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.
Google on trial: U.S. takes on tech giant
22 mins; September 12, 2023
The origins of “parental rights”
23 mins; September 11, 2023
How Burning Man got stuck in the mud
20 mins; September 08, 2023
Greenbelt blowback continues to slam Ford government
24 mins; September 07, 2023
China's boom changed the world. Now, it faces a slump
22 mins; September 06, 2023
Pierre Poilievre’s tightrope walk at the Conservative convention
22 mins; September 05, 2023
Front Burner Introduces: CBC Marketplace | Our five-year fight to stop scam calls
27 mins; September 04, 2023
Over 100 deaths, lethal substances, and a global investigation
24 mins; September 01, 2023
ChatGPT in university: useful tool or cheating hack?
20 mins; August 31, 2023
As fires burn, N.W.T.’s premier calls out Ottawa
26 mins; August 30, 2023
International students in Canada face discrimination, exploitation
23 mins; August 29, 2023
What Prigozhin’s death means for Putin
22 mins; August 28, 2023
The fight for better sunscreen, from AOC to skincare influencers
23 mins; August 25, 2023
How Meta’s news ban is affecting Canadians
22 mins; August 24, 2023
COVID-19 on the rise: What you need to know
20 mins; August 23, 2023
Can the Liberals win back younger voters?
23 mins; August 22, 2023
Homes destroyed, people displaced as wildfires scorch B.C., N.W.T.
27 mins; August 21, 2023
Weekend Listen: The Dose
28 mins; August 19, 2023
Hawaii wildfires lay bare tensions between locals, tourists
23 mins; August 18, 2023
Rudy Giuliani: from RICO prosecutor to RICO defendant
22 mins; August 17, 2023
Why is Alberta pausing new renewable energy projects?
20 mins; August 16, 2023
Niger, and an era of mutiny in Africa’s Sahel region
30 mins; August 15, 2023
Ontario’s Greenbelt, Doug Ford and an explosive audit
24 mins; August 14, 2023
Weekend Listen: Buffy
33 mins; August 12, 2023
The Eras Tour, and Taylor Swift’s massive popularity
24 mins; August 11, 2023
Metro workers on strike and a “Hot Labour Summer”
24 mins; August 10, 2023
Worldcoin’s utopian aims, dystopian fears
24 mins; August 09, 2023
Anti-LGBTQ backlash spurs debate in Canada’s Muslim community
20 mins; August 08, 2023
Front Burner Introduces: Stuff The British Stole | Season 3
42 mins; August 07, 2023
How Shohei Ohtani is changing Major League Baseball
23 mins; August 04, 2023
Congress, aliens and the search for E.T.
22 mins; August 03, 2023
What’s driving polarization in Canadian politics?
25 mins; August 02, 2023
Where did Ron DeSantis’ campaign go wrong?
26 mins; August 01, 2023
TikTok is coming for books, music and e-commerce
30 mins; July 31, 2023
Supreme Court changes ‘tear the fabric’ of Israel
23 mins; July 28, 2023
A major shakeup in Ottawa, but why?
23 mins; July 27, 2023
MDMA: from ‘club drug’ to the medicine cabinet
31 mins; July 26, 2023
Voices from inside Toronto’s refugee crisis
25 mins; July 25, 2023
‘The Heat Will Kill You First’
25 mins; July 24, 2023
Jason Aldean and country music’s culture war
24 mins; July 21, 2023
Conspiracy campaign: RFK’s presidential bid
24 mins; July 20, 2023
Forever chemicals are in Canadians’ air, water and blood
24 mins; July 19, 2023
Actors, writers shut down Hollywood
31 mins; July 18, 2023
Canada: the Anthropocene’s ground zero?
22 mins; July 17, 2023
Weekend Listen: 10 Minutes to Save the Planet
12 mins; July 15, 2023
A landfill blockade and demands to find Indigenous women’s remains
26 mins; July 14, 2023
Has the Bank of Canada gone too far?
