The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Today on the pod, a guest who makes me feel like we’re doing something right around here at Air Quotes Media. Or, at least, not altogether wrong. That’s because she keeps coming back to the show, pretty much every time we ask her. 5 times now! And that makes her the all-time record...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright, you Herle Burly-ites,  I’m always chuffed when we’re able to put a journalist panel together. And goddammit, I feel just a huge amount of power putting questions to people who do it for a living! But let’s face it … they’re far better at it than me. Vassy Kapelos, Aaron Wh...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . We’re coming back strong with our first show of the year because of the history and political perspective we’re going to get over the next 60 minutes. Former multi-portfolio Cabinet Minister and over quarter century Member of Parliament, Carolyn Bennett is our guest. Ms. Bennett is...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright you holiday Herle Burly-ites, welcome to our last pod of the year. We’ll be back week of January 8th , 2024, as I’m heading to my prairie homeland during the break for a little L-H-R in R time. That’s a Herle acronym for Lemon Hart Rum in Regina time. But getting back to to...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. An auspicious pod for you today. It marks a first in the long and storied, yet somehow still dubious history of The Herle Burly. We have the United States Ambassador to Canada, David L. Cohen as our guest. 2 years and 2 weeks...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites! Here we are, in late 2023. With housing prices still out of sight. Availability of affordable housing, negligible. Government measures crawling slowly into place. Poilievre making hay with a 15-minute docu-drama, viewed millio...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Welcome back to our semi-regular feature here on The Herle Burly, called “ The Chiefs ”.  This is edition 4 of The Chiefs, Herle Burly-ites. We debuted it back in January to discuss the issues from the unique perspective of people who think about them NOT as campaigners do … i.e. w...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you ever-curious Herle Burly-ites. We’re recording the show on FES+1 ... one day after Minister Freeland dropped the Fall Economic Statement. So that’s precisely what we’re going to focus on for most of the pod, today. With me to do that is a guest I’m really excited abou...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . We’re setting the policy table ahead of the 2023 Fall Economic Statement with our pod's favourite public policy thinkers. We had them on here last December as a policy troika, then after last spring's federal budget, and with us again today are: Dr. Jennifer Robson, Sean...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Well greetings, you ever-curious Herle Burly-ites! We’re going to spend the next hour examining a topic that, if you listen to Curse of Politics, we’ve also spent a little time on there — but today we’ll dive deeper into it: the future of the federal Liberal government and its lead...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Well greetings, you ever-curious Herle Burly-ites! I’m excited about this pod and the conversation we’re about to have, for a couple of reasons. First is, our guest today is the ONLY GUEST we’ve ever had on the show, or likely WILL EVER have, who has stepped foot in my hometown of...

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!  I’m so chuffed to introduce our guest today on The Herle Burly: The 24th Premier of Ontario. Dalton . I mean, that’s pretty much all I have to say, eh? You all know who I’m taking about. But if you’re looking for the full deal...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you ever-curious, Herle Burly-ites! We’ve got a pretty cool show on tap for you today. It’s one podcast sitting inside another podcast. Kind of like a 2-fer. Or a really lazy Russian Nesting Doll. Here’s what I mean: Air Quotes Media, the super smart and moderately attrac...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) , and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA) . Welcome to a very special edition of the pod, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. If you’re a long-time listener, you might remember way back in 2020, just a...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you ever-curious, Herle Burly-ites! Today on the pod, a man who has put me in the same writerly company as David Frum, the late Hugh Segal, Sean Speer and Guy Giorno, among others. What am I doing there, alongside a number of Team Blue stalwarts, contributing a chapter to...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you ever-curious, Herle Burly-ites! Welcome to a special episode of The Herle Burly, recorded live at the Toronto Region Board of Trade! Our guest today is Jean-François Perrault , Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist at Scotiabank. His role there? Well, it’s a big o...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you ever-curious, Herle Burly-ites! We are chuffed – chuffed, I tell you – to have a Party big shot on the pod today! And because Party big shots are typically busy people, we’re gonna get right to it. Marit Stiles , Leader of the Ontario NDP and the Official Opposition,...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you curious, you courageous, Herle Burly-ites! A special show today because it’s a guest I’ve wanted to have here on the pod for quite a while. We’re talking to Brian Tobin , who, in my mind, has a place on the first-line, all-star politician team. Probably plays centre,...

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 have an Ontario PC Cabinet Minister on the pod today. Todd Smith, Ontario's Minister of Energy is our guest ! Minister Smith is a graduate of Loyalist College. He had a 16-year career in radio news, rising to the positio...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Dr. Andrew Boozary is here. And I’ll just come out and say it: Dr. Boozary’s CV intimidates the crap out of me. He’s a primary care physician, policy practitioner, researcher, and the Founding Executive Director of the Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine at the University Health Net...

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. I think our guest is setting some kind of record on today’s show. Here’s why: He’s a cabinet minister who’s making his third appearance on The Herle Burly. The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson is here. The first time he joined us i...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright, our guest today is renowned urban planner, developer, lecturer and public speaker … Jennifer Keesmaat . Jennifer has been named one of the “most powerful people in Canada” by Macleans, one of the “most influential” by Toronto Life. She spent 5 years as Toronto’s Chief City...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . The pod today is nirvana for polling nerds like me. And anyone who’s just curious about why Canadians, who don’t live and work in the Ottawa bubble, are thinking what they’re thinking. Our guests are two fantastic pollsters I’ve wanted on the show for a long time: Dan Arnold and Da...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! If you’re a regular listener here, you’ll know that we’ve been exploring the future of media and news on the pod, these last number of weeks. We’ve had a couple of fantastic panels. The first was Elly Alboim and Bill Fox, who...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail .  We’ll get right to it because we have a cabinet minister in the house today, and I don’t like to keep cabinet ministers waiting: The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. First elected as a Member of Parliament in 2015, Mr. Miller was a lawyer prior to en...