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
1801
The Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection ...
12 min
1802
The fall of Elizabeth Holmes and the myth of th...
14 min
1803
The story behind one of the 70s biggest hits as...
16 min
1804
How Canada can help put advance democracy in Be...
14 min
1805
COP27 reaches deal for rich countries to pay fo...
15 min
1806
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on th...
13 min
1807
Why high insurance rates are driving private co...
65 min
1808
From adulting to zonkey, 500 new words have bee...
17 min
1809
Alberta’s premier takes a wrecking ball to the ...
14 min
1810
Few men have played for Canada at the World Cup...
15 min
1811
Inside the Canadian company making armoured veh...
13 min
1812
Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco an...
17 min
1813
Why high insurance rates are driving private co...
13 min
1814
The most important source of Canada’s inflation...
74 min
1815
A California man turns up the heat - and sets a...
13 min
1816
A grizzly bear so dominant they call him “The B...
16 min
1817
BC tech company uses big data to help Minnesota...
15 min
1818
As easy as 123456 a new list reveals just how m...
13 min
1819
Why are rental prices soaring and will they sta...
9 min
1820
The reality of the increasing cost of rent acro...
8 min
1821
The most important source of Canada’s inflation...
14 min
1822
Why did Xi Jinping berate Justin Trudeau at the...
60 min
1823
The top is tops and Lite-Brite shines as the To...
14 min
1824
How Halifax’s women volunteers played a big rol...
13 min
1825
The lasting legacy of Louis Riel
18 min