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.
If AI is a bubble, what happens when it pops?
22 mins; November 17, 2025
Canada's complicated 'situationship' with the U.S. (FB Exclusive)
30 mins; November 15, 2025
Why the Epstein emails go way beyond Trump
24 mins; November 14, 2025
Poilievre tries to turn the page
26 mins; November 13, 2025
The former PM and the pop star
34 mins; November 12, 2025
Nick Fuentes and the mainstreaming of neo-Nazism
26 mins; November 11, 2025
Is Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in trouble?
22 mins; November 10, 2025
FB Exclusive: Trump's re-election, one year later
30 mins; November 08, 2025
How Orwell’s words became our reality
27 mins; November 07, 2025
A big Mamdani win, a big Dem identity crisis
33 mins; November 06, 2025
Carney’s budget: generational or generic?
26 mins; November 05, 2025
What’s fueling the war in Sudan?
26 mins; November 04, 2025
Mark Carney’s high-stakes first budget
27 mins; November 03, 2025
Is Alberta headed for a general strike?
27 mins; October 31, 2025
What did Reagan really believe about tariffs?
33 mins; October 30, 2025
In Asia, Canada hopes to fill a Trump-sized void
29 mins; October 29, 2025
How Canadian charities fund illegal West Bank settlements
32 mins; October 28, 2025
Can Canada’s auto industry survive Trump?
24 mins; October 27, 2025
Blue Jays bandwagon 101
29 mins; October 24, 2025
Is the FBI’s secret war on American activists back?
23 mins; October 23, 2025
Politics! Poilievre calls out RCMP, auto woes
23 mins; October 22, 2025
Trump's campaign of legal revenge
26 mins; October 21, 2025
The precarity of Gaza’s ceasefire
18 mins; October 20, 2025
Who gets to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
26 mins; October 17, 2025
CBC President Marie-Philippe Bouchard
30 mins; October 16, 2025
Marineland’s scandalous decline
23 mins; October 15, 2025
Canada’s bet on an AI boom
27 mins; October 14, 2025
Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 1
39 mins; October 13, 2025
Portraits of childhood in Gaza
31 mins; October 10, 2025
Inside the shadow war in Ukraine
21 mins; October 09, 2025
What exactly is Antifa?
33 mins; October 08, 2025
Can Trump’s peace plan help end the war in Gaza?
26 mins; October 07, 2025
Politics! Carney meets Trump again, Smith pitches a pipeline
25 mins; October 06, 2025
Weekend Listen: Death, sex, money … and podcasting? (via Bookends)
37 mins; October 04, 2025
Trump, and the alarm bells of fascism
31 mins; October 03, 2025
U.S. politics! Government shutdown, military pep talk
27 mins; October 02, 2025
Will recognition lead to a Palestinian state?
25 mins; October 01, 2025
How the world abandoned climate politics
27 mins; September 30, 2025
Who can rebuild the NDP?
32 mins; September 29, 2025
The secret to China’s dominance
28 mins; September 26, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel, free speech and big money media
30 mins; September 25, 2025
Autism and Tylenol: what the science says
27 mins; September 24, 2025
Robert Munsch’s decision to die
27 mins; September 23, 2025
Danielle Smith on Carney, Kirk and pipelines
29 mins; September 22, 2025
The era of meme shooters is here
29 mins; September 19, 2025
Politics! Farewell Freeland, hello mega-projects
25 mins; September 18, 2025
Can Canada’s housing minister make homes cheaper?
28 mins; September 17, 2025
The return of political violence
31 mins; September 16, 2025
Donald Trump’s war on drug cartels
26 mins; September 15, 2025
Fear, fury and Charlie Kirk’s killing
28 mins; September 12, 2025
Will Trump declare ‘war’ on Chicago?
30 mins; September 11, 2025
Politics! Carney government ramps up
23 mins; September 10, 2025
Does Canada have a violent crime problem?
29 mins; September 09, 2025
Is it over for Quebec’s Francois Legault?
23 mins; September 08, 2025
‘Queen of Canada’ cult leader arrested
32 mins; September 05, 2025
The Alberta book ban saga
26 mins; September 04, 2025
What UNICEF saw in Gaza
38 mins; September 03, 2025
Brazil stares down Trump and Bolsonaro
26 mins; September 02, 2025
The threat next door: How NATO’s newest members are preparing to defend against Russia (via The House)
46 mins; August 31, 2025
Is the International Criminal Court’s future in peril?
28 mins; August 29, 2025
Trump, the Smithsonian, and the battle over U.S. history
