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Front Burner is your essential daily news podcast, brought to you by CBC News & CBC Podcasts. Every weekday Front Burner takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world.
Updated: March 4, 2021

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Why the Golden Globes' shady reputation persists
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Cindy Gladue and the painful cost of justice
23:01
Church as a COVID-19 battleground
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Why Facebook banned news on its platform in Australia
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How Bellingcat cracks some of the world’s biggest stories
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Should Canada boycott the 2022 Olympics in Beijing?
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A Montreal police officer was attacked, but the wrong man was arrested
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The joke that made it to the Supreme Court of Canada
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The growing threat of variants in Canada
21:20
What’s the point of impeachment?
24:57
Why one MP wants companies like Bell to pay public money back
25:53
With schools reopening, how do you keep kids safe?
20:59
At one Amazon warehouse, a historic push to unionize
25:51
Trump’s impeachment: Will history repeat itself?
21:47
‘Don’t say oil on stage’: A WE Charity investigation
27:33
Proud Boys and the thorny definition of terrorism
26:33
A mutating virus and the need for global herd immunity
21:11
'Anti-Alberta' investigation mired in controversy
22:26
Trickster cancelled after Michelle Latimer controversy
17:58
Why has Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rate slipped globally?
23:14
Introducing: Evil by Design
47:34
The GameStop stock saga, explained
28:24
The alleged Canadian drug lord who upended the meth trade
18:10
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29:11
Alexei Navalny, the 'anti-Putin'
21:10
‘The Storm’ never came, and QAnon believers are shook
25:10
BONUS: Daniel Dale’s epic 4-year Trump fact check
21:24
Governor General out amid claims of harassment, verbal abuse
19:52
Biden’s unity message soon put to the test
23:58
Italy’s secretive ‘Ndrangheta Mafia on trial
23:34
Erin O'Toole's far-right line in the sand
19:20
The dark side of PPE: Allegations of exploitation, debt bondage
28:11
The Proud Boys: A brief history
27:42
Timothy Snyder on the present and future of Trump's 'big lie'
20:24
Her father died from COVID-19, and now the RCMP are investigating
23:30
Democrats scramble to remove Trump from power
21:26
Trump gets deplatformed
23:17
Canada’s slow drip vaccine rollout
22:40
Pro-Trump extremists storm Capitol Hill
32:26
How Ontario could have avoided the long-term care crisis
23:45
Georgia's make-or-break election
23:49
Anger grows over politicians’ pandemic travelling
24:54
The year the pandemic changed the world
26:16
Encore: The downfall of NXIVM’s Keith Raniere
23:23
Encore: Never mind the deficit?
27:53
Encore: A son's extraordinary mission to care for his mother
24:27
Pop culture and the pandemic
26:15
Mutated COVID-19 sparks closures, questions
19:28
Night shift at the crisis line
24:20
Vaccine hesitancy, the next pandemic hurdle
31:47
A conversation with Canada’s environment minister
20:32
The arrest of Peter Nygard, disgraced fashion mogul
18:19
The problems with Pornhub
23:46
Inside China’s secretive Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park
23:42
From Fox to the fringes, a rift in Conservative media
26:49
A vaccine's approved. What's in the shot?
26:27
The 'agonizing' front lines of Edmonton's 2nd wave
20:43
COVID-19 puts Big Tech under the microscope, again
23:49
A gambler, cartels and a high-profile arrest inside the RCMP
24:36
The dying days of Trump’s presidency
24:34
The Bolshoi dances on amid record COVID-19 cases
21:34
Politicians are Among Us
23:49
Liberals pledge $100B to heal the pandemic economy
23:32
A vaccine is coming to Canada, but when?
24:11
‘The Great Reset’, politics and conspiracy
24:09
A return to Wuhan
22:28
13 deadly hours
27:10
Virus rages in 'precarious' Alberta
23:43
Never mind the deficit?
27:33
A bid to upend drug laws in Vancouver
25:00
Pro-labour, pro-union Conservatives?
23:44
Update show: New vaccine, election conspiracy, fisheries fight
21:11
Lessons learned, forgotten from the 1st wave
25:08
The trial of Alek Minassian
22:31
Free Britney?
23:49
Fake wolves and real military propaganda in Canada
20:39
Everything you need to know about Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine
23:08
The long road ahead for US President-elect Joe Biden
22:07
I’ll take “Icons” for 400, Alex
23:34
Is American democracy broken?
26:01
Trump takes to the courts as Biden makes gains
22:42
A presidential waiting game
20:14
What it takes to win the White House
29:20
Lessons from Bush v. Gore election debacle
33:32
10,000 COVID-19 deaths, 3 lives remembered
20:31
What voter suppression looks like in the U.S. election
23:34
The downfall of NXIVM’s Keith Raniere
22:51
Borat walks through the 2020 looking-glass
22:02
Renters brace for winter COVID-19 evictions
29:33
Trump versus Biden: The final debate
19:41
B.C.'s pandemic election
23:16
A showdown in Ottawa, and a snap election?
25:02
36 years later: The truth about who murdered Christine Jessop
24:52
Arson, violence and a decades-old fishing feud
24:46
The problems pile up for Alberta
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A fatal 12-story fall, and a no-knock police search
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