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
Journo Corner: The blame game at the Emergencie...
16 min
1902
Can we do more to prepare police officers to ha...
7 min
1903
The death in the line of duty of Burnaby RCMP C...
10 min
1904
Why raising interest rates even further won’t h...
13 min
1905
31-year old RCMP officer killed in the line of...
51 min
1906
Using Wikipedia to shine a spotlight on the acc...
13 min
1907
Sarah Richardson transforms Whistler B&B in HGT...
15 min
1908
Why aren’t Canadian authorities doing more to f...
17 min
1909
Canadians plan to curb holiday spending this year
7 min
1910
How much impact will Loblaw’s freezing prices o...
9 min
1911
Russia hits civilian and infrastructure targets...
17 min
1912
31-year old RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang killed in...
11 min
1913
Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans wh...
13 min
1914
Four years of legalized cannabis in Canada - wh...
14 min
1915
New data tells us Canadians are concerned about...
17 min
1916
On the heels of the Amanda Todd sentencing, how...
15 min
1917
One month since Mahsa Amini’s death, ongoing Ir...
18 min
1918
Ottawa city manager, police officers among witn...
14 min
1919
A mother’s quest for justice, Looking back at w...
68 min
1920
China’s Xi tightens his grip on power and gets ...
17 min
1921
Looking back at when Mr. Peanut ran for mayor o...
18 min
1922
Three Canadian schools make the World’s Top 50 ...
15 min
1923
Anti-government protests in Iran continue to gr...
16 min
1924
What precedent does the conviction and sentence...
7 min
1925
How did the prosecution succeed in putting Aman...
10 min