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
How much impact will Loblaw’s freezing prices o...
9 min
1952
Russia hits civilian and infrastructure targets...
17 min
1953
31-year old RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang killed in...
11 min
1954
Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans wh...
13 min
1955
Four years of legalized cannabis in Canada - wh...
14 min
1956
New data tells us Canadians are concerned about...
17 min
1957
On the heels of the Amanda Todd sentencing, how...
15 min
1958
One month since Mahsa Amini’s death, ongoing Ir...
18 min
1959
Ottawa city manager, police officers among witn...
14 min
1960
A mother’s quest for justice, Looking back at w...
68 min
1961
China’s Xi tightens his grip on power and gets ...
17 min
1962
Looking back at when Mr. Peanut ran for mayor o...
18 min
1963
Three Canadian schools make the World’s Top 50 ...
15 min
1964
Anti-government protests in Iran continue to gr...
16 min
1965
What precedent does the conviction and sentence...
7 min
1966
How did the prosecution succeed in putting Aman...
10 min
1967
A mother’s quest for justice: Dutch man sentenc...
16 min
1968
The public inquiry investigating the use of the...
59 min
1969
Rambo Tourism
13 min
1970
Why is Canada Post starting to offer loans?
15 min
1971
What a recession in 2023 means for you - and ho...
14 min
1972
An immigration backlog is forcing qualified wor...
15 min
1973
Why Canada and Canadian businesses needs to ada...
17 min
1974
The public inquiry investigating the use of the...
14 min
1975
What can Canadians expect to learn from inquiry...
67 min