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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.

Carney’s mission to turn Europe away from the U.S.
It’s no secret that Prime Minister Mark Carney thinks Canada should reduce its dependence on the U.S. It’s a message he delivered on the world stage in Davos. But new reporting fro…
Jul 13, 202627:53
Mark Carney’s Saudi Arabia reboot
Mark Carney met with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia this week, aiming to strengthen ties and build up our economic relationship in areas like AI and critical mine…
Jul 10, 202630:54
U.S. politics! Platner implosion, where’s McConnell?
The U.S. midterms are coming up this fall. They could flip control of the House and possibly the Senate. But both parties are dealing with difficult messes. Progressive Democrati…
Jul 9, 202632:17
What does it take to defend Canada’s Arctic?
This week, Prime Minister Carney is in Turkey to attend the NATO summit. Ahead of leaving for Ankara, he announced the procurement of 12 submarines from the German company TKMS, in…
Jul 8, 202629:04
How to read a manifesto
In the aftermath of an act of public violence, attention often turns to a document. Sometimes it’s a letter, a blog post, or a video, that gets referred to as a manifesto. Very qu…
Jul 7, 202632:58
Politics! Pipeline power move, renovating 24 Sussex
Aaron Wherry, senior writer at CBC's parliamentary bureau and good friend of the show, is here to parse through last week’s big pipeline announcement with Alberta and the deal that…
Jul 6, 202629:27
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 2
The Canadian defence industry can’t grow the way Prime Minister Mark Carney is proposing by just selling domestically. That’s why another aim of the Defence Industrial Strategy is…
Jul 3, 202625:23
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 1
Mark Carney ran for office promising to spend a whole lot more on the Canadian military. Since being elected, he’s poured billions of dollars into defence, and plans to roughly tri…
Jul 2, 202623:03
How extreme heat is changing Europe
This week, temperatures across much of Europe reached above 40 C. In parts of Spain and Portugal, it was hotter than the Sahara Desert. Governments are telling citizens to stay in…
Jul 1, 202630:22
Why are prediction markets coming to Canada?
Investment company Wealthsimple is partnering with Kalshi to launch Wealthsimple Predict. It’s an app that’ll allow Canadians to place bets on things like Bank of Canada interest r…
Jun 30, 202621:51
What’s fuelling residential school denialism?
A warning: this episode discusses the trauma and harms surrounding Canada's residential school history. Please listen with care. So much of what we know about Canada's residentia…
Jun 29, 202632:14
Solving the Nord Stream attack mystery
In the fall of 2022, Danish authorities scrambled fighter jets to investigate a strange disturbance in the Baltic Sea. What they found was extraordinary. An enormous geyser had op…
Jun 26, 202637:32
Incel violence and the Montreal shootingExplicit
On Monday morning, a 25-year-old man opened fire in Montreal, leading to a shootout that left three people dead. A few hours later, police found a manifesto written by the shooter…
Jun 25, 202629:58
Inside Iran as peace talks continue
Margaret Evans is CBC’s Senior International Correspondent. She just returned from a week-long reporting trip in Tehran, speaking to Iranians on the ground about the impact of the…
Jun 24, 202626:26
Is the U.K. ungovernable?
After a weekend of speculation, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared on the steps of 10 Downing Street on Monday and announced that he would be stepping down. He’s now the s…
Jun 23, 202625:55
Liberals push through bills as Parliament wraps
It was a busy end to the season in the House of Commons. CBC Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton is here to talk about what happened, what it tells us about Carney’s majo…
Jun 22, 202622:56
Alleged gun-for-hire network behind consulate, synagogue shootings
Toronto police announced this week that nearly 30 recent shootings across the Greater Toronto Area are linked by a multi-layered gun-for-hire network. They say teens have been recr…
Jun 19, 202624:47
How Andrew Tate made abuse a businessExplicit
Andrew Tate – the controversial British-American influencer, and self-described misogynist – has millions of followers around the world. He often tells young men that they’re vict…
Jun 18, 202631:26
Inside Ukraine’s kill zone
Reporter Francis Farrell of the Kyiv Independent recently took a harrowing journey alongside a group of Ukrainian soldiers into what they describe as the kill zone. They travelled…
Jun 17, 202633:17
A changed Iran emerges from war
This week, after more than a hundred days of fighting, the United States and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to end the war, set to be signed in Geneva this Friday. This…
Jun 16, 202629:57

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