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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 Alberta headed for a general strike?
Earlier this week Danielle Smith’s UCP government forced teachers back to work after a a three week strike using the notwithstanding clause. This prev...
What did Reagan really believe about tariffs?
Why has U.S. President Donald Trump suspended trade talks with Canada? Why did the U.S. ambassador to Canada level an expletive-laced tirade at Ontari...
In Asia, Canada hopes to fill a Trump-sized void
As Donald Trump ends trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Asia this week, meeting with leaders, and pitching Canada as a reliable...
How Canadian charities fund illegal West Bank settlements
Since the 1960s, Israel has been building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank — settlements deemed illegal under intern...
Can Canada’s auto industry survive Trump?
After an anti-tariff ad commissioned by the Ontario government ran during the World Series, U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the plug on negotiation...
Blue Jays bandwagon 101
In the years since their consecutive World Series wins in the early ‘90s, the Toronto Blue Jays have had their ups, downs and bat flips. And heading i...
Is the FBI’s secret war on American activists back?
Through the 1960s, the U.S. government waged a war on Black activism, and activism writ large. It was led by the FBI and its longtime director, J. Edg...
Politics! Poilievre calls out RCMP, auto woes
Stephen Maher, a longtime federal politics reporter, is here to talk about Pierre Poilievre’s recent comments that the RCMP covered up for Justin Trud...
Trump's campaign of legal revenge
Former FBI James Comey. Former national security advisor John Bolton. New York attorney general Letitia James. What do they have in common? All are no...
The precarity of Gaza’s ceasefire
Over the last 10 days Israel and Hamas have observed a ceasefire that saw the return of hostages and prisoners to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank as we...
Who gets to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado.
In the announcement last week,...
CBC President Marie-Philippe Bouchard
Marie-Philippe Bouchard has been in her role as President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada for a little under a year.
Since her appoint...
Marineland’s scandalous decline
At its peak, Marineland was the second most popular tourist destination in Ontario’s Niagara region after the falls. Visitors could get up close and p...
Canada’s bet on an AI boom
Canada's first ever minister of artificial intelligence, Evan Solomon, is spearheading what he's calling a "30-day sprint" to nail down Canada's AI st...
Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 1
Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues we return to his sheltered youth in apartheid South Africa, a world engineered for whit...
Portraits of childhood in Gaza
Today, if all goes well, a ceasefire will begin in Gaza.
In phase one, Hamas has pledged to return all of the hostages, living and...
Inside the shadow war in Ukraine
Beyond the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, a shadow war between the Kremlin and Kyiv is escalating -- with covert assassinations, car bombs, civilia...
What exactly is Antifa?
The term ‘Antifa’ derives from the German word for Antifascist — and the constellation of resistance movements largely created as a response to Benito...
Can Trump’s peace plan help end the war in Gaza?
Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel in Egypt are underway, with the goal of reaching an agreement on the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trum...
Politics! Carney meets Trump again, Smith pitches a pipeline
Aaron Wherry, senior writer at CBC's parliamentary bureau, is back today to talk Canadian politics.
We get into Mark Carney’s upco...
Weekend Listen: Death, sex, money … and podcasting? (via Bookends)
When the book ends, the conversation begins. On Bookends, Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and o...
Trump, and the alarm bells of fascism
After Donald Trump was elected for a second time, historian Timothy Snyder wrote this in the New Yorker: “Trump has always been a presence, not an abs...
U.S. politics! Government shutdown, military pep talk
The U.S. government has shut down after Republicans and Democrats failed to pass a spending bill before the end of Tuesday. Government services will g...
Will recognition lead to a Palestinian state?
Last week, Canada officially recognized Palestinian statehood.
In explaining this decision, Prime Minister Mark Carney released a statement whi...
How the world abandoned climate politics
While Donald Trump may have shocked many at the UN General Assembly when he called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”...
Who can rebuild the NDP?
It’s been about a month since the NDP leadership race began and two main contenders have emerged: longtime climate activist and former broadcaster Avi...
The secret to China’s dominance
Dan Wang is a tech analyst and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab. He’s one of the leading China analysts in the world righ...
Jimmy Kimmel, free speech and big money media
After a brief suspension for comments he made in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, Jimmy Kimmel has made his return to late night.
Autism and Tylenol: what the science says
Health professionals around the world are disputing the Trump administration’s claims about autism and its potential causes. U.S. Secretary of Health...
Robert Munsch’s decision to die
Beloved children’s author Robert Munsch has chosen medically assisted death. Canada is one of the few places in the world where MAID is legal for pati...
Danielle Smith on Carney, Kirk and pipelines
Today, a wide-ranging interview with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
She talks to host Jayme Poisson about Alberta’s future in lig...
The era of meme shooters is here
Memes have been written on weapons, quoted in manifestos, and cited by young attackers as the inspiration for acts of mass violence. It's a phenomenon...
Politics! Farewell Freeland, hello mega-projects
For the first time since June, MPs returned to the House of Commons to decide the path of Canada’s future. And just a few days into the fall session,...
Can Canada’s housing minister make homes cheaper?
The Liberal government has launched its $13-billion agency called “Build Canada Homes” which Prime Minister Mark Carney says will supercharge housing...
The return of political violence
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk we're joined by Bruce Hoffman, a Senior Fellow for counter terrorism and homeland security at the Council...
Donald Trump’s war on drug cartels
Donald Trump has declared a war on drug cartels. He’s wielded the flow of narcotics, namely fentanyl, into the U.S. as one of the major reasons behind...
Fear, fury and Charlie Kirk’s killing
American conservative media figure and activist Charlie Kirk was one of the most prominent young voices of the American right. The founder of Turning...
Will Trump declare ‘war’ on Chicago?
As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal forces into Chicago — a city he’s referred to as the ‘murder capital’ of the world — we have a loo...
Politics! Carney government ramps up
This coming Monday, MPs return to Ottawa for Parliament’s fall session, with the health of Canada’s economy front and centre.
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Does Canada have a violent crime problem?
Over the last few weeks, horrific crimes have dominated headlines across the country.
There was a father of four who was killed af...