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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.Alright, it’s time for another Herle Burly 2-part pod!The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney is our guest for Part 1 of the podcast. 18th Prime Minister of Canada. Architect of the largest electoral victory in Canadian history. The first Conservative Prime Minister in over 100 years to win successive majority governments. One of the greatest political nights of my life was sitting around a chair listening to Brian Mulroney talk about his life in politics. It’s an extraordinary life. He’s an extraordinary raconteur. And we’re just going to replicate that today as we have a chat about politics and life.Part 2 of the podcast, is exactly what Part 2 of the podcast is, every week. Our Political Panel with Jenni (take no prisoners) Byrne and Scott (always happy to be your prisoner, as long as I can choose the restraints) Reid. We’re going to talk about all the important stuff that went down in Canadian politics since last Tuesday. And just like a caucus meeting we’ll laugh, fight and swear at each other in the process. Unlike a caucus meeting, it’ll be heavy on laughing. Plus, stick around as we throw our “HEY YOU’s” out onto the interwebs.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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.Alright, it’s time for another Herle Burly 2-part pod!Part 1 is award-winning, national health writer Andre Picard. Mr. Picard is one of Canada’s top health and public policy observers and commentators. He’s been writing for The Globe and Mail since 1987, is an 8-time nominee for the National Newspaper Awards and is the author of 5 bestselling books. His latest is “Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the wake of a Pandemic.” We’ll be taking a deep dive into that and what needs to be done to improve the state of care for our elders.Part 2 this week, as it is every week, is our Political Panel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’re going to talk about:Jason Kenney wielding the axe in an effort to quell caucus unrest.The continuing saga of Doug Ford and the reopening of Ontario.His government voted down a NDP motion to listen to the science table and allow outdoor activities.And the Feds are rolling out their vaccine comms but it sounds like a bad Netflix show to me: “One-dose summer. Two-dose fall”, (starring Jason Bateman and Drew Barrymore). We’ll pull it apart and weigh in on whether comms like that helps, hinders or just kinda sits there on the sidelines, ignored like so many Astra Zeneca vaccines.Finally, stick around as we throw our “HEY YOUs” out into the nether regions of social media.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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.Alright, it’s time for another Herle Burly 2-part pod!Part 1 of pod today, my guest is Deputy Leader of the Progressive Senate Group, Dennis Dawson. Dennis goes down in history as one of the youngest MPs ever elected in Canada, when he was just 27 years old. Later, he chaired the Quebec caucus and, later still, launched one of Canada’s leading government relations firms in Quebec City. We’re going to talk about Quebec politics today. How is it that Premier Legault can maintain such popularity during Covid when Kenney, Ford and Pallister’s numbers are cratering? We’ll chat whether the federal Liberals can find their majority in Quebec. And then, Bill C-10 and the role of the Senate.Part 2 of the pod is our ever-lovin’, ever blaspheming Political Panel, with those members of “the meeting after the meeting”, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up on the “Why is Minister Guibeault flailing so badly” conversation on Bill C-10. Also, Katie Telford made an appearance in front of the House of Commons Defence Committee; good or bad politics here? And finally, Doug Ford has launched a big-money ad campaign casting Trudeau as the boogie-man of border control. Can it possibly work for him? Plus, stick around so you can hear us throw our “HEY YOUs” out into the void.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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.Alright, it’s time for another Herle Burly 2-part pod!Part 1, we have John Boyko. John is an educator, guitar player, former municipal politician AND the noted author of 8 books. His latest is: “The Devil’s Trick: How Canada fought the Vietnam War”. We’re going to talk about the Canada/U.S. relationship in the 50s and 60s and the surprising ways Canada was involved in war most think we had little to do with. Just how much did were Pearson, Paul Martin Sr. and Trudeau involved in that file?Part 2 of pod is your weekly dose of issues, analysis and a unique brand of blaspheming that could only come from the backroom. It’s our Political Panel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. This week we’re going to talk about: First we’ll discuss about the vaccine comms crisis.We’ll do a “1-Year our from the Ontario Election” round up and discuss if Doug Ford retrieve what seems irretrievableWe’ll also discuss Annamie Paul and escalating tensions within her own Green Party executive.And finally, stick around for our “HEY YOUs!” this week.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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.Alright, it’s time for another Herle Burly 2-part pod!First up is Mark Carney. Yup, that Mark Carney. The former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, Mark Carney. The Mark Carney who recently spoke at the Liberal Convention. But I have to ask: How much do you really know about this man? Today, we’re going to attempt to crack open The Carney. We’ll take a deeper dive into his story. Why a young, successful, master of the universe, Goldman Sachs guy, just quits – to become a bureaucrat in the Department of Finance. We’ll talk about the thesis of his new book “VALUE(S): Building a better world for all”. And we’re going to try to demystify the link between climate action and finance policy and what means for Canada.Part 2 of is our Political Panel with Jenni “Accept no bullshit” Byrne and Scott “I have no need of fancy grooming products” Reid. We’ll talk about the continuing Ford Fallout in Ontario. Sick Leave? What Sick Leave? The Vance sexual misconduct story. How compelling is this politically? And what about this angle: every day we’re talking about this story is another day we’re not talking about rapid testing or vaccines. Trudeau’s got the guns out in his vaccine photo op – but he’s been tardy on Travel bans. Plus, stick around for our “HEY YOUs!” this week.