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 assembled a panel to talk housing and housing affordability. Plus all the related social and economic issues involved with the housing industry. As well, some solutions to Canada's housing crisis. Joining us are:Mukhtar Latif - Mukhtar is developer and affordable housing consultant with 30 years experience in the public and private sectors. His expertise is in developing affordable housing policies, products and programs, including modular housing and regeneration projects. Previously, Mukhtar was Vancouver’s Chief Housing Officer.Mike Moffatt - Mike is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at Ivey and is the Senior Director, Policy and Innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute. Previously, Mike was the Chief Innovation Fellow for the Government of Canada, advising Deputy Ministers on innovation policy and emerging trends, and represented Canada at G7, OECD and Organization of American States meetings.Diana Petramala - Diana is a Director in the Economic Advisory Team at Altus Group. Ms. Petramala has spent the bulk of her career conducting economic and real estate research. Previously, she was the senior economist at the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Ryerson University where she analyzed the impacts on demographics on housing markets and urban growth.Adam Vaughan - Adam is a former Liberal Party Member of Parliament and former Toronto City Councillor. He’s our insider on government on this panel and he’s just joined the School of Cities at the University of Toronto as a Canadian Urban Leader. As Parliamentary Secretary for Housing in the Trudeau government, he played a leading role in the creation of Canada’s first national housing strategy.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 and Easter Seals.This week on the pod, our thoughts turn to the events in Europe and we are honoured to have Sabine Sparwasser here with us. Ms. Sparwasser has been the Federal Republic of Germany’s Ambassador to Canada since 2017. Just prior to that, she was Germany’s Special Representative of the Federal Government for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ms. Sparwasser started her career as a journalist for German television.Today, we’re going to talk about the war in Ukraine generally. And more specifically with respect to Germany, the huge policy shifts the country’s made recently with respect to nuclear power and military build-up. Then we’ll discuss the strain on the EU in light of Brexit and Ukraine and Germany’s pivotal role within that political and economic union.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 and Easter Seals.My long-time friend and mentor, Bill Fox is with us. Bill started as a working journalist and now is a leading academic analyst of media and communication. Bill has worked at the highest levels of journalism and government and business. And he's among the best story tellers you'll ever find. His fantastic new book is: "Trump, Trudeau, Tweets, Truth: A Conversation." Today we'll discuss his book, politics, journalism, media, and so much more.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 and Easter Seals.Get ready politicos because we've assembled a panel of Conservative strategists, operatives, and insiders to discuss the party's fiery leadership race. Joining us are:Dennis Matthews - former advertising advisor to PM Stephen Harper and currently a principal at Enterprise Canada and president of Creative CurrencyMelanie Paradis - served as deputy campaign manager (communications) for Erin O’Toole’s successful 2020 Conservative leadership campaign as well as director of communications on Christine Elliott's leadership campaign for the Ontario PC Party in 2018, and currently an executive ghost-writer of speeches for industry executives and politiciansLaryssa Waler - worked in the Harper government in Ottawa and served as executive director of communications for Premier Doug Ford, and currently a principal of GT&CompanyThank 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 and Easter Seals.I’d like to welcome Justin Ling to the pod. He’s an award winning, freelance investigative journalist who specializes in privacy and security issues, foreign policy, politics, law, media and where all those things intersect.Today we’re going to focus on disinformation and misinformation. Where it starts, where it travels and how it affects people. We see it, hear it, feel it ... in the trucker convoy, Ukraine and just about any issue you can name that involves a tweet, like or share button.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’d like to welcome Carolyn Wilkins to the podcast. Carolyn is currently an external member of the Financial Policy Committee of The Bank of England, appointed in June 2021. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Griswold Centre for Economic Policy, and on the Board of Directors at Intact Financial Corporation. Prior to these appointments, most of you will know Carolyn from her distinguished 20-year career at The Bank of Canada, serving as Senior Deputy Governor, the Bank’s G20 and G7 Deputy, and member of the Financial Stability Board.Now, I just want to caveat that Carolyn is speaking with us in her personal capacity today, NOT on behalf of The Bank of England.We’re going dive into a few timely topics:Financial Sanctions ... what are they? How powerful a tool are they? And how the hell do they work?They don’t call it “crypto” for nothing. So we’ll spend some time demystifying cryptocurrency.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.Okay, let's get straight to it for all you public opinion research fans. To distinguish the signal from the noise and to feed all your data cravings, we’ve assembled an esteemed pollster panel to discuss a specific question—one with many threads to pull on: Who are the alienated Canadians and why are they alienated?Joining us for this timely discussion is:Greg Lyle, President, Innovative Research GroupJanet Brown, Principal, Janet Brown Opinion ResearchAlex Swann, Principal Partner, The Gandalf GroupFrank Graves, President, Ekos Research Associates 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.In the dubious, 3-years and change history of this show, we’ve been lucky enough to have two former Prime Ministers as guests and today, I’m thrilled that we make it three.We have the Right Honourable Joe Clark with us, Canada’s 16th, and youngest, Prime Minister when he defeated Pierre Trudeau in 1979. You all know Mr. Clark, son of High River Alberta, and his almost 25-year career in Parliament - I’m not going to read a bio, because we’ll cover much of it over the coming show. We’re also going to get Mr. Clark’s thoughts on some of his accomplishments in public life and some of the contemporary issues we’re dealing with in political parties and protests.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 so excited to welcome this week’s guest: The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Minister Lametti was first elected as MP for LaSalle-Émard-Verdun in 2015 and served as a Parliamentary Secretary until 2019. Prior to entering politics, he was a Professor of Law at McGill University and served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law at McGill for 3 years, as well as a member of the University’s Senate. He holds degrees from U of T and McGill, as well as a Master of Laws from Yale Law School and a Doctor of Philosophy in Law from Oxford University.We’re going to talk broadly today about Mr. Lametti’s agenda for the Department of Justice. How does he see the role of the department in a world as divided as this? What’s his view of the convoy protests – both what it represents and how best to deal with it? We’re going to talk about the Indigenous agenda within his portfolio. And we’re going to talk about Bill 21.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 we have a guest we’ve been wanting to talk to for a good long while now: Peter Routledge. Mr. Routledge is the Superintendent of Financial Institutions for the Government of Canada (OSFI), appointed to that position in June of last year. Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation. He’s also been a Senior Advisor at the Department of Finance, working on a wide range of policy issues including financial stability, housing finance and competition in financial services.Today, we’re going to talk about his mandate and what OSFI does? And we’re going to talk specifically about housing, cryptocurrency, and climate.As a bonus, you can read Peter's op-ed in #QUOTES from Air Quotes Media here: https://www.airquotesmedia.com/quotes/financial-system-resilience-1feb2022 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.