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
Adding up the insurance costs of Fiona
9 min
1902
Prime Minister tours storm destruction in PEI a...
14 min
1903
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona, NA...
63 min
1904
NASA’s DART mission to crash a spacecraft into ...
12 min
1905
Canadians take drastic steps to save on groceri...
15 min
1906
Italy elects its first far-right government in...
17 min
1907
Ottawa drops remaining COVID travel and border ...
15 min
1908
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Ex...
9 min
1909
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Re...
13 min
1910
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Po...
10 min
1911
Bracing for Fiona, Protests in Iran over death ...
87 min
1912
Aaron Judge quietly chases home run history in ...
17 min
1913
How the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman...
17 min
1914
Is Vladimir Putin starting to lose his iron gri...
18 min
1915
Can Canada be part of the solution to Europe’s ...
15 min
1916
Bracing for Fiona: Prince Edward Island
5 min
1917
Bracing for Fiona: Cape Breton
12 min
1918
Bracing for Fiona: Emergency Preparedness in Ha...
4 min
1919
Bracing for Fiona: The latest from Nova Scotia
10 min
1920
Preparing for Fiona, why are whales stranded on...
63 min
1921
The oldest recorded mammal is much older than p...
10 min
1922
The surge in demand for rare coins and notes f...
16 min
1923
Why are huge numbers of whales stranded on Aust...
16 min
1924
Russians protest over Putin’s mobilization anno...
15 min
1925
The Prime Minister faces a new Leader of the Of...
17 min