Podcast Episodes

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 months 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 months 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 1 week ago

Weekend Listen: Death, sex, money … and podcasting? (via Bookends)

When the book ends, the conversation begins. On Bookends, Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump, and the alarm bells of fascism

After Donald Trump was elected for a second time, historian Timothy Snyder wrote this in the New Yorker: “Trump has always been a presence, not an absence: the presence of fascism.” Today on Front Bu…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

U.S. politics! Government shutdown, military pep talk

The U.S. government has shut down after Republicans and Democrats failed to pass a spending bill before the end of Tuesday. Government services will grind to a halt and hundreds of thousands of feder…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago