Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Brian interviews Brad Jones, Senior Vice President of Development at Wesgroup Properties. Brad shares his insights on the Vancouver real estate market and the broader crisis facing Canadian real estate. Brad's career features standout projects like Vancouver's River District and the Coronation Park development in Port Moody. Our conversation highlights how the challenges in Vancouver mirror those...

Brian interviews Isaiah Joseph and Rock Wang. They talk about the housing crisis panel they participated in at the recent Toronto Business summit. Isaiah Joseph is an independent commercial real estate market analyst with experience working with a breadth of developers, investors and institutions of varying sizes within the industry. Rock Wang is an Executive Director at Oakbank Capital Group and...

Brian interviews Jim Csek. Jim, from Kelowna, BC, has been a professional accountant for over 25 years, working in a CA firm, local government, and a public company. He is the founder and current COO and CFO for NowMedia Group. Not your stereotypical accountant, but with many of the underlying core values of a professional accountant Jim understands that businesses want partners that not only unde...

Brian interviews Kylee Renouf. Kylee is a leading expert in personal branding and digital marketing, she helps executives, realtors, and lawyers remain top of mind when opportunities arise. Tonight on the Brian Crombie Hour, she'll explore the essentials of building a personal brand, share effective strategies, and recount her powerful journey of overcoming fear and judgment to establish her own o...

Brian interviews Karl Schamotta. Karl is chief market strategist at Corpay. Karl leads Corpay’s currency research group, covering global macroeconomics, geopolitics, central bank policy, technology, and financial markets. He regularly appears in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, BNN, CNN and CNBC. Karl Schamotta talks about the Canadian Economy. Some of our issues are:-...

Brian interviews Shawn Allen. Shawn is the President of the Scarborough Business Association. He founded Matrix Mortgage Global Canada’s Largest Brokerage Private Lending Brokerage in 2008. With a background in data base administration and marketing Shawn has guided Matrix Mortgage Global to over $1.1B+ in funded volume to date and over 610% growth in the past five years, Matrix Mortgage Global is...

Brian interviews Christine Serafini. Christine is a GTA real estate agent specializing in Oakville, Burlington and Hamilton. She shares the challenges she's faced in her life and how she developed the resilience to overcome them. Christine endured a very troubled childhood, including experiences in foster care, adoption, and sexual assault, ultimately leaving home before the age of sixteen. Despit...

Brian interviews Kelly Harris. Kelly, Principal of Kensington Strategies, previously held several key positions in the Gordon Campbell government in British Columbia before relocating to Toronto. These roles included working in Northern Communications alongside John Rustad, the current leader of the rapidly growing Conservative Party of B.C. Kelly also served as the Director of Communications for...

Brian interviews Richard Lyall. Richard, President of RESCON, the Residential Construction Council of Ontario, is a prolific writer, speaker and commentator on what has and is going wrong. He feels that red tape, approval delays, unneeded zoning and political interference are some of the causes of our housing situation. He calls for change, and quick, or he worries our housing crisis will become m...

Brian interviews Eric Sana. Eric is founder and owner of Eric Sana Fashion. Hailing from Bosnia Herzegovina, Eric graced Canadian soil in 1987. With a legal background fused with an unwavering passion for fashion and textiles, he embarked on a transformative design odyssey. Eric's journey commenced by unraveling the intricacies of textures and fabrics, challenging the conventions of conventional d...

Brian interviews Shiva Rahbaran. Shiva is a writer and culture researcher based in London, UK. She has written extensively on post-revolutionary literature and cinema in Iran. Her first work of fiction "My Name Is Innocence" is about three sisters caught in the throes of the Islamic Revolution, and will be published by Humanitas next year. She talks about Iran and the WLF National Revolution which...

Brian interviews Casey Edge. Casey is Executive Director of the Victoria Residential Builders Association. He discusses the current housing crisis in Canada, highlighting how city development fees, housing taxes, zoning issues, red tape, and regulations are preventing us from building the cities we need to accommodate our population and create the communities we want to live in.

