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
Adding up the insurance costs of Fiona
9 min
1927
Prime Minister tours storm destruction in PEI a...
14 min
1928
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona, NA...
63 min
1929
NASA’s DART mission to crash a spacecraft into ...
12 min
1930
Canadians take drastic steps to save on groceri...
15 min
1931
Italy elects its first far-right government in...
17 min
1932
Ottawa drops remaining COVID travel and border ...
15 min
1933
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Ex...
9 min
1934
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Re...
13 min
1935
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Po...
10 min
1936
Bracing for Fiona, Protests in Iran over death ...
87 min
1937
Aaron Judge quietly chases home run history in ...
17 min
1938
How the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman...
17 min
1939
Is Vladimir Putin starting to lose his iron gri...
18 min
1940
Can Canada be part of the solution to Europe’s ...
15 min
1941
Bracing for Fiona: Prince Edward Island
5 min
1942
Bracing for Fiona: Cape Breton
12 min
1943
Bracing for Fiona: Emergency Preparedness in Ha...
4 min
1944
Bracing for Fiona: The latest from Nova Scotia
10 min
1945
Preparing for Fiona, why are whales stranded on...
63 min
1946
The oldest recorded mammal is much older than p...
10 min
1947
The surge in demand for rare coins and notes f...
16 min
1948
Why are huge numbers of whales stranded on Aust...
16 min
1949
Russians protest over Putin’s mobilization anno...
15 min
1950
The Prime Minister faces a new Leader of the Of...
17 min