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Front Burner

Front Burner

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Front Burner is a daily news podcast that takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. Each morning, from Monday to Friday, host Jayme Poisson talks with the smartest people covering the biggest stories to help you understand what’s going on.

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  • Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 2
    Jul 3 2026

    The Canadian defence industry can’t grow the way Prime Minister Mark Carney is proposing by just selling domestically. That’s why another aim of the Defence Industrial Strategy is to grow Canadian defence exports by 50%. So what could happen when the world comes knocking on our defence industry’s door?


    This is part two of a two part documentary. Part one aired on July 2nd.


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

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    25 mins
  • Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 1
    Jul 2 2026

    Mark Carney ran for office promising to spend a whole lot more on the Canadian military. Since being elected, he’s poured billions of dollars into defence, and plans to roughly triple Canada’s defence expenditures in the next ten years. He’s also proposing to grow Canada’s defence industry revenues by 240%.


    Today, in part one of our two part documentary, senior producer Imogen Birchard heads to Canada’s biggest defence and security trade show in Ottawa to hear what those in the defence industry – and those protesting outside – think about the plan.

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

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    23 mins
  • How extreme heat is changing Europe
    Jul 1 2026

    This week, temperatures across much of Europe reached above 40 C. In parts of Spain and Portugal, it was hotter than the Sahara Desert.


    Governments are telling citizens to stay indoors. Schools have closed. Wildfires have spread. Nuclear reactors have reduced their output because rivers have become too warm to cool them efficiently. The World Health Organization says Europe’s heat is responsible for 1,300 deaths since June 21st.


    For generations Europe built its cities, homes, public spaces and tourism industry around the assumption that summers would be hot, but bearable. That assumption is beginning to change.


    The Guardian’s Europe environment correspondent Ajit Niranjan joins us to talk about what happens when a whole continent discovers it was built for a climate that no longer exists.


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

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    30 mins
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