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Encore: ex-Raptors President Masai Ujiri

Mon Jun 30 2025

After a transformative 13 years, it was announced that the Toronto Raptors and longtime President Masai Ujiri would be parting ways. Across his time with the Raptors Ujiri became a figure central to Canadian...

Canada’s energy minister on pipelines, Bill C-5 controversy

Fri Jun 27 2025

Canada’s energy and natural resources minister Tim Hodgson is in charge of an extremely important file for the federal government.That’s because Prime Minister Carney campaigned on getting big energy and...

The unanswered questions of the Iran strike

Thu Jun 26 2025

On Tuesday, Donald Trump angrily swore about his frustrations with Israel and Iran after both countries exchanged missile fire just before the ceasefire Trump helped negotiate.So far, the fragile ceasefire...

Bubble trouble: Do protest bylaws silence dissent?

Wed Jun 25 2025

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has just launched a constitutional challenge against legislation in the city of Vaughan known as a “bubble zone” bylaw. It restricts protest within 100 metres of a...

The MAGA civil war over Iran

Tue Jun 24 2025

Over the last week, as the exchange of missiles between Israel and Iran intensified, Donald Trump’s supporters have found themselves in two camps: the hawks, like Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz who support...

Trump joins Israel's war in Iran

Mon Jun 23 2025

Days into the Iran-Israel war, the United States has carried out a series of limited strikes centered on three Iranian nuclear sites. U.S. President Donald Trump has referred to the strikes as a “spectacular...

In search of separatists in Alberta

Fri Jun 20 2025

Last week, Front Burner spent a few days in Three Hills, Alberta, a small town northeast of Calgary. We attended an event about Alberta independence, and spoke to a wide array of people about separation from...

What exactly is ICE?

Thu Jun 19 2025

For months now, agents working for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have been carrying out raids, arresting people on the street, at work and at immigration courthouses. Often they are...

Politics! Carney’s ’delete laws’ bill, G7 wraps

Wed Jun 18 2025

In this politics roundup, we first check in with the CBC’s Aaron Wherry in the Alberta Rockies about the main takeaways from the G7 summit, which wrapped without Donald Trump after he left to deal with the...

Palantir’s big data, AI long game

Tue Jun 17 2025

Palantir’s technology has been used by everyone from the CIA and Mossad to Airbus and Morgan Stanley. The multi-billion dollar big data software company is at the centre of many of the major issues of our...

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