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 Ottawa" with the new Carney government, "but what it looked and felt like, who made it happen and why." Paul We...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 6 min
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 National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, of the Assembly of First Nations. Born and raised in the Pi...
Jun 21, 2025•57 min
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 might expect from the meeting is Jason Kenney, making his 2nd appearance here on the pod. I mean, who ...
Jun 16, 2025•56 min
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 power and immediately enacted a series of major reforms and initiatives that still reverberate in the ...
Jun 08, 2025•1 hr 17 min
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 clearly a proud Albertan. Leader of the United Conservative Party. She was sworn in as the 19th Premier ...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr 18 min
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 relationships have changed – in a Carney and Trump context – and what new dynamics are driving it all. I’ve got ...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 10 min
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 this episode, we've since been in contact with Premier Smith's Office and are hopeful to schedule that ...
May 09, 2025•1 hr 10 min
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 navigate that path. For both the Liberal Leadership race and the ensuing election. My aim, for the n...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 4 min
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 issues as they were emerging, i.e. Trump and Tariffs ... look at the opening state of play ... and anti...
Apr 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min
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 Canada-U.S. relations. A brief bio to start: Mr. MacNaughton is currently the President of Palantir ...
Apr 18, 2025•54 min
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, Dennis Matthews and Éric Blais . Éric is a strategy guru and President of Headspace Marketing, which ...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 30 min
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 Zussman join us for the next 60 minutes. Broadly, I want to talk with these folks about the campaign, and...
Apr 06, 2025•1 hr
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 in a political sense, but rather, what’s possible to deliver in a governing sense. But because these ...
Mar 29, 2025•1 hr 2 min
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 watchers know that Mr. Carney seems to have resurrected this dangerous and ephemeral thing called HOPE,...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 19 min
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, but rather, the NDP. Jennifer Howard , National Campaign Director for the NDP , joins us. Proud prairie g...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 8 min
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 great Johnny Cash, after a weeklong bourbon bender. Today, Mr. Ford is celebrating his 3rd straight major...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 2 min
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 alliances, here in Canada and across Europe ... resulting in ... oh, you know ... maybe just a whole ne...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 11 min
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, on almost a minute-by-minute basis – the shifting power dynamics, the destruction of alliances and tr...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 6 min
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 billionaires” seated on the dais, in their places of honour, flanking the incoming President. Musk, Z...
Feb 15, 2025•1 hr 7 min
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 guest whose CV in the field is as long and tall as a grain silo in my hometown of Prelate, Saskatchew...
Feb 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min
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 leader? Why is she running? What does she bring to the race? What’s different about her candidacy from th...
Feb 02, 2025•1 hr 9 min
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 U.S., has been suggested, and debated fiercely. Writing last week in The Hub, our guest today sa...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 6 min
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 universe at AirQuotesMedia.com, you also know that Kathleen is a regular contributor to “Quotes”, our wr...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 10 min
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 podcast episode is devoted to a single topic: The Liberal Leadership Contest . With our guests today (and...
Jan 09, 2025•2 hr 46 min
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! We assembled The Chiefs for a special "government in crisis" podcast! The resignation of the minister of finance. Cabinet shuffles. Trump tariffs. NDP non-confidence. And the fate of a PM. You know them, three former Chiefs of Staff to some of Canada’s most accomplished heads of government: Ian Brodie – first C...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 17 min
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 curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! His bio in part reads: "First elected in 2000 and re-elected seven times since" ... now, as of this week, he's Canada's new Minister of Finance, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc . And with limited time we're getting right to it, to talk about all things contained in his post-Monday portfolio: Finance, Intergove...
Dec 18, 2024•48 min
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 curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Frances Donald is with us today, the economist explainer in chief, the person who puts the fun in economic fundamentals! She's joining us from her new perch as senior vice-president and chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada. All anyone can talk about is the economy these days: prices are too high... how low...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 18 min
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 curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Amanda Lang and Kevin Carmichael are back ! Today we're going to run through Canada-US trade relations and the state of the Canadian economy for an economic-palooza pod! Amanda, an official “Friend of The Herle Burly” and now 3-time guest, is one of the highest profile business journalists in the country. Hos...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 19 min
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 curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! You know, there’s only ONE Provincial Premier in this country that has bucked the electoral trend since Covid – which is to say, NOT lost the election, or eked out a tiny margin of victory, or just managed to retain a majority with a vastly diminished number of seats. That Premier (and former Herle Burly gues...
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr
The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS , as well as CN Rail , Forestry for a Better Future , and Fidelity . Alright, you intrepid Herle Burly-ites. Regular listeners will know we’ve been talking about cost of living and affordability issues here on the pod the last little while. Well, mere hours before this recording … the federal Liberal government announced a new affordability package with a 1.6 billion dollar temporary GST cut, aimed pri...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 9 min
