• Front Burner

  • By: CBC
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Your essential daily news podcast. We take you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. Hosted by Jayme Poisson. Every morning, Monday to Friday.


    Visit https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner for show descriptions, links, and transcripts.


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Episodes
  • Weekend Listen: What happened to Christine Harron?
    Nov 23 2024

    Christine Harron, a book-loving teenager from Hanover, Ontario, leaves for school in the spring of 1993 and is never seen again. A suspect emerges, confessing to her murder, but the case falls apart and Christine's family are left without answers.


    In Season 9 of the award winning podcast Someone Knows Something, David Ridgen, along with Christine's mother, reopen the investigation and come face to face with the man who said he killed Chrissy.


    Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen. Each season tackles an unsolved case, uncovering details and bringing closure to families.


    More episodes of Someone Knows Something are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/3PSdjpxO

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    36 mins
  • Politics, Gaza and money collide at The Giller Prize
    Nov 22 2024

    For the last year, Canada’s premier literary award The Giller Prize has been embroiled in a controversy that has split the Canadian literary community. Last years gala was interrupted by protestors who rushed the stage carrying placards emblazoned with ‘Scotiabank Funds Genocide.’


    What they were referring to was the fact The Giller’s lead sponsor, Scotiabank, was a principal shareholder of one of Israel’s largest weapons manufacturers. They also objected to a pair of Giller sponsors invested in the Israeli military and settlements in the occupied West Bank.


    Since then, a number of former Giller winners, along with hundreds of bookworkers across the country have committed to a boycott.


    Winner of the 2005 Giller Prize David Bergen joins the show to discuss his decision not to attend this year’s Giller Prize – and a broader conversation about the duty of a writer, and whether it is possible for artists to reconcile their personal convictions with the interests of corporate sponsors.


    For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

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    29 mins
  • Long-range missiles, nuclear fears in Ukraine
    Nov 21 2024

    Earlier this week, after months of debate and hesitation, the U.S. decided to allow Ukraine to use American made ATACMS missiles on targets inside Russia. Escalations followed, such as Russia signing a new doctrine that lowered the threshold for nuclear attacks.


    As the tensions ratchet up, there’s still the question of what will happen once Donald Trump takes office.


    To break down the gravity of this moment, we talk to David Sanger, longtime New York Times national security correspondent and the author of “New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion and America’s Struggle to Save the West”.


    For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

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    25 mins

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