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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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How the petrodollar took over the world
The shockwaves triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran have made clear the extent to which the global economy relies on oil, and the U.S. dollar. It...
Mark Carney’s economic update
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has delivered its spring economic update amidst an unpredictable global backdrop. It included a better-than-ex...
Can surveillance pricing be stopped?
For years, Jim Balsillie has been one of the loudest voices in the country to speak out about how data is being used to concentrate wealth and power,...
A third attempt on Trump’s life?
On Saturday night, as U.S. President Donald Trump sat on a dais in front of a room full of journalists, gunshots were heard inside the building. An ar...
Why can’t the U.S. win its wars?
Nearly two months into the war on Iran one thing remains clear: Iran has secured strategic leverage that before this war began, seemed unlikely.
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The FBI’s controversial Kash Patel
In his 14 months as director of the FBI, Kash Patel has not only overseen a radical transformation of the bureau, but has also embroiled himself in a...
Rights and reconciliation collide in B.C.
A conflict playing out in British Columbia is testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It’s a fight that involves resource extraction, de...
Can liberal democracy be saved?
Jayme sits down with Nobel laureate economist, Daron Acemoglu, a professor at MIT, and one of the leading thinkers about labour, politics and technolo...
Is a global food crisis looming?
During the spring, farmers around the globe work to get the seeds and enough fertilizer in the ground to maintain the growing season. If that doesn't...
Mark Carney and war in the Middle East
U.S. President Trump announced Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, following diplomatic talks in Washington. This foll...
Duelling blockades hold global economy hostage
The energy crisis spurred by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz is wreaking economic havoc on much of the world; especially in Asia and Europe, wh...
The Pope vs The President
Pope Leo has once again criticized the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, saying “I don’t think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way some...
Mark Carney locks Liberal majority
With last night’s byelection wins, Prime Minister Mark Carney is now leading a majority government. But after five floor crossers joined the Liberals,...
Can Pierre Poilievre stop the bleeding?
After a fourth Conservative MP crossed over last week, the Liberals are now only one seat shy of an official majority. And with two out of three byele...
U.S.-Iran talks: Who’s got the upper hand?
After six weeks of war and a fragile ceasefire Iran is going into high-level talks with the U.S. battered but defiant. Whether any kind of real agreem...
Did the Iran war change anything?
By the end of the day on Wednesday, the tenuous ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. was already being tested.
Israel continued to...
‘A whole civilization will die’: Trump to Iran
Today on the show we are going to talk about a grave threat made by U.S. President Donald Trump towards Iran where he wrote that unless the Strait of...
Israel update: death penalty law, Iran attacks
Today, a check-in on Israel’s expanding wars in Iran and Lebanon, violence in the West Bank and details of a new law that could see the death penalty...
Front Burner Presents: Deepfake Porn Empire
Deepfake porn is a billion-click industry built on stolen faces, while the people making it hide theirs behind screens. Hosted by journalist Sam Cole,...
Flights, food and finance: is economic chaos coming?
As the Iran war wraps up its fifth week, the increasing price on fuel and food is wreaking havoc on consumers and businesses around the world. Global...
Iran and the propaganda war
Since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war, Iran has been publishing AI propaganda videos online trolling the United States, and Donald Trump.
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Is AI making you dumb?
Today we’re joined by Alex Panetta, journalist and former Front Burner guest host. You may remember him as a regular on this show when he was a CBC Wa...
Avi Lewis’ vision for the NDP
Nearly a year after the federal NDP’s most devastating election result in history, the party declared Avi Lewis – who ran on a campaign of democratic...
Is Trump rigging the markets?
Experts, market watchers and the authorities in Iran have accused the U.S. President of engaging in market manipulation surrounding the Iran war by ti...
In Iran, echoes of the Iraq war
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Operation Epic Fury, is nearly one-month old and the shadow of another war looms over this one: Operation Iraqi Freedo...
How RCMP spies infiltrated Indigenous groups
Newly declassified documents reveal the extraordinary depth and reach the Canadian government took to spy on Indigenous leaders in the ‘60s and ‘70s. ...
America’s long standoff with Cuba
“I do believe I will be having the honor of taking Cuba.”
Those are the words of U.S. President Donald Trump spoken to a group of...
The true cost of AI data centres
This spring, just outside Regina, construction is set to begin on Canada's largest data centre. Many of these massive server farms, that train and pow...
Open source intelligence cowboys ‘monitoring’ Iran
As the world watches for updates in the war on Iran, cutting through the fog of war and getting a real sense of the extent of damage and military acti...
The bail backlash
As Ottawa prepares to tighten bail laws across the country, we take a documentary look at how the issue has become a focal point of Canadian anxiety a...
Can the U.S. re-open the Strait of Hormuz alone?
On Tuesday U.S. president Donald Trump took back his appeal for help to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, and called out his NATO allies for largely ignor...
Will Trump rig the midterms?
“If we lose the midterms, we’re going to jail.” That’s Steve Bannon’s warning to Republicans: a call to act urgently, to “seize the institutions,” and...
Israel steps up assault on Lebanon
One of the most brutal fronts in the escalating war in the Middle East right now is in Lebanon. Israel’s ground troops have crossed the border into th...
Pete Hegseth: the Iran war’s chief promoter
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is one of the figures central to the ongoing war in Iran. Critics say that the former Fox News host is both dangero...
Who are Iran's Revolutionary Guards?
U.S. intelligence reports this week show that, despite U.S and Israeli strikes, very little has changed about the Iranian regime’s grip since the star...
Politics! 4th floor-crosser, NDP's future
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout crossed the floor this week, becoming the first New Democrat to defect to Prime Minister Carney’s Liberals.
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'We do not want your bombs': A view from Tehran
Amidst communications blackouts and rising casualties, Jayme Poisson reaches a resident in Tehran to discuss the war, Trump, the Iranian regime, and h...
Iran war sparks energy crisis
The world could face one of the most severe shocks to energy markets since the 1970s as we enter week two of the war in the Middle East.
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Iran’s allies and foes, explained
Images coming out of Tehran over the weekend were apocalyptic, with oil refinery fires burning and massive clouds of black smoke turning day into nigh...
Iran and AI on the battlefield
For decades we have been hearing about the possibility of AI-driven warfare, and now it’s here.
Anthropic's AI platform Claude has...