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Front Burner

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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.

What Trump’s new tariff threats could mean for Canada
U.S. President Donald Trump wrote letters to over two dozen trading partners last week, threatening a fresh set of tariffs. Canada was among them and is now facing the possibility…
Jul 15, 202527:04
Politics! Carney calls for big cuts, army members' terrorism charges
To kick off the week, we tackle a few big stories in two realms of Canadian politics: the military, and the federal public service. First, the Ottawa Citizen's David Pugliese tell…
Jul 14, 202525:31
Case closed on the 'Epstein list'?
Following years of speculation, this week U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi dismissed the existence of a long-rumored "Epstein client list," and reaffirmed that Jeffrey Epstein died…
Jul 11, 202529:33
Will a 'Free Tibet' die with the Dalai Lama?
The Dalai Lama has spent almost his entire adult life as a refugee from his homeland of Tibet. Fleeing Chinese persecution in the 1950s, he has built a nation in exile, striving to…
Jul 10, 202527:05
Did the Texas floods have to be this deadly?
Search efforts continue in central Texas after extraordinary flash flooding killed more than 100 people. As the death toll rises, questions are growing about whether local, state a…
Jul 9, 202525:26
Netanyahu in Washington, and a Gaza ceasefire?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington this week, meeting with Donald Trump and senior members of the Trump administration, in a trip that could end in a Gaza c…
Jul 8, 202529:25
Medicaid cuts and RFK Jr’s MAHA mission
The passing of Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill last week came with over a trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid, kicking an estimated 12 million Americans off health insurance cov…
Jul 7, 202531:09
How the Diddy case fell apartExplicit
After a long and very public trial, producer and music mogul Sean Diddy Combs has been found not guilty of the most severe charges against him. On Wednesday he was acquitted of ra…
Jul 4, 202528:34
Politics! Carney so far, Poilievre’s second chance
Prime Minister Mark Carney made big promises to transform the Canadian economy, fast track national building projects and secure a trade deal with U.S. He also set Canada Day this…
Jul 3, 202527:38
The end of birthright citizenship?
For at least the last decade U.S. President Doanld Trump has discussed his desire to end the practice of birthright citizenship. On his first day back in office Trump passed an exe…
Jul 2, 202530:08
The repo man of the seas
The Outlaw Ocean is an anthology podcast that plunges you into the vast and often lawless world of the open seas. Today we're featuring an investigation from S2 called The repo man…
Jul 1, 202550:19
Encore: ex-Raptors President Masai Ujiri
After a transformative 13 years, it was announced that the Toronto Raptors and longtime President Masai Ujiri would be parting ways. Across his time with the Raptors Ujiri became a…
Jun 30, 202529:41
Canada’s energy minister on pipelines, Bill C-5 controversy
Canada’s energy and natural resources minister Tim Hodgson is in charge of an extremely important file for the federal government. That’s because Prime Minister Carney campaigned…
Jun 27, 202529:11
The unanswered questions of the Iran strikeExplicit
On Tuesday, Donald Trump angrily swore about his frustrations with Israel and Iran after both countries exchanged missile fire just before the ceasefire Trump helped negotiate. So…
Jun 26, 202522:39
Bubble trouble: Do protest bylaws silence dissent?
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has just launched a constitutional challenge against legislation in the city of Vaughan known as a “bubble zone” bylaw. It restricts protes…
Jun 25, 202537:46
The MAGA civil war over Iran
Over the last week, as the exchange of missiles between Israel and Iran intensified, Donald Trump’s supporters have found themselves in two camps: the hawks, like Lindsay Graham an…
Jun 24, 202522:40
Trump joins Israel's war in Iran
Days into the Iran-Israel war, the United States has carried out a series of limited strikes centered on three Iranian nuclear sites. U.S. President Donald Trump has referred to th…
Jun 23, 202530:51
In search of separatists in Alberta
Last week, Front Burner spent a few days in Three Hills, Alberta, a small town northeast of Calgary. We attended an event about Alberta independence, and spoke to a wide array of p…
Jun 20, 202550:37
What exactly is ICE?
For months now, agents working for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have been carrying out raids, arresting people on the street, at work and at immigration co…
Jun 19, 202527:50
Politics! Carney’s ’delete laws’ bill, G7 wraps
In this politics roundup, we first check in with the CBC’s Aaron Wherry in the Alberta Rockies about the main takeaways from the G7 summit, which wrapped without Donald Trump after…
Jun 18, 202528:54

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