The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. We’ve got a helluva pod for you today, because Elamin Abdelmahmoud is here. Elamin is big in the podcast and pop culture world with his own CBC show, Pop Chat. He’s a culture writer at BuzzFeed News and was founding co-host – with Rosie Barton – of the CBC Politics podcast, Party Lines, as well as panelist on the CBC At Issue Panel. And he has a new book, “Son of Elsewhere”  a reflection on Blackness, faith, language, pop culture, and the challenges and rewards of finding your way in the world. Today we’re going to get deeper insights into his book, country book, and of course, 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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. On the pod today is the prime architect of Doug Ford’s landslide re-election in Ontario: Kory Teneycke. You all know Mr. Teneycke, a good Saskatchewan boy, former comms director to Prime Minister Harper and campaign manager for Doug Ford in both the 2018 and 2022 elections. Cast your mind back over 2 years ago and recall the fix Mr. Ford seemed to be in. His popularity was rock bottom. So, what changed? We’ll dive deep into the details of the winning strategy with Kory and we’ll also ask him about what surprised him about the other campaigns.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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Jean Charest is with us on The Herle Burly! I’m not going to do a bio here. You all know Mr. Charest, his political backstory, and his contributions to our national and regional lives in Canada, which continue to this day. Instead, today is mostly going to be a contemporary conversation. We’re going to talk about what he’s trying to accomplish running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. What his concerns are. Where he sees the future of the Party. What he thinks about our current Prime Minister, as well as his competition in the ongoing leadership race, and what he’d do differently if he were leading 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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. On the pod today we have Ryan Jespersen with us and the host of his own live, daily streaming show, Real Talk. He’s a phenomenon out in Alberta with a huge and devoted listenership. And the best part is, Ryan built it from the ground up. He figured out the technology, hired staff, secured sponsors and created his own promotions after getting fired from his previous gig at CHED. Which all sounds pretty darned familiar to me.Today we’re going to talk about… What else? Jason Kenney stepping down. Rachel Notley maybe stepping up. The potential future for the PC party out in Alberta. And the general state of the province and Albertans as they look toward the future. And I’m sure we’ll throw in a couple of other things along the way.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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Brigitte Legault is our special guest. And if you don’t know who Ms. Legault is, you’re surely going to after this discussion. She is the fearless, mobilizing force and architect of the CAQ, Coalition Avenir Quebec. As its Director General, she organized the party from an idea to a governing behemoth in just over 10 years.We’ll talk a little bit about her backstory. Her journey from being a former President of the Young Liberals and party activist. Why she became disaffected with the Liberal Party. What led to the creation of the CAQ. What subsequently has happened to the Liberals and PQ in that province, and the CAQ’s role in that. We’ll talk Bill 96, Quebec language laws, and as much as we can cover about what’s happening on the ground in Quebec politically, today.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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. I’m excited to welcome Armine Yalnizyan as our guest today. Armine is a leading voice on Canada’s economy. According to Maclean’s Magazine, who ranked her #22 on their Power List. She’s the Caring Person’s economist and a big picture thinker who looks out for the little guy. Armine coined the term “She-cession”, way back in March 2020, to describe the economic fallout of the pandemic and is currently the Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers. Her mission as a policy thinker and innovator, is to bring a worker’s perspective to the public policy development process and to help all of us make sense of what’s happening in the economy. And these are precisely the things we’re going to talk about today:Why do working people deserve a bigger slice of the pie?How do they get it?How will hordes of gig workers ever find security?And what’s the role of government in all of that?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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. We have a good friend of the pod here, Greg Lyle, founder and President of the Innovative Research Group. If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard Greg before, as part of our pollster panel back in February. He’s built his career on the intersection of public policy, communications and public opinion. And if you’re following our sister program, Curse of Politics, you know that Greg is in field in Ontario all month long, with a weekly tracking of voter attitudes and preferences. We’re breaking down his numbers on that show, on pretty much a daily basis. But today, here on The Herle Burly, recorded on the day the writ drops, we’re going to set the table for the Ontario election:If there’s any kind of a horse race & where the hell is it?Can Ford be assailed at all?What do people think about each of the leaders (Ford, Horwath, Del Duca, Schreiner).Where are voter priorities when it comes to policy?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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Welcome back, for his second appearance on The Herle Burly, Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. First elected in 2015, Mr. Wilkinson has served Canadians as Minister of Fisheries, Oceans. And the last time the minister was on the pod, back in February 2021, it was in his capacity as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change. Subsequent to the last election, he was appointed Minister of Natural Resources at the end of October. So today we’re going to talk more about climate change, the path to net-zero and to 1.5-2 degrees, and the natural resource sector’s role in those objectives and outcomes.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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Peter Weltman is Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer. That means he heads an office that provides independent fiscal, financial and economic analysis on the state of the Ontario's finances. Just ahead of the provincial budget we'll discuss Ontario's finances and the assumptions that go into those fiscal projections. We'll also discuss a few platform ideas and how sustainable they might be.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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube. 

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail. Back again, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr.! This time as Canada's Minister of Labour. You all know Mr. O’Regan. 10 years a co-host of CTV’s Canada AM. Member of Parliament for St. John’s South—Mount Pearl since 2015. Previously serving as Minister of Veterans Affairs, Minister of Indigenous Services, Minister of Natural Resources, and as mentioned, now Minister of Labour since October 2021. That's what we'll talk about today: what's the future of the labour movement in Canada, how do working people get a bigger slice of the economic pie, how will legions of gig workers find security and what role does the federal government play in all 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.Watch conversations from The Herle Burly on YouTube.