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
1926
Canadians plan to curb holiday spending this year
7 min
1927
How much impact will Loblaw’s freezing prices o...
9 min
1928
Russia hits civilian and infrastructure targets...
17 min
1929
31-year old RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang killed in...
11 min
1930
Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans wh...
13 min
1931
Four years of legalized cannabis in Canada - wh...
14 min
1932
New data tells us Canadians are concerned about...
17 min
1933
On the heels of the Amanda Todd sentencing, how...
15 min
1934
One month since Mahsa Amini’s death, ongoing Ir...
18 min
1935
Ottawa city manager, police officers among witn...
14 min
1936
A mother’s quest for justice, Looking back at w...
68 min
1937
China’s Xi tightens his grip on power and gets ...
17 min
1938
Looking back at when Mr. Peanut ran for mayor o...
18 min
1939
Three Canadian schools make the World’s Top 50 ...
15 min
1940
Anti-government protests in Iran continue to gr...
16 min
1941
What precedent does the conviction and sentence...
7 min
1942
How did the prosecution succeed in putting Aman...
10 min
1943
A mother’s quest for justice: Dutch man sentenc...
16 min
1944
The public inquiry investigating the use of the...
59 min
1945
Rambo Tourism
13 min
1946
Why is Canada Post starting to offer loans?
15 min
1947
What a recession in 2023 means for you - and ho...
14 min
1948
An immigration backlog is forcing qualified wor...
15 min
1949
Why Canada and Canadian businesses needs to ada...
17 min
1950
The public inquiry investigating the use of the...
14 min