The Charles Adler Show

Pierre Poilievre is feeding new rubes from the same old bag. That's the impression I get reading Thomas Mulcair's comment for CTV. He served as NDP leader in the same House of Commons where a young Harperite named Pierre Poilievre was serving his political apprenticeship as an MP from the Ottawa area, and a junior minister in the Harper Government. About Poilievre Mulcair say "They can lose the gl...

We begin with a story that is not to be believed. But you can believe it. It's been documented by Call to Activism. A woman in New York City accidentally threw out her diamond wedding ring. She realized it the middle of the night and did the only thing she could think of. She left a note on the windshield of a parked Garbage truck When the Garbage man got to work, he read the note, and dug through...

Are you ready for some seriously professional football? The NFL returns tonight, and for those of us who have been unhappy with some of the less than professional CFL brand in recent weeks, especially the sickening head butting of Winnipeg quarterback, Zach Collaros in Regina, it's good to know that the gold standard for tackle football, the NFL, is back with the Lions and the Chiefs. I can absolu...

Laura Babcock is back to delve into the Greenbelt scandal after Housing Minister Steve Clark resigned due to ethic rules broken in the land swap. Laura Babcock is a Senoir Communications Strategist at POWERGROUP. She also hosts TheOshow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Canada will become hottter - much hotter by 2060...It's the issue Macleans has dedicatged it's latest issue to. "The hotter it gets, the harder our hearts beat to circulate blood, resulting in more strokes and heart attacks. Eventually the body loses the ability to cool itself through perspiration, and the brain, heart, kidneys and other organs suffer permanent damage." says Macleans and by the wa...

 We now know what killed Jimmy Buffett, Merkel cell cancer took his life at 76. The Skin Cancer Foundation says Merkel cell carcinoma is rare but aggressive form of skin cancer. Merkel cell is 40 times rarer than melanoma. Buffett was best known Margaritaville. But he was best known to James Taylor, Paul McCartney, Alan Jackson and other greats as a member of the club, one who could not only write...

Interest rates will likely be paused by the Bank of Canada. That's the Bay Street Wisdom after the latest monthly numbers showing Canadian economic activity contracting. I said contracting. When the economy slows down and is doing exactly that, it's not a time to raise interest rates. The Bank of Canada will next week announce where it stands. But it will likely stand down on the idea of pushing i...

Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. Timothy also has several books including: The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and happiness and Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything?:...

Sean Fraser is the MP for Central Nova and the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities. Since being appointed to the position last month, the minister has been dealing with finger pointing from Canadians over who is to blame for the housing crisis and how everyone is going to be housed. In this episode you will hear how Sean's office plans to tackle housing issues, what constitutes un...

Auston Matthews, Connor McDavid and Wayne Gretzky. No Canadian is wondering what those three have in common. But aside from the great gift of being able to put the biscuit in the basket, they have been able to put many biscuits on their bank balance sheet by a side hustle known as endorsing online gambling. But Ontario's Gaming commission is calling an offside and so no more appearances in Ontario...

Charles brings Max Fawcett back in for another round of discussion. This time, Max weighs in on the issues posed by the upcoming influx of approximately 900,000 International Students for Canadian University and College programs, as well as the issues faced by the Liberal party and transgender youth in Canada. Follow Max on X: @MaxFawcett Also Sign up for his Substack   Learn more about your ad ch...

Canada is on track to welcome around 900,000 international students this year. 900 thousand this year, says Immigration Minister Marc Miller - much more than at any point in Canada's history - triple the number of students who entered the country a decade ago. The current Housing Minister - who was the immigration minister, Sean Fraser - says those numbers need to come down because we don't have t...

This is August 25. I am 69 today. Offering Federal Express-sized plane loads of gratitude for those who have listened to my broadcasts and podcasts and viewed my telecasts and columns. Thank you. And for those who want me to retire, sorry. You're outnumbered by those who don't. And most important, I don't. And I don't want anyone listening to this to every feel pushed or pressured into making any...

