The Herle Burly

Welcome to our first Herle Burly of 2021 ... it’s a jam-packed 2-parter!For Part 1, we have Kathleen Petty ZOOMING into the show from Alberta. A co-founding producer and host at CBC Newsworld, Kathleen was the long-time host of “Today from Calgary”. Today, she’s executive producer of CBC News in Calgary and the host of the "West of Centre" podcast, providing news and analysis with a Western voice and perspective. So that’s what we’re going to talk about today ... Western Canadian issues ... before COVID ... during COVID ... and hopefully, after COVID.Part 2 of the podcast is our “Vacation Indignation & Resignation Special!”, featuring our Political Panel ... Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll talk about the fallout for Doug Ford following the Rod Phillips debacle, as well as similar dynamics playing out in Alberta, with various UCP MLAs getting on planes and taking vacation despite the lockdown.And we’ll each throw our first “HEY YOU!” of 2021 into the digital ether.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, holidaying Herle Burly-ites, welcome to our very last pod of 2020. Despite its weirdness, difficulties and downright tragedies, I feel damn thankful that all of you Herle Burly-ites stuck with us this year.Doing the show is such a joy for me and I’m gratified you let me, my friends Scott Reid and Jenni Bryne, and my arcane references to Saskatchewan Roughrider lineman of the 70s and 80s into your ear buds all year long.This week is a one-parter, and we’ve got researcher and pollster Frank Graves. Frank is the founder and President of Ekos Research Associates. He’s advised governments and ministers on matters of public policy and is a frequent commentator in both Canadian and American media.We’re going to talk about why Frank's research shows greater strands of authoritarianism, changing public perceptions in the pandemic, and we're going to talk about Canadian politics and where the parties sit a possible election year.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.

What better way to kick off the holiday pod season than to sit down with former Chief Correspondent of CBC news, anchor of The National for over 30 years and legitimate Canadian icon, Peter Mansbridge.What can I tell you about Peter that you don’t already know?Well, for one, he’s got his own podcast called “The Bridge”, exploring trends in politics in journalism, but you probably know that.There’s a story that Peter was “discovered” as a voice, making flight announcements out of a local airport in Churchill Manitoba. But, you probably know that too. Here’s one you don’t know: in 2008, after the 2006 federal election, Peter Mansbridge picked me picked me off of the junk heap of political campaigns and put me on CBC's The National for ten years to analyze Canadian politics.We’re going to talk to Peter today about a bunch of things, including his favourite players who played the game of politics, his latest book called "Extraordinary Canadians", and we're going to talk about the state of the media today.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 Teck Resources.

Alright Herle Burly-ites, time for the pod.For Part 1, we’ve got Amanda Lang in the ZOOM square today! A high-profile business journalist in this country, Amanda helped launch BNN-Bloomberg’s predecessor, ROBTV, over 20 years ago. She’s worked at CNN, the Globe and Mail and the National Post. And she was senior business correspondent for CBC News. We’ll talk about the state of journalism in this country and the state of the nation's finances.For Part 2, it’s the Political Panel, with our cussin’ cousins, strategists Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid.  We’ll pick up on the Amanda conversation. Plus, we’ll get into:The Liberal Climate Plan – the carbon price hike, and the what the political implications are for all parties...The changeover at the Finance Department with Freeland and Sabia. What kind of new thinking are we in for here...A Spring Election. Will there be one? And if so, what’s the prime imperative for each party.And finally, we’ll each throw our “Hey You!” question 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 and Teck Resources.

Alright Herle Burly-ites, we’ve got a special pod for you today. It’s a 1-parter, and this has become sort of an annual tradition with us ... our political Year in Review. Our “Annus Herle-bilis” with The Political Panel, Scott Reid and Jenni Byrne.This was recorded just last night – Monday December 8th – as part of a virtual event held by our good friends at CJPAC. Scott and Jenni and I cover everything from COVID to CERB – to Trudeau missing his election call and John Horgan nailing his election call – to Jason Kenney, Annamie Paul and Erin O’Toole. With a little bit of Peter MacKay’s flameout thrown in there for fun! We also took a bunch of burning questions from our listeners ... and stay tuned right to the end if you need a good hardware or chicken wing recommendation.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 Teck Resources.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.

