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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John Candy’s children on why the time was rig...
18 min
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield explores murder in spa...
17 min
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Blue Jays fever - Eugene Levy & Prince William ...
48 min
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“Shocking” and “Unsustainable”: Why the inter...
10 min
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Catherine McKenna details abuse she endured in ...
17 min
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How eating alone at a restaurant went from tabo...
8 min
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Why Michael Kovrig says dropping tariffs on Chi...
9 min
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Jays playoff preview - Ticketmaster collusion? ...
44 min
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Canadian legends Sloan return with a 14th studi...
17 min
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New documentary charts soccer star Diana Mathe...
17 min
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Tinder Swindler arrested, one of his victims sp...
18 min
87
Canadian on historic Moon mission - CFL rule ch...
45 min
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The co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit on the game’...
70 min
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Robert Redford’s biographer and friend on the R...
32 min
90
Foe and Friend: Vladislav Tretiak pays tribute ...
7 min
91
The Canadian foreign correspondent who alerted ...
18 min
92
The messy, strange and symbolic history of Poutine
18 min
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What one man learned following in Terry Fox’s f...
12 min
94
Why coffee prices are so high - How you can sho...
77 min
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Catching up with Honeymoon Suite with a new alb...
16 min
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MP's back at it Monday - Life on Mars - Who's b...
55 min
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PM Carney's major projects list - Charlie Kirk'...
45 min
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Dismantling Big Tech's attention economy and th...
17 min
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Could a 'digital diet' help me fix my bad phone...
18 min
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Andy Kim still "gently" rocking in 2025 and abo...
15 min