Podcast Episodes

Flights, food and finance: is economic chaos coming?

As the Iran war wraps up its fifth week, the increasing price on fuel and food is wreaking havoc on consumers and businesses around the world. Global…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Iran and the propaganda war

Since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war, Iran has been publishing AI propaganda videos online trolling the United States, and Donald Trump. 

Conve…

5 months ago

Is AI making you dumb?

Today we’re joined by Alex Panetta, journalist and former Front Burner guest host. You may remember him as a regular on this show when he was a CBC W…

5 months ago

Avi Lewis’ vision for the NDP

Nearly a year after the federal NDP’s most devastating election result in history, the party declared Avi Lewis – who ran on a campaign of democratic…

5 months ago

Is Trump rigging the markets?

Experts, market watchers and the authorities in Iran have accused the U.S. President of engaging in market manipulation surrounding the Iran war by t…

5 months ago

In Iran, echoes of the Iraq war

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Operation Epic Fury, is nearly one-month old and the shadow of another war looms over this one: Operation Iraqi Freed…

5 months ago

How RCMP spies infiltrated Indigenous groups

Newly declassified documents reveal the extraordinary depth and reach the Canadian government took to spy on Indigenous leaders in the ‘60s and ‘70s.…

5 months, 1 week ago

America’s long standoff with Cuba

“I do believe I will be having the honor of taking Cuba.”

Those are the words of U.S. President Donald Trump spoken to a group of reporters assembled …

5 months, 1 week ago

The true cost of AI data centres

This spring, just outside Regina, construction is set to begin on Canada's largest data centre. Many of these massive server farms, that train and po…

5 months, 1 week ago

Open source intelligence cowboys ‘monitoring’ Iran

As the world watches for updates in the war on Iran, cutting through the fog of war and getting a real sense of the extent of damage and military act…

5 months, 1 week ago