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 trackers could help monarch butterflies s...
8 min
2
Tiny trackers allow for revolution in how we ...
9 min
3
Comedian and author Mark Critch delivers an una...
17 min
4
Why is Canada’s Dental Care Plan already over b...
10 min
5
How Ryan Wedding became a drug kingpin - Why's ...
46 min
6
Investments in Artificial Intelligence are driv...
18 min
7
He recorded at Abbey Road, toured with Black Sa...
18 min
8
How professional women's hockey finally took off
17 min
9
Barred from livestreaming your own kid playing ...
16 min
10
Zelensky's top adviser resigns after Ukrainian ...
10 min
11
What makes Canada worth fighting for with Mark ...
47 min
12
 Grammy-award winning Alex Cuba returns with hi...
16 min
13
The Guess Who's Randy Bachman and Burton Cummin...
17 min
14
Ottawa science chief urges creation of national...
8 min
15
How the Haida found hoops and made basketball t...
8 min
16
Most stolen vehicles in Canada - EV mandate sta...
45 min
17
Melting point: What a reporter learned during m...
16 min
18
The Biggest Failure in a Century of Sneakers: H...
16 min
19
Trump ‘declassifies’ thousands of Amelia Earhar...
18 min
20
Cummings on Guess Who Reunion - Olympian turned...
43 min
21
Another major sports gambling scandal - Can Lib...
40 min
22
Why is Canada opening a consulate in Greenland?
9 min
23
Feared lost forever, how one of Europe’s most f...
17 min
24
How did Canada go backwards on Measles preventi...
17 min
25
Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga's 'shocking' $173K ...
6 min