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
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Why is Donald Trump taunting Canada?
15 min
727
What did Canadians check out on YouTube in 2024?
7 min
728
Brain Rot is the Oxford Word of the year
10 min
729
Why Canada’s housing crisis showed few signs of...
17 min
730
How immigration became a dominant topic in Cana...
16 min
731
Trudeau founders, incumbents stagger, Trump ret...
18 min
732
After a devastating wildfire, Jasper ends 2024 ...
17 min
733
What events, people, and trends Canadians were ...
17 min
734
The surprising ways in which games have changed...
17 min
735
Airlines try to crackdown on air rage incidents...
17 min
736
The humble origins of one of the world’s most e...
16 min
737
Giving a gift? Turns out late isn’t a bad thing...
16 min
738
A top FBI criminal profiler on what we’ve learn...
35 min
739
Man suspected of killing United Healthcare CEO ...
18 min
740
Syrians around the world react to the fall of A...
17 min
741
How cancer can mean ‘staggering’ costs for pati...
16 min
742
40 years since Do They Know It’s Christmas and ...
17 min
743
The fragile place we call Earth and how the uni...
17 min
744
How much higher can Bitcoin climb?
18 min
745
What’s hot and what’s not in Canadian real esta...
17 min
746
2024’s most mispronounced words
16 min
747
Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
17 min
748
Health-care workers hope to revolutionize frost...
17 min
749
The Ford government’s plan to send nuclear powe...
17 min
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Ride like the wind: A new documentary pays tri...
34 min