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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)

The human toll of Trump's war on aid

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Alberta’s very interesting year

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Why is the U.K. rethinking puberty blockers?

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Dec 16, 202528:15pending

Hanukkah event shooting // Liberal majority watch

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Dec 15, 202538:37pending

Is Trump’s MAGA movement in trouble? (FB Exclusive)

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Dec 13, 202523:12pending

Trump's vision for a new world order

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Dec 12, 202526:22pending

Should everybody be taking Ozempic?

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Dec 11, 202525:43pending

The politics of the Warner Bros. bidding war

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Dec 10, 202523:12pending

The 'compassion club' fighting Canada's drug laws

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Dec 9, 202527:57pending

U.S. Politics! Pentagon scandals, ICE targets Somalis

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Dec 8, 202527:36pending

Mark Carney: climate friend or foe?

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Dec 5, 202530:56pending

Will Trump's tariffs survive the Supreme Court?

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Dec 4, 202530:22pending

National Guard shooting and the CIA’s secret Afghan army

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Dec 3, 202523:26pending

Should universities have opinions?

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Dec 2, 202521:12pending

Will the U.S. invade Venezuela?

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Dec 1, 202529:41pending

Ukraine peace plan,or Russian ‘wish list’?

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Nov 28, 202526:18pending

In Chad, inside camps for Sudan’s refugees

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Nov 27, 202530:58pending

Hatchet buried? The politics of an Alberta energy deal

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Nov 26, 202523:36pending

Gunshots, arson, threats: B.C.’s extortion crisis

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Nov 25, 202531:37pending

The hunt for alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding

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Nov 24, 202522:01pending

Is the notwithstanding clause bad for democracy?

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Nov 21, 202528:40pending

The ‘sniper tourists’ of Sarajevo

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Nov 20, 202531:38pending

Did Carney just pass a Progressive Conservative budget?

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Nov 19, 202523:30pending

A hinge point for human rights

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Nov 18, 202526:16pending

If AI is a bubble, what happens when it pops?

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Nov 17, 202522:26pending

Canada's complicated 'situationship' with the U.S. (FB Exclusive)

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Nov 15, 202530:46pending

Why the Epstein emails go way beyond Trump

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Nov 14, 202524:10pending

Poilievre tries to turn the page

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Nov 13, 202526:17pending

The former PM and the pop star

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Nov 12, 202534:57pending

Nick Fuentes and the mainstreaming of neo-Nazism

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Nov 11, 202526:54pending

Is Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in trouble?

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Nov 10, 202522:58pending

Trump's re-election, one year later (FB Exclusive)

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Nov 8, 202530:22pending

How Orwell’s words became our reality

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Nov 7, 202527:26pending

A big Mamdani win, a big Dem identity crisis

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Nov 6, 202533:14pending

Carney’s budget: generational or generic?

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Nov 5, 202526:40pending

What’s fuelling the war in Sudan?

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Nov 4, 202526:28pending

Mark Carney’s high-stakes first budget

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Nov 3, 202527:09pending

Is Alberta headed for a general strike?

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Oct 31, 202527:09pending

What did Reagan really believe about tariffs?

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Oct 30, 202533:34pending

In Asia, Canada hopes to fill a Trump-sized void

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Oct 29, 202529:38pending

How Canadian charities fund illegal West Bank settlements

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Oct 28, 202532:06pending

Can Canada’s auto industry survive Trump?

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Oct 27, 202524:28pending

Blue Jays bandwagon 101

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Oct 24, 202529:23pending

Is the FBI’s secret war on American activists back?

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Oct 23, 202523:34pending

Politics! Poilievre calls out RCMP, auto woes

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Oct 22, 202523:10pending

Trump's campaign of legal revenge

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Oct 21, 202526:33pending

The precarity of Gaza’s ceasefire

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Oct 20, 202518:56pending

Who gets to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Oct 17, 202526:44pending

CBC President Marie-Philippe Bouchard

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Oct 16, 202530:55pending

Marineland’s scandalous decline

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Oct 15, 202523:45pending
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