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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: Jan. 23, 2021

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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
23:45
A fatal 12-story fall, and a no-knock police search
20:12
Who’s the GOAT: Michael Jordan or LeBron James?
24:20
COVID-19 update: Explaining rapid tests and experimental treatments
23:17
The Central Park Five’s Yusef Salaam on life after wrongful conviction
21:24
Will a fix for racial bias in jury trials backfire?
21:29
Aging Presidential candidates loom over VP debate
21:44
New Green Party Leader Annamie Paul's vision for Canada
21:31
Her mother survived the first wave in long-term care. Then the second wave came
27:30
Donald Trump has COVID-19. Now what?
22:36
Indigenous woman records racist abuse in her dying moments
20:11
Will Ontario’s second wave become a tsunami?
21:35
U.S. President refuses to condemn white supremacists, militias in debate
20:42
A Canadian said he killed for ISIS. The RCMP say it’s a hoax
21:50
Anti-mask conspiracy movement thriving in Quebec
22:40
Introducing: Brainwashed
23:57
'Breonna Taylor's killing was an institutional one'
21:12
Liberals promise child care, one million jobs and more
23:51
Is COVID-19 airborne? The CDC said yes, then no
21:06
Year K: The Canadian economic crisis enters phase two
22:57
Supreme Court vacancy a game changer for U.S. election
22:54
Tackling far-right activity in the Canadian military
21:17
How we created the Western wildfires in more ways than one
21:55
'More than just a blip': Canada’s COVID-19 cases on the rise
21:37
Year K: A Canadian guaranteed income?
21:13
WE Charity’s rise to prominence and unexpected fall
28:33
Introducing: Recall: How to Start a Revolution
32:19
Mulan and China’s growing cultural reach
22:03
“Shoot all that you see”
23:21
As B.C. overdose deaths soar, calls for fully regulated addiction treatment
21:50
Race, income inequality, and back-to-school in Canada
23:11
Why India is lifting its lockdown as COVID-19 cases surpass 4 million
22:37

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