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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.

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  1. Understanding Pierre Poilievre: Part 2

    Now that Pierre Poilievre is leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, how will he lead? Today, in the second part of our two-part deep dive on Poilievre, the Globe and Mail’s Sh…

    39:15
  2. Understanding Pierre Poilievre: Part 1

    On Saturday, Pierre Poilievre was named the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Jayme Poisson was on the floor at the event, and heard from those overjoyed at the resul…

    34:54
  3. Queen Elizabeth at the end of an empire

    Queen Elizabeth took the throne at the age 25, and stayed there through seven decades, 15 British prime ministers and the longest reign in U.K. history. From the earliest days as Q…

    25:22
  4. Inside Ukraine — a country living with war

    The view of the war from inside Ukraine varies depending on where you are. For two weeks, CBC News senior correspondent Susan Ormiston has been crossing the country where the war h…

    25:06
  5. U.K. teens joined ISIS, Canada accused of coverup

    It's been seven years since British teen Shamima Begum, then 15 years old, entered Syria with two school friends to join ISIS. One of Begum's friends has since gone missing, and th…

    24:56
  6. A mass killing in Saskatchewan

    Eleven people have died, including a suspect, and at least 18 injured after a brutal attack that started in James Smith Cree Nation, Saskatchewan on Sunday. Two brothers, Damien an…

    20:24
  7. Front Burner Introduces: Pressure CookerBonus

    John and Amanda have lived on the fringes their whole lives. They’re on welfare, living with John’s grandma, and struggling with addiction to opioids and Dungeons and Dragons. They…

    36:11
  8. Death threats, aliens, Boney M: inside a tour with Canada's 'QAnon Queen'Explicit

    Death threats, hotel rooms left empty for supposed visits by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and hours upon hours of the song Rasputin by Boney M. These are the conditions former…

    26:48
  9. How Serena Williams changed the game

    On Wednesday night, Serena Williams won her second round match against no. 2 ranked Anett Kontaveit, to advance in what could be the last pro tournament of her career. Earlier this…

    25:13
  10. The verbal ambush of Chrystia Freeland and political anger in CanadaExplicit

    On Friday, a man in Grande Prairie, Alta., accosted Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and swore at her repeatedly as she entered the city hall building. A video of the incide…

    25:13
  11. More than 1,000 dead in calamitous Pakistan floods

    Devastating flash floods in Pakistan have submerged one-third of the country, according to its climate minister. Officials say more than 1,100 people have died since monsoon season…

    20:45
  12. Two Afghans on their frustrated efforts to come to Canada

    It’s been just over a year since the last Canadian plane airlifting people out of Afghanistan left Kabul in the wake of the Taliban takeover. According to Immigration, Refugees and…

    28:21
  13. A car bomb’s impact on a Russia at war

    On Saturday, a car bomb killed pro-war Russian commentator Darya Dugina on the outskirts of Moscow. Dugina was the daughter of ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, whose i…

    22:08
  14. Germany needs energy. What can Canada offer?

    This week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Canada as part of his mission to shore up alternative sources of energy to reduce Germany's dependence on Russian natural gas. Scho…

    21:21
  15. The myth behind 'nobody wants to work anymore'

    Many employers continue to struggle to fill vacant positions, despite the end of most pandemic restrictions — and the underlying explanations for this vary depending on who you ask…

    22:24
  16. Ontario mulls private solutions for public health-care crises

    It's a perennial debate: what role should the private sector have in Canada's public health-care system? The fact is, it's already part of the ecosystem. Now, Doug Ford's governmen…

    22:15
  17. Can work-from-home go on forever?

    The pandemic-era work-from-home experiment has gone on for over two years now and for some, it’s proven to be effective. For others, the isolation that comes with remote work hasn’…

    27:46
  18. Electric vehicles and an Ontario mining conundrum

    The United States’ new and historic climate law is being hailed by some Canadian politicians and environmental advocates as a chance to turn Canada into a global hub for electric c…

    24:53
  19. The fatwa on Salman Rushdie, 3 decades later

    The writer Salman Rushdie is still recovering in hospital from a brutal attack at a literary event last Friday. A young man rushed onstage and stabbed Rushdie nearly a dozen times,…

    29:11
  20. What we’ve learned since the FBI raided Trump’s Florida home

    In the wake of the FBI raid on former U.S. president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this month, more details have emerged about what federal agents are investi…

    22:40
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