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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The Strumbellas settle into a new groove with a...
17 min
102
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 50yrs later: w...
17 min
103
A reporter’s tale of Afghanistan’s tumultuous...
32 min
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Liberal MP's blunt budget assessment - Canadia...
37 min
105
Alan Doyle takes you on a journey through his f...
18 min
106
Defense spending - Budget reaction - Mamdani Ma...
47 min
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Canadian classic rockers Coney Hatch on 40 year...
17 min
108
How the FBI solved the biggest stolen artifacts...
18 min
109
MP Floor crossing - Budget breakdown - Shower b...
47 min
110
One of Canada’s premier investigative journalis...
24 min
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A timely warning about the past as Canada look...
17 min
112
Newfoundland’s Rachel Cousins teams up with A-l...
8 min
113
How one Canadian heartthrob found fame and fail...
9 min
114
Blue Jays post mortem - New federal budget comi...
37 min
115
 How the 1995 referendum result saw Quebec turn...
18 min
116
Canada is at a breaking point, how do we keep i...
18 min
117
Tempe “Bones” Brennan returns in Kathy Reichs’ ...
17 min
118
Mob ties and rigged bets: Inside the NBA’s gamb...
17 min
119
Big Blue Jays weekend - Coping with the time ch...
44 min
120
Nattie Neidhart on ups and downs of being ...
17 min
121
Carney dealing with Trump's trade tantrum - Jay...
28 min
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Why did a group of teenage girls kill a man in ...
17 min
123
Railway Tycoons Shaped Canada. Don’t Let AI Bar...
17 min
124
30-years after the referendum, why has appeti...
17 min
125
The true story behind the new Bruce Springsteen...
17 min