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The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Dr. Andrew Boozary is here. And I’ll just come out and say it: Dr. Boozary’s CV intimidates the crap out of me. He’s a primary care physician, policy practitioner, researcher, and the Founding Executive Director of the Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine at the University Health Network. He completed his medical training at U of T and his health policy training at Princeton and Harvard. He is also the founding Editor in Chief of the Harvard Public Health Review. Dr. Boozary’s work is at the intersection of health policy, social justice and equitable health care delivery — his aim is to improve health outcomes for marginalized populations. And with a background like that not shocking at all that he’s served in senior advisory roles for policymakers in Canada and abroad.I want to focus our conversation on a few key questions:How does poverty manifest itself in health issues, what kind of stresses does it put on the health care system?Homelessness. What is it, and is the approach scalable to the size of the problem?How does everybody get ready access to primary care?And finally, some politics.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Alright you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. I think our guest is setting some kind of record on today’s show. Here’s why: He’s a cabinet minister who’s making his third appearance on The Herle Burly. The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson is here.The first time he joined us it was in his capacity as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change. The second was as Minister of Natural Resources. And just about a month ago – you all remember the cabinet shuffle – well, Minister Wilkinson was not shuffled out … he was shuffled further IN … as his portfolio was expanded to Minister of Energy and Natural Resources.  Join us for a deep dive on climate, energy, and affordability and the politics of it all.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Alright, our guest today is renowned urban planner, developer, lecturer and public speaker … Jennifer Keesmaat. Jennifer has been named one of the “most powerful people in Canada” by Macleans, one of the “most influential” by Toronto Life. She spent 5 years as Toronto’s Chief City Planner, where she was celebrated for her forward thinking and collaborative approach to city building. She’s a Distinguished Visitor in Residence Emeritus at the University of Toronto and she shares her vision for cities of the future and the importance of the public sector’s role through publications like The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Affairs and The Toronto Star. Today, Jennifer is the CEO of The Keesmaat Group, and a founding partner of Markee Developments, where she’s developing new communities across the GTA as sustainable, liveable places that prioritize access to high-quality, affordable rental housing.So, no surprise where we’re going with this conversation: Cities! What their challenges are. Housing. Homelessness. And transit.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. The pod today is nirvana for polling nerds like me. And anyone who’s just curious about why Canadians, who don’t live and work in the Ottawa bubble, are thinking what they’re thinking. Our guests are two fantastic pollsters I’ve wanted on the show for a long time: Dan Arnold and David Colleto.Dan has a Masters in Statistics from the University of Alberta and began his research career at Pollara where he led projects for their biggest clients. In 2014, he joined the Trudeau Liberals as their Lead Research Strategist and oversaw the party’s research in the lead up to their historic third-to-first 2015 majority election victory. And he did it all again in 2019 and 2021. He also played a prominent role in the PMO as Director of Research and Advertising. Dan rejoined Pollara about 20 months ago as Chief Strategy Officer.David is one of Canada’s best known public opinion analysts and social researchers. He’s the Founder, Chair and CEO of Abacus Data – where he works with some of North America’s most respected brands. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary and he’s an expert on voting behaviour and the intersection of public opinion and public policy. Not only that, David teaches in the Graduate Program of Political Management at Carleton.So today, with this kind of expertise on pod, I want to focus on a singular topic: The multi-year logjam in polling between the Liberals and Conservatives – never more than about 2 points away from one another – appears to have broken. The Conservative Party of Canada have now opened a 10-point lead. What’s happening out there? Who’s moved and why? Is there a road back for the Liberals? And what might be the clinching argument for the Conservatives?Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! If you’re a regular listener here, you’ll know that we’ve been exploring the future of media and news on the pod, these last number of weeks. We’ve had a couple of fantastic panels. The first was Elly Alboim and Bill Fox, who we’re referring to around here as “The Interns.” The second, “The State of Canadian News and Journalism," just two weeks ago, was with Paul Wells, Joyce Napier and Andrew Coyne. So today, we’re completing the set.We’ve gathered a third panel – Jesse Brown, Justin Ling and Michael Spitale – because I want to specifically explore the new media landscape … what it is, exactly … what it can do, what gaps it fills … and the power it wields that traditional media no longer does.Jesse Brown is a well-known Canadian journalist, media personality, and new media entrepreneur. Among a long list of accomplishments, in 2013, he founded the “Canadaland podcast, grew it into a full-fledged media company and one of the most popular podcasts in the country.Justin Ling is an award winning, freelance investigative journalist who specializes in privacy and security issues, foreign policy, politics, law, media and where all those things intersect. His Substack is “Bug-eyed and Shameless – dispatches from the fringes of the information war.”I got to know Michael Spitale working for Premier Wynne in 2013. He became the youngest ever President of the Ontario Liberal Party. He’s currently the public affairs director for a well-known labour union. But he’s here today, because he’s a co-founder of Air Quotes Media — together with Jody Colero, Jill Engelman, David Rosenberg and myself — and one of the creators of “The Herle Burly” and “Curse of Politics” podcasts.