The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada. Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! These days, the security and stability of the world order seems, well, neither secure nor stable. With old and new conflicts abound, we have a really special guest today: Vice-Admiral Angus To...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada. Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’re going to have fun with two incisive observers of Canadian politics in Ottawa: Paul Wells and Shannon Proudfoot! Together we're going to examine "not just what is happening in O...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada. Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’re recording this one on Friday June 20th and tomorrow is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. So, a conversation relevant to that and essential in this political moment. Our guest is...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity Investments Canada. Greetings, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites! We’re recording this one on Sunday June 15th mid-afternoon – parallel timing with start of the highly-freighted G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta. Here to talk with me about what we mi...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! A pod today that starts with a bit of time travel. We’re going back to the Ontario of 1985, but not for the sake of a melancholy stroll down memory lane. I want to explore how a new (at the time) Liberal government came to po...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , TikTok Canada.  Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser, and anticipatory, Herle Burly-ites! Our guest is Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Premier Smith may be Canada’s premier newsmaker right now. You engaged Herle Burly-ites know, or think you know, quite a bit about her. She’s cle...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , TikTok Canada. Greetings you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! I’ve been hunkering down this last week here in London, England and that’s spurred me to want to dive a little deeper into the U.K., it’s relationships with Canada and the U.S., and trade. How those relationship...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , TikTok Canada and Historica Canada .  Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! I’m genuinely excited to have this man on the show for a conversation that’s both of the moment, and critical. Naheed Nenshi, Leader of the Alberta NDP, is here. (Note: Since recording th...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and TikTok Canada. Greetings, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites! Election 45 is in the books. And after 5 and ½ weeks on the trail, Mark Carney is in office. This time, as an elected Prime Minister. I have a conversation today with one of the key players that helped him...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Netflix Canada. Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’re recording this show 3 days before E-day. And it’s a bookend of sorts: We started off the election cycle here on The Herle Burly with a pollster pod to set the scene data-wise ... discuss the core iss...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Netflix Canada. Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’re recording this one early on Good Friday and I don’t want to keep our gracious guest here for too long. David MacNaughton , former Ambassador to the United States joins us, for a timely conversation on...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Netflix Canada. Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Today’s show has typically been a helluva lot of fun in the past. It’s our election ad panel . And we’re going to watch, and pull apart, a suite of the ads from #Election45. Joining us are David Rosenberg, D...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Netflix Canada. Alright you courageous, you resilient Herle Burly-ites! Today we've got a fantastic journo and media panel today, in the context of Election 45 in Canada ... so far, framed as the “Trump, Tariffs and Trade” election. Campbell Clark, Justin Ling and Richard...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We assembled The Chiefs for a timely pod to discuss campaigning while governing!  Typically with The Chiefs, we discuss issues from the perspective of people who think about them NOT as campaigners do, i.e. what might be ideal...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail .  Alright, greetings you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! As we record this podcast, we are either on the eve of a federal election, or, on the eve of the eve of a federal election as just about everybody expects Prime Minister Carney to call it in a matter of days. Poll wa...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail .  Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! The federal election winds are blowing strong with Mark Carney being sworn in as Prime Minister and an expected election soon.   So, an election readiness pod for you today. Centred around NOT the Liberals or Conservatives, bu...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and the Ontario Real Estate Association . Greetings you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites! I want you to cast your mind back 5 or 6 years.  Doug Ford, 1st term Premier of Ontario, had popularity numbers that, if they weren’t all time lows, were lower than the voice of the grea...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings, you curiouser, and right now anxiouser, Herle Burly-ites. We’re following up last week’s pod with Andrew Coyne, with another nerve-jangling conversation about the 24/7 norm-wrecking of Donald J. Trump. This one, leaning into how he’s shifting global relationships and all...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright, this is a perfect episode for you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. And it’s also a perfect episode for you anxiouser and anxiouser Herle Burly-ites. The 2 adjectives aren’t mutually exclusive, not at all. In fact, when you consider what’s happening in the world, o...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. We have a great show teed up for you today. It’s not an American topic, because it’s broader than that (which we’ll get to in a minute) but if you watched Trump’s inauguration, you couldn’t help but notice all the “tech-bro b...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and TikTok Canada . Greetings, you ever-curious Herle Burly-ites. I’m going to get right to it today, because we’ve got a topic that’s both pervasive and invasive, and I’ve wanted to explore it for a while... It’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Espionage Day on the podcast! With me is a g...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and TikTok Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’re diving right into the Liberal Leadership Race today with former Government House Leader, and current candidate for Leader of the Party, Karina Gould. What is her vision for the Liberal Party as leade...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and TikTok Canada . Alright you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! So, we’re recording this one on Saturday, January 25th, which means it’s “TD minus 7” ... TARIFF DAY minus 7. Canadian leaders have been consumed with how to respond. Taxing or restricting our oil and gas to...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity . Alright you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! One of my all-time favourite guests on the pod today, likely because she’s one of my all- time favourite people. Kathleen Wynne, 25th Premier of Ontario is here. If you’re a fan of the Air Quotes Media online univ...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Fidelity . Greetings, you intrepid Herle Burly-ites of the 51st State ! We have a unique and timely pod teed up for you today. It’s going to run longer that our usual entry, but I promise it’ll be worth it, because in the wake of Prime Minister Trudeau’s Resignation, this podca...