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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. 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 his show Pablo Torre Finds Out.…

    32:16
  2. 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 personal enrichment, to the tune o…

    26:15
  3. 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 Islamic State ideology. Australi…

    22:18
  4. 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 International Development. It…

    21:01
  5. 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 then, a lot has happened, from a…

    30:19
  6. 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 in recent years, with some que…

    28:15
  7. 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. We speak with Sean Tarek Goodwin, a re…

    38:37
  8. 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 Republican Party. But cracks are…

    23:12
  9. 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, earlier this month. The docu…

    26:22
  10. 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 diabetes management and increasingly…

    25:43
  11. 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 Hollywood studio, as well as the lik…

    23:12
  12. 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 deaths, founders Jeremy Kalicum an…

    27:57
  13. 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 to a scathing report accusing h…

    27:36
  14. 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 a landmark call for the finan…

    30:56
  15. 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 his use of a 1970s national s…

    30:22
  16. 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 the other remains in serious co…

    23:26
  17. 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 letting students and faculty sa…

    21:12
  18. 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 responded by calling the commen…

    29:41
  19. 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: either lose their dignity or risk a…

    26:18
  20. 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 this year, the outgoing Biden ad…

    30:58
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