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.
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Has NATO outlived its purpose?
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Preparing for ‘war’: the Alberta blockade trial so far
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Grappling with Alice Munro’s dark family secret
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Canada vs. Messi, Argentina
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Where does Joe Biden go from here?
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President as ‘king’, and other giant Supreme Court cases
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Why is France’s far right surging toward power?
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A massive collapse and the troubling history of Yukon mining
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Years after burning down, why hasn’t Lytton rebuilt?
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Front Burner Introduces: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam
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Stumbles, mumbles, smears: a U.S. presidential debate recap
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What Charlottetown’s immigration boom can teach Canada
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A Liberal stronghold falls. Is Trudeau next?
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Why did Canada list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists?
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The Oilers’ historic Stanley Cup final comeback
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Are Canadian cities crumbling?
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The ‘pronatalists’ trying to engineer a baby boom
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Why you can’t buy a cheap Chinese electric car
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War grinds on in Ukraine. Is peace possible?
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What's behind massive anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel?
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The “brain school” that experimented on Indigenous children
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Céline Dion’s struggle with stiff-person syndrome
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Two Jewish parents on recent school attacks
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Grift, Disinfo, Fraud? What happened at The Epoch Times?
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Are there ‘traitors’ in Canada’s parliament?
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Life's tough. Will the interest rate cut help?
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The battle over Vancouver’s legal tent camp
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Will the Liberals dump Trudeau?
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George Floyd’s legacy of racial progress — and backlash
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Is Doug Ford’s $225M booze plan worth it?
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Donald Trump is a convicted felon
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When Israel investigates itself, what happens?
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Is Canada's economy working hard, or hardly working?
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For Humboldt trucker, what punishment is enough?
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How did a Mormon town grab first dibs on Alberta water?
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Election season in the UK, again
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Inside Haiti's capital, ripped apart by gangs
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Was Red Lobster's fall caused by more than endless shrimp?
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ICC prosecutor wants Netanyahu, Hamas leaders arrested
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Lessons for Canada from Europe’s housing fails
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Front Burner Presents: Modi's India, Episode 1
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Can you have a 'real' relationship with an AI?
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Politics! Taxing the rich, birth control and hybrid work
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The WNBA enters its Caitlin Clark era
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Eurovision’s charged political history
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Israel rejects ceasefire deal, pushes into Gaza’s last refuge
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Think you’re too smart to be scammed? Think again.
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Is lobbying corrupting Canadian governments?
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Is India hiring gangs to kill political enemies in Canada?
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At the McGill encampment: Calls to divest from Israel
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