We’ve got a 2-parter for you today.For Part 1, I’m so pleased to welcome Margaret MacMillan. Ms. MacMillan is a Professor of History at University of Toronto and emeritus Professor of International History at the University of Oxford. She is the bestselling author of a great many works, specializing in British Imperial history and the international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. We’ll talk to Ms. MacMillan about her new book “War: How conflict shaped us” ... and we’ll also get into historical lessons relevant to figures like Trump ... and the worldwide pandemic.For Part 2 of the pod, it’s our ever-lovin, ever-cussin’ Political Panel, with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid! We’ll going to have it out over yesterday’s Economic update from Freeland. We’ll talk about COVID vaccines in Canada. And for fun and story-telling, we’ll chat about a very prescient Trudeau issuing a read-out of his call with Erin O’Toole – before his call with Erin O’Toole even happened.Jeez, I almost forgot:We’ll also continue with our new segment “HEY YOU!”, where we all throw a question out into the void, for a politician or public figure.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.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.

A Daily-Double episode. For Part 1, we have Adrienne Spafford as our guest. Adrienne is CEO of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario, and she has a long history as, not only a seasoned healthcare leader, but a senior advisor in government. We’re going to be talking about the impacts of COVID on mental health. We'll also chat more broadly about our system and strategy for addictions and mental health care. What are we getting right? And where can we do better?Part 2 of the pod is a special edition of the Political Panel, with our comms and campaign gurus, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid! Today we're doing an ALL-MAILBAG show, answering all your burning political questions and sharing some questionable stories from our past.  And don't miss our new segment at the end of the Panel we call, “HEY YOU!” ... Here’s how “HEY YOU” works: each of us will throw a single question out into the social media ether ... for a politician or public figure. Will it be entertaining? Yeah, I’m pretty sure it will. Will somebody take the bait and give us an answer? We’ll see. Will somebody else create a burner account, and masquerade as that public figure to try to fake us out? Seems like a lot of work, but sure. Go for it. Anyway, stick around for “HEY YOU!”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.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.

Greetings, congenial Herle Burly-ites ... top of the podcast to you!Jeff Rubin is our guest for Part 1 of this episode. Jeff is the #1 best-selling author of “Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller” and the former Chief Economist for CIBC World Markets. We are going to talk about his new book “The Expendables”, and his argument that the middle class got nothing out of globalization ... except the bill. And how the blowback to all of that is changing the developed world.Part 2 of the pod, is the comms and campaign gurus you’ve grown to LOAVTH – which is a brand new word I just invented that combines LOATH and LOVE. It’s a complicated feeling, I know ... our Political Panel with  Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid! We’ll pick up on my discussion with Jeff. We’ll continue to talk about government response to the 2nd wave of the pandemic and growing COVID comms confusion. We’ll tell some stories of spouses and family members “contributing” – and I’m doing the air quotes fingers right now – to campaign strategy. And we’ll debut a new segment near the end of the Panel we call, “HEY YOU!” ... Here’s how “HEY YOU” works: each of us will throw a single question out into the social media ether ... for a politician or public figure. Will it be entertaining? Yeah, I’m pretty sure it will. Will somebody take the bait and give us an answer? We’ll see. Will somebody else create a burner account, and masquerade as that public figure to try to fake us out? Seems like a lot of work, but sure. Go for it. Anyway, stick around for “HEY YOU!”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.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.

Today’s show is one of the 2-parters you’ve come to expect from The Herle Burly – still the only podcast that combines 1970s breakfast cereal references with pandemic social-economic theory.For Part 1, Peter Weltman joins us today. Peter 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 Province's finances ... plus trends in the provincial economy. We’ll talk about the choices made in the last Thursdays’ budget. Ontario’s ongoing financial capacity and its deficit. And where the province goes from here. B-T-W, Peter is also an avid listener to the podcast, who just reached out one day and took me to lunch. Which tells all of you Herle Burly-ites ... I can be bought. A decent cheeseburger will probably do it.Part 2 of the pod is our ever-lovin’ Political Panel, with strategists Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. They cuss, they say smart things and tell funny stories, they fight like aggressive wallabys, and then they blow each other kisses from their ZOOM CUBES and make up. We’ll pick up on the Weltman conversation. Plus, we’ll talk a little about what’s going on down south right now, the heightened focus on Georgia’s Senate seats, transition issues, possible recounts, and we’ll share some of our own stories.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.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.

Back on the podcast is Averell "Ace" Smith. Ace is one of the great American political strategists for Democratic Party candidates, including Hillary Clinton, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris. In 2018 he joined The Herle Burly podcast to discuss the midterm elections and his book, "THE PITCHER AND THE DICTATOR" about baseball legend Satchel Paige. He joins us now for an analysis of the 2020 presidential election and what we learned about American voters.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.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.