Election panel: The promises and limits of ‘affordability’
Affordability policy pledges are front and centre in the Canadian federal election campaign. We’ve seen Conservatives and Liberals promise tax cuts. The Liberals and NDP promise to lower your cellphon...
26 Sep 201921min
Democrats launch Trump impeachment process
On Tuesday, U.S. Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. Today on Front Burner, CBC's senior Washington editor Lyndsay Duncombe explains what happens next and what Joe Biden's ...
25 Sep 201920min
Vaping sickness: what we know and what we don't
A young man in London, Ont., was recently put on life-support with a respiratory illness that's been linked to vaping. He was the first with that diagnosis in Canada, after more than 450 Americans fel...
24 Sep 201923min
Naomi Klein on climate strikes, Greta and the Green New Deal
Millions of climate strikers all across the world took to the street on Sept 20th. And there’s another strike scheduled on Sept 27th, as well. Today on Front Burner, we talk to Naomi Klein, author of ...
23 Sep 201925min
BONUS: Alleged RCMP spy case rocks intelligence services
Late last week, a director-general with the RCMP was arrested and charged with breaching Canada’s secrets law, for allegedly preparing to share a cache of classified intelligence material with a forei...
21 Sep 201921min
Trudeau, blackface and experiencing racism in Canada
Today on Front Burner, we talk to the National Observer’s Fatima Syed, and to doctor Ritika Goel, about Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal, and why for so many Canadians of colour, it’s a familiar sor...
20 Sep 201921min
Photo shows Liberal leader Justin Trudeau in brownface
A photograph of Justin Trudeau in brownface and wearing a turban at a 2001 “Arabian Nights”-themed costume party was published in TIME Wednesday night. Soon after, Trudeau apologized, saying he now re...
19 Sep 201918min
Loneliness, suicide, substance abuse: Mental health in Alberta’s oilpatch
Today on Front Burner, an intimate look at mental health struggles amongst workers in Alberta’s oilpatch with the co-producer of a new documentary on the subject, ‘Digging in the Dirt.’
18 Sep 201919min
