Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Brian interviews Julie Rusciolelli. Julie is President and Founder of the boutique PR firm Maverick Public Relations based in Toronto. Julie is a veteran of the PR business. Her career spans 35 years in communications and has represented thousands of clients .... from luxury appliances, health & wellness, automotive, hi-tech to consumer goods. She has also advised many charities from across Canada...

Brian speaks with Andrew Perez. Andrew is a long term Liberal political activist and volunteered on the 2022 Ontario Liberal Party's campaign as a communications advisor. He is a frequent writer and contributor to political policy periodicals. He is a Toronto-based public affairs professional, freelance writer and political activist. We talk about Erin O’Toole’s recent interview about why he lost...

Brian interviews Khrystyna Khariv from Kyiv, Ukraine about life in wartime and work and what she thinks the west needs to do. Here is what she says: “I am one of the more fortunate Ukrainians whose house is still standing, whose family is reasonably safe, and whose livelihood has not been taken away by Russia's brutal attack on my country. So, in addition to my regular roles in life, when the war...

Brian interviews Shawn Whatley. Shawn Whatley, MD, is the past President of the Ontario Medical Association and a physician leader with experience in emergency medicine and primary care. He served as Interim Medical Director and then Physician Leader at Southlake Hospital's Emergency Services Program from 2008 to 2014. He is the Health Policy Fellow with the McDonald Laurier Institute. We talk abo...

Brian interviews Beth Sturdevant. Beth is a spiritual healer and master Reiki practitioner who, through navigating the adversities of her own life’s journey, and healing her inner warrior spirit, has found authentic purpose and joy in her life again, and made it her mission to help others do the same. She is a compassionate and dedicated resource for those needing to heal from trauma, overcome obs...

Brian focuses on fashion and immigration with Marie Copps. Maria tells a compelling story of coming to Canada from Czechoslovakia and launching a career in fashion, winning awards and launching the Fashion Shoot Extravaganza. This is an exciting story of resilience and success in a new country and a fun industry. “I would love to talk about my transformation from traveling to Canada to becoming th...

Brian interviews two real estate people: Anil Ramlal and Carla Corsi. Tonight we focus on the current real estate market and where are volumes and pricing going and what should buyers and sellers do. 📌 Anil Ramlal, an out of the box thinking realtor who gets the job done. He's going to talk about the real estate market, the challenges for consumers getting into the market and what realtors are fa...

Brian interviews two people to discuss the protests happening in Iran. Ava Homa is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her debut novel "Daughters of Smoke and Fire", the story of a Kurdish-Iranian woman, won the 2020 Nautilus Book Award. Her bylines have appeared at the Globe and Mail, Literary Hub, BBC and Toronto Star. We talk about both her novel about Leila, who like Mahsa Amini (the wom...

Brian interviews Dan Donovan about the national media and how he feels it is becoming biased and unfair and potentially irrelevant. He is worried about how they have treated the new Tory Leader. We also discuss it American style cable news is invading Canada. Dan is the Publisher and Editor of Ottawa Life Magazine a former political staffer, stand up comedian and an excellent writer.

Brian interviews Michelle Coates Mather. Michelle is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Presence + Influence. She is the former director of communications for the Jean Charest Leadership Campaign. We talk about her article published last week: “Jean Charest ran a hard-fought race, there’s nothing ‘gloomy’ about that. In a world where social media “rage farming” and ideological polarization ar...

Brian interviews three innovators from Zambia. 📌 Billy Peterlennards Munyenyembe - a brilliant innovator, software engineer and social activist 📌 Edward Phiri - co-founder at EO Robotics and an embedded software engineer 📌 Obrey Muchena III - an award winning robotics developer.

Brian interviews Brian Lee Crowley. Brian is the managing director of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute. They speak about his recent article: "Canada has devolved into a childish country incapable of solving big problems". His latest book is “Gardeners vs Designers: Understanding the Great Fault Line in Canadian Politics.” A provocative quote from his article: “In recent years, childishness has been...

