The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail and Google Canada.We’ve got a good one for you today so let’s get right to it. Dr. David Nabarro is our guest. His C.V. is long and accomplished, so here’s just a few relevant pieces. David’s the former Special Advisor to the UN on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change. He’s the Co-Lead of the food workstream of the UN Global Crisis Response Group. And just a couple of weeks ago, David was the keynote speaker at Maple Leaf’s Food Security Symposium in Toronto. A true global leader in advancing equitable food systems, he’s coming to The Herle Burly today from Geneva. So, that’s our broad topic: Food Security.Closer to home, it may surprise you to hear that over 5.8 million Canadians struggle with it. Just how prevalent is food insecurity globally? How does it relate to both agriculture and climate change? And how does food insecurity happen in rich countries like Canada in the first place? 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 and Mastercard Foundation.Well, greetings, you curious Herle Burly-ites! We have a fascinating panel discussion on tap for you today. It’s inspired by my friend Dale Eisler’s book: “From Left to Right: Saskatchewan’s Political and Economic Transformation.” How did a province like Saskatchewan, really the cradle of socialism in Canada – the birthplace of the CCF/NDP – become the most reliably right-wing province in the country? All in one generation! You Herle Burly-ites know that I’m Prelate-born and Regina-raised. I’m really excited Dale is joining me here, today. Author, former journalist, senior federal public servant and currently Senior Policy Fellow at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in Regina. Joining Dale and I for the discussion: 2 other sons of Saskatchewan! Kory Teneycke and Dwain Lingenfelter. You all know, Kory. Mr. Good-hair, Conservative Party Electoral Success Guru, Curse of Politics Panelist. And Dwain, another towering Saskatchewan public figure. He’s the former leader of the provincial NDP, President of the party, and in the governments of Blakeney and Romanow, Minister of a number of different key portfolios as well as Deputy Premier.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 and Mastercard Foundation.Alright, Herle Burly-ites, in Air Quotes Media’s effort to always be on top of all the issues you care about – here we are recording this podcast a mere 6 or so hours after the resignation of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, which is only 43 days and 18 hours less time than Ms. Truss’ entire Prime Minister-ship. I don’t know whether that’s impressive or just sad.I’m gonna go with impressive, mainly because of the strength of the guest we have on here to talk about it all. We are lucky – lucky I say – to welcome our excellent friend of the pod, Andrew MacDougall. Andrew is the former Director of Communications for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Now he lives in London, where he’s a Director at Trafalgar Strategy, and writes about politics and current affairs in all the best journalistic places. But for the purposes of our conversation, we’re going to spend a little time going back from here.What are the circumstances that led to a head of lettuce outlasting Liz Truss?Why have we had 5 Tory PMs in 6 years? What are the democratic implications of that?And how has the long tail of Brexit shaped all of this?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 Herle Burly-ites. Joining us today is Jim Stanford. Jim is the founding Director for The Centre for Future Work, a progressive think tank studying how work is changing in the modern economy. He’s one of this country’s best known economic commentators, quoted frequently in print and broadcast media. Jim also writes a regular column for the Toronto Star. Here’s where we’re going today:We’ll dive into inflation. How serious is it? And how do we fight it?Cost of living and how government can help people?What is the level of concern, or what should it be, with this country’s deficit and debt?Does this government have a real plan to grow our economy?What are the ramifications of what we know, so far, of Poilievre’s policy?And finally, we’ll look at global growth forecasts and the implications for Canada.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. Niigaan Sinclair is here. Are you an avid Maclean’s reader? If so, you’ll know Mr. Sinclair was named to their Power List, along with his father Senator Murray Sinclair. He is an Anishinaabe writer, editor and activist based in Winnipeg, and is currently a Professor and Acting Head of the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics. He regularly appears on CBC’s Power and Politics, writes for international and national print media and in 2018 won Canadian Columnist of the Year at the National Newspaper Awards for his work in The Winnipeg Free Press.So today we want to talk about the tragic events at the James Smith Cree Nation, how governments are helping or hurting progress in Saskatchewan, and more broadly, the relationship with the federal government.