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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! India-Canada dispute escalates, Liberal caucus revolt

27 mins; October 16, 2024

A reporter in Gaza’s year of survival

27 mins; October 15, 2024

Split Screen: Thrill Seekers | It was a multi-million dollar media experiment. Would you fall for it?

34 mins; October 14, 2024

Front Burner Presents: The Flamethrowers Ep. 3

47 mins; October 12, 2024

Inside controversial Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’

29 mins; October 11, 2024

Birth rates are declining. Should we be worried?

22 mins; October 10, 2024

A terrifying hurricane is headed toward Florida

25 mins; October 09, 2024

A dispatch from the perilous Darién Gap

25 mins; October 08, 2024

‘Time stopped on October 7th’

32 mins; October 07, 2024

Front Burner Presents: The Flamethrowers Ep. 2

43 mins; October 05, 2024

A Canadian mission to rescue Afghanistan’s last female politicians

23 mins; October 04, 2024

Is China’s economic miracle going bust?

22 mins; October 03, 2024

The gloves stay on in Walz-Vance U.S. VP debate

21 mins; October 01, 2024

Death of Hezbollah’s Nasrallah weakens the 'Axis of Resistance'

28 mins; October 01, 2024

Politics! Liberals’ survival mode, Conservatives vs CTV News, and more

26 mins; September 30, 2024

Front Burner Presents: The Flamethrowers Ep. 1

42 mins; September 28, 2024

Introducing, Canada’s millennial ‘Jackpot Generation’

21 mins; September 27, 2024

As bombs rain down, Israel readies potential Lebanon invasion

21 mins; September 26, 2024

The rise of anti-South Asian content online

22 mins; September 25, 2024

The debate around involuntary care in B.C.

24 mins; September 24, 2024

Rogers’ MLSE deal and its evergrowing power

23 mins; September 23, 2024

Weekend Listen: World Report

10 mins; September 20, 2024

Israel’s historic, deadly cyber attack in Lebanon

26 mins; September 20, 2024

The empire behind Diddy's sex trafficking and racketeering charges

21 mins; September 19, 2024

Is it the beginning of the end for Canada’s carbon tax?

26 mins; September 18, 2024

Who is Trump's second alleged would-be assassin?

20 mins; September 17, 2024

‘Russians at War’ director talks critics and backlash

27 mins; September 16, 2024

Weekend Listen: Peter Nygard’s son on why he’s a fierce defender of his father's accusers

54 mins; September 14, 2024

Who are the AP3 militia?

24 mins; September 13, 2024

Is Mark Carney waiting in the Liberal wings?

22 mins; September 12, 2024

Harris comes out swinging in a crucial presidential debate

26 mins; September 10, 2024

The newcomers struggling with immigration policy whiplash

28 mins; September 10, 2024

U.S. accuses Canadians in alleged Russian propaganda scheme

26 mins; September 09, 2024

What do Israelis think about the war?

30 mins; September 06, 2024

Why did the NDP dump the Liberals?

20 mins; September 05, 2024

Danielle Smith vs. Alberta’s health care 'monopoly'

22 mins; September 04, 2024

Why rivals turned allies and scrambled B.C. politics

25 mins; September 03, 2024

Come by Chance: What if you were living someone else’s life?

29 mins; September 02, 2024

Don't look back in anger: Oasis reunite

30 mins; August 30, 2024

Billionaire Telegram CEO charged in criminal investigation

27 mins; August 29, 2024

Abuse accusations at ‘military-style’ Ontario school

29 mins; August 28, 2024

Will the Liberals’ cabinet retreat put them in fighting form?

23 mins; August 27, 2024

Canada’s public transit ‘death spiral’

23 mins; August 26, 2024

Kamala Harris ignites Democrats at the DNC

30 mins; August 23, 2024

Drugs, abortion, taxes: Where Canadians stand on divisive issues

24 mins; August 22, 2024

New Canadian ‘centrist’ party accuses rivals of extremism

38 mins; August 21, 2024

Inside a CIA agent's mission to infiltrate Al-Qaeda

27 mins; August 20, 2024

Will Ukraine's attack inside Russia pay off?

