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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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Is Trump overseeing a new 'Red Scare'?
The Trump administration is increasingly conflating communism and the political left, casting them as threats to American national security.
The saga of the Gordie Howe bridge
Today, the Gordie Howe Bridge is set to officially open to the public, connecting Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan.
Its cere...
Canada's data centre boom, and backlash
As part of the federal government’s AI strategy, hyperscale data centres are being built across the country with many more projects being proposed. Bu...
Is Iran becoming a 'forever war'?
On Wednesday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to bomb one Iranian bridge or powerplant every time a ship passing through the Strait of...
Trump’s 50% tariff threat: why now?
On Monday night, US President Donald Trump signed orders to impose a 50 per cent tariff on a wide swath of Canadian goods ranging from hockey sticks t...
Canadian Conservative infighting goes public
It’s no secret that there are factions in the Conservative movement in Canada and that not everyone gets along. But over the last couple of weeks Cons...
Trump’s ‘big lie’ in prime-time
In a nationally televised address last week, U.S. President Donald Trump repeated claims about fraud and foreign interference in the 2020 election and...
The true toll of wildfire smoke
As the planet heats up, wildfire seasons are getting worse. Wildfires have caused mass destruction to homes and community infrastructure in Collins Fi...
Understanding the rise of ‘democratic socialism’
Recently, in the U.S., there’s been a wave of self described democratic socialists running for and winning elected office.
There i...
Can Hamas’ handover restart Gaza’s peace plan?
The Gaza peace plan and ceasefire, announced last October, is in limbo.
Israeli forces have continued their strikes and expanded c...
Lindsey Graham and the transformation of the GOP
Lindsey Graham, the U.S. Republican Senator from South Carolina, died on Sunday at 71. Before Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016, Grah...
Carney’s mission to turn Europe away from the U.S.
It’s no secret that Prime Minister Mark Carney thinks Canada should reduce its dependence on the U.S. It’s a message he delivered on the world stage i...
Mark Carney’s Saudi Arabia reboot
Mark Carney met with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia this week, aiming to strengthen ties and build up our economic relationship in a...
U.S. politics! Platner implosion, where’s McConnell?
The U.S. midterms are coming up this fall. They could flip control of the House and possibly the Senate. But both parties are dealing with difficult m...
What does it take to defend Canada’s Arctic?
This week, Prime Minister Carney is in Turkey to attend the NATO summit. Ahead of leaving for Ankara, he announced the procurement of 12 submarines fr...
How to read a manifesto
In the aftermath of an act of public violence, attention often turns to a document. Sometimes it’s a letter, a blog post, or a video, that gets referr...
Politics! Pipeline power move, renovating 24 Sussex
Aaron Wherry, senior writer at CBC's parliamentary bureau and good friend of the show, is here to parse through last week’s big pipeline announcement...
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 2
The Canadian defence industry can’t grow the way Prime Minister Mark Carney is proposing by just selling domestically. That’s why another aim of the D...
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 1
Mark Carney ran for office promising to spend a whole lot more on the Canadian military. Since being elected, he’s poured billions of dollars into def...
How extreme heat is changing Europe
This week, temperatures across much of Europe reached above 40 C. In parts of Spain and Portugal, it was hotter than the Sahara Desert.
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Why are prediction markets coming to Canada?
Investment company Wealthsimple is partnering with Kalshi to launch Wealthsimple Predict. It’s an app that’ll allow Canadians to place bets on things...
What’s fuelling residential school denialism?
A warning: this episode discusses the trauma and harms surrounding Canada's residential school history. Please listen with care.
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Solving the Nord Stream attack mystery
In the fall of 2022, Danish authorities scrambled fighter jets to investigate a strange disturbance in the Baltic Sea. What they found was extraordina...
Incel violence and the Montreal shooting
On Monday morning, a 25-year-old man opened fire in Montreal, leading to a shootout that left three people dead.
A few hours later...
Inside Iran as peace talks continue
Margaret Evans is CBC’s Senior International Correspondent. She just returned from a week-long reporting trip in Tehran, speaking to Iranians on the g...
Is the U.K. ungovernable?
After a weekend of speculation, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared on the steps of 10 Downing Street on Monday and announced that he would be s...
Liberals push through bills as Parliament wraps
It was a busy end to the season in the House of Commons. CBC Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton is here to talk about what happened, what i...
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...