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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Mark Carney and the New World Order
Prime Minister Mark Carney is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, as the situation with Greenland continues to escalate.
Can ICE be restrained?
Anti-ICE protests continued throughout Minnesota over the weekend, as they have for nearly two weeks now. Since the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapo...
Iran revolt: What’s the endgame?
A mass protest movement has gripped Iran and is shaking the foundations of that country’s ruling regime. Thousands of protesters have been detained an...
U.S. politics! Iran crisis, ICE, Trump vs. the Fed
Potential American military intervention in Iran amid ongoing protests and violence. The shooting death of a 37-year-old mother in Minneapolis at the...
Stuck in the middle: Mark Carney in China
Mark Carney arrives in Beijing today to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It’s the first time in nearly a decade for a Canadian Prime Minister t...
A veteran diplomat explains the 'Donroe Doctrine'
The seizure of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro by military force. Promises to "take back" the Panama Canal. Massive tariffs on Brazil. Threats to...
What if Greenland’s next?
Right now, the future of Greenland hangs in the balance.
And with it, an entire system of military and political alliances that h...
Where is AI headed in 2026?
Whether you think it’s world-changing or over-hyped, it’s undeniable that artificial intelligence has transformed the tech industry.
Chavez, Maduro, and the making of Venezuela
In 1999 Hugo Chavez was elected President of Venezuela, beginning a years-long ‘Bolivarian Revolution,’ following multiple coup attempts, and time in...
The world’s biggest risks, with Gerry Butts
Today, Gerry Butts – former principal secretary to Justin Trudeau and current adviser to Prime Minister Carney – is on the show.
B...
Canada’s Venezuelan oil problem
In the wake of the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, there has been a flurry of concern about what that country’s oil could mean for...
What will follow Trump's Venezuela attack?
After months of rhetoric, military presence and strikes, U.S. forces have launched an attack on the Venezuelan capital Caracas. They seized the countr...
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...