Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Brian interviews Tom Hayes. Tom talks about his new podcast "1 Minute Morning" which brings you all the local news you need. If you’ve watched the evening news in Toronto over the past 30 years, then you will know Tom Hayes very well. He’s had an award-winning career as a news anchorman and reporter on CTV News, City TV, and most recently Global News, but now he’s reinventing how we consume local...

Brian interviews Karla Gillis. Karla moved to the big city, Halifax, got caught up in the party lifestyle, and became addicted. After hitting rock bottom, she sought help and began a journey of self-improvement. She moved to Toronto and landed a job with a magazine, allowing her to develop her health and wellness business and now she is a publisher author of “Secrets of the Self," which offers str...

Brian interviews Deb Crowe. Deb is Life and Leadership Coach and she talks about her new book "The Heart-Centered Leadership Playbook". Deb has a compelling life story with a brilliant approach to leadership coaching. She has been a leadership coach for three decades and brings her extensive experience to this excellent book on what she strongly believes is the new and best leadership orientation:...

Brian interviews Rosanne Agasee. Rosanne is an exceptional real estate agent specializing in central Toronto, both homes and condos. She previously was a Vice President of an advertising company and a TV Host on Canada's The Shopping Channel. Rosanne's innate sales ability has played a crucial role in her success. She is also a jazz music recording artist but also a talented visual artist, with he...

Brian interviews Daniel Béland. Daniel is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and Professor at the Department of Political Science at James McGill. We discuss the outcomes of the recent conference where the Premiers met, including healthcare, climate change, and the Canadian Pension plan. We also touch on the controversy surrounding the removal of the carbon tax on heating oil...

Brian interviews Leor Margulies. Leor leads the real estate legal practice at Robbins Appleby LLC. We talk about legal Issues in the Real Estate Market in Toronto and Ontario. We discuss: the Greenbelt: what really should have happened? Should it really be frozen or is there a better way to deal with unlocking needed development lands without destroying the integrity of the 2 million acres of Gree...

Brian interviews Kristin Larsen. Kristin is an award-winning author and Transformational Soul Coach. His writing shares ideas that ignite curiosity to love with courage. Through his coaching he supports entrepreneurs and coaches connect to their heart, light up their soul, access their inner leader so they can take empowered action to live in joy and aliveness each day. He helps to produce extraor...

Brian interviews Holly Carroll. Holly is a former international model, Miss Canada Tourism and now an International Luxury Realtor who specializes in waterfront properties primarily in Muskoka. We discuss her compelling personal story of international fashion model on the runway in Japan, NYC and Paris, then some big personal challenges she had to overcome and finally emerging as a passionate inte...

Brian interviews Sarah Baldeo. Sarah is CEO & Equity Partner at ID Quotient Advisory, a boutique IT Consulting firm founded in 2010 that specializes AI and digitization with government and financial services institutions. Sarah has 18 years of experience as a neuroscientist and technologist. She's worked in Executive Director and Partner roles at Deloitte, CGI and Ceridian, and was a Chief Com...

Steve Lafleur is a public policy analyst and columnist based in Toronto. He talks about housing starts around the GTA. He thinks most of the development has occurred within 2 kms from Union Station or on the periphery and the balance of the GTA is failing us. He has written: “Welcome to Canada—sorry there’s nowhere to live. Our lack of housing isn’t a failure of the market: it’s a failure of gover...

Brian interviews Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel. Pierre-Jean is head of a Paris-based Investment Bank and has lived and worked in Paris France, London UK and New York USA. We debate many issues tonight, however, he talks mainly about his thesis on US Foreign Affairs Strategy from World War 2 to today. He says he has a unique view of US policy that needs to be heard.

Brian interviews two guests. First is Elizabeth Galvin. Elizabeth talks about Project Youth Energy. Elizabeth was worried about how teenagers were negatively impacted by the pandemic, lock downs and school closures causing mental health issues and problems at school. Her organization provides mentorship to get kids back on track. Second is Samantha Falk. Samantha is Founder & CEO of a full-ser...

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 talks about the current situati...

Brian speaks with a team from NervGen Pharma. It is a Canadian start up trying to solve spinal cord injury. He is joined by: Dr. Harold Punnett, Co-Founder Mike Kelly, President & CEO, Dr Jerry Silver, Co-Inventor & Scientific Advisor. NervGen Pharma’s highly anticipated Phase II study of the potentially breakthrough drug NVG-291 in individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) isn’t just “ano...

Brian interviews Andrew Kirsch. Andrew served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for just under a decade. He held roles as a policy analyst and a field investigator, ultimately leading the special operations security team running covert warranted operations. Today, Kirsch runs a security consulting firm, assisting organizations and individuals in iden...

Brian speaks with Simeon Papailias. Simeon is a 15-year commercial and investment broker, with a strong and established presence in the GTA. He is the co-founder of REC Canada, an award-winning Real Estate firm whose fabric is made of over 45 multi-disciplined brokers, and covers residential, commercial, and investment asset classes. He leads his team with education, world-class training, and is a...

Brian interviews Giselle Mettam. Giselle is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Metta Health. She is passionate about high-quality healthcare, with 22 years of experience in the UK National Health Service. Now a business owner providing medical concierge services, she’s connected to a network of over 700 consultants and support national and international clients to access safe, high-quality priva...

Brian welcomes back John Campion. John is a senior litigator and constitutional lawyer who has an impressive 40-year legal career involved in many of the most notable class action lawsuits which we review and talk about the implications of them on our society. How they have changed the legal landscape and rights in Canada?

Brian interviews Alixe Cormick. Alixe is a corporate securities lawyer who has taken over 100 companies public in Canada, United States and Europe. Most of her clients over the last 30 years have been tech and biotech companies. But she started in real estate with a degree in regional and urban development and specializes in that too. Alixe talks about Real Estate investing and Crowdfunding. In a...

For his 1000th episode, Brian welcomes on John Tory, former Mayor of Toronto, lawyer, Rogers CEO, leader of the Ontario Conservatives, and radio host. They chat about almost every issue in Toronto today.

Brian interviews Mark Borkowski. Mark, President of Mercantile M&A, talks about the current market to buy sell and finance small and medium-sized businesses. We discuss how concern about the economy, interest rates, debt markets, capital gains taxes and many people’s passion to own their own business impacts the current M&A market.

Brian interviews Danielle Nonog. Danielle has been coaching successful professional women about dating 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 so they can attract substantial relationships through her personal methods & experiences of variety relationship dynamics. She says she “finds that a l...

Brian interviews Charles Burton. Charles is a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow, European Values Center for Security Policy. He taught politics for two decades at Brock. Charles believes Canada has lost significance on the International stage and we need to make strong hard power and soft power political moves to regain our place and have a positive...

Brian interviews Heather Exner-Pirot. Heather is a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and she published an op-ed on Canada’s energy situation and another on the Supreme Court decision on the Environmental Assessment Act. Heather Exner-Pirot talks about how Canada could have been an “Energy Superpower” but is now an “Energy Bystander”.

Brian interviews Marc Desormeaux of Desjardins about the housing affordability crisis in the GTA and across urban Canada. Marc is the Principal Economist of Canadian Economics at Desjardins. In his role, he analyzes economic trends and public policy across Canada to help Desjardins’ members and clients around the world tackle the most pressing economic questions. Today he’ll be talking to us about...