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
1951
What happens when you start to run out of water...
13 min
1952
The Safety Dance at 40: Catching up with Men Wi...
13 min
1953
Canada’s intelligence service told the Federal ...
16 min
1954
Journo Corner: The blame game at the Emergencie...
16 min
1955
Can we do more to prepare police officers to ha...
7 min
1956
The death in the line of duty of Burnaby RCMP C...
10 min
1957
Why raising interest rates even further won’t h...
13 min
1958
31-year old RCMP officer killed in the line of...
51 min
1959
Using Wikipedia to shine a spotlight on the acc...
13 min
1960
Sarah Richardson transforms Whistler B&B in HGT...
15 min
1961
Why aren’t Canadian authorities doing more to f...
17 min
1962
Canadians plan to curb holiday spending this year
7 min
1963
How much impact will Loblaw’s freezing prices o...
9 min
1964
Russia hits civilian and infrastructure targets...
17 min
1965
31-year old RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang killed in...
11 min
1966
Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans wh...
13 min
1967
Four years of legalized cannabis in Canada - wh...
14 min
1968
New data tells us Canadians are concerned about...
17 min
1969
On the heels of the Amanda Todd sentencing, how...
15 min
1970
One month since Mahsa Amini’s death, ongoing Ir...
18 min
1971
Ottawa city manager, police officers among witn...
14 min
1972
A mother’s quest for justice, Looking back at w...
68 min
1973
China’s Xi tightens his grip on power and gets ...
17 min
1974
Looking back at when Mr. Peanut ran for mayor o...
18 min
1975
Three Canadian schools make the World’s Top 50 ...
15 min