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
1
How Betting Took Over Sports
17 min
2
How Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dysto...
17 min
3
Why are senior federal civil servants being for...
11 min
4
Trump's latest threats - Training for a hypothe...
44 min
5
How much is consolidation in the food industry ...
17 min
6
Canadian music icon Bif Naked on a new album, a...
16 min
7
Has Mark Carney bitten off more than he can che...
17 min
8
Ryan Wedding arrested. What's Next? - Brutal wi...
45 min
9
Canadian rock Icon Kim Mitchell on his upcoming...
34 min
10
Why the Crown-Indigenous Relations Ministry wa...
10 min
11
Trump's Greenland Gambit - Legault's resignatio...
45 min
12
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The T...
16 min
13
The musical mind behind the '80s sound of 'Stra...
17 min
14
Why People Set Out on Impossible Quests
17 min
15
Michael Kovrig on the China deal
11 min
16
Canada-China trade deal reaction & analysis - E...
58 min
17
New documentary reveals the good, the bad and t...
17 min
18
How science is giving us a far greater understa...
18 min
19
What does it take to get fired at Canada Post...
9 min
20
Will USA involve itself in Iran? - Canadian fal...
62 min
21
Trump wants the US to reboot Venezuela’s oil ...
17 min
22
The US is showing it wants to dominate the west...
17 min
23
As Winnie the Pooh turns 100, remembering the f...
15 min
24
How Canadian business minds came together help ...
18 min
25
The Greenland question - Could Iranian regime f...
65 min