Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Brian interviews Carolyn Whitzman. Carolyn is a housing expert at the University of Ottawa. She focuses on the homeless and less advantaged in our society. "I am concentrating on the Canadian and global challenges inherent in scaling up affordable housing for all. I also have a long-standing interest in the right to the city as it supports women, children, people with disability, racialized commun...

Brian interviews Marc Kealey. Marc is the President of K&A Inc., a Canadian public policy, research and management consultancy. K&A has clients throughout Canada and globally. Over the past several elections he has provided in-depth research riding by riding and his research has led to interesting outcomes that far and away reveal more than even some of the main stream polling companies. H...

Brian welcomes on two different guests. First guest is Magdalena Stoch. Magdalena has just finished sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Martinique to Miami! She swam with sea turtles, fished for dinner, saw some beautiful coral reef and much more... Then, Miranda O'Connor. Miranda talks about her Storytelling video business, the amazing people she’s met and stories she’s heard.

Brian interviews Dr. Diana Mok. Dr. Mok is Associate Professor at Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. Her interests are broadly defined in the realm of real estate and urban economics, with a focus on housing and urban development. Specifically, her work has evolved and developed around three themes, intertwined, and with a spatial focus: risk, real estate, and urban growth. She seeks...

Brian interviews Mark Smallwood. UK Executive Coach and author/historian Mark Smallwood has recently written a compelling piece comparing the invasion of Ukraine and Russian moves both before and after the invasion to the historical comparable 1935-1945 and the comparisons and similarities are striking. Mark goes on to draw out the lessons which are bottom line, we need to do more now to support U...

Brian speaks with Dan Donovan. Dan is the Publisher and Editor of Ottawa Life Magazine, a former political staffer, stand up comedian and an excellent writer. After my announcement from April 1 Dan contacted me saying our cities are broken and need massive change. Dan Donovan talks about city politics and how critical he thinks strong capable leadership is for our cities. We discuss many issues in...

Brian interviews Sabine Matheson. Since 1998, Sabine Matheson has been a Principal at StrategyCorp, which serves clients across Canada and internationally. She is the founder of StrategyCorp’s Municipal Affairs Practice Group, which has served well over a hundred municipalities across Canada on a variety of strategic projects. She is currently strategic advisor to Ontario’s Large Urban Mayors Cauc...

Brian interviews Maria Fudas. Maria is a Certified Assertiveness Transformational Coach, Speaker and Author of "Connect with Yourself and Others". Maria Fudas talks about the spiritual aspects of a full solar eclipse. It is a rare event happening in the same spot on earth every 375 years. It is thought of as mystical, magical event. Solar eclipses are believed to highlight the things that exist in...

Brian interviews Jason Harlow. Jason is a Teaching Stream Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Toronto. He has a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the Pennsylvania State University, and has a lifelong interest in telescopes and stargazing. In 1991 Jason traveled to Costa Rica to view a total solar eclipse, so this Monday's, April 8, 2024 at 3:18pm a total solar eclipse in...

Brian interviews David McKinnon. David is a former Canadian diplomat who has been posted to New Delhi, Canberra, Bangkok and, most recently, Colombo, where he served as Canada’s high commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives 2017-2022. He talks about the end of Canada's "exorbitant privilege", where a favourable combination of geography and history ultimately led to complacency about our place in the...

Brian interviews Brian Bonner. Brian Bonner is the Host of Ukraine Calling on Hromadske Radio and a YouTube podcast from Kyiv and writes for The Cipher Brief, a US website devoted to global security issues. He led the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's top English-language newspaper, from 2008 to 2021. He has worked or lived in several nations in Europe and Asia. He covered international, national, and local ne...

Today, with great enthusiasm, I announce my candidacy for Mayor of Mississauga. I am confident that my skills, experience, leadership, and innovative ideas will serve our city well. Unlike many other candidates who are currently serving as councillors, I believe that fresh perspective from someone familiar with Mississauga's issues but not currently on council is what our city needs to thrive. As...

