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Front Burner is a daily @CBCNews podcast that drops weekdays at 6 a.m. ET. Hosted by @jayme_poisson.
Joined September 2018
- “‘Just trust us,’ says the government.… That’s not a democratic answer we should be comfortable with.” @cancivlib’s Noa Mendelsohn Aviv on the far-reaching powers the government gave itself with the Emergencies Act: cbc.ca/1.6359125
- “No one ever — like in their worst nightmares — can imagine living in a country at war.” Today, @olgatokariuk and @bbclysedoucet describe the scenes unfolding in Ukraine after the country was invaded by Russia: cbc.ca/1.6363733
- Texas scientists @PeterHotez and @mebottazzi won’t make a cent from the patent-free COVID-19 vaccine they developed — and they don’t want to. Today, they tell us the story behind Corbevax, and why they believe it can be a powerful tool for vaccine equity: cbc.ca/1.6334427
- “The president embarked on this kind of systematic effort to get people to stop believing the people who actually knew what they were talking about.” @ddale8 reflects on four years of fact-checking the U.S. president: cbc.ca/1.5883211
- “It is honestly kind of like therapy for a lot of people.” With Elden Ring releasing Friday, @tamoorh tells us why the punishing difficulty and desolate ambience of FromSoftware games can help fans process real life struggles: cbc.ca/1.6360934 #ELDENRING
- Robocop, one movie Amazon got in its purchase of MGM, is set in a dystopian future where a company "basically controls the world... and if they have an analog in real life, it's Disney and Amazon." @johnsemley3000 talks big media mergers. cbc.ca/1.6043434
- “We should claw back dollars from companies that weren’t in real need and direct it to both individuals and businesses that are in continued need” Liberal MP @beynate on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: cbc.ca/1.5911343
- “He's being honest, he's constantly communicating, but also, most importantly … he hasn't left.” @khinkulova on President Zelensky’s messages to the Ukrainian people since the Russian invasion began, and how he went from comedian to wartime leader: cbc.ca/1.6366745
- "My doctor said my plasma is like liquid gold." @OrmistonOnline reports on the first wave of coronavirus survivors who are helping to fight COVID-19 by donating their plasma for clinical research trials: cbc.ca/1.5534958
- "How did you not know in your gut that leaving and traveling to a location like Hawaii, for example, was not antithetical to what you were telling everyone else in your constituency to do?" @VassyKapelos on the anger over politicians who traveled abroad: cbc.ca/1.5860305
- A very special episode today, featuring Toronto @Raptors president and newly minted vice-chairman Masai Ujiri in conversation with @jayme_poisson. Here are some highlights:
- "This doesn't happen to other genres of music." As prosecutors use Young Thug's lyrics as evidence for gang-related charges, @JMorel_JR on why hip hop artists and Black men have their work used against them in court: cbc.ca/1.6478627
- “To have this sort of fluffy, boisterous ego contest in the middle of this global crisis just feels like the most tone-deaf thing you could do.” @shannonmstirone on the billionaire space race: cbc.ca/1.6098626
