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
1826
The collapse of crypto trading platform FTX and...
15 min
1827
High interest rates are sending Canada’s housin...
13 min
1828
Public safety minister lays out the federal gov...
60 min
1829
December is around the corner, time for a refre...
13 min
1830
Team Canada gets set to play its first men’s Wo...
16 min
1831
A Kyiv human rights lawyer on holding Russia t...
15 min
1832
Alberta Premier promises inflation relief and ...
16 min
1833
Colorado Springs attack revives painful memorie...
17 min
1834
Public safety minister lays out the federal gov...
13 min
1835
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on th...
59 min
1836
The Ontario flour mill behind the resurrection ...
12 min
1837
The fall of Elizabeth Holmes and the myth of th...
14 min
1838
The story behind one of the 70s biggest hits as...
16 min
1839
How Canada can help put advance democracy in Be...
14 min
1840
COP27 reaches deal for rich countries to pay fo...
15 min
1841
Women gymnasts testify in Ottawa hearings on th...
13 min
1842
Why high insurance rates are driving private co...
65 min
1843
From adulting to zonkey, 500 new words have bee...
17 min
1844
Alberta’s premier takes a wrecking ball to the ...
14 min
1845
Inside the Canadian company making armoured veh...
13 min
1846
Few men have played for Canada at the World Cup...
15 min
1847
Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco an...
17 min
1848
Why high insurance rates are driving private co...
13 min
1849
The most important source of Canada’s inflation...
74 min
1850
A California man turns up the heat - and sets a...
13 min