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. We’ll get right to it because we have a cabinet minister in the house today, and I don’t like to keep cabinet ministers waiting: The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations.First elected as a Member of Parliament in 2015, Mr. Miller was a lawyer prior to entering politics … specializing in international and commercial law … working in Montréal, Stockholm, and New York City. Previous to that, he served as an infantry soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces. And he made history in 2017 when he delivered a statement in the House of Commons entirely in Mohawk … the first time the language had been spoken in either the House or Senate since Confederation.Today on the pod:We’ll talk about what his mandate is … what the government is doing/intends to do in this area … and why.Criticism from the indigenous community … as well as from the political right.And, is there a looming conflict between indigenous rights and our ability to access critical minerals in an timely fashion?*NOTE: This interview was recorded on Monday, July 24, 2023, before the Prime Minister shuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, which resulted in Minister Miller leaving his previous portfolio and assuming the role of Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Today on the pod, we’ve assembled just a fantastic panel of three noted Canadian journalists: Andrew Coyne, Joyce Napier, and Paul Wells.I don’t feel I need to get into their bios. If you don’t know these three – where to read them, where to watch them – you’re not paying proper attention. And that, dear Herle Burly-ites, dovetails nicely with the crux of our show. What we’ll be talking about here, is the elemental question ... What is the Future of Journalism? To stretch a metaphor … As a society we need people to eat their vegetables. But it seems like fewer and fewer of us want to eat vegetables, much less pay a market rate for them. So how do get nourishing vegetables produced and consumed?ANDREW COYNE: https://twitter.com/acoyne JOYCE NAPIER: not on social mediaPAUL WELLS: https://substack.com/@paulwellsThank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

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The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. We have the Honourable Perrin Beatty here with us today. Mr. Beatty is the President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s largest national business association. Prior to joining the Chamber, he was the President and Chief Executive of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters. Business has always been in his blood, and this is the part of his life that we’ll largely be focussing on today. But he’s probably known to most as the long serving Progressive Conservative MP first elected to Parliament at the age of 22! And a Minister of 7 different departments including National Revenue, Solicitor General and Secretary of State for External Affairs. In 2018, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions to the development of our nation as a politician and corporate leader. So, here’s where we’re going with this conversation:We’re going to talk investment vs spending in the context of long-term growth. How unaligned the parties seem to be when it comes to business interests. What is the business community’s view of increasing inequality? And why is there increasing disengagement of business people from the political life of the country.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Welcome back to our semi-regular feature here on The Herle Burly, called “The Chiefs”.  This is edition 3 of The Chiefs, Herle Burly-ites. We debuted it back in January to discuss the issues from the unique perspective of people who think about them NOT as campaigners do … i.e. what might be ideal in a political sense … but rather, from the POV of what’s possible to deliver in a governing sense. So once again, we’re doing that with these 3 former Chiefs of Staff to some of Canada’s most accomplished heads of government:Tim Murphy – former Chief of Staff to Paul Martin … now CEO and Managing Partner at McMillan LLP.Ian Brodie – first Chief of Staff to Stephen Harper, and central to the founding of the CPC. Now … Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary.Brian Topp – former Chief of Staff to Rachel Notley in Alberta … Deputy Chief to Roy Romanow in Saskatchewan … and one of the architects of Jack Layton’s Orange Wave, federally.  Today, he’s a founding partner at GT&co.Today is time for some summer stock taking. We’re on the cusp of summer recess for a government almost 2 years in, so what does it need to be thinking about or setting their minds to doing differently, come September? Same for the opposition parties. Where should their heads be at these next couple of months?Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.