Front Burner
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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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Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 4
In the fourth and final episode of Understood: The Making of Musk, host Jacob Silverman launches into Musk’s ultimate quest, his desire to colonize Ma...
Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 3
What does Musk, father of 14, expect from his quote, “legion” of children? In episode 3 of Understood: The Making of Musk, host, Jacob Silverman unrav...
Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 2
Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues, the latest season of Understood: The Making of Musk returns to his sheltered youth in...
The books that explained 2025 (Part 2)
Today we’re joined by lawyer and author Bryan Stevenson for a conversation about the historical Mother Emanuel AME church, and what it means to tell t...
The books that explained 2025
Some of our favourite guests of the year return to talk about books that helped meaningfully explain 2025.
We talk about the evergreen appeal o...
Go inside the tangled web of the Satanic Panic from Jaws to Patrick Swayze
In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a...
The true story behind the Norval Morrisseau art fraud
Forged is a six-part series from CBC in Canada and ABC Australia. Host Adrian Stimson, an artist from the Siksika Nation, travels from Thunder Bay to...
The stories that shaped our year
Today we're bringing you a 2025 Front Burner wrap up, answering audience questions and bringing you behind the scenes of the making of some of our mos...
The year in sports scandal with Pablo Torre
In 2025 news of the biggest, most sensational sports scandals was broken not by ESPN or Sports Illustrated, but by a podcaster named Pablo Torre on hi...
Trump & corruption with Pod Save America
Corruption is a word that’s come up throughout this year in relation to U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term. There have been allegations of pers...
Bondi Beach and the ISIS connection
The Australian prime minister and police have said that the suspected gunmen in the Bondi Beach mass shooting at a Hanukkah event were motivated by Is...
The human toll of Trump's war on aid
On the first day of his second term as U.S. president, Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively gutting USAID — the United States Agency for...
Alberta’s very interesting year
It’s been almost a year since Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. He was on the brink of a trade war. Since the...
Why is the U.K. rethinking puberty blockers?
Today, an in-depth look at puberty blockers and their use on minors with gender dysphoria. These drugs have come under an enormous amount of scrutiny...
Hanukkah event shooting // Liberal majority watch
First, the latest on the massacre at Bondi Beach in Australia. The mass shooting targeted the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah.
Is Trump’s MAGA movement in trouble? (FB Exclusive)
‘Make America Great Again' has been Donald Trump’s brand for a decade, riding the movement’s anti-elitist wave into the presidency and remaking the Re...
Trump's vision for a new world order
Every U.S. president releases a national security strategy document about a year into their term, but few have made as big a splash as Donald Trump's,...
Should everybody be taking Ozempic?
It's estimated that as many as 10 per cent of adults in Canada use a GLP-1 type drug like Ozempic. The prescription medicine is used for type 2 diabet...
The politics of the Warner Bros. bidding war
Two of the biggest media companies in the world are going to war over Warner Bros. Discovery, a massive media conglomerate that owns a historic Hollyw...
The 'compassion club' fighting Canada's drug laws
Through 2022 and 2023, two Vancouver activists made international headlines with DULF — the Drug User Liberation Front. In a bid to stop overdose deat...
U.S. Politics! Pentagon scandals, ICE targets Somalis
Today, we bring you a wrap on U.S. politics. We begin with two scandals plaguing U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth, from allegations of war crimes t...
Mark Carney: climate friend or foe?
In 2015, as governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney’s ‘Tragedy of the Horizons’ speech made waves in the global climate community. It was seen as...
Will Trump's tariffs survive the Supreme Court?
The U.S. Supreme Court is soon expected to rule on the legality of President Donald Trump's sweeping worldwide tariffs. The court will rule on whether...
National Guard shooting and the CIA’s secret Afghan army
Last week, two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington, D.C. after they were ambushed by a lone shooter near the airport. One was killed and t...
Should universities have opinions?
Our guest today has taken a long look at an out-of-fashion principle in higher learning – institutional neutrality. Basically it’s the importance of l...
Will the U.S. invade Venezuela?
Over the weekend, Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that the airspace around Venezuela should be considered closed. Venezuela’s foreign ministry r...
Ukraine peace plan,or Russian ‘wish list’?
In a somber speech last week Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned his people that their country was on the brink of a critical choice: eithe...
In Chad, inside camps for Sudan’s refugees
Sudan’s civil war is now the worst displacement crisis in the world, with more than 12 million people currently displaced from their homes. Earlier th...
Hatchet buried? The politics of an Alberta energy deal
On Thursday Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are set to announce the outlines of a plan that could set Alberta and B.C. o...
Gunshots, arson, threats: B.C’s extortion crisis
After meeting on the sidelines of the G20 in South Africa, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have announced they woul...
The hunt for alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding
At a press conference last week U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi laid out fresh allegations against Ryan Wedding, a 44-year-old Canadian and former Oly...
Is the notwithstanding clause bad for democracy?
Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the so-called "notwithstanding clause" — allows governments, both provincial and federal,...
The ‘sniper tourists’ of Sarajevo
For decades there have been allegations that wealthy foreigners traveled into the Bosnian war, during the siege of Sarajevo, to shoot at besieged civi...
Did Carney just pass a Progressive Conservative budget?
Mark Carney’s Liberals survived a confidence vote on their first budget Monday night.
It was a strange vote, with four members of...
A hinge point for human rights
Over 75 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established and signed by the newly formed United Nations after the atrocities of the...
If AI is a bubble, what happens when it pops?
With the absolutely massive amounts of money tied up in the AI data centre boom, it's not hard to see why people fear a bubble. That worry has come in...
Canada's complicated 'situationship' with the U.S. (FB Exclusive)
It started with U.S. President Donald Trump's 'quips' about Canada becoming the 51st state. Nearly a year later, the Canada-U.S. relationship has weat...
Why the Epstein emails go way beyond Trump
This week, thousands of pages of documents were released from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Some suggest D...
Poilievre tries to turn the page
The decisions of one Conservative MP to cross the floor, and another to resign have sparked a wider conversation about whether Pierre Poilievre should...
The (former) PM and the pop star
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is dating the American pop star Katy Perry. He’s been spotted with her on her yacht, singing along at her concert...