The Herle Burly

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.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail and Google Canada.Greetings, you intrepid Herle Burly-ites. We have a helluva Herle Burly for you today and we’re going to get right to it, because Provincial Cabinet Ministers are on tight schedules, and you don’t keep them waiting goddamit! The Honourable Monte McNaughton is our guest today. Mr. McNaughton is the Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development in Ontario. A son of Newbury Ontario, he’s been sitting as a Progressive Conservative MPP, representing the riding of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex since 2011. And here’s where I’d like to take this conversation today:How do we help working people?What’s the role of unionization?What is this government’s agenda with regard to protection for non-unionized workers?And how will they address an issue facing the Ontario and Canadian economy: the labour shortage?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.Greetings Herle Burly-ites. This week, we have a returning guest of The Herle Burly– a distinction that makes him an official “Friend of the Pod”. It’s mandatory. Whether he likes it or not, godamm*t. Kevin Carmichael is here. Kevin is Editor In Chief at the Financial Post and you don’t get to that position unless you’re one of Canada’s leading, and award winning business journalists. He’s also a member of the International Governance Innovation’s roster of researchers and commentators. Here’s where I’d like to take the conversation today: What else? Inflation. Where it’s going. What the government might do to provide relief.Bank of Canada plans and Tiff Macklem’s statement yesterday about wage growth.Then, the labour shortage. Why we have one, how we might resolve it, and the implications for the economy.And why is Minister Freeland and Finance so quiet through a tumultuous period like 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 and Google Canada.Greetings Herle Burly-ites. Today on the pod we’re going to talk about the state of healthcare and healthcare funding in this country and we have three former Premiers here to help us do it. Moving from East to West, Stephen McNeil, the 28th Premier of Nova Scotia. Kathleen Wynne, the 25th Premier of Ontario. And, Christy Clark, the 35th Premier of British Columbia.There’s a lot of noise out there on this topic, right now. I’d like to wade through that with the people who know the system intimately… Who know what’s it’s like to administer it… And the opportunities and challenges, therein.Can greater efficiencies be found without compromising service? How much more money does the system require and what level of government should that come from? What are the impediments leaders face, and we face, to reform of the system? In other words, let’s get past the sturm and drang, and talk about realities with people who’ve governed through these challenges.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.Greetings Herle Burly-ites. Whether you’ve been with this podcast for a few years now, or a few weeks, you know we do our best to get past the talking points of politics and campaigning, economics and public policy and give you a perspective on what’s really going on. Not just in the official meetings that take place in Ottawa and so many other boardrooms around the country. But in the meeting AFTER the meeting.Our guest today is a guy who has been in a helluva lot of those “meetings after the meeting”. Brian Topp is here. Brian is one of this country’s foremost political strategists. He’s a sought-after writer, communications planner and a former union leader. In 2015, he was Chief of Staff to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and prior to that Deputy Chief of Staff to Roy Romanow in Saskatchewan. In 2006 and 2008, Brian presided over the Orange Wave as the Federal New Democratic Party’s national campaign director. And following the death of Jack Layton in 2012, he ran for the party leadership, coming in second to Tom Mulcair. Currently, Brian is a founding partner at GT&Co. Today we’re going to tour the full horizon of Canadian politics with a look at how various parties and coalitions are reacting to the mood of the country and how individual politicians are stepping up or falling short with voters.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.###