24 mins; August 19, 2024

Cracks in Canada’s temporary foreign worker program

23 mins; August 16, 2024

Israel accused of turning prisons into ‘torture camps’

27 mins; August 15, 2024

Why is ISIS seeing a resurgence?

24 mins; August 14, 2024

Canada's news outlets are struggling. Should Ottawa save them?

28 mins; August 13, 2024

Is AI a bubble that's about to burst?

29 mins; August 12, 2024

Weekend Listen: Putin's Murders from Tortoise

22 mins; August 10, 2024

How anti-migration riots swept the UK

27 mins; August 09, 2024

Why are so many Toronto condos sitting empty?

20 mins; August 08, 2024

The ‘New Right’ wants revolution. Can J.D. Vance deliver it?

26 mins; August 07, 2024

Olympic boxing and sex testing’s fraught history

30 mins; August 06, 2024

Tested: tracing the surprising 100-year history of sex testing in elite sports

38 mins; August 05, 2024

Weekend Listen: Summer and Simone hit the gold mine

12 mins; August 03, 2024

The double-edged sword of political memes

31 mins; August 02, 2024

A Hamas leader is assassinated in Iran

23 mins; August 01, 2024

Are we in a 'hidden' recession?

20 mins; July 31, 2024

Canada's baffling soccer spying scandal

26 mins; July 30, 2024

The US and Israel’s ‘special relationship’ — Part 2

35 mins; July 29, 2024

Weekend Listen: Your World Tonight

30 mins; July 26, 2024

Canadian treasure Jasper hit by wall of fire

24 mins; July 26, 2024

The US and Israel’s ‘special relationship’ - Part 1

35 mins; July 25, 2024

The drug harm reduction backlash

23 mins; July 24, 2024

Kamala Harris for President?

28 mins; July 23, 2024

Joe Biden drops out. Now what?

23 mins; July 22, 2024

Donald Trump's Republican Party

28 mins; July 19, 2024

Israel steps up attacks in Gaza

23 mins; July 18, 2024

2024: The year of the election

27 mins; July 17, 2024

America's history of assassinations and political violence

26 mins; July 16, 2024

Trump assassination attempt: What’s next for U.S democracy?

25 mins; July 15, 2024

Has NATO outlived its purpose?

26 mins; July 12, 2024

Preparing for ‘war’: the Alberta blockade trial so far

21 mins; July 11, 2024

Grappling with Alice Munro’s dark family secret

26 mins; July 10, 2024

Canada vs. Messi, Argentina

22 mins; July 09, 2024

Where does Joe Biden go from here?

27 mins; July 08, 2024

President as ‘king’, and other giant Supreme Court cases

28 mins; July 05, 2024

Why is France’s far right surging toward power?

22 mins; July 04, 2024

A massive collapse and the troubling history of Yukon mining

24 mins; July 03, 2024

Years after burning down, why hasn’t Lytton rebuilt?

22 mins; July 02, 2024

Front Burner Introduces: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam

40 mins; July 01, 2024

Stumbles, mumbles, smears: a U.S. presidential debate recap

26 mins; June 28, 2024

What Charlottetown’s immigration boom can teach Canada

27 mins; June 27, 2024

A Liberal stronghold falls. Is Trudeau next?

24 mins; June 26, 2024

Why did Canada list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists?

25 mins; June 25, 2024

The Oilers’ historic Stanley Cup final comeback

25 mins; June 24, 2024

Are Canadian cities crumbling?

22 mins; June 21, 2024

The ‘pronatalists’ trying to engineer a baby boom

27 mins; June 20, 2024

Why you can’t buy a cheap Chinese electric car

21 mins; June 19, 2024

War grinds on in Ukraine. Is peace possible?

26 mins; June 18, 2024

What's behind massive anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel?

26 mins; June 17, 2024

The “brain school” that experimented on Indigenous children

28 mins; June 14, 2024

Céline Dion’s struggle with stiff-person syndrome

25 mins; June 13, 2024

Two Jewish parents on recent school attacks

27 mins; June 12, 2024

Grift, Disinfo, Fraud? What happened at The Epoch Times?

25 mins; June 11, 2024

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