Brian interviews Zachary Spicer. Zachary is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration. He holds a PhD in Political Science from The University of Western Ontario. We discuss his paper on Digital Dilemmas: Technology, Governance, Canadian Municipalities Announcement, City Governments and their challenges. The introduction of new digital platforms into community life –...

Brian interviews three people about The Buzz Conference for Real Estate. His guests are guests are: 📌 Virginia Munden - Building Relationships and Trust, getting started in the business and about the Buzz conferences 📌 Kate Broddick - Building Women Teams and suburban / rural real estate from the top sales producer in Brant 📌 Kenneth Toppin - Geographical Farming focus from a top producer in Aj...

Brian speaks with Heather Exner-Pirot. Heather is a Senior Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute and currently a Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Centre in Washington DC. Last week she published an op ed on how the Arctic security environment has changed with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In particular, she supports Canada’s investments in NORAD and thinks it’s time that NATO has a more explicit...

Brian interviews Beth Sturdevant. Beth last week played her cello on stage with the Eagles and talks about the healing power of music, her life as a musician, and her journey to remembering who she truly is. “The funny thing is last night playing with the Eagles reinforced my love for playing with such bands, and being on stage performing. Bringing joy, happiness and connection to so many people a...

Brian interviews 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 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 journa...

Brian interviews Stefan Boyle, a London UK resident, a marketing expert and someone who posted about the Queen’s Funeral and the organizer of the military participation and has received over 1,350,000 views and countless likes and shares. His moving authentic and congratulatory post has obviously hit a nerve with many people. Here is part of his post: “This Is the Garrison Sergeant Major of London...

Brian interviews Dr. Rebecca Rosenblat. Dr. Rosenblat, PhD, RP, CSAT, CST, EMDR Trained, Havening Techniques®Practitioner, Cert LC is a Clinical Sexologist, Registered Psychotherapist, Cert Trauma & Addiction Therapist, TV Host, Media Personality, Public Speaker, Author and a fascinating interviewee, I think you’ll enjoy the conversation.

In honour of Queen Elizabeth II and her funeral, Brian interviews Robin E. Horsfall. Robin is a former SAS soldier in the UK is now an author and war commentator with almost 50,000 followers on linked in. From boy soldier, to author, to warrior poet. Robin Horsfall is a man who has led an extraordinary life, who has a powerful voice and many incredible lessons to teach. We talk about his service i...

Brian interviews Maria Barabash and Taras Tertychnyi, who both live in Kiev. They chat about what is happening in Ukraine at the front and what they need from the West. 📌 Maria Barabash, Founder and President of Actions First Foundation, a Ukrainian charity assisting the fighting forces. Maria has a Masters in law, has been a PE investor prior to the war and has worked closely with the Ukrainian...

Brian interviews Anna Fishbeyn. Anna is both filmmaker and star of movie Galaxy 360: A Women’s Playground - which reviewers have described as timely, fun, feminist that pulls " a surprisingly serious punch". The film made a huge impact with industry folk at Cannes Film Festival and sold out the TIFF lightbox showing. We have a great conversation about the film, feminism, differences between men an...

Brian interviews Steve Lafleur. Steve is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Fraser Institute. We discuss municipal politics, zoning, city regulations and how they are causing the housing crisis not helping. Steve holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.A. from Laurentian University where he studied Political Science and Economics. He was previously a Senior Policy An...

Brian speaks with Rick Anderson and Warren Kinsella. These are two well known public affairs consultants and political commentators about the Tory Leadership contest and what the victory of Pierre Poilievre means for the Conservatives and Canada. 📌 Rick Anderson, Principal Earnscliffe Strategy Group. Highly active in politics and public affairs commentary throughout his life, Rick has served in s...

Brian interviews Alex Haditaghi. Alex is a serial entrepreneur in the financial service and tech sector. He is the founder and chairman of Radius Financial, a Canadian mortgage lender. We talk about his article “Stopping a real estate crash requires immediate action from the Canadian government” in Ottawa Life. He writes: “Fuelled by the media and propagated by misinformed economist pundits, publi...