Podcast Episodes

Front Burner Introduces: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam

It was the biggest gold discovery in history...until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of Indonesi…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Stumbles, mumbles, smears: a U.S. presidential debate recap

It was déjà vu all over again in Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday night as Donald Trump and Joe Biden squared off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. Biden will be looking to secure a sec…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

What Charlottetown’s immigration boom can teach Canada

When Alex Cyr was growing up on Prince Edward Island in the early aughts, the capital Charlottetown was a pretty quaint and homogeneous place.

But in 2024, the city looks very different. In the last f…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

A Liberal stronghold falls. Is Trudeau next?

The last time a Conservative won a federal vote in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s, it was 1988. The Soviet Union was still together. Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister. The territory of Nunavut woul…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Why did Canada list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists?

Canada announced last week that it has added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist organizations under the criminal code. It now joins the United States as the only Wester…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

The Oilers’ historic Stanley Cup final comeback

After going down three games to zero against the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup final, the Edmonton Oilers won the next three games in a row to tie the series.

It’s a feat that’s only been accomp…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Are Canadian cities crumbling?

Calgarians are still rationing water more than two weeks after a catastrophic pipe break — and the city says they’ve got at least two more weeks to go before it’s fixed.

There’s still much we don’t kn…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

The ‘pronatalists’ trying to engineer a baby boom

Simone and Malcolm Collins are pronatalists: they believe many countries are headed toward a catastrophe of shrinking population, and that we need to have more babies to save them. Other supporters o…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Why you can’t buy a cheap Chinese electric car

 If price is one of your top reasons for why you haven’t bought an electric car, China is looking to solve that problem. Chinese consumers can buy high quality electric cars for as little as $10 -tho…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

War grinds on in Ukraine. Is peace possible?

On the weekend, more than 90 countries held a conference in Switzerland billed as a “peace summit” for Ukraine.

But Russia was not in attendance. The summit failed to reach a consensus on a final stat…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago