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
Why aren’t Canadian authorities doing more to f...
17 min
1902
Canadians plan to curb holiday spending this year
7 min
1903
How much impact will Loblaw’s freezing prices o...
9 min
1904
Russia hits civilian and infrastructure targets...
17 min
1905
31-year old RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang killed in...
11 min
1906
Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans wh...
13 min
1907
Four years of legalized cannabis in Canada - wh...
14 min
1908
New data tells us Canadians are concerned about...
17 min
1909
On the heels of the Amanda Todd sentencing, how...
15 min
1910
One month since Mahsa Amini’s death, ongoing Ir...
18 min
1911
Ottawa city manager, police officers among witn...
14 min
1912
A mother’s quest for justice, Looking back at w...
68 min
1913
China’s Xi tightens his grip on power and gets ...
17 min
1914
Looking back at when Mr. Peanut ran for mayor o...
18 min
1915
Three Canadian schools make the World’s Top 50 ...
15 min
1916
Anti-government protests in Iran continue to gr...
16 min
1917
What precedent does the conviction and sentence...
7 min
1918
How did the prosecution succeed in putting Aman...
10 min
1919
A mother’s quest for justice: Dutch man sentenc...
16 min
1920
The public inquiry investigating the use of the...
59 min
1921
Rambo Tourism
13 min
1922
Why is Canada Post starting to offer loans?
15 min
1923
What a recession in 2023 means for you - and ho...
14 min
1924
An immigration backlog is forcing qualified wor...
15 min
1925
Why Canada and Canadian businesses needs to ada...
17 min