Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Brian Crombie interview Mississauga City Councillor Brad Butt about City Issues. We discuss our housing crisis and how we got here, frustrations in trying to address it, transit needs including all day two way GO sevice and the escalation of crime in Mississauga.  Brad Butt was elected as Councillor, Ward 11, City of Mississauga, in 2022.  Prior to this, Brad served as the Vice-President, Governme...

Brian Crombie interviews Michael Spaziani a renowned local architect and urban legend about Mississauga Urban Planning issues and ideas. We discuss what will happen to cities, Mississauga, urban planning, housing, condos, transit, our main streets, approval time periods and waterfront retail entertainment. This is a big idea discussion about Mississauga.  Michael was the principal of MSAi, an arch...

 Brian Crombie interview Maria Stebneva.  Diversity is our strength. It’s challenging starting all over again in a new country so tonight I showcase Maria Stebneva from Russia discussing: making your way in a new country in high tech sales and high fashion too! Brian interviews his second guest  Nayab Khan. He'll be conversing with Nayab Khan, a talented actress and producer of Pakistani-Canadian...

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt is the Senior Director of the Prosperity Institute, a regular commentator or housing affordability and productivity/prosperity issues and an Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics, and Public Policy area group at Ivey Business School, Western University. Mike has conducted policy research on the nexus between regional economic development, innovation, housing, and clima...

Chatter that Matters is a top 1% most popular in the world podcast and radio show about people who overcome circumstances through perseverance and positivity. Brian speaks with Tony Chapman who is an award winning advertising and communications expert. Tony Chapman talks tonight about his podcast “Chatter that Matters”, branding, politics and what makes a good leader.

Brian speaks with John Rapley. John is a an award-winning academic, author and macro-analyst with a focus on applied research in geopolitics, global political economy and policy studies and is a political economist at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies. A weekly columnist with the Globe, he is convinced our productivity challenges and...

Brian hosts a Mayor’s Debate amongst several of the candidates for Mayor of Mississauga that have been undemocratically and unfairly excluded from the debate tonight and the two last week. These are articulate qualified duly nominated candidates that deserve their time on stage and your consideration. Since certain organizations wouldn’t let us on stage, we hold our own debate, with: Mitchell MacE...

Brian interviews Dr. Martin Jugenburg. Dr. Jugenburg is a board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon with offices in Toronto, Dubai, Kuwait and Miami. Dr. Jugenburg has been in practice for almost 20 years and has established himself as a leader in the field of cosmetic surgery. He offers a full range of plastic surgery procedures. The majority of Dr. Jugenburg's practice is primarily made...

Brian interviews Bob McCown. Bob is the American-Canadian radio personality. He is best known as the long-time host of the Canadian sports talk show Prime Time Sports from its inception in 1989 until 2019 and now with his own podcast. He talks about the Leafs, what went wrong and what radical change is called for, the next round, the business of sports and arenas and the power of Big Ideas and wha...

Brian interviews Alex Beheshti. Alex is a senior consultant at Altus Group specializing in housing development. We discuss the housing affordability crisis in the Greater Toronto Area and the lengthy approval timelines that contribute to it. We also explore the role of zoning in shaping urban neighborhoods and the need for a more streamlined and user-friendly planning system. Lastly, we criticize...

Brian interviews Rocco Rossi. Rocco is CEO of Shift25, which is a group of business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors who share a deep concern for the future of Canada’s economic prosperity and way of life. Their collective years of expertise and experience spans the fields of business, economics, law, education, equity management and philanthropy. What unites them is a passion to see Canada re...

Brian interviews Axel Breuer and Pieter Kool. Axel and Pieter, who have both been residents of Mississauga for over 45 years, are working with the Mississauga Residents’ Association Network (MIRANET) and their own Ratepayer Group and have really torn into understand the City budget. Their numbers are right, the city numbers take the Mississauga tax increase and divide it by the taxes for both Miss...

