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
1901
Ontario tries to force a new contract on teache...
59 min
1902
How a man made his case for a cameo on CSI over...
13 min
1903
Would you watch ads to pay less for a streaming...
13 min
1904
Doctors see more resistance to treatments over ...
15 min
1905
How foreign actors have used social media to tr...
14 min
1906
How can Canadian workplaces better address the ...
14 min
1907
Ontario tries to force a new contract on teache...
13 min
1908
Former Ottawa police chief denies looking for a...
51 min
1909
The Halloween Scare That Won’t Go Away
12 min
1910
Man charged in Pelosi home attack allegedly tol...
8 min
1911
Brazil ops for left over right in electing in c...
14 min
1912
New briefing warns of staffing crisis in the ca...
15 min
1913
Former Ottawa police chief denies looking for a...
13 min
1914
The B.C. government says no to supporting the I...
63 min
1915
There’s nothing scary about spending on Hallowe...
11 min
1916
The best movies to set a spooky mood this Hallo...
21 min
1917
The B.C. government says no to supporting the I...
14 min
1918
Census shows Canadians are losing their religion
14 min
1919
An Act of Evil - The untold story of the small...
14 min
1920
Elon Musk gets set to transform Twitter
15 min
1921
Low voter turnout in municipal elections across...
64 min
1922
The many reasons why the Dutch don’t say sorry
14 min
1923
The mysterious rise of food allergies in North ...
13 min
1924
A Canadian leads the Philadelphia Phillies into...
16 min
1925
Looking ahead to the US midterm elections - imp...
15 min