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
1726
December is around the corner, time for a refre...
13 min
1727
Team Canada gets set to play its first men’s Wo...
16 min
1728
A Kyiv human rights lawyer on holding Russia t...
15 min
1729
Alberta Premier promises inflation relief and ...
16 min
1730
Colorado Springs attack revives painful memorie...
17 min
1731
Public safety minister lays out the federal gov...
13 min
1732
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on th...
59 min
1733
The Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection ...
12 min
1734
The fall of Elizabeth Holmes and the myth of th...
14 min
1735
The story behind one of the 70s biggest hits as...
16 min
1736
How Canada can help put advance democracy in Be...
14 min
1737
COP27 reaches deal for rich countries to pay fo...
15 min
1738
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on th...
13 min
1739
Why high insurance rates are driving private co...
65 min
1740
From adulting to zonkey, 500 new words have bee...
17 min
1741
Alberta’s premier takes a wrecking ball to the ...
14 min
1742
Few men have played for Canada at the World Cup...
15 min
1743
Inside the Canadian company making armoured veh...
13 min
1744
Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco an...
17 min
1745
Why high insurance rates are driving private co...
13 min
1746
The most important source of Canada’s inflation...
74 min
1747
A California man turns up the heat - and sets a...
13 min
1748
A grizzly bear so dominant they call him “The B...
16 min
1749
BC tech company uses big data to help Minnesota...
15 min
1750
As easy as 123456 a new list reveals just how m...
13 min