23 mins; July 13, 2023
Jonah Hill and the rise of “therapy speak”
20 mins; July 12, 2023
Will Threads be the Twitter killer?
24 mins; July 11, 2023
Nuclear power in an unstable world
25 mins; July 10, 2023
Remembering Sex Ed legend Sue Johanson
30 mins; July 07, 2023
‘The Drugs Store,’ safe supply, and its backlash
24 mins; July 06, 2023
Did the Wagner mutiny weaken Vladimir Putin?
22 mins; July 05, 2023
Google, Meta to block news in Canada
27 mins; July 04, 2023
Front Burner Introduces: CBC Marketplace
27 mins; July 02, 2023
Sex, music and cringe – HBO’s The Idol
26 mins; June 30, 2023
Political revolt amid LGBTQ changes in New Brunswick
24 mins; June 29, 2023
Enduring the Wrap: “I was left broken.”
24 mins; June 28, 2023
What's behind the murder of a Sikh leader in B.C.?
22 mins; June 27, 2023
What just happened in Russia?
26 mins; June 26, 2023
Weekend Listen: The Banned Teacher
30 mins; June 24, 2023
Can a new mayor fix Toronto’s problems?
24 mins; June 23, 2023
Five men, a tiny sub and a massive search
24 mins; June 22, 2023
Boycotts, threats and the limits of corporate ‘Pride’
25 mins; June 21, 2023
The political fallout from Paul Bernardo’s prison transfer
22 mins; June 20, 2023
Why the internet is getting worse
27 mins; June 19, 2023
The Beatles and the future of AI music
29 mins; June 16, 2023
Money, sex, and populism: The life of Silvio Berlusconi
26 mins; June 15, 2023
Donald Trump pleads not guilty, again
26 mins; June 14, 2023
As wildfires burn, climate debate stagnates
24 mins; June 13, 2023
On the front line of mass migration out of Sudan
24 mins; June 12, 2023
Front Burner Introduces: The Dose - How does drinking coffee affect my health?
25 mins; June 10, 2023
Politics roundup: David Johnston, budget tactics and byelections
25 mins; June 09, 2023
Binance and its Canadian CEO sued in major crypto case
23 mins; June 08, 2023
Why some tenants are going on ‘rent strikes’
24 mins; June 07, 2023
As fires rage, Canada urged to get on ‘war footing’
25 mins; June 06, 2023
Inside the fundamentalist Christian movement that wants to remake Canadian politics
34 mins; June 05, 2023
Soccer star faces racist mobs, league inaction
24 mins; June 02, 2023
What do drone strikes in Moscow, Kyiv signal about the war?
23 mins; June 01, 2023
Are the killer whales fighting back?
22 mins; May 31, 2023
The United Conservative Party holds onto power in Alberta
22 mins; May 29, 2023
The End of COVID?
26 mins; May 29, 2023
Bonus | Nothing is Foreign: How Argentina deals with crushing 104% inflation
29 mins; May 27, 2023
Why JPMorgan is being sued over ties to Jeffrey Epstein
23 mins; May 26, 2023
Is a housing crash an affordability fix?
19 mins; May 25, 2023
A matter of trust: Election meddling inquiry rejected
24 mins; May 24, 2023
Crime is up, is bail reform the solution?
30 mins; May 23, 2023
Front Burner Introduces: Let’s Not Be Kidding with Gavin Crawford
35 mins; May 22, 2023
Front Burner Introduces: The Secret Life of Canada - The Forgotten War
48 mins; May 20, 2023
Book bans and Black history in Florida
22 mins; May 19, 2023
The rise and fall of Vice Media
32 mins; May 18, 2023
Hotter, faster, more destructive: wildfire’s new reality
28 mins; May 17, 2023
Canada closed a border loophole. Where will migrants go?
25 mins; May 16, 2023
Inside a busy food bank: 'It’s the person across the cubicle'
27 mins; May 15, 2023
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom changes the game, again
23 mins; May 12, 2023
Have Congressman George Santos’ lies caught up with him?
