The Herle Burly

Our special guest today is Dr. Kate Bezanson. Dr. Bezanson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at Brock University. An expert and advisor on social policy and political economy ... she says the government MUST appropriately support childcare services if it wants to see a lasting recovery from the pandemic. We'll do a deep-dive on childcare and whether the government has adequately addressed the care crisis for working families.On Part 2 ... the #PoliticalPanel goes one-on-one with me and Jenni Byrne. Jenni and I are going to pick up on the Kate conversation and we’ll also duke it out over:Canada and China ...The ever-growing, shape-shifting, what will they discover this week, WE scandal ... We’ll talk about Trump fighting Chris Wallace on Fox News ...And finally ... No way ... Blue Jays!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 Queen's Park 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.

Our special guest today is David Mulroney. David is probably our foremost expert on Canada-China relations. He served as Canada’s ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 2009 to 2012. Prior to that he headed Canada’s office in Taiwan and served as our Senior Official for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. In 2016 his book about this country’s relationship with China, Middle Power, Middle Kingdom, was awarded with J.W, Dafoe Prize.On Part 2 ... it’s the #PoliticalPanel with a twist! Including the always brilliant, always outspoken Jenni Byrne, and sitting in for Scott Reid is Chris Ball. Chris is not only a long-time campaign and communications strategist, he’s a trusted advisor to business and political leaders in this country… he also happens to be a New Democrat. And the good news, like Scott, Chris also has excellent command of the f-word.We’ll discuss WE, more WE, and phase three.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 Queen's Park 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.

Phil Fontaine joins the podcast for a raw discussion about the sadness, anger, and hope felt by Indigenous and First Nations peoples in this country. Phil is a former 3-term National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Besides being a leading voice for human rights, and a survivor of residential school abuse himself, he negotiated the Residential School Settlement Agreement – $5.6 billion in individual compensation – the largest settlement in Canadian history, for the largest human rights violation in Canadian history. We’re going to talk about systemic racism in this country, and how we work to change that.On Part 2 ... it’s our #PoliticalPanel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. Scott will join us in progress, while Jenni and I kick off the discussion with WE and the surprising fundraising haul by Leslyn Lewis in the Conservative Party leadership. Then Scott pops in to continue the conversation on the Economic Snapshot coming down from Mount Morneau about 24 hours after we record this. Is an economic snapshot really just a fiscal update in Polaroid form? And how bad is our economy really going to be, 6 months from now?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 Queen's Park 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.

For the first part of the show today, we welcome Celina Caesar-Chavannes. Ms. Caesar-Chavannes is the former MP for the riding of Whitby, serving as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister for just over a year, and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development. In March 2019 she announced that she would not seek re-election in the next election, and 18 days later she was sitting as an Independent in the House of Commons.We’re gonna talk about all of that, plus Ms. Caesar-Chavannes’ work in equity and inclusion ... and the aggressions and micro-aggressions she experienced as a Black woman working on Parliament Hill.On Part 2 ... it’s our #PoliticalPanel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up on where we left last to discuss the continued erosion of the Donald J. Trump presidency. Will he see the race out through till November? Plus:The Conservative “Leadership/Memberships Sold” Race, and what all of that means.Hockey and Sports and outbreaks of COVID at training camps ... are the playoff tournaments even real? Will the Stanley Cup be real? And why are journalists gettinglocked up for over a month just to cover it?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 Queen's Park 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.

For the first part of the show today, we welcome Minister Pablo Rodríguez to the pod. Currently, Minister Rodríguez serves as Canada's Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. And the only other politician who can hope to compete with the Prime Minister on “Quality of COVID hair".We’re going to talk a little about his back story. His history as a politician ... what animates him.We’ll discuss the politics of Quebec.The politics of Ottawa.Government accountability in the time of COVID.What the heck is a financial snapshot and why are we not getting a real budget?What’s the key to managing a minority parliament?And Canada’s unsuccessful bid for a U.N. Security Council seat.On Part 2 ... it’s our #PoliticalPanel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up on all of those topics AND ... we’ll throw in some bonus material: Peter MacKay ... so impressive in the conservative leadership debates last week. How did he learn to suddenly NOT SUCK quite so hard? What if Trump gave a Death Rally in Oklahoma, and only his 3rd cousins, twice removed showed up? And which disaffected Republican is gonna piss off Trump more ... John Bolton or Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project?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 Queen's Park 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.

