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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: Aug. 5, 2021

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A country in crisis: Lebanon one year after the Beirut blast
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The end of an era: Kyle Lowry and the Toronto Raptors
24:44
‘Magic mushrooms’ and therapy in Canada
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Encore: The end of Hong Kong?
30:56
Duterte, the drug war and the Philippines’ future
23:19
Why Simone Biles said ‘no’
22:15
Investigating the Capitol insurrection
25:53
Victims of communism memorial received donations honouring Nazi collaborators
20:22
Kris Wu and China’s #MeToo moment
18:44
The Deepfaking of Anthony Bourdain
23:07
The Olympics: Tokyo’s unwelcome guest
20:54
Have the Liberals met the climate change moment?
24:52
The reporter who brought down Jeffrey Epstein
26:39
Front Burner July 19
21:00
What’s behind Cuba’s protest movement
21:00
What's next for the victims of Kamloops Indian Residential School?
26:01
The fight for voting rights in the U.S.
23:22
Who killed Haiti’s president?
19:52
The last 22%: Vaccine access and hesitancy
21:16
The billionaire space race is on
25:33
'The war isn’t over': U.S. leaves Afghanistan
25:08
The assassination of Haiti’s president
18:09
‘I’m done’: Britney Spears fights back against conservatorship
24:54
The human toll of B.C.’s wildfires
23:18
Montreal’s historic playoff run at stake
22:47
Introducing: The Village: Season 2
51:42
Cryptocurrency’s wild ride
24:08
Heat waves and climate change in action
18:44
Confronting the dark side of Canadian history
23:22
Some UFOs can’t be explained: U.S. intelligence report
23:37
An abused woman, a homicide, and a long prison sentence appealed
20:18
Inside the die-hard camp at Fairy Creek
27:38
Defence minister criticized over sexual misconduct ‘inaction’
19:39
Half a million COVID-19 deaths in Brazil, no end in sight
19:15
Infighting, allegations of racism plague Green Party
25:15
Introducing: The Next Call with David Ridgen
48:30
Frenemies: Biden, Putin meet in Geneva
25:04
When big money buys up homes to rent
21:27
Mystery at Canada’s highest security virus lab
22:03
Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School
23:31
Delta variant: What you need to know
20:09
A wild housing market: what’s the solution?
22:45
Why won’t the Pope apologize for residential schools?
21:11
Grief, fear after the killing of a Muslim family in London, Ont.
28:31
Lawrence Wright takes on The Plague Year
26:05
Death-bed COVID denial in southern Manitoba
32:44
Kamloops residential school: what happens next?
27:35
Naomi Osaka vs. the French Open
24:02
Joyce Echaquan’s final days: A fuller picture
26:17
Residential school survivors mourn after discovery of unmarked graves
25:31
Anti-Asian racism in Vancouver’s Chinatown
30:19
Introducing: A Death in Cryptoland
37:49
Prime Time: Amazon's MGM streaming bid
18:57
Avi Lewis on a Green New Deal for Canada
35:04
A 'hijacking' in Belarus, a dissident arrested
21:27
U.S. forces tackle sex assault: lessons for Canada
21:35
Habs vs Leafs: A short history
28:19
The divestment from Alberta’s oilsands
22:16
A mother, and a doctor, in Gaza
23:40
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole (part two)
28:36
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole (part one)
24:40
Alex Gibney: Big Pharma created the opioid crisis
22:05
“Bamboo ballots”, UV light and a bizarre election recount in Arizona
21:46
Understanding the latest Israel-Hamas fighting
18:05
Metro Vancouver’s gang wars
21:18
Trudeau's chief adviser grilled over sexual misconduct in the military
27:17
Summer 2021: Expectations vs. reality
22:23
The debate over vaccine passports is here
22:02
Big money is buying up big songs. Lots of them
21:07
Regulating streamers and a free speech fight
24:21
Inside a slaughterhouse COVID-19 outbreak
38:29
Meet Vaccine Hunters Canada's volunteers
29:37
Introducing: Life Jolt
36:14
Rare COVID-19 vaccine blood clots explained
19:27
The fight over paid sick leave
24:40
What led to Alberta’s enormous COVID-19 surge?
22:36
The fight against Big Pharma's grip on vaccines
20:50
‘Absolutely harrowing’: India’s calamitous second wave
21:05
Russia vs. Ukraine, the latest chapter
22:47
Universal child care: Is it for real this time?
27:57
Rodney King lawyer on George Floyd, Derek Chauvin
25:01
$10-a-day child care and a big-ticket budget
26:08
How Ontario was led into a COVID-19 crisis
27:34
Liberals, Bloc silence military sex assault hearing
20:41
Fed up: Your pandemic breaking points
36:38
Intensive care on the brink
22:38
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi hangs up his hat
22:45
A tale of two virtual political conventions
24:44
'Mama, I can't breathe': Witnesses recount George Floyd's last moments
24:51
The end of Hong Kong?
30:20
Ontario's vaccine plan dangerously off the mark, doctor says
22:08
Life after ISIS in Raqqa
23:19
Pandemic burnout is real
21:57
Winners and losers in Canada’s wild housing market
33:25
The final showdown? How to fight the 3rd wave
21:56
How, exactly did COVID-19 begin?
24:02
The Canadian MP targeted by China
20:46
‘It feels like I’m in jail’: Post vaccine isolation in LTC
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The view from the U.S-Mexico border
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AstraZeneca's self-inflicted wounds
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