The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Saab Canada , and the Public Service Alliance of Canada . Greetings you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! So, there is little doubt we are living in a time of massive change.  A dislocation – perhaps temporary, perhaps not – between long time trading partners. New stressors...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Saab Canada , and the Public Service Alliance of Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites!  The way we’re thinking about defence in Canada is not the same as it was 5 years ago. 1 year ago. Or even 6 months ago. The wars in Ukraine and Iran have dramatically...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! With me today is Carla Beck, leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party , the official opposition in the Saskatchewan Legislature ... and a heartland NDPer. As you know I’m from Saskatch...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’ve got a special show lined up for you today. A little different in format. Much longer in running time. But a subject matter that merits both of those adjustments. This is our “What’s actua...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! It’s not often on the pod we have a diplomat … a Statesman … an Ambassador … a Premier … a leader of 2 Parties … an 11-time electoral winner … an academic … and a pretty fine piano player all...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites, we’re sinking deep into the Washington swamp today. Our guest is Brody Mullins, co-author of: “The Wolves of K Street” . If you’ve ever wondered about the cigar chomping, big-time lobbying indu...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. A hard turn to the Left on this episode of the pod, because I want to examine the past, present and future of the New Democratic Party, and ask if the party is over for Canada’s...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites, The Chiefs join us today. They’re a regular feature on the pod now, showing up every couple of months to bestow a little governance wisdom upon us … 3 former Chiefs of Staff to so...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. We are on the clock today, with someone whose agenda is more crammed than most, so we’ll keep this brief. Our guest is Canada's Minister of Industry, the Honourable Mélanie...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. A fellow podcaster on the show today. But leaving his credentials there would be selling our guest very short indeed.  Michael Liebreich is here! He’s an acclaimed thought leade...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Alright, greetings you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. A special show today. If you’re any kind of regular listener to either this podcast or Curse of Politics, you know my brilliant friend and mentor Elly Alboim passed away...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , AltaGas , and Fidelity Investments Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Fred DeLorey is here! For those who may not know, Fred was the National Campaign Manager for Erin O’Toole in 2021. Before that the Director of Field Operations for Ont...

Originally aired May 25, 2023, this episode is rebroadcast in memory of Elly Alboim: an uncommon mind and a rare presence. Elly was brilliant, incisive, and deeply generous as a mentor and with his counsel. For anyone lucky enough to work with him, Elly was the person who could see the whole board at once. He was the person you wanted to speak last in a meeting because his opinion simply mattered...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and AltaGas . Greetings you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites! Courage – real courage – is a pretty valuable commodity in the current geo-political climate. Speaking out, truth telling as the situation warrants it, and according to one’s own principles, is a ma...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and AltaGas . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Sound the horns, because we have a 3-time guest on the show today. Pollster, campaign guru, and political strategist Nick Kouvalis is here. If you follow Nick on Twitter, you’ll know him as candid. A...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Bruce Power , and AltaGas . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! It occurs to us here at Air Quotes Media, that when the Prime Minister goes to China ... makes an historic trade deal ... and then invokes the term “ New World Order ” in his statement to the press...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings and a happy 2026, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! What better way to kick off our podcast year than by convening the most popular panel we run at Air Quotes Media. So demanded by this listenership, we’ve welcomed back The Chiefs to give us their governance w...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. We’ll get right into it, because we have a Cabinet Minister on the Christmas pod today. And not just any Cabinet Minister ... The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne , Canada’s Minister of Finance and National Revenue ! Toda...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , CPA Ontario , and the Port of Vancouver . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. I’m looking for the most accurate adjective to sum up the year in Canadian politics. Watershed ... Pivotal ... Seismic. They all fit to some extent. But they don’t really capture the...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , PSAC , and the Port of Vancouver . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’ve got a special 2-part episode lined up for you today… a Canada-Alberta Pipeline MOU Double-Pod Double-Panel Policy & Politics Extravaganza ! Unwieldy name, I know. But it’s apt beca...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , PSAC , and the Port of Vancouver . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. The Honourable Susan Holt, Premier of New Brunswick , the one and only remaining Liberal Premier in Canada, has graciously made time for us today. I don’t want to give too much of this away be...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , PSAC , and the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! So, about 8 weeks ago I started in on a book, and I could NOT put it down. What makes “ The Coutts Diaries: Power, Politics and Pierre Trudeau ” so compelling, is that it is wha...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , PSAC , and the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! This week – making their now regular quarterly appearance on the pod – I give you The Chiefs: Ian Brodie, Tim Murphy, and Brian Topp ! Ottawa is pretty much laser-focused on t...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , PSAC , and the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites, there’ll be no intro grasping at humour today. I can’t compete. Too intimidated. Because our guest on the pod is genuine Canadian comedy royalty: Mark Critch ! The co-creator, s...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , PSAC , and the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Tuesday this week was budget day, the Carney government’s long-awaited, first. And as we typically do when there’s a fresh budget to pick apart – we’ve assembled the policy pa...