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Today we're bringing you a 2025 Front Burner wrap up, answering audience questions and bringing you behind the scenes of the making of some of our most popular episodes of 2025. For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

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  Floor-crosser defects to surging Liberals

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  The Rise of ‘Looksmaxxing’

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  Will AI agents take over the workplace?

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  The mother of all questions: do you want kids?

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  Cuba is pushed to the brink

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  Tragedy in Tumbler Ridge

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  The case to ban kids from social media, with Jonathan Haidt

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  Should Canada have nuclear weapons?

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  ICE, and lessons from Minnesota

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  The Washington Post and billionaires’ assault on journalism

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  What’s behind Trump’s latest Canada threats?

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  Epstein’s orbit: will justice come?

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  What happens in ICE detention?

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  Politics! Poilievre’s win, election speculation

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  Leader or loser: Poilievre’s crucial vote

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  Trump 2.0’s Nazi-coded social feeds