About me
Jayme Poisson is the host of daily CBC News podcast FRONT BURNER. Prior to this, she spent eight years as a reporter for The Toronto Star, focusing largely on investigative reporting. Poisson has been nominated for three national newspaper awards: she was part of a team that won the Governor General’s Michener award for reporting on former Toronto mayor Rob Ford; and she has won the Sidney Hillman award for public service journalism twice, for investigations into sexual assault on university campuses and ongoing mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nation. Poisson's mercury poisoning investigation also won an award for achievement in human rights reporting from the organization Journalists for Human Rights.