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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 another 2-part podcast today.First up on the pod, we have post-budget panel: Kate Bezanson, Peter Nicholson, and Jim Stanford. Kate is an official Herle Burly Alumnus, appearing on the show back in July. She’s an Associate Dean of Social Sciences at Brock University and she’s written extensively – and presciently, as it turns out – on the need for government support of child-care in order to recover from this pandemic.Peter has served in numerous posts in government, business, science and higher education. His long public service career included positions as Head of Policy in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada and Clifford Clark Visiting Economist in Finance Canada. He’s written exclusively for our online publication “QUOTES” which you can find at AirQuotesMedia.com and ... he is a Member of the Order of Canada.And Jim is a 2019 Herle Burly Podcast Alumnus and the founder of The Centre for Future Work, a progressive think tank studying how work is changing in the modern economy. He was formerly Economist and Policy Director for Unifor. Among many media appearances, he’s a contributing columnist for the Toronto Star. That, my intrepid Herle Burly-ites, is a helluva lot of fiscal analytical firepower.Part 2 of the pod is the Political Panel, with our strategists and comms gurus from the furthest back of the backrooms — the secret backrooms where Prime Ministers just might hurl a telephone at the wall or tell you how crappy your last speech was — Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’re going to pick up on all of the budget talk. We’ll dive into Erin O’Toole’s Carbon Tax masquerading as something called a “Low Carbon Savings Account” AND there are political sh!t shows that are manageable ... and then there’s the irretrievable sh!t show that is Doug Ford’s Ontario government right now. Finally, we’ll all throw our “HEY YOUs!” out into the digital void.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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 another 2-part podcast today. Part 1 is the noted Canadian economist, Don Drummond. Mr. Drummond spent almost 23 years in progressively more senior positions in the federal Department, culminating in Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. Paul Martin called him “one of the most principled and imaginative public servants with whom I have ever worked.” Subsequent to his time in government, he was Chief Economist for the TD Bank. And is now Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. Mr. Drummond is well outside the consensus on pandemic stimulus spending and we’re going to talk about all of that today.Part 2 of the pod is our ever-lovin’ Political Panel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up on my conversation with Mr. Drummond. We’ll get into the goings on at both the Liberal and NDP conventions. We’ll talk about the upcoming budget. And we’ll talk about if the worm finally turning on incumbent Premiers during Covid. Finally, we’ll each throw out our “HEY YOUs!” for the week.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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 MDA Space.Alright, it’s time for another Herle Burly 2-part pod!Part 1, I’m chuffed to welcome Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes to the podcast. Jonathan and Amie are the New York Times bestselling authors of “Shattered” the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign. They’re here today to talk about their brand-new book, “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency.” It wasn’t just 43,000 votes spread out across Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin that made the difference. Biden was damned lucky lots of ways and we’ll get into all of it. Part 2 is our Political Panel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’re going to pick up on the conversation with Jonathan and Amie. We’ll talk about Mark Carney’s highly anticipated attendance at the Liberal convention next week. Lots of Twitter chatter about that, from both sides of the aisle. We’re also going to talk about this COVID 3rd Wave and what happens when your policy-making reflects politics and not good policy. And of course, we’ll shout our “HEY YOUs!” into the social media void, as we do every week.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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 MDA Space.Alright, it’s time for another Herle Burly 2-part pod!For Part 1 today, it’s “The Return of Peter Weltman”. Peter is Ontario’s independent Financial Accountability Officer, and the first time he guested with us it was one of the newsiest and most listened to episodes in the history of The Herle Burly. We are going to talk about last week’s Ontario budget. The choices that were made and the path the province has charted from here.Part 2 of the pod is our Political Panel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up on the Weltman conversation. And then, we’ll do a deep dive into what smells like an impending spring election. This government isn’t going to be defeated on the budget. So, they’re going to have to pull the plug on themselves. Who makes that decision? How do you do it and get any blowback? From your own caucus? From Canadians? Finally, we’ll each do our #HEYYOU!Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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 MDA Space.We have another 2-part pod for you today!Part 1, I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Michelle Rempel Garner to the show. You all know Ms. Rempel Garner as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill and Health Critic. A major force within the party. But we’re going to delve a little deeper into her background, today. Why she got involved, what motivates her, and what she thinks the Conservative Party should be doing to win in the next election.Part 2 of the pod is what you expect Part 2 of this pod to be: The Political Panel with Jenni Byrne & Scott Reid. We’re going to pick up on my conversation with Ms. Rempel Garner, then we’ll dive right into just about everything that went down during the Conservative Convention this past weekend. According to Erin O’Toole this isn’t your father’s Conservative Party. But should it be? And of course, we’ll all throw our “HEY YOU’s!” out into the void.Thank you for joining us on The Herle Burly 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.