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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)

Weekend Listen: What are drugs teaching us about what it means to be human?

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Jan 18, 202540:58pending

Politics! Mark Carney’s running, tariff fight gets messy

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Jan 17, 202524:13pending

What’s behind the Israel-Hamas ceasefire?

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Jan 16, 202520:48pending

Lessons from the Los Angeles wildfires

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Jan 15, 202525:00pending

Donald Trump’s billionaire administration

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Jan 14, 202524:43pending

The Liberal leadership contenders’ uphill battle

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Jan 13, 202522:14pending

President Joe Biden’s Final Days in office

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Jan 10, 202527:28pending

Donald Trump threatens to annex Canada

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Jan 9, 202523:39pending

Grappling with Trudeau’s political legacy

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Jan 8, 202531:02pending

Trudeau resigns. What’s next for the Liberals?

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Jan 7, 202524:49pending

Is Justin Trudeau about to resign?

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Jan 6, 202523:41pending

Encore: Is high finance killing Hollywood?

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Jan 3, 202522:39pending

Encore: The ‘trad wives’ glamorizing life at home

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Jan 2, 202524:41pending

Front Burner Presents Céline: Understood, Episode 4

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Jan 1, 202533:21pending

Encore: How Murray Sinclair changed Canada

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Dec 31, 202429:09pending

Encore: Canada’s millennial ‘Jackpot Generation’

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Dec 30, 202420:48pending

Encore: Inside controversial Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’

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Dec 27, 202428:24pending

Front Burner Presents Céline: Understood, Episode 3

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Dec 26, 202431:41pending

Front Burner Presents Céline: Understood, Episode 2

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Dec 25, 202431:13pending

Polymarket and the rise of political betting

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Dec 24, 202417:44pending

What's Trump's place in conservative history?

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Dec 23, 202432:24pending

Trump, fascism and a warning from the past

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Dec 20, 202423:17pending

Trudeau troubles: embattled at home, mocked abroad

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Dec 19, 202427:49pending

Is Israel committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza?

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Dec 18, 202441:28pending

Can Trudeau survive Freeland’s resignation?

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Dec 17, 202423:53pending

Is Canada Post doomed?

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Dec 16, 202420:45pending

Are we in an economic 'vibe-cession'?

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Dec 13, 202419:44pending

How Trump is fueling a crypto boom

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Dec 12, 202426:00pending

Can Bluesky take out X, aka Twitter?

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Dec 11, 202419:21pending

The end of the Assad regime in Syria

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Dec 10, 202426:51pending

‘Deny’ ‘Delay’ and a health CEO’s murder

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Dec 9, 202428:03pending

Drake vs Kendrick and the music industry

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Dec 6, 202426:50pending

Politics! Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago, GST holiday

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Dec 5, 202423:16pending

Who are the fighters reigniting Syria’s civil war?

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Dec 4, 202424:33pending

The crisis facing Canada's colleges and universities

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Dec 3, 202424:22pending

Canadian encrypted phones, a mass hack, and 10 thousand arrests

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Dec 2, 202424:54pending

Weekend Listen: An attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring h...

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Nov 30, 202417:23pending

Could the Menendez brothers soon be free?

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Nov 29, 202430:17pending

Will Trump's tariffs crush Canada?

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Nov 28, 202420:20pending

The case against Google

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Nov 27, 202424:52pending

Trump and the strongman feedback loop

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Nov 26, 202424:59pending

Anti-vax update as Canadian measles surges

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Nov 25, 202425:35pending

Weekend Listen: What happened to Christine Harron?

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Nov 23, 202435:51pending

Politics, Gaza and money collide at The Giller Prize

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Nov 22, 202428:31pending

Long-range missiles, nuclear fears in Ukraine

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Nov 21, 202424:37pending

Work sucks. Where are the unions?

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Nov 20, 202425:48pending

UN Palestinian rapporteur Francesca Albanese

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Nov 19, 202443:23pending

Trump’s day one: mass deportations?

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Nov 18, 202424:34pending

Weekend Listen: How bad results can upend lives

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Nov 16, 202435:34pending

The Billion Dollar Influencer Economy

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Nov 15, 202428:58pending
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