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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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Carney’s mission to turn Europe away from the U.S.
It’s no secret that Prime Minister Mark Carney thinks Canada should reduce its dependence on the U.S. It’s a message he delivered on the world stage i...
Mark Carney’s Saudi Arabia reboot
Mark Carney met with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia this week, aiming to strengthen ties and build up our economic relationship in a...
U.S. politics! Platner implosion, where’s McConnell?
The U.S. midterms are coming up this fall. They could flip control of the House and possibly the Senate. But both parties are dealing with difficult m...
What does it take to defend Canada’s Arctic?
This week, Prime Minister Carney is in Turkey to attend the NATO summit. Ahead of leaving for Ankara, he announced the procurement of 12 submarines fr...
How to read a manifesto
In the aftermath of an act of public violence, attention often turns to a document. Sometimes it’s a letter, a blog post, or a video, that gets referr...
Politics! Pipeline power move, renovating 24 Sussex
Aaron Wherry, senior writer at CBC's parliamentary bureau and good friend of the show, is here to parse through last week’s big pipeline announcement...
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 2
The Canadian defence industry can’t grow the way Prime Minister Mark Carney is proposing by just selling domestically. That’s why another aim of the D...
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 1
Mark Carney ran for office promising to spend a whole lot more on the Canadian military. Since being elected, he’s poured billions of dollars into def...
How extreme heat is changing Europe
This week, temperatures across much of Europe reached above 40 C. In parts of Spain and Portugal, it was hotter than the Sahara Desert.
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Why are prediction markets coming to Canada?
Investment company Wealthsimple is partnering with Kalshi to launch Wealthsimple Predict. It’s an app that’ll allow Canadians to place bets on things...
What’s fuelling residential school denialism?
A warning: this episode discusses the trauma and harms surrounding Canada's residential school history. Please listen with care.
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Solving the Nord Stream attack mystery
In the fall of 2022, Danish authorities scrambled fighter jets to investigate a strange disturbance in the Baltic Sea. What they found was extraordina...
Incel violence and the Montreal shooting
On Monday morning, a 25-year-old man opened fire in Montreal, leading to a shootout that left three people dead.
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Inside Iran as peace talks continue
Margaret Evans is CBC’s Senior International Correspondent. She just returned from a week-long reporting trip in Tehran, speaking to Iranians on the g...
Is the U.K. ungovernable?
After a weekend of speculation, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared on the steps of 10 Downing Street on Monday and announced that he would be s...
Liberals push through bills as Parliament wraps
It was a busy end to the season in the House of Commons. CBC Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton is here to talk about what happened, what i...
Alleged gun-for-hire network behind consulate, synagogue shootings
Toronto police announced this week that nearly 30 recent shootings across the Greater Toronto Area are linked by a multi-layered gun-for-hire network....
How Andrew Tate made abuse a business
Andrew Tate – the controversial British-American influencer, and self-described misogynist – has millions of followers around the world.
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Inside Ukraine’s kill zone
Reporter Francis Farrell of the Kyiv Independent recently took a harrowing journey alongside a group of Ukrainian soldiers into what they describe as...
A changed Iran emerges from war
This week, after more than a hundred days of fighting, the United States and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to end the war, set to be signe...
For Albertan separatists, is Quebec a model or a warning?
A common refrain among those who support Albertan separatism is that they would like a deal similar to what Quebec earned through its decades-long fig...
Bill Gates’ Epstein connections
For decades Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates built a public persona as an unrelenting, tech visionary – and later as a global health and climate philan...
Ottawa threatens big tech with kids’ social media ban
Canada has introduced new legislation that puts big tech social platforms on notice: change your platforms to make them safer for kids, or children un...
The world’s game: politics and the World Cup
Even before a game has been played, this year’s World Cup has been the source of controversy. Officials and staff from countries like Iraq, Iran and S...
A who’s who in Alberta’s separatist fight
As Alberta hurtles towards a referendum on whether or not to hold a separation referendum, we wanted to take a look at how the campaigns on both sides...
The backlash against AIPAC
For decades, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, better known as AIPAC, has been one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Washingt...
Weekend Listen: Hunting the Suicide Salesman
Following the critically acclaimed series Hunting Warhead, Season 2: Hunting the Suicide Salesman follows host Daemon Fairless as he takes us inside a...
Minister defends Canada’s new AI strategy
Canada has released its long-awaited national artificial intelligence strategy. It comes as a significant portion of the country feels uneasy about wh...
Can Canada avoid a deepening recession?
Canada has entered a “technical recession,” leading to fingerpointing in the House of Commons and Donald Trump renewing his calls to make Canada the 5...
Wab Kinew takes on separatism and big-tech
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is planting his federalist flag, wading into the Alberta separatism debate and making the case for a major new nation build...
How the UFC became a stage for Trump
At Donald Trump’s election victory event in 2024, he was flanked on stage by a collection of family, senior staff, and Ultimate Fighting Championship...
Does a ‘peace deal’ fuel Middle Eastern war?
Negotiations for an end to the war in Iran took a baffling turn last Monday when U.S. President Donlad Trump declared via social media that he would b...
Weekend Listen: Artificial Intimacy
What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones with the he...
Politics! Surveillance backlash, separatism drama
CBC parliamentary reporters Aaron Wherry and Catharine Tunney are back to talk about the big political stories of the week including: Prime Minister M...
Trump and the politics of corruption
There’s an old adage from the days of the Watergate scandal: “follow the money.” And in Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States,...
Alberta’s referendum on a referendum
Western Premiers gathered in Kananskis, Alberta this week to discuss shared issues like trade, defense and energy projects. But another topic overshad...
Why aren’t Canada and the U.S. officially talking trade?
As we inch closer to the July 1st CUSMA review deadline, there still aren’t any formal trade talks between Canada and the U.S. planned. The government...
Will the U.S. invade Cuba?
In a major escalation of its months long “maximum pressure” campaign, the United States announced it has indicted Raúl Castro, former president of Cub...
Canada and the politics of Gaza flotillas
Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned what he described as the “abominable treatment” of flotilla activists detained by Israeli authorities.
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Israel’s open nuclear secret
Earlier this month, 30 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the Trump administration with a remarkable request: to publicly acknowledge that Israel h...