Podcast Episodes

Who gets to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado.

In the announcement last week, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Machado had earned…

Published on 2 weeks ago

CBC President Marie-Philippe Bouchard

Marie-Philippe Bouchard has been in her role as President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada for a little under a year.

Since her appointment, we’ve had a federal election that has spared the public broadcas…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Marineland’s scandalous decline

At its peak, Marineland was the second most popular tourist destination in Ontario’s Niagara region after the falls. Visitors could get up close and personal with beluga whales, dolphins and orcas, a…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Canada’s bet on an AI boom

Canada's first ever minister of artificial intelligence, Evan Solomon, is spearheading what he's calling a "30-day sprint" to nail down Canada's AI strategy. The plan? To figure out a government appr…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 1

Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues we return to his sheltered youth in apartheid South Africa, a world engineered for white supremacy. Along the way, we connect the dots b…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Portraits of childhood in Gaza

Today, if all goes well, a ceasefire will begin in Gaza.

In phase one, Hamas has pledged to return all of the hostages, living and dead. For its part Israel will release hundreds of Palestinian prison…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Inside the shadow war in Ukraine

Beyond the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, a shadow war between the Kremlin and Kyiv is escalating -- with covert assassinations, car bombs, civilian recruitment, and even the involvement of a terr…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

What exactly is Antifa?

The term ‘Antifa’ derives from the German word for Antifascist — and the constellation of resistance movements largely created as a response to Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Today, Antifa descri…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Can Trump’s peace plan help end the war in Gaza?

Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel in Egypt are underway, with the goal of reaching an agreement on the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposed peace plan. It would see the re…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Politics! Carney meets Trump again, Smith pitches a pipeline

Aaron Wherry, senior writer at CBC's parliamentary bureau, is back today to talk Canadian politics.

We get into Mark Carney’s upcoming trip to Washington and what it might mean for the possibility of …

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago