The feud that's killing 'Friday the 13th'
26 min
2618
The security map of Europe is changing as Finla...
16 min
2619
What’s causing a baby formula shortage in the U...
14 min
2620
Conservative Party leader candidate Pierre Poil...
63 min
2621
Living through seven weeks of COVID lockdown in...
12 min
2622
Demands for an independent investigation into t...
16 min
2623
Apple pulls the plug on the iPod
17 min
2624
Hearts on Fire: Six Years That Changed Canadian...
15 min
2625
Gymnasts launch class action lawsuit against Gy...
16 min