Brian interviews two guests on Good Friday. Rev. Ken MacDonald talked about Israel Oct. 7 and Gaza, how to think about both horrific tragedies at the same time, or can you...? Jim Bright has built a hospital in the Congo. One person making a difference.

Brian interviews Michelle Bilek. Michelle is a long-term Mississauga advocate and activist for a socially responsible and just society. She has run for politics several times, serves on numerous Peel poverty and homelessness organizations and runs her own consulting company. Tonight Michelle Bilek talks about Homelessness in Mississauga and Peel.

Brian interviews Matt Fullbrook. Matt has advised over 250 boardrooms during his 20-year career as a corporate governance researcher, educator and consultant. He is also the host of the One Minute Governance podcast, creator of Ground-Up Governance, and a frequent speaker and media commentator. Highlights of Matt’s academic career include serving as the leader of corporate governance research at t...

Brian interviews Parisa Mahboubi. Parisa is a Senior Policy Analyst and leads the C.D. Howe Institute's human capital policy program. With a research interest in social policy, Parisa's work is concentrated on immigration, demographic, skills, education, and labour market concerns. Her expertise in these areas has resulted in the publication of various research studies, numerous articles, and a re...

Brian interviews Trevor Melanson. Trevor is the communications director of Clean Energy Canada, a think tank at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue. A former journalist, Trevor previously held editor roles at Canadian Business, Vancouver, and BCBusiness magazines. He talks about the carbon tax and the politics and communication issues around it. Trevor wrote: “Canada’s price on pollution...

Brian interviews Alison Davies, a compassionate spiritual healing coach, dedicates herself to guiding transformative journeys toward personal and professional spiritual alignment. With a deep understanding of the mind, body and spirit connection, she empowers audiences to embark on soulful exploration, fostering self-discovery, resilience and deeper inner connection to their spiritual essence. Ali...

Brian interviews Howison Schroeder. Howison is a Co-Founder & CEO of Neuro-Innovators, LLC. He is biotech entrepreneur working on neuroplasticity/ neurorestoration for stroke patients. Neuro-Innovators groundbreaking, non-psychedelic, neuroplastic drug development program gives NIV-Neuro a substantial strategic, early mover advantage. They are one of three companies known to be pursuing a ther...

Brian interviews Joe Mimran. Joe is a leading contributor to the fashion and design industry and is best-known for creating a succession of visionary brands and retail concepts, including Club Monaco, Caban, Joe Fresh, Joe Fresh Beauty and Alfred Sung. Recognized universally as having a sharp eye, impeccable attention to detail, and insight into emerging trends, Joe is always on the forefront of w...

Brian interviews Sean Almeida. Sean is originally from Boston, Mass. and a Former US Marine and Columbia University graduate. He’s been living in Ukraine for more than 11 years and before that in Russia. We discuss how he ended up in Ukraine, what life is like now in Kyiv, what does he think will happen with the war and the future of Ukraine. And we also discuss how he can continue his real estate...

Brian interviews 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 journal...

Brian speaks with Rinkal Shukla. Rinkal is a well-known corporate trainer and motivational speaker with the experience of training more than 4000 professionals. Rinkal has worked with numerous companies, corporations, institutes, NGOs and entrepreneurs from a huge range of industrial sectors such as Real Estate, Banking & Financial Services, FMCG, Manufacturing, Pharma, IT and Entertainment &a...

Brian interviews Rick Hillier talks about his article "Canadian Irrelevance", about how he fears Canada has lost relevance internationally. Former Chief of the Defence Staff for Canadian Forces – the Canadian Forces’ Highest Rank. General Rick Hillier joined the Canadian Forces in 1973. After completing his armour officer classification training, he joined his first regiment, the 8th Canadian Huss...

Brian interviews Christian Weedbrook. Christian is the CEO and Founder of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, a Canadian quantum technology company building fault-tolerant quantum computers using light. Over the last 15 years, he has been at the forefront of bringing quantum technology to the world through his research and leadership in academia, government, and industry. Christian holds a PhD in Physics...