Brian interviews Patrick Risk. Patrick is a Salt Lake City urban planer and land developer. He talks about the “Missing Middle” housing solution and what he sees as city zoning issues that don’t allow us to build the cities we want to live in.

Brian interviews David Cooper. David is the founder and principal of Leading Mobility, a transportation planning firm that offers strategic and planning support for public transit, infrastructure delivery, stakeholder support, and government relations projects and initiatives. David's distinctive experience as the only urban planner in Canada who has practiced in the public sector in Vancouver, Ca...

Brian interviews Kayla Andrade. Kayla is the founder of Ontario Landlords Watch, a grassroots advocacy organization that supports landlords, tenants, and taxpayers by addressing challenges and legislation in the rental housing market. With a focus on tangible results, she has successfully guided local and provincial landlords through various issues and policies, gaining recognition for her motivat...

Brian interviews Caleesis Telesh. Caleesis talks about coming to Canada as a refugee from Afghanistan escaping from the Taliban, not speaking English, uneducated for five years as she went through refugee camps in four countries, but then going to ESL, high school, university and finally law school, articling and becoming a lawyer. Her background and struggles are beyond belief. But her resilience...

Brian interviews Akbar Zareh. Akbar is the founder and CEO Kingsway Real Estate Group. He talks about the current real estate market. Condo crash, how bad is it, how will developers and investors respond and will this spread to single family homes?

Brian interviews Erin Kelly. Erin, president and CEO of Ottawa based Advanced Symbolics Inc. (ASI), says “Ask Polly”, an artificial intelligence Market Research technology started with the search for perfect, unbiased information gleaned from natural human behavior. “With the advent of social media, this was the first time this became possible because it created a kind of living laboratory that al...

Brian speaks with Peter Dickinson. Peter is the editor of the UkraineAlert blog at the Eurasia Center and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines. Born in the United Kingdom and a permanent resident of Ukraine for nearly twenty years, Peter has worked to develop awareness of Ukrainian current affairs and issues in English speaking countries. Peter established himself as a journa...

Brian interviews Ron Duquette. Ron is President of the Mississauga Arts Council and Founder and Board Chair of Legends Row and has been involved in almost every Artistic and Cultural event in Mississauga for the past several decades. Ron talks about Mississauga Legends Row, its coming Induction Ceremony, this year’s inductees, past inductees and why Ron has been so involved in the Arts and Communi...

Brian interviews Matt Young. Republic Developments President & CEO Matt Young talks about our current housing crisis, how 30% of the cost of housing is taxes, and a group calling itself the Coalition Against New-Home Taxes (CANT), and includes Republic, Alterra, Devron, and Forum, that have focused on these taxes and pledged that any tax decreases would be passed on to buyers through lower pri...

Brian interviews Aisling Murphy. Originally from Baltimore, MD, Aisling is an award-winning theater critic and arts journalist based in Toronto. She's the senior editor of Intermission Magazine and she frequently writes about Canadian theater and pop culture for the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and CBC Arts, with additional bylines at Exclaim!!, Maclean's, and CTV News Toronto. Aisling Murphy tal...

Brian interviews Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. Dr. Tsipursky, dubbed the "Office Whisperer’" by The New York Times, is CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of seven books, including “Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams,” and “ChatGPT for Thought Leaders and Content Creators.” He has more than 20 years of consulting and coaching experience for do...

Brian interviews UK Executive Coach and author/historian Mark Smallwood. Mark talks tonight about career resilience and online dating! Mark takes his knowledge of executive and leadership coaching and applies it to lessons and cautions for mid life dating and particularly on line dating. This is a humorous and enlightening chat.

Brian interviews Jock Finlayson. Jock is currently a Senior Fellow and the Peter Brown chair in Canadian competitiveness at the Fraser Institute, Canada’s top ranked think tank. Previously he was Executive VP and chief economist at the Business Council of British Columbia. For the past 20 years, he has been a leading voice on economic and public policy issues affecting British Columbians. Jock tal...