Brian interviews Damian Spaulding. Aside from being a well-celebrated educator across music, drama, production and many other artistic disciplines, Damian Spaulding is also a chart-topping music producer that balances the continually growing success of his well-respected record label and production company Spaulding Canada. Tonight Damian Spaulding talks about an exciting development he is promoti...

Guest host George Tavares, a candidate for Mayor in the Mississauga by-election turns the table and interviews Brian.

Brian Crombie interviews Daniel Beland political science professor at McGill about the federal budget. We discuss the political reaction, housing, capital gains, provincial premiers and is this going to help the Liberals survive.  Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and James McGill Professor at the Department of Political Science at McGill. A student of polit...

Brian interviews Duncan Rowland. Duncan is the founder of a Toronto-based financial technology company named Migrations.ml. Duncan is a CA CPA and previously worked in banking and software companies before starting his company in 2019. His company uses machine learning to produce fixed income analytics for asset managers and other clients in the USA and Canada. Duncan Rowland talks about the Feder...

Jack interviews Jeffrey McCain and Mark Borkowski. Jeffrey McCain comes from a multi-generational business and entrepreneurial family. Jeff learned from his grandfather, father and uncle, the founder and president of McCain and Maple Leaf Foods and through interactions with corporate executives and founder owned businesses that personal growth and fulfillment would only come from getting one’s han...

Unstoppable Tracy Unstoppable You - Tracy Schmitt, a four limb amputee, talks tonight on: never giving up. She’s incredible! Tracy was born with no arms and no legs but never gave up. She has been a sailor, a skier, a mountain climber, a paralympic competitor and an inspirational speaker. She challenges all of us to become unstoppable, since she was and is... Tracy Schmitt: one of the most inspiri...

Brian interviews Tyler Meredith. Tyler is a Founding Partner of Meredith Boessenkool Policy Advisors. Following seven intense years, ending as the lead economic policy advisor to Canada’s governing party, Tyler still firmly believes that public policy is about making life better for people. He knew there was no other job where he could impact so many people in so many positive ways in such a short...

Brian interviews Joseph Gulesserian. Joseph is an entrepreneur in the CPG business and he has developed and brought brands to International markets. He is former professor of management studies where he taught corporate finance, statistics and post graduate marketing. He published the book "The Practical MBA on Economics - what they do and don’t teach you at business school”. He talks about AI, an...

Brian interviews Daniel Foch. Daniel is a housing expert and the host of the Canadian Real Estate Podcast. We discuss the five days of federal government housing announcements, the infrastructure money trying to cause cities to change their ways, CMHC financing, rental changes and generational inequity. We also discuss if this federal government’s change of heart relative to housing is enough to m...

Brian interviews Leonard Waverman. Dr. Professor Leonard Waverman, former Dean DeGroote School of business, talks about the crisis in Canadian prosperity. We discuss the lagging productivity, lack of innovation and capital investment, high taxes, unsustainable deficits, debt and red tape and what can/must be done. "Canada is doing miserably and has been failing to advance for at least a decade and...

Brian interviews George Tavares. George is one of the by-election candidates for Mayor of Mississauga, that is not currently on council. He has a diverse background in Political Science, Canadian Indigenous Studies, Electronic Engineering Technology, Smart City Design, and Business Management, including International Business, which he feels equips him with the skills needed to tackle the current...

Brian interviews Nicolas Ruszkowski. Nicolas is founder of Tactix Government Relations and Public Affairs that represents some of the largest and most important brands, globally. Nic believes his TacTix AI enabled research model has unique deep learning capabilities. Given the Prime Minister's approach to rolling out key planks of his budget in advance this year, he thought it was a unique opportu...

Brian interviews Hollay Ghadery. Hollay is an Iranian-Canadian writer living in Ontario. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. "Fuse", her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions (2021) and won 2023 The Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, "Rebellion Box", came out Radiant Press in 2023 and...