Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Brian interviews Jonathan Diamond. Jonathan is a principal at Well Grounded Real Estate. Jonathan talks about the Rental Market in the GTA right now. Toronto saw an enormous proliferation of apartment development in the 1950s and 1960s. However, since then, we have developed very little purpose-built rental housing, with condo construction representing the bulk of new multiunit product. This shift...

Brian interviews Susan Toughlian. Susan, affectionately coined Toronto's Condo Queen, first started her real estate career working for a prominent developer along the waterfront. In her 18 year career span, she has assisted and guided hundreds of investors and end users with their real estate investments. Susan was also featured in Toronto life Magazine as one of the most influential female realto...

Brian interviews Daniel Foch. Daniel is a housing expert and the host of the Canadian Real Estate Podcast. Daniel talks tonight about the current condo crash where he says condos are the biggest risk to the Canadian economy.

Brian interviews Adam Zivo. Adam is a columnist for the National Post and the executive director of the Centre For Responsible Drug Policy. He is best known for his provocative writing on Canada’s drug crisis, as well as his war reporting in Ukraine. In the late 2010s, he was the founder of LoveisLoveisLove, an LGBTQ advocacy campaign known for producing large scale art installations, including To...

Brian interviews Jerry Levitan. Jerry is a regular columnist with the Toronto Star, an accomplished lawyer, writer, actor, filmmaker and musician, and a candidate in the last provincial election. Levitan produced the 2008 Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning film, "I Met The Walrus", about the day he spent with John Lennon at age 14. And in 2010, he authored the best-selling autobiographical b...

Brian interviews Dr. Samir Sinha currently serves as the Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto and was recently appointed the Peter and Shelagh Godsoe Chair in Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2012 he was appointed by the Government of Ontario to serve as the expert lead of Ontario’s Seniors Strategy. He is also an Assistant Professor in...

Brian interviews Dominic Cardy. Dominic talks tonight about the “Future Canadian Party” a new political party launched in the centre of our political spectrum. More than two thirds of Canadians feel politically homeless. They’re worried about growing extremism on the left and right, worried our institutions are growing weaker, even as government gets bigger. Canadian Future has a message for those...

Brian catches up with Murray Simser. Murray is founder and CEO of CITIZN, Democracy's Social Network. Murray is a serial entrepreneur trained in Silicon Valley and a Microsoft alumnus. His first love was politics, working at Parliament was his dream, Alas, Silicon Valley called... and instead of Prime Minister he became an entrepreneur. Those two worlds collided once more when democracy started fa...

Brian interviews Simeon Papailias. Simeon is co-founder and CEO of REC Canada, and expert on the current real estate market, interest rates, refinancing, pre construction condos and the business of real estate investment, sales and brokerage. Simeon Papailias talks tonight about GTA real estate market and our housing crisis.

Brian interviews Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel. Pierre-Jean runs his own Investment Bank, has lived in and worked for major banks in Paris, London and New York and has been CFO for a biotech / pharma company. He is a passionate amateur historian and foreign affairs critic. Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel talks about the recent election in France where it was believed the right wing would win big but coope...

Brian interviews Kathy Carsley. Kathy, the Founder of Unity for Autism (UFA) a national charitable foundation, ran a successful corporate fundraiser that continues to raise ¾ of a million dollars each year. Over the past 20 years, UFA raised $15 million dollars, making it the largest charitable funder of autism in the country! Kathy talks about autism and an event “Love Without Limits”, a speed-da...

Brian interviews Julian Wells. Julian is a co-founder of the Student Housing Initiative (SHI), an organization that researches how students make housing decisions and shares insights with real estate leaders and politicians to shape new housing projects and policies. Since early 2023, SHI has been involved in the approvals of more than 4,500 housing units and given away $8,000 in grants to student...

Brian interviews Jeff Rubin. Jeff is a Canadian economist and bestselling author. A world-leading expert on trade and energy, and former chief economist and chief strategist at CIBC World Markets, he recently served as a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance. His current book "A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever" is a wide-ra...

Brian interviews Simon MacAdam. Capital Economic’s Deputy Chief Economist Simon MacAdam will discuss the recent UK election tonight, drawing comparisons to Canada's political landscape. Topics will include the Labour Party’s economic and prosperity agenda, their proposed solutions to the housing crisis, and the importance of competency in government. We will also examine the split within the right...

Brian interviews Jennifer Beale. Jennifer is the consummate networker who publishes a weekly newsletter on networking events, teaches and coaches relationship making and hosts major networking and business connection events. Tonight Jennifer talks about getting more referrals, making authentic connections and building community.

Brian interviews Ron Butler of Butler Mortgages. Ron has twenty years of experience in the mortgage business, is a prolific writer of opinion pieces on the market and interest rates and we have a spirited debate where he argues we are already in a recession and housing prices are already down record levels, and we all need to adjust. Tonight Ron talks about what he thinks is a condo crash in the G...

Brian interviews Youseef Abou Dayya. Youseef is Strategic Partner at Schooley Mitchell and considers himself a Chief Transformational Officer. He works as a Solutions Architect to save money and create revenue. Prior to working at Schooley Mitchell, Youssef worked as an IT Engineer for Ericsson and brings 30 years of experience in the telecom industry in various technical roles and sales. Youseef...

Brian interviews Stephen Julius. Steohen is an entrepreneur and investor focusing on acquiring controlling stakes in bankrupt or distressed, luxury consumer brands, mainly in the power sport industry, and then re-launching the companies. Stephen and Brian were classmates at Harvard Business School. He lives and works in London UK and Italy and is a keen observer of the economy and world politics....

Brian interviews Dr. Margaret Nowaczyk. From growing up in communist Poland, to immigrating to Canada as a teen, to working as a pediatric clinical geneticist and professor at McMaster University, Dr. Nowaczyk bares her soul while encouraging readers to explore the ways in which our experiences and identities are entangled with our ancestral history. In her most recent book "Marrow Memory: Essays...

Today, Brian shares some of his own thoughts on Canadian and US politics. What challenges do we face? What opportunities are out there? Brian Crombie is COO for a $2.5 BN AUM real estate company with properties across Canada and three US States, including grocery anchored retail, industrial, office, hotels and seniors homes along with seven transit oriented multi family development sites in the GT...

Brian interviews Tom Czitron. Tom is a portfolio manager, investment strategist and economic analyst. He has written for various publications including the Globe & Mail. He has over four decades of investment experience and has managed large mutual and pension funds for some of Canada’s most respected financial institutions. Tom Czitron talks about economics and politics, the Canadian economy,...

Brian interviews Kevin Yin. Kevin is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley and a contributing columnist at The Globe and Mail. Kevin Yin talks about the Canadian economy, interest rates, our currency, fiscal strategies and debt.

Brian interviews Vanessa Topple. Vanessa is the host of two TV shows on the GTA real estate market: one focusing on ownership of housing and one on rentals. We review the different markets and what to expect. She talks about the GTA real estate market. The housing crisis is looking like it’s getting worse with record condo listings, canceled or delayed condo projects and markets that are lacklustr...

Brian interviews Stephen Wickens. Stephen is a retired editor, writer and transportation researcher who has written extensively about transit and urbanism. We talked about transit in the GTA.

Brian interviews Dave Meslin. Dave is a creative director of Unlock Democracy. Using non-traditional methods and creative tactics, Dave spent twenty years as a social and political entrepreneur leaving a trail of non-profit start-ups, campaign victories, viral videos, new magazines, and public space interventions in his path. An urbanist, community organizer, author and trainer, he inspires us to...