For the first part of the show today, we welcome Dr. Jennifer Robson to the pod. Jennifer is an Associate Professor of Political Management at Carleton University where she teaches in Public Policy and Research Methods. Her own research addresses social and tax policy, poverty in Canada, and public administration. We’re going to talk about – what else – the COVID economy, and what it’s going to look like for us, from here on out.Part 2 of the pod, it’s the occasionally bickering, ever-lovin’ Political Panel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up on our conversation with Jennifer. PLUS ... We’ll get more granular about the COVID reopening and its implications. We’ll talk about the upcoming Conservative leadership debates and what kind of MUST SEE TV that’s gonna be. The role of policy in leadership races ... hint: there isn’t one. AND ... Trump’s firing up the ol’ Rally machine on June 20th. And everyone is welcome to attend! As long as you sign the liability waiver, so he can’t be held accountable in the event you get sick and die. Fun!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 Queen's Park 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.

First part of the show today, we have Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario’s legislature. She has led her party since 2009 through the 2011, 2014, and 2018 provincial elections.Andrea was gracious to join #TheHerleBurly podcast today for a discussion about her journey into politics, her reflection on those past campaigns, and her perspective on what’s ahead for her party and the people of Ontario.For part 2 of the pod, we've got the #PoliticalPanel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid! We’ll debate what happened in the final days of the 2018 Ontario election, and then share some war stories about what it's like on election night--when you win and when you lose. Then we'll dip into a question from our listener mailbag. 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 Queen's Park 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.

First part of the show today, we have Andrew MacDougall, former Director of Communications for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Today he lives in London, is a Director at Trafalgar Strategy, and writes about politics and current affairs for Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, CBC News and The Telegraph. We’re gonna spend a little time talking about the situation in the U.K. … with Boris and Brexit and COVID. And we’re gonna spend a lot of time talking about the state of the Conservative Party in Canada, their leadership … um, race … and what the path to government needs to look like for them.For part 2 of the pod, as has been our COVID custom, we’ll bring on The Political Panel with Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up on all of that, plus … the living history we’re seeing south of the border.Also the politics behind why Canada is NOT going to be a hub-city for the NHL playoff tournament. And why Jenni is pissed about that. The will-it-ever-end lockdown in Toronto. And why the Canada’s NDP is learning the wrong lessons from Jack Layton.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 Queen's Park 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.

Not only is Cathal Kelly the hugely admired sports columnist from The Globe and Mail, he’s also the recipient of the 2019 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his childhood memoir, “Boy Wonders”. Today, we're going to talk with Cathal about sport and business in the time of COVID … How the NBA made the pandemic real for most people … What the hell are the games going to look like when they ‘em going again!? And, will anybody care?Plus, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid are back for The Herle Burly #PoliticalPanel. We'll debate government efforts to reopen retail and other parts of the economy, whether Canada's NDP is getting any credit for the federal government policies, and finally, we'll share our experiences that leaders have with confronting electoral loss.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 Queen's Park 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.SHOW NOTES:David's Quarantine Book Recommendation this week is Discipline of power: The Conservative interlude and the Liberal by Jeffrey Simpson: https://www.amazon.ca/Discipline-power-Conservative-interlude-restoration/dp/0920510248/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=discipline+of+power&qid=1590535621&s=books&sr=1-16 

You already know he’s the Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail. You already know he’s been the breaker of huge political stories, like the Senate Expense Scandal and SNC Lavalin. You already know that, unlike me, his head of hair is immaculate. So we’re going to talk to Bob about political journalism during this pandemic. How has it changed? Or not changed? What’s the balance between criticism and support? We’ll also talk about the state of politics generally, and the Bob Fife reporting method.Plus, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid are back for The Herle Burly #PoliticalPanel. We'll debate the centralization of political power in Ottawa, Andrew Scheer's ongoing flips and flops, and more seriously, the reopening of the economy. 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 Queen's Park 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.SHOW NOTES:Today on the pod, David mentioned an earlier podcast interview he had with Jane Philpott regarding her decision to resign from Cabinet: https://www.theherleburly.com/episodes/janephilpott-polipanel David's Quarantine Book Recommendation this week is Fight of our Lives by John Duffy: https://www.amazon.ca/Fights-Our-Lives-John-Duffy/dp/000200089X