Podcast Episodes

The unanswered questions of the Iran strike

On Tuesday, Donald Trump angrily swore about his frustrations with Israel and Iran after both countries exchanged missile fire just before the ceasefire Trump helped negotiate.

So far, the fragile cea…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bubble trouble: Do protest bylaws silence dissent?

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has just launched a constitutional challenge against legislation in the city of Vaughan known as a “bubble zone” bylaw. It restricts protest within 100 metres…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The MAGA civil war over Iran

Over the last week, as the exchange of missiles between Israel and Iran intensified, Donald Trump’s supporters have found themselves in two camps: the hawks, like Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz who supp…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump joins Israel's war in Iran

Days into the Iran-Israel war, the United States has carried out a series of limited strikes centered on three Iranian nuclear sites. U.S. President Donald Trump has referred to the strikes as a “spe…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

In search of separatists in Alberta

Last week, Front Burner spent a few days in Three Hills, Alberta, a small town northeast of Calgary. We attended an event about Alberta independence, and spoke to a wide array of people about separat…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

What exactly is ICE?

For months now, agents working for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have been carrying out raids, arresting people on the street, at work and at immigration courthouses. Often th…

Published on 6 months ago

Politics! Carney’s ’delete laws’ bill, G7 wraps

In this politics roundup, we first check in with the CBC’s Aaron Wherry in the Alberta Rockies about the main takeaways from the G7 summit, which wrapped without Donald Trump after he left to deal wi…

Published on 6 months ago

Palantir’s big data, AI long game

Palantir’s technology has been used by everyone from the CIA and Mossad to Airbus and Morgan Stanley. The multi-billion dollar big data software company is at the centre of many of the major issues o…

Published on 6 months ago

Israel-Iran strikes: What comes next?

Longstanding tensions came to a head last week when Israel launched a missile attack on Iran, targeting the country’s nuclear facilities and killing several high-level military personnel and nuclear …

Published on 6 months ago

Can the G7 find order in the chaos?

Starting Sunday, political and economic representatives of a world order that Donald Trump is intent on shattering are gathering in Kananaskis, in Alberta's Rocky Mountains.

That on its own would be h…

Published on 6 months ago