Big chunks of British Columbia under a state of emergency. Wildfires have chased more than 30 thousand people of their homes in the scorching hot and dry interior of the Canadian provinces. Doctors at the Langone Centre, at New York University, have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a human who was declared brain dead. Science calls this "a landmark step forward."...

Kelowna, BC is now under a state of emergency. The Wildfire is burning through the area rapidly, helped by conditions that are bone dry. People are being evacuated. But how many is still an open question. For so many the wildfire was across the lake. But today the fire jumped the lake. Most of the more than 45 thousand residents of the Northwest Territories have been evacuated. Wildfire Wildfire....

Charles is back once again with guest Michael Coren who talks about his first ever articles as well as his features on the Globe and Mail and many other publications including his 18 books. Globe and Mail Articles are featured here. (They are behind a paywall). CNN Article here. Michael also talks about the culture of the United States, Justin Trudeau’s sexuality, the right’s obsession with accusa...

I'm Charles Adler with 3 Minutes that matter. It will take less than 1 minute to summarize Donald Trump---here's the list that tells you everything you need to know without experts droning on about the substance, and the meaning of the substance This is the List that tells you who he is .. 91 criminal charges 26 sexual assault allegations 6 bankruptcies 5 draft deferments 4 indictments 2 impeachme...

David Moscrop is a columnist with the Washington post, the host of a two podcasts and the author of a book about "why we make bad political decisions.' Charles and David talk about how the housing market in Canada as well as the media influence on Canadian Markets. You can find David's Substack here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Asking you to remember this US legal 4 letter acronym. RICO. R I C O. It stands for Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organization. This is what organized crime figures have been charged with Former Prosecutors like Rudy Giuliani gained convictions of mob bosses on racketeering chargers. People die. And Reputations die. But Irony lives forever. Irony of Ironies. Rudy Giuliani is now among a yacht...

Official death toll in Maui getting close to 100...As smoke and embers started to surround us, we made it home, loaded a few personal items in the car and headed down south to another town some 20 miles from Lahaina, shortly before my house was overtaken by the fire. As I pulled out of the driveway, I couldn’t help but think that this was probably the last time I would ever see my house. It was he...

Shannon Proudfoot quoting Pierre Poilievre in Sault St Marie where he is misinforming the audience about a waitress he knows nothing about. So nothing he says makes any working class person think the Conservative leader is any thing but a class warfare fraud. Quoting the fraudulent oppo leader. ”I don’t know her personal story, but let’s say that she has three kids,” he said. “And let’s say that s...

Wendy Mesley has worked all over the Broadcast industry including working for CBC from 1979 to 2021. She has anchored and hosted a plethora of other projects as well including her own Podcast called The Women of Ill Repute alongside Maureen Holloway. Charles and Wendy dive into conversations about CBC, Equality, and their lives thus far. You can find Wendy's Podcast here. Learn more about your ad...

Hugh Segal was one successful political strategist for Progressive Conservatives. He was chief of staff to a provincial Premier and a Prime Minister. He worked for Bill Davis and Brian Mulroney. He was an author and former senator. Hugh Segal never made those of us who were small c conservatives feel we were associated with anything cheap, deceitful or classless. His big brain was attached to an e...

Ken Boessenkool is one of Canada’s leading conservative strategists. His list of work accomplishments are long including his current role as the J.W. McConnell Professor of Practice at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, and Research Fellow at the CD Howe Institute. In the course of his career, he has worked for and founded a variety of public affairs firms; played senior ro...

Justin Trudeau takes another selfie this time with his teenage daughter Ella. This time the movie isn't Barbie. It's Oppenheimer. The selfie is on Twitter and elsewhere and once again Trudeau haters are posting words about him and his daughter that I won't repeat here. People seeking safe places to live for their families, people known as Migrants get killed regularly at sea. News from Italy today...