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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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Who are Iran's Revolutionary Guards?
U.S. intelligence reports this week show that, despite U.S and Israeli strikes, very little has changed about the Iranian regime’s grip since the star...
Politics! 4th floor-crosser, NDP's future
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout crossed the floor this week, becoming the first New Democrat to defect to Prime Minister Carney’s Liberals.
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'We do not want your bombs': A view from Tehran
Amidst communications blackouts and rising casualties, Jayme Poisson reaches a resident in Tehran to discuss the war, Trump, the Iranian regime, and h...
Iran war sparks energy crisis
The world could face one of the most severe shocks to energy markets since the 1970s as we enter week two of the war in the Middle East.
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Iran’s allies and foes, explained
Images coming out of Tehran over the weekend were apocalyptic, with oil refinery fires burning and massive clouds of black smoke turning day into nigh...
Iran and AI on the battlefield
For decades we have been hearing about the possibility of AI-driven warfare, and now it’s here.
Anthropic's AI platform Claude has...
Iran and the escalation trap
Today on the show, we wanted to bring on Robert Pape. He is a political scientist with the University of Chicago. And we’ve been following his work on...
Carney supports Iran war with ‘regret’
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed his support for the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Carney spoke about the need to pre...
U.S. vs Iran: a decades-old fight
In 1953, the United States helped stage a coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, largely a response to the Iranian leader’s n...
War on Iran
This weekend after weeks of threats and tense negotiations, the U.S. and Israel began a war with Iran. The developments have been incredibly consequen...
India reset, Iran regime change with Minister Anita Anand
As Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand travels with Prime Minister Mark Carney to India, a feature conversation with Anand on the reset of the Canada...
ChatGPT and the Tumbler Ridge shooter
This week OpenAI’s head of U.S. and Canada policy and partnerships Chan Park was hauled in front of a meeting with Canada’s AI minister Evan Solomon a...
Jason Kenney on Canadian immigration
Over the last week or so the debate over Canada’s immigration policy has come to the forefront.
In Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith...
Mexico in chaos after El Mencho killed
Mass violence broke out on Sunday in Mexico after a military raid killed the most wanted, and feared, cartel boss in the country — a man known as El M...
Olympic Hockey heartbreak and more
From two heartbreaking hockey losses to the fiery debate over whether the men’s gold medal curling team was cheating, Milano Cortina 2026 was a dramat...
Epstein fallout: ex-Prince Andrew arrested
On Thursday, former Prince Andrew was arrested by U.K. police.
After years of controversy, scandal and allegations of sexual assau...
Floor-crosser defects to surging Liberals
Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals welcomed a third Conservative floor crosser on Wednesday – Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux.
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The Rise of ‘Looksmaxxing’
Looksmaxxers are a community of young men dedicated to the pursuit of maximizing their physical appearance, often at great personal cost. Many are spe...
Will AI agents take over the workplace?
Last week, a 5000 word post on X with the headline “Something big is happening” went viral. It was written by Matt Shumer, the CEO of HyperWrite, an A...
The mother of all questions: do you want kids?
Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personall...
Cuba is pushed to the brink
Cuba has been facing rolling blackouts, food shortages, and rationed hospital resources after a month with no oil imports. The energy crisis has also...
Tragedy in Tumbler Ridge
A horrific mass shooting took place in the small community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Tuesday – one of the deadliest in Canadian history.
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The case to ban kids from social media, with Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt, best-selling author of “The Anxious Generation”, is our guest today. He’s been on a global mission to educate parents, the media, and...
Should Canada have nuclear weapons?
The final remaining agreement constraining U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons expired last week.
The New START treaty was establishe...
ICE, and lessons from Minnesota
Last week, Donald Trump’s border Czar Tom Homan announced a drawdown of ICE personnel in Minnesota, following weeks of chaos and two deadly incidents...
The Washington Post and billionaires’ assault on journalism
Today on the show we are going to discuss the complete gutting of the Washington Post, an American institution. The paper that broke Watergate. The pa...
What’s behind Trump’s latest Canada threats?
Last week the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a very public warning to Prime Minister Mark Carney. At the centre of that warning is the U...
Epstein’s orbit: will justice come?
Jeffrey Epstein’s vast connections with the rich and powerful, the world over, are on full display in the over 3 million files and documents released...
What happens in ICE detention?
Around 73 thousand people have been detained in ICE facilities across the United States over the past year. That’s a 75 per cent increase from right b...
Politics! Poilievre’s win, election speculation
Pierre Poilievre easily won his leadership review in Calgary on the weekend with 87.4% of the vote. Today, senior Parliamentary bureau writer Aaron Wh...
Leader or loser: Poilievre’s crucial vote
In just over a decade, the Conservative Party of Canada has lost four elections, picked three new leaders, and turned on two of them when they failed...
Trump 2.0’s Nazi-coded social feeds
Over the last few weeks, the Trump administration has explicitly or implicitly borrowed from the Nazi tradition on social media.
S...
Is MAGA weaponizing Alberta separatism?
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has weighed in on the separatism movement in Alberta. Bessent has said that the province is a “natural partner”...
Can NATO survive Trump?
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump set off a firestorm with comments dismissing the military contributions of fellow NATO members during the war i...
Stephen Miller: ICE’s ideologue-in-chief
Massive anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis intensified over the weekend, in the wake of the second fatal shooting of an American citizen involving feder...
What’s Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ really about?
Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ says it has a plan for the future of Gaza. Critics say that strategy is full of holes, and that the true intention of...
Carney and 'The Speech'
It was an eventful World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, with striking speeches by both the U.S. President and Canadian Prime Minister...
Is Europe ready for the Greenland fight?
In a provocative speech to the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney made the case that the rules of international economics and...
Mark Carney and the New World Order
Prime Minister Mark Carney is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, as the situation with Greenland continues to escalate.
Can ICE be restrained?
Anti-ICE protests continued throughout Minnesota over the weekend, as they have for nearly two weeks now. Since the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapo...