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
1701
The Oxford Dictionaries word of the year celebr...
13 min
1702
The senate vote in Georgia and how the makeup o...
15 min
1703
The future may not be as digital as we once tho...
17 min
1704
The crisis in children’s health care and what n...
15 min
1705
Medical experts call on government to delay exp...
17 min
1706
Auditor General warns that billions in ineligib...
13 min
1707
Why food prices will continue to climb in 2023,...
55 min
1708
Why drinking eight glasses of water a day is un...
10 min
1709
Danielle Smith says she is open to amending the...
15 min
1710
How effective has Canadian gun control legislat...
17 min
1711
Remembering the 14 women killed in the Ecole Po...
12 min
1712
Canada welcomes the world for a major UN biodiv...
9 min
1713
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is acquitted of sexual as...
8 min
1714
Why food prices will continue to climb in 2023
13 min
1715
Canadian officials knew for years existing laws...
62 min
1716
How much would increased policing help address ...
18 min
1717
Are unprepared drivers to blame for traffic cha...
15 min
1718
A Canadian scientist helps put a new face on th...
16 min
1719
Mother of Alberta man who disappeared from a BC...
16 min
1720
Alleged serial killings of four women in Winnip...
17 min
1721
Canadian officials knew for years existing laws...
13 min
1722
Why Ottawa’s new dental benefit for kids falls ...
59 min
1723
In a tough economy - how do we learn to buy les...
14 min
1724
Why is shoplifting, already a multi-billion dol...
12 min
1725
Documenting the lives of British Columbians who...
17 min