The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Please welcome to the pod Michael Balagus! Michael is a long-time strategist and mover and shaker for the NDP, provincially and federally. Until very recently he served as the Chief of Staff and Principal Secretary for Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP Caucus. He was named acting...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail .  Please welcome back to the pod Paul Palango for our follow-up conversation about a true crime story, a tragedy, and what Paul describes as a cover-up involving a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020. Mr. Palango is an author...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . We're gonna get right into it today with two of Canada's top housing experts to explore the market and navigate our way through what many feel is now out of reach, or worse, a sector in crisis. With us today is John Webster , who previously appeared on t...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . It’s a helluva day here on The Herle Burly. Our 5th anniversary! We started this podcast 5 years ago not really knowing where it would take us. David Axelrod was generous enough to help us launch this thing in 2017, and I’m just so chuffed to welcome him back. Dav...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . Greetings, you intrepid Herle Burly-ites. We have a helluva Herle Burly for you today and we’re going to get right to it, because Provincial Cabinet Ministers are on tight schedules, and you don’t keep them waiting goddamit! The Honourable Monte McNaughton is our...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . Greetings Herle Burly-ites. This week, we have a returning guest of The Herle Burly– a distinction that makes him an official “Friend of the Pod”. It’s mandatory. Whether he likes it or not, godamm*t. Kevin Carmichael is here. Kevin is Editor In Chief at the Finan...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . Greetings Herle Burly-ites. Today on the pod we’re going to talk about the state of healthcare and healthcare funding in this country and we have three former Premiers here to help us do it. Moving from East to West, Stephen McNeil , the 28th Premier of Nova Scoti...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . Greetings Herle Burly-ites. Whether you’ve been with this podcast for a few years now, or a few weeks, you know we do our best to get past the talking points of politics and campaigning, economics and public policy and give you a perspective on what’s really going...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . Hey, I want to take a moment to thank y’all for being here week after week. I guess I’m feeling a tad introspective – and it’s likely because we’re nearing our 5-year pod-versary. Yup, 5 years ago David Axelrod was our inaugural guest, fresh off an historic Cubs W...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail and Google Canada . Herle Burly-ites, Philippe J. Fournier is here! I’m sure a good lot of you know who Philippe is and have read his work and analysis, but for our listeners who haven’t, Philippe is the creator of 338Canada , the statistical model of electoral projection based on hi...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . We’ve got a helluva pod today. We’re going to take a deep dive into B.C. politics with my good friend, and now 2-time Herle Burly guest, Mike McDonald ! Mike is a brilliant human being. He’s the former campaign manager and Chief of Staff to Premier Christy Clark. Currently, he’s Pa...

*Podcast originally aired: June 2019* Today on the pod … political commentator, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the man whom the Wall Street Journal called “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America” … George Will. Mr. Will has been the authority on American conservatism for nearly 50 years. Now he’s out with a new book, called “The Conservative Sensibility”. We’re going to talk about the book an...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Herle Burly-ites, our guest today can accurately be described as a political renaissance man. His name is David Pepper . David Pepper is a Yale educated lawyer.  He’s a former politician, serving on city council in Cincinnati, and as a member of Hamilton County, Ohio, Board of Comm...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Herle Burly-ites, Francois-Phillipe Champagne , Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry is with us today. Minister Minister Champagne was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Saint-Maurice—Champlain in 2015. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs,...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . We’ve got a helluva pod for you today, because Elamin Abdelmahmoud is here. Elamin is big in the podcast and pop culture world with his own CBC show, Pop Chat. He’s a culture writer at BuzzFeed News and was founding co-host – with Rosie Barton – of the CBC Politics podcast, Party L...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . On the pod today is the prime architect of Doug Ford’s landslide re-election in Ontario: Kory Teneycke . You all know Mr. Teneycke, a good Saskatchewan boy, former comms director to Prime Minister Harper and campaign manager for Doug Ford in both the 2018 and 2022 elections. Cast y...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Jean Charest is with us on The Herle Burly! I’m not going to do a bio here. You all know Mr. Charest, his political backstory, and his contributions to our national and regional lives in Canada, which continue to this day. Instead, today is mostly going to be a contemporary convers...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . On the pod today we have Ryan Jespersen with us and the host of his own live, daily streaming show, Real Talk. He’s a phenomenon out in Alberta with a huge and devoted listenership. And the best part is, Ryan built it from the ground up. He figured out the technology, hired staff,...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Brigitte Legault is our special guest. And if you don’t know who Ms. Legault is, you’re surely going to after this discussion. She is the fearless, mobilizing force and architect of the CAQ, Coalition Avenir Quebec. As its Director General, she organized the party from an idea to a...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . I’m excited to welcome Armine Yalnizyan as our guest today. Armine is a leading voice on Canada’s economy. According to Maclean’s Magazine, who ranked her #22 on their Power List. She’s the Caring Person’s economist and a big picture thinker who looks out for the little guy. Armine...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . We have a good friend of the pod here, Greg Lyle , founder and President of the Innovative Research Group. If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard Greg before, as part of our pollster panel back in February. He’s built his career on the intersection of public policy, communicati...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Welcome back, for his second appearance on The Herle Burly, Minister Jonathan Wilkinson . First elected in 2015, Mr. Wilkinson has served Canadians as Minister of Fisheries, Oceans. And the last time the minister was on the pod, back in February 2021, it was in his capacity as Mini...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Peter Weltman is Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer . That means he heads an office that provides independent fiscal, financial and economic analysis on the state of the Ontario's finances. Just ahead of the provincial budget we'll discuss Ontario's finances...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . Back again, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr.! This time as Canada's Minister of Labour. You all know Mr. O’Regan. 10 years a co-host of CTV’s Canada AM. Member of Parliament for St. John’s South—Mount Pearl since 2015. Previously serving as Minister of Veterans Affairs, Minis...

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail . We've assembled a panel to talk housing and housing affordability. Plus all the related social and economic issues involved with the housing industry. As well, some solutions to Canada's housing crisis. Joining us are: Mukhtar Latif - Mukhtar is developer and affordable h...