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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.

Politics! Carney so far, Poilievre’s second chance

27 mins; July 03, 2025

The end of birthright citizenship?

30 mins; July 02, 2025

The repo man of the seas

50 mins; July 01, 2025

Encore: ex-Raptors President Masai Ujiri

29 mins; June 30, 2025

Canada’s energy minister on pipelines, Bill C-5 controversy

29 mins; June 27, 2025

The unanswered questions of the Iran strike

22 mins; June 26, 2025

Bubble trouble: Do protest bylaws silence dissent?

37 mins; June 25, 2025

The MAGA civil war over Iran

22 mins; June 24, 2025

Trump joins Israel's war in Iran

30 mins; June 23, 2025

In search of separatists in Alberta

50 mins; June 20, 2025

What exactly is ICE?

27 mins; June 19, 2025

Politics! Carney’s ’delete laws’ bill, G7 wraps

28 mins; June 18, 2025

Palantir’s big data, AI long game

32 mins; June 17, 2025

Israel-Iran strikes: What comes next?

33 mins; June 16, 2025

Can the G7 find order in the chaos?

25 mins; June 13, 2025

What’s behind Mark Carney’s military splurge?

25 mins; June 12, 2025

Wildfires rage across Canada

26 mins; June 11, 2025

Battleground L.A.: Fighting Trump’s ICE crackdown

25 mins; June 10, 2025

Trump and Elon’s messy breakup

28 mins; June 09, 2025

Weekend Listen: How will Canadian film and TV change if streamers don't pay into it?

40 mins; June 07, 2025

Cheap and deadly: How drones are reshaping war

22 mins; June 06, 2025

Politics! Border bill blowback and 'Santa' Carney

29 mins; June 05, 2025

Real estate, crypto, Middle East deals: Who is Steve Witkoff?

28 mins; June 04, 2025

When hunger is a weapon

40 mins; June 03, 2025

U.S. Politics! Elon’s out, tariffs in court, and Trump vs. Harvard

27 mins; June 02, 2025

AI cheating runs wild on campus

24 mins; May 30, 2025

Will laws apply in Ontario’s ‘special economic zones’?

23 mins; May 29, 2025

A royal visit and a high-stakes political moment

24 mins; May 28, 2025

The ‘cover-up’ of Joe Biden’s decline

30 mins; May 27, 2025

Is Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ more fantasy than reality?

27 mins; May 26, 2025

George Floyd’s murder, what’s changed in five years?

28 mins; May 23, 2025

Diddy on trial

34 mins; May 22, 2025

Trump, Hitler and how democracies die

32 mins; May 21, 2025

Is Alberta headed towards a separation vote?

29 mins; May 20, 2025

The internet sucks now, and it happened on purpose

38 mins; May 19, 2025

Canada has a measles problem

28 mins; May 16, 2025

The latest in the hockey sex assault trial

25 mins; May 15, 2025

Politics! Carney’s new team, recount conspiracies

26 mins; May 14, 2025

Trump sidelines Israel, Gaza expansion looms

28 mins; May 13, 2025

Where does Trump’s trade war go next?

23 mins; May 12, 2025

Dozens dead as India and Pakistan clash

23 mins; May 09, 2025

Pope watch: who's next up?

27 mins; May 08, 2025

Mark Carney goes to Washington

23 mins; May 07, 2025

Amnesty International chief on the fight for human rights

42 mins; May 06, 2025

How 100 days of Trump is changing America

29 mins; May 05, 2025

Are you worried about U.S. travel?

24 mins; May 02, 2025

Where does Pierre Poilievre go from here?

27 mins; May 01, 2025

Mark Carney's next challenge: minority rule

22 mins; April 30, 2025

Mark Carney wins, a country divided

31 mins; April 28, 2025

The road to election day

33 mins; April 28, 2025

Weekend listen: Power & Politics’ campaign wrap

41 mins; April 26, 2025

Cuts, spending, spin: The economics of party platforms

27 mins; April 25, 2025

The politics of the toxic drug crisis

35 mins; April 24, 2025

How different are the party platforms?

34 mins; April 23, 2025

The legacy of Pope Francis

22 mins; April 22, 2025

Do drugs belong in therapy?

40 mins; April 21, 2025

Recapping the high-stakes leaders' debate

29 mins; April 18, 2025

A pre-debate state of the race

25 mins; April 17, 2025

When China and the U.S. fight, who wins?

41 mins; April 16, 2025

The Conservative kingmaker behind Poilievre

28 mins; April 15, 2025

Election! Rallies, reporters, and tax havens

31 mins; April 14, 2025

Weekend Listen: The deadliest attack you’ve forgotten. The investigation you never heard.

37 mins; April 12, 2025

What did Trump just do to the economy?

25 mins; April 11, 2025

The last time the U.S. tariffed the world

23 mins; April 10, 2025

Jason Kenney’s case for a Conservative government

35 mins; April 09, 2025

Election reignites pipeline politics

27 mins; April 08, 2025

Trump’s global market meltdown, explained

25 mins; April 07, 2025

Weekend Listen: Exposing the truth by living a lie

32 mins; April 05, 2025

Election! Fallout from Trump’s trade bomb

29 mins; April 04, 2025

Trump's trade war goes global

29 mins; April 03, 2025

Yale fascism expert on fleeing to Canada

30 mins; April 02, 2025

Is the NDP about to get wiped out?

27 mins; April 01, 2025

Election! Trump and Carney talk, Conservative 'civil war'

27 mins; March 31, 2025

Elon and the Tesla backlash

23 mins; March 28, 2025

Election! Foreign meddling, Poilievre's premier problems

35 mins; March 27, 2025

‘Professors are the enemy’: Trump’s war on higher education

34 mins; March 26, 2025

Pierre Poilievre’s Donald Trump problem

29 mins; March 25, 2025

An election in a polluted media environment

28 mins; March 24, 2025

What is this new Canadian patriotism?

27 mins; March 21, 2025

Errol Morris on Charles Manson, mind control and the CIA

26 mins; March 20, 2025

Trump’s expanding immigration dragnet

28 mins; March 19, 2025

Nobel winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Trump, tariffs and democracy

32 mins; March 18, 2025

Mark Carney’s first days as PM

23 mins; March 17, 2025

Omar El Akkad on Gaza, and 'breaking up' with the West

26 mins; March 14, 2025

Burner phone! A trade war call-in special

39 mins; March 13, 2025

Canada vs the ‘most hated guy on Wall Street’

26 mins; March 12, 2025

Trade war: The view from Mexico

24 mins; March 11, 2025

Liberals enter the Mark Carney era

21 mins; March 10, 2025

What happened to ‘The Resistance’?

32 mins; March 07, 2025

Is Canadian energy our tariff war trump card?

24 mins; March 06, 2025

The tariff trade war escalates

32 mins; March 05, 2025

An obituary for the post-war order

29 mins; March 04, 2025

Is Canada's Arctic sovereignty in danger?

23 mins; March 03, 2025

Weekend Listen: He owes his life to a lie, now will anyone believe what he calls the truth?

34 mins; March 01, 2025

The big problem of 'car bloat'

21 mins; February 28, 2025

Trump, apartheid and the PayPal mafia?

33 mins; February 27, 2025

Is Mark Carney ready for the real fight ahead?

24 mins; February 26, 2025

Ukraine and Europe: A pivotal moment

28 mins; February 25, 2025

Ontario votes amidst tariff crisis

27 mins; February 24, 2025

Is flying getting more dangerous?

26 mins; February 21, 2025

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