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Front Burner

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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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Episodes (2050)

Worldcoin’s utopian aims, dystopian fears

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Aug 9, 202324:33pending

Anti-LGBTQ backlash spurs debate in Canada’s Muslim community

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Aug 8, 202320:34pending

Front Burner Introduces: Stuff The British Stole | Season 3

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Aug 7, 202342:13pending

How Shohei Ohtani is changing Major League Baseball

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Aug 4, 202323:39pending

Congress, aliens and the search for E.T.

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Aug 3, 202322:31pending

What’s driving polarization in Canadian politics?

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Aug 2, 202325:17pending

Where did Ron DeSantis’ campaign go wrong?

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Aug 1, 202326:47pending

TikTok is coming for books, music and e-commerce

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Jul 31, 202330:32pending

Supreme Court changes ‘tear the fabric’ of Israel

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Jul 28, 202323:01pending

A major shakeup in Ottawa, but why?

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Jul 27, 202323:26pending

MDMA: from ‘club drug’ to the doctor's office

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Jul 26, 202331:40pending

Voices from inside Toronto’s refugee crisis

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Jul 25, 202325:44pending

‘The Heat Will Kill You First’

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Jul 24, 202325:35pending

Jason Aldean and country music’s culture war

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Jul 21, 202324:02pending

Conspiracy campaign: RFK’s presidential bid

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Jul 20, 202324:16pending

Forever chemicals are in Canadians’ air, water and blood

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Jul 19, 202324:49pending

Actors, writers shut down Hollywood

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Jul 18, 202331:48pending

Canada: the Anthropocene’s ground zero?

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Jul 17, 202322:21pending

Weekend Listen: 10 Minutes to Save the Planet

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Jul 15, 202312:09pending

A landfill blockade and demands to find Indigenous women’s remains

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Jul 14, 202326:43pending

Has the Bank of Canada gone too far?

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Jul 13, 202323:55pending

Jonah Hill and the rise of “therapy speak”

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Jul 12, 202320:23pending

Will Threads be the Twitter killer?

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Jul 11, 202324:30pending

Nuclear power in an unstable world

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Jul 10, 202325:35pending

Remembering Sex Ed legend Sue Johanson

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Jul 7, 202330:56pending

‘The Drugs Store,’ safe supply, and its backlash

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Jul 6, 202324:32pending

Did the Wagner mutiny weaken Vladimir Putin?

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Jul 5, 202322:34pending

Google, Meta to block news in Canada

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Jul 4, 202327:13pending

Front Burner Introduces: CBC Marketplace

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Jul 3, 202327:47pending

Sex, music and cringe – HBO’s The Idol

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Jun 30, 202326:29pending

Political revolt amid LGBTQ changes in New Brunswick

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Jun 29, 202324:33pending

Enduring the Wrap: “I was left broken.”

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Jun 28, 202324:37pending

What's behind the murder of a Sikh leader in B.C.?

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Jun 27, 202322:17pending

What just happened in Russia?

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Jun 26, 202326:55pending

Weekend Listen: The Banned Teacher

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Jun 24, 202330:18pending

Can a new mayor fix Toronto’s problems?

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Jun 23, 202324:15pending

Five men, a tiny sub and a massive search

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Jun 22, 202324:28pending

Boycotts, threats and the limits of corporate ‘Pride’

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Jun 21, 202325:07pending

The political fallout from Paul Bernardo’s prison transfer

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Jun 20, 202322:42pending

Why the internet is getting worse

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Jun 19, 202327:59pending

The Beatles and the future of AI music

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Jun 16, 202329:10pending

Money, sex, and populism: The life of Silvio Berlusconi

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Jun 15, 202326:29pending

Donald Trump pleads not guilty, again

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Jun 14, 202326:39pending

As wildfires burn, climate debate stagnates

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Jun 13, 202324:58pending

On the front line of mass migration out of Sudan

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Jun 12, 202324:17pending

Front Burner Introduces: The Dose - How does drinking coffee affect my health?

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Jun 10, 202325:40pending

Politics roundup: David Johnston, budget tactics and byelections

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Jun 9, 202325:13pending

Binance and its Canadian CEO sued in major crypto case

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Jun 8, 202323:44pending

Why some tenants are going on ‘rent strikes’

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Jun 7, 202324:19pending

As fires rage, Canada urged to get on ‘war footing’

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Jun 6, 202325:12pending
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