Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Brian starts off 2024 with a political panel round table discussing federal and provincial politics and the key issues. Guests are Kim Wright of Wright Strategies and an NDP supporter. She has been involved in politics & campaigning since 1990 Sara MacIntyre of the Convenience Industry Council of Canada and a past communication director for PM Stephen Harper and BC Premier Christy Clark Marc K...

Brian speaks with Martin Buckland. Martin is one of the world’s leading Executive Career Management Practitioners. He holds multiple designations in resume writing and coaching and specializes at the Senior Manager level and above and those who aspire to be business leaders. Martin Buckland talks about Santa’s resume! This is a very fun but also very thoughtful review of those critical qualities S...

Brian interviews Christine Burych. Christine was on the cover of Mom Magazine with a story: Can Moms Have it All? Having it All, is it possible? From the front lines of community mental health to senior management at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Christine Burych has pursued her life’s passion on raising awareness of mental health issues and providing tools on how to develop r...

Brian interviews Mary W. Rowe. Mary is President & CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute. Mary is a leading urban advocate and civil society trailblazer who has worked in cities and with communities across Canada and the United States. She is a frequent contributor to national and international city-building programs, including UN Habitat, the Massey City Summit, The Art of City Building and the...

Brian interviews Benj Gallander. Benj is co-founder of the Contra the Heard Investment Letter, an information service for independent investors. The decades of experience investing and operating the newsletter, which has been founded in 1995, provide us with fabulous incisive information about how to be better investors. Benj Gallander discusses contrarian and value investing. In addition, we disc...

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

Brian speaks with Danielle Nonog. Danielle has been coaching successful professional Women about dating and helps single independent women break through their ineffective dating patterns so they can attract an aligned lover through her Dating Mastery Method, for over 5 years. She has helped over 500 women and over 50 men tap into their confidence and break through their ineffective dating patterns...

Brians speaks with Bose Odueke and Bola Oduyale of Alpha Oasis International Inc, the organizers of the Canada Nigeria Trade Expo. We talk about Nigeria. Nigeria has 250 million people. The 14th largest economy. A new President who says he is going to make Nigeria the new China.

Brian interviews Matt Simpson. Matt is CEO of Ukraine Black Iron Mine which is a Toronto-based company that has a development proposal for a billion-dollar plus high-quality iron ore mine in Ukraine. Then, we revisit a previous conversation with Peter Dickinson. Peter is the editor of the Ukraine Alert blog at the Eurasia Center and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines. Born...

Brian interviews Gina Leola Woolssy. Gina is author of a fascinating book: "Fifteen Thousand Pieces". Although an incredible debut on its own, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" is also a timely reminder of a key moment in Canadian history, given the recent 25th anniversary of the Swissair Flight 111 tragedy. It’s also a story about honouring our lives, our selves, and our dead. Gina is an engaging and inc...

Brian interviews Jonathan Berkshire Miller. Jonathan is Director and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute focused on the Indo-Pacific region. Jonathan is an international affairs professional with expertise on security, defense and geo-economic issues in the Indo-Pacific. He has held a variety of positions in the private and public sector. Currently, he is a senior fellow with the Japa...

Brian interviews Michael Lublin. Michael has been in the restaurant business for over 30 years with Yogen Fruz as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and with Stanley Ma at MTY GROUP as Vice President and Brand Owner and now is growing Chainsmoker BBQ into a chain of restaurants. Micheal talks about his new Mississauga/Etobicoke restaurant called ChainSmokers BBQ, the state of the hospitality...

Brian interviews Roman Sheremeta, Ph. D. Roman is a chair of Ukrainian-American House, a founding rector of American University Kyiv, and a professor of economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He holds a Ph. D. in economics from Purdue University and is a recipient of many research and teaching awards, including the 2018 Smith Ascending Scholar Prize f...

Brian interviews Scott Terrio. Scott is Manager, Consumer Insolvency at Hoyes Michalos Licensed Insolvency Trustees, the largest independent consumer insolvency firm in Canada. What that means is that Scott files thousands of personal bankruptcies and consumer proposals for Canadians who are in serious debt trouble. This is a continuation of discussion on the economy with a turn from national gove...

Brian interviews Dr. Jack Mintz. Dr. Mintz is a World-Renowned Economist, Academic & Public Policy Analyst Widely sought after by governments, businesses and non-profit organizations. He is one of Canada’s most distinguished and influential academics in public policy. As the President’s Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary he researches, builds capacity, and provi...

Brian interviews Frank Stronach. Frank is one of Canada’s greatest entrepreneurs. Born in Austria to working-class parents, Stronach apprenticed as a tool and die maker before coming to Canada in 1954. He soon founded what became known as Magna International, which grew into one of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturers. Through Magna, Stronach has created over 170,000 jobs, shared mor...

Brian interviews Moriah Bacus. Moriah is an Project Manager and Accountability Coach. Her professional experience includes 20+ years in corporate, non-profit and small businesses, specializing in project management, event management, marketing, human resources, and office administration in various sectors including hospitality, tourism, entertainment and nightlife, meetings and events, association...

Brian speaks with 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. Tonight Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel talks about Ukraine, the cause of the war and how the war ends in his mind.

Brian interviews Lisa Baiton. Lisa is CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers) President & CEO. She discusses Canada’s unique energy advantage – that if unleashed – can lower global emissions, enhance Canada’s geopolitical strength, and drive the economy in the decades ahead. This is in the context of an international realignment of climate, energy security, economic, and affordabili...

Brian interviews Oleksandra Matviichuk. Oleksandra is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and civil society leader based in Kyiv. She heads the non-profit organization Centre for Civil Liberties and is a campaigner for democratic reforms in her country and across the world. Matviichuk leads the Center for Civil Liberties, an organization in Kyiv that shared the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize for its “outstand...

Brian interviews two guests. First is Patrick Gill. CEO and industry insider Patrick Gill left the corporate world over two years ago with a mission in mind: to create a mortgage strategy to improve the lives of Canadian families with the use of better financial literacy. Coaching hundreds of staff members and helping thousands of Canadian families towards better management of their income, debt,...

Brian interviews Anita Nowak. Anita, PhD is an empathy expert, two-time TEDx speaker, podcaster, award-winning educator and Fellow with the International Women’s Forum. She is passionate about leveraging empathy for personal, organizational and social transformation. For the past fifteen years, Anita has held various leadership roles in higher education at McGill University dedicated to social inn...

I discuss the upcoming Ontario Liberal leadership vote (not commenting on any candidates) and outline my 10-point plan for reinventing the province. I stress the need for a vision for Toronto and Ontario, addressing the housing and congestion crises, tackling the debt and deficit, boosting productivity and prosperity, investing in critical minerals, addressing the long-term care and healthcare cri...

Brian interviews Neil Seeman. Neil is CEO of Sutherland House Experts, a Senior Fellow & Adjunct Professor at Massey College & IHPME the University of Toronto, an author and a serial entrepreneur. He has written books about entrepreneurs and mental health and a compelling poem about Anne Frank he recites and we discuss. We talk about a New Co-publishing Model, Sutherland House Experts, whi...

Brian welcomes two guests. First is Ken Stern. Ken offers tax strategy for Accredited Investors and Small Business Owners. He talks about Flow Through Shares (TFS), enshrined in the tax act since 1972, which support resource exploration and economic activity in often remote communities and at the same time, saves Canadians tax. Ken's structure offers a unique bought deal structured transaction tha...