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
1976
Why aren’t Canadian authorities doing more to f...
17 min
1977
Canadians plan to curb holiday spending this year
7 min
1978
How much impact will Loblaw’s freezing prices o...
9 min
1979
Russia hits civilian and infrastructure targets...
17 min
1980
31-year old RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang killed in...
11 min
1981
Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans wh...
13 min
1982
Four years of legalized cannabis in Canada - wh...
14 min
1983
New data tells us Canadians are concerned about...
17 min
1984
On the heels of the Amanda Todd sentencing, how...
15 min
1985
One month since Mahsa Amini’s death, ongoing Ir...
18 min
1986
Ottawa city manager, police officers among witn...
14 min
1987
A mother’s quest for justice, Looking back at w...
68 min
1988
China’s Xi tightens his grip on power and gets ...
17 min
1989
Looking back at when Mr. Peanut ran for mayor o...
18 min
1990
Three Canadian schools make the World’s Top 50 ...
15 min
1991
Anti-government protests in Iran continue to gr...
16 min
1992
What precedent does the conviction and sentence...
7 min
1993
How did the prosecution succeed in putting Aman...
10 min
1994
A mother’s quest for justice: Dutch man sentenc...
16 min
1995
The public inquiry investigating the use of the...
59 min
1996
Rambo Tourism
13 min
1997
Why is Canada Post starting to offer loans?
15 min
1998
What a recession in 2023 means for you - and ho...
14 min
1999
An immigration backlog is forcing qualified wor...
15 min
2000
Why Canada and Canadian businesses needs to ada...
17 min