Brian interviews Philip MacKellar. Phillip is an analyst and portfolio manager at Contra the Heard Investment Newsletter and we discuss stocks, economics, and uranium. Contra the Heard is a Toronto-based company and has been in business since 1995. Phil has been with the company since 2011 and has been investing since 2004. The newsletter’s primary focus is on contrarian and deep value investment opportunities traded in the United States and Canada. Philip also writes for the Globe & Mail, Seeking Alpha, the Canadian Money Saver, and blogs about personal finance topics at his own website mymoneymoves.ca.

I interview Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens. We'll talk about the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge and it’s reopening Sunday.

📌 Drew Dilkens was elected Mayor of the City of Windsor on October 27, 2014. Mayor Dilkens ran on a platform of continued fiscal discipline and pushed for a more regional approach to government in Windsor and Essex County. Prior to being elected Mayor, and during his eight years as a member of Windsor City Council, he chaired the International Relations Committee and the Essex Windsor Solid Waste Authority, and spearheaded the creation and implementation of the new Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island.

I end the show commenting on the tracker occupations issue.

Brian interviews two guests on Valentine's Day.

📌 Dimple Mukherjee Mukherjee. We discuss the transformative practice of Calling in a Word of the year! She is the author of Word of the Year: True Stories About Intentional Living Using the Power of a Single Word. Her mission is to help intentional, values-oriented individuals use their words of the year as anchors to guide them purposefully towards their desires and create consistent forward momentum.

⭐️ Live a more vital life full of awe and delight
⭐️ Practice self-love, self-care and self-compassion
⭐️ Create meaningful and intentional connections
⭐️ Prioritize your health & most of all, your mental health.

📌 Ryan Lomer Ouellette of Lomer Photography specializes in boudoir shots for females. Many do these shoots for their partners for Valentine's Day or Birthdays but he also says many just do them for themselves. He says that everyone is beautiful and sexy and wants to remember themselves that way. He says it’s self love.

Brian interviews Stacie Wimer. Stacie hosts the Man Shopping with Stacie podcast which she hopes helps single parents and divorced people over 40 to find more happiness and joy in their lives right now. We discuss first dates and online dates for Valentine’s Day, her best dates and worst ones. Stacie is an unabashed 43 year old twice divorced single mother. She is a pharmaceutical & medical device sales professional by day and a writer, podcaster, cooking & baking enthusiast by night. Man Shopping is a silly comparison between online shopping and online dating.

Brian interviews Abhijeet Manay. Abhijeet is Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Ontario. He works in Learning & Development at Reena, a non-profit that works with people with developmental disabilities where he designs & teaches courses. He also sits on the Board of Directors of iREAM, a nonprofit organization in the GTA. He has completed his Hons. Bachelor of Science at McMaster University & his Masters in Education at the University of Toronto. Abhijeet has a deep understanding of Toronto issues, where he grew up when he first arrived in Canada from Mumbai, India at the age of 14.

Brian interviews Jonathan Berkshire Miller. Tonight's show is about political, military and economic issues in China and the rest of Asia.

📌 Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Director and Senior Fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute, focuses on the Indo-Pacific region. Jonathan is an international affairs professional with expertise on security, defence and Geo-economic issues in the Indo-Pacific. He has held a variety of positions in the private and public sector. Currently, he is a senior