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Front Burner
Front Burner is a daily news podcast that takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. Each morning, from Monday to Friday, host Jayme Poisson talks with the smartest people covering the biggest stories to help you understand what’s going on.We’re Canada’s number one news podcast an...
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Alleged gun-for-hire network behind consulate, synagogue shootings
Toronto police announced this week that nearly 30 recent shootings across the Greater Toronto Area are linked by a multi-layered gun-for-hire network....
How Andrew Tate made abuse a business
Andrew Tate – the controversial British-American influencer, and self-described misogynist – has millions of followers around the world.
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Inside Ukraine’s kill zone
Reporter Francis Farrell of the Kyiv Independent recently took a harrowing journey alongside a group of Ukrainian soldiers into what they describe as...
A changed Iran emerges from war
This week, after more than a hundred days of fighting, the United States and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to end the war, set to be signe...
For Albertan separatists, is Quebec a model or a warning?
A common refrain among those who support Albertan separatism is that they would like a deal similar to what Quebec earned through its decades-long fig...
Bill Gates’ Epstein connections
For decades Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates built a public persona as an unrelenting, tech visionary – and later as a global health and climate philan...
Ottawa threatens big tech with kids’ social media ban
Canada has introduced new legislation that puts big tech social platforms on notice: change your platforms to make them safer for kids, or children un...
The world’s game: politics and the World Cup
Even before a game has been played, this year’s World Cup has been the source of controversy. Officials and staff from countries like Iraq, Iran and S...
A who’s who in Alberta’s separatist fight
As Alberta hurtles towards a referendum on whether or not to hold a separation referendum, we wanted to take a look at how the campaigns on both sides...
The backlash against AIPAC
For decades, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, better known as AIPAC, has been one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Washingt...
Weekend Listen: Hunting the Suicide Salesman
Following the critically acclaimed series Hunting Warhead, Season 2: Hunting the Suicide Salesman follows host Daemon Fairless as he takes us inside a...
Minister defends Canada’s new AI strategy
Canada has released its long-awaited national artificial intelligence strategy. It comes as a significant portion of the country feels uneasy about wh...
Can Canada avoid a deepening recession?
Canada has entered a “technical recession,” leading to fingerpointing in the House of Commons and Donald Trump renewing his calls to make Canada the 5...
Wab Kinew takes on separatism and big-tech
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is planting his federalist flag, wading into the Alberta separatism debate and making the case for a major new nation build...
How the UFC became a stage for Trump
At Donald Trump’s election victory event in 2024, he was flanked on stage by a collection of family, senior staff, and Ultimate Fighting Championship...
Does a ‘peace deal’ fuel Middle Eastern war?
Negotiations for an end to the war in Iran took a baffling turn last Monday when U.S. President Donlad Trump declared via social media that he would b...
Weekend Listen: Artificial Intimacy
What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones with the he...
Politics! Surveillance backlash, separatism drama
CBC parliamentary reporters Aaron Wherry and Catharine Tunney are back to talk about the big political stories of the week including: Prime Minister M...
Trump and the politics of corruption
There’s an old adage from the days of the Watergate scandal: “follow the money.” And in Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States,...
Alberta’s referendum on a referendum
Western Premiers gathered in Kananskis, Alberta this week to discuss shared issues like trade, defense and energy projects. But another topic overshad...
Why aren’t Canada and the U.S. officially talking trade?
As we inch closer to the July 1st CUSMA review deadline, there still aren’t any formal trade talks between Canada and the U.S. planned. The government...
Will the U.S. invade Cuba?
In a major escalation of its months long “maximum pressure” campaign, the United States announced it has indicted Raúl Castro, former president of Cub...
Canada and the politics of Gaza flotillas
Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned what he described as the “abominable treatment” of flotilla activists detained by Israeli authorities.
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Israel’s open nuclear secret
Earlier this month, 30 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the Trump administration with a remarkable request: to publicly acknowledge that Israel h...
Is Carney undoing the Liberals’ climate legacy?
Late last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new energy agreement that paves the way for a new pipeline t...
How should Canada handle Alberta separatism?
Alberta premier Danielle Smith is calling a court ruling “antidemocratic” after judge struck down the petition which hoped to trigger a separatist ref...
What happens when a conspiracy theory drives into your backyard?
In The Cult Queen of Canada from CBC’s Uncover, a tiny Saskatchewan town faces a surreal crisis when a cult leader calling herself “The Queen of Canad...
Iran quagmire: why can’t the U.S. end the war?
The ceasefire in Iran has been in place for five weeks, with no clear end in sight to the war. The latest peace negotiations fell apart, with U.S. Pre...
Princeton president on the future of university
Today on the show, the President of Princeton University, Christopher Eisgruber, joins us.
He makes a defense of the role of post...
Weakened, Trump heads to China
President Trump arrives in Beijing today for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He’s bringing with him a long list of tech and bu...
Should Canadian airports be privatized?
As part of its Spring economic update, the federal government revealed that it’s considering privatizing the country’s airports. The Prime Minister sa...
The perils of unregulated AI
Recent polls show that Canadians are increasingly concerned about the growth of AI.
And yet, the AI race is hurtling forward with...
How separatists doxxed Alberta
On the week where Alberta separatists should have been celebrating a major milestone on their quest to split the country apart, they are instead facin...
The end of the Voting Rights Act?
The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, passed in 1964 and 1965 respectively, marked the beginning of multi-racial democracy in the United States....
Are teen social media bans a silver bullet?
Australia was the first country to adopt a ban. Canada’s federal government is signaling that something is coming from them soon. A recent Angus Reid...
Is Doug Ford in trouble?
He was “Captain Canada” last year and at one point, the most popular conservative in Canada.
But now Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s taken a hit in...
Elon Musk vs OpenAI
We are entering week two of a dramatic trial that pits two of the biggest names in tech against each other: Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Why is everything a ‘false flag’?
Following the recent shooting connected to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, false-flag conspiracy theories emerged almost instantly online.
How the petrodollar took over the world
The shockwaves triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran have made clear the extent to which the global economy relies on oil, and the U.S. dollar. It...
Mark Carney’s economic update
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has delivered its spring economic update amidst an unpredictable global backdrop. It included a better-than-ex...