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The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you ever-curious, Herle Burly-ites! Welcome to a special episode of The Herle Burly, recorded live at the Toronto Region Board of Trade! Our guest today is Jean-François Perrault , Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist at Scotiabank. His role there? Well, it’s a big o...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you ever-curious, Herle Burly-ites! We are chuffed – chuffed, I tell you – to have a Party big shot on the pod today! And because Party big shots are typically busy people, we’re gonna get right to it. Marit Stiles , Leader of the Ontario NDP and the Official Opposition,...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Greetings you curious, you courageous, Herle Burly-ites! A special show today because it’s a guest I’ve wanted to have here on the pod for quite a while. We’re talking to Brian Tobin , who, in my mind, has a place on the first-line, all-star politician team. Probably plays centre,...

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 have an Ontario PC Cabinet Minister on the pod today. Todd Smith, Ontario's Minister of Energy is our guest ! Minister Smith is a graduate of Loyalist College. He had a 16-year career in radio news, rising to the positio...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Dr. Andrew Boozary is here. And I’ll just come out and say it: Dr. Boozary’s CV intimidates the crap out of me. He’s a primary care physician, policy practitioner, researcher, and the Founding Executive Director of the Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine at the University Health Net...

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. I think our guest is setting some kind of record on today’s show. Here’s why: He’s a cabinet minister who’s making his third appearance on The Herle Burly. The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson is here. The first time he joined us i...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright, our guest today is renowned urban planner, developer, lecturer and public speaker … Jennifer Keesmaat . Jennifer has been named one of the “most powerful people in Canada” by Macleans, one of the “most influential” by Toronto Life. She spent 5 years as Toronto’s Chief City...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . The pod today is nirvana for polling nerds like me. And anyone who’s just curious about why Canadians, who don’t live and work in the Ottawa bubble, are thinking what they’re thinking. Our guests are two fantastic pollsters I’ve wanted on the show for a long time: Dan Arnold and Da...

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! If you’re a regular listener here, you’ll know that we’ve been exploring the future of media and news on the pod, these last number of weeks. We’ve had a couple of fantastic panels. The first was Elly Alboim and Bill Fox, who...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail .  We’ll get right to it because we have a cabinet minister in the house today, and I don’t like to keep cabinet ministers waiting: The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. First elected as a Member of Parliament in 2015, Mr. Miller was a lawyer prior to en...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail .  Today on the pod, we’ve assembled just a fantastic panel of three noted Canadian journalists: Andrew Coyne, Joyce Napier, and Paul Wells. I don’t feel I need to get into their bios. If you don’t know these three – where to read them, where to watch them – you’re not paying proper...

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The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . We have the Honourable Perrin Beatty here with us today. Mr. Beatty is the President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s largest national business association. Prior to joining the Chamber, he was the President and Chief Executive of Canadian Manufacturers & E...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Welcome back to our semi-regular feature here on The Herle Burly, called “ The Chiefs ”.  This is edition 3 of The Chiefs, Herle Burly-ites. We debuted it back in January to discuss the issues from the unique perspective of people who think about them NOT as campaigners do … i.e. w...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Let’s get right to it, because our topic today is elemental. We are going to dig deep – DEEP! – into the economy. More specifically, what I really want to do here is put Bank of Canada policy, and its antecedents, under the microscope. What led them to last week’s rate increase? Wh...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Uber Canada . The amazing Jennifer Welsh is making her second appearance here on the pod! Jennifer hails from Regina as I do, but that’s where the similarities end. She’s a Rhodes Scholar, earning her Master and Doctorate in International Relations at Oxford. She co-founded the O...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Uber Canada . We’re recording this one 2 days post the UCP majority victory in Alberta. And while that result may have been a shock to some, it was not a shock to me, based on what I was observing as the campaigns wound into their last couple of weeks. We’re gonna break it all do...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Uber Canada . We’re bringing together 2 people —  “The Interns” — who mean a helluva lot to me in both a professional and personal sense. As mentors, colleagues, advisors and friends. Elly Alboim and Bill Fox are here ! Both Elly and Bill are now 2-time Herle Burly guests. An hon...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Alright … Michelle Rempel Garner is our guest this week, making her second appearance here on The Herle Burly! You all know the Conservative Member for Calgary Nose Hill: she’s a vocal force, both within her own party, and in The House. Ms. Rempel Garner is a former cabinet ministe...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Uber Canada . Today on the pod is a topic I’ve wanted to explore and a guest we’ve been trying to get for a while: Shimon Fogel, Chief Executive Officer of CIJA, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs . Prior to his long career in Jewish Advocacy, Mr. Fogel studied Government...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , the Nuclear Innovation Institute , and Uber Canada . Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! We’re going to get right to it, because we have here with us the Honourable Omar Alghabra, Canada’s Minister of Transport! Minister Alghabra has represented the riding of M...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and Uber Canada . Our regular listeners will know that Frances Donald is Senior Managing Director and Global Chief Economist and Strategist at Manulife Financial. In 2019, when she was appointed to the role, she became the youngest Chief Economist in Canada — 1 of only 2 women to h...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and the Nuclear Innovation Institute . We have The Honourable Sean Fraser with us today, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. A proud son of Pictou County, Minister Fraser first entered public life in 2015 when he was elected MP for Central Nova. Before politics, he h...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail .  I’m gonna get right to our guest this week, because we’re taping this thing at 8am sharp, which based on who this man is and the good work he does, only tells me he’s got people to serve. Neil Hetherington, CEO of Daily Bread Food Bank is on the pod today. Neil has served as their...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , and the Nuclear Innovation Institute . We’re getting right to the pod today, because Cabinet Ministers are busy people. Especially so, when the cabinet minister in question, has responsibilities for not one but two portfolios! The Honourable Randy Boissonnault is our guest today. F...