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
901
Ketchup named Canada’s signature potato chip fl...
12 min
902
Why is Donald Trump taunting Canada?
15 min
903
What did Canadians check out on YouTube in 2024?
7 min
904
Brain Rot is the Oxford Word of the year
10 min
905
Why Canada’s housing crisis showed few signs of...
17 min
906
How immigration became a dominant topic in Cana...
16 min
907
Trudeau founders, incumbents stagger, Trump ret...
18 min
908
After a devastating wildfire, Jasper ends 2024 ...
17 min
909
What events, people, and trends Canadians were ...
17 min
910
The surprising ways in which games have changed...
17 min
911
Airlines try to crackdown on air rage incidents...
17 min
912
The humble origins of one of the world’s most e...
16 min
913
Giving a gift? Turns out late isn’t a bad thing...
16 min
914
A top FBI criminal profiler on what we’ve learn...
35 min
915
Man suspected of killing United Healthcare CEO ...
18 min
916
Syrians around the world react to the fall of A...
17 min
917
How cancer can mean ‘staggering’ costs for pati...
16 min
918
40 years since Do They Know It’s Christmas and ...
17 min
919
The fragile place we call Earth and how the uni...
17 min
920
How much higher can Bitcoin climb?
18 min
921
What’s hot and what’s not in Canadian real esta...
17 min
922
2024’s most mispronounced words
16 min
923
Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
17 min
924
Health-care workers hope to revolutionize frost...
17 min
925
The Ford government’s plan to send nuclear powe...
17 min