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
Why raising interest rates even further won’t h...
13 min
1827
31-year old RCMP officer killed in the line of...
51 min
1828
Using Wikipedia to shine a spotlight on the acc...
13 min
1829
Sarah Richardson transforms Whistler B&B in HGT...
15 min
1830
Why aren’t Canadian authorities doing more to f...
17 min
1831
Canadians plan to curb holiday spending this year
7 min
1832
How much impact will Loblaw’s freezing prices o...
9 min
1833
Russia hits civilian and infrastructure targets...
17 min
1834
31-year old RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang killed in...
11 min
1835
Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans wh...
13 min
1836
Four years of legalized cannabis in Canada - wh...
14 min
1837
New data tells us Canadians are concerned about...
17 min
1838
On the heels of the Amanda Todd sentencing, how...
15 min
1839
One month since Mahsa Amini’s death, ongoing Ir...
18 min
1840
Ottawa city manager, police officers among witn...
14 min
1841
A mother’s quest for justice, Looking back at w...
68 min
1842
China’s Xi tightens his grip on power and gets ...
17 min
1843
Looking back at when Mr. Peanut ran for mayor o...
18 min
1844
Three Canadian schools make the World’s Top 50 ...
15 min
1845
Anti-government protests in Iran continue to gr...
16 min
1846
What precedent does the conviction and sentence...
7 min
1847
How did the prosecution succeed in putting Aman...
10 min
1848
A mother’s quest for justice: Dutch man sentenc...
16 min
1849
The public inquiry investigating the use of the...
59 min
1850
Rambo Tourism
13 min