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
Adding up the insurance costs of Fiona
9 min
1952
Prime Minister tours storm destruction in PEI a...
14 min
1953
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona, NA...
63 min
1954
NASA’s DART mission to crash a spacecraft into ...
12 min
1955
Canadians take drastic steps to save on groceri...
15 min
1956
Italy elects its first far-right government in...
17 min
1957
Ottawa drops remaining COVID travel and border ...
15 min
1958
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Ex...
9 min
1959
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Re...
13 min
1960
Atlantic Canada begins clean-up after Fiona: Po...
10 min
1961
Bracing for Fiona, Protests in Iran over death ...
87 min
1962
Aaron Judge quietly chases home run history in ...
17 min
1963
How the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman...
17 min
1964
Is Vladimir Putin starting to lose his iron gri...
18 min
1965
Can Canada be part of the solution to Europe’s ...
15 min
1966
Bracing for Fiona: Prince Edward Island
5 min
1967
Bracing for Fiona: Cape Breton
12 min
1968
Bracing for Fiona: Emergency Preparedness in Ha...
4 min
1969
Bracing for Fiona: The latest from Nova Scotia
10 min
1970
Preparing for Fiona, why are whales stranded on...
63 min
1971
The oldest recorded mammal is much older than p...
10 min
1972
The surge in demand for rare coins and notes f...
16 min
1973
Why are huge numbers of whales stranded on Aust...
16 min
1974
Russians protest over Putin’s mobilization anno...
15 min
1975
The Prime Minister faces a new Leader of the Of...
17 min