Front Burner

By CBC

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.

Episodes (33)

Is AI making you dumb?

27m4/1/2026

Iran and the propaganda war

34m4/2/2026

Flights, food and finance: is economic chaos coming?

22m4/3/2026

Front Burner Presents: Deepfake Porn Empire

39m4/6/2026

Israel update: death penalty law, Iran attacks

30m4/7/2026

‘A whole civilization will die’: Trump to Iran

33m4/8/2026

Did the Iran war change anything?

30m4/9/2026

U.S.-Iran talks: Who’s got the upper hand?

27m4/10/2026

Can Pierre Poilievre stop the bleeding?

26m4/13/2026

Mark Carney locks Liberal majority

29m4/14/2026

The Pope vs The President

34m4/15/2026

Duelling blockades hold global economy hostage

23m4/16/2026

Mark Carney and war in the Middle East

34m4/17/2026

Is a global food crisis looming?

23m4/20/2026

Can liberal democracy be saved?

28m4/21/2026

Rights and reconciliation collide in B.C.

35m4/22/2026

The FBI’s controversial Kash Patel

30m4/23/2026

Why can’t the U.S. win its wars?

30m4/24/2026

A third attempt on Trump’s life?

35m4/27/2026

Can surveillance pricing be stopped?

27m4/28/2026

Mark Carney’s economic update

27m4/29/2026

How the petrodollar took over the world

27m4/30/2026

Why is everything a ‘false flag’?

31m5/1/2026

Elon Musk vs OpenAI

27m5/4/2026

Is Doug Ford in trouble?

30m5/5/2026

Are teen social media bans a silver bullet?

35m5/6/2026

The end of the Voting Rights Act?

30m5/7/2026

How separatists doxxed Alberta

28m5/8/2026

The perils of unregulated AI

29m5/11/2026

Should Canadian airports be privatized?

26m5/12/2026

Weakened, Trump heads to China

28m5/13/2026

Princeton president on the future of university

38m5/14/2026

Iran quagmire: why can’t the U.S. end the war?

25m5/15/2026

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