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. Guesting with us are Ken Dryden and Dave Bidini. And we are Herle Burly pod-marking the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series. You all know Ken Dryden, Renaissance Goalie. 6-time Stanley Cup winner, lawyer, author, former cabinet minister, former President of the Leafs, Officer of the Order of Canada … and to put a capper on that distinguished resumé … 4-time Herle Burly guest! Ken’s latest book has just launched … “The Series: What I remember. What it felt like. What it feels like now.”Dave Bidini is another charter Herle Burly guest. (That’s the least of it.) He’s a musician, founding member of the Rheostatics, author of several books, Chief Editor, President and Chair of the West End Phoenix … and the only human being to ever be nominated for a Gemini, Genie and Juno, as well as Canada Reads! Dave is one of the co-creators of the phenomenal CBC Documentary, “Summit 72.”Here’s where we’re going today:Why should anybody who wasn’t 9 or 10 years old in 1972 care about this series?What did it mean at the time … to the players and the populace?What’s the significance now?Did it change us in any way?What would’ve a loss have meant?How did the players process the pressure, as it evolved through the series?And what did we learn about Canadians through their reactions to the early losses and late wins?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. Please welcome to the pod Michael Balagus! Michael is a long-time strategist and mover and shaker for the NDP, provincially and federally. Until very recently he served as the Chief of Staff and Principal Secretary for Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP Caucus. He was named acting Chief of Staff for Jagmeet Singh in 2018. And he served as the Chief of Staff for Premiers Gary Doerr and Greg Selinger in Manitoba. Michael has also been the CEO of the Ontario Nurses Association. And he has 6 years of international political experience with the National Democratic Institute, mostly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while living in Sarajevo for four years. Today we’re talking about all things Canadian politics. What's happening on the federal scene? What to make of Pierre Poilievre's strategy and how Liberals and New Democrats should respond to that? And what happened in the 2022 Ontario provincial election?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. Please welcome back to the pod Paul Palango for our follow-up conversation about a true crime story, a tragedy, and what Paul describes as a cover-up involving a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020. Mr. Palango is an author of three books on the RCMP and a frequent commentator over the past 27 years on RCMP issues. He's also a former senior editor at The Globe and Mail who now lives in Chester Basin, Nova Scotia. His most recent book is: "22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia."  Join us as we go deep into what the book describes as "a shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors." 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 and Google Canada.We're gonna get right into it today with two of Canada's top housing experts to explore the market and navigate our way through what many feel is now out of reach, or worse, a sector in crisis.With us today is John Webster, who previously appeared on the pod and ranks the second most listened to episode after our conversation with Seamus O'Regan. John is an innovator in the housing economy and currently President and CEO of Scotia Mortgage Authority. We're also joined by Ron Butler, founder of Butler Mortgage, smart as a whip, with unparalleled experience servicing clients in the housing market.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 and Google Canada.It’s a helluva day here on The Herle Burly. Our 5th anniversary! We started this podcast 5 years ago not really knowing where it would take us. David Axelrod was generous enough to help us launch this thing in 2017, and I’m just so chuffed to welcome him back. David, as most of you know, is the host of The Axe Files and one of the people who make Hacks on Tap the must listen it is. He’s the founder and Director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. He’s a senior political commentator on CNN, and of course, he was chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. So just a bit of success.Here’s where we’re going today:We’ll discuss the state of democracy in the U.S. and the electoral implications of the January 6th hearings. How can you campaign against fascism or autocracy when voters can’t define those concepts? Especially in the face of inflation.What are the mid-term prospects … post-Dobbs, post-IRA passage, post-tuition debt action. Will women and young people turn out?Who wins the DNC presidential primary in 2024? Replica of, or remedy for, Biden.Who wins the GOP primary? Trump or the replica? And then just some key observations as a political practitioner. In an era of media fragmentation and partisan divides … is a broad-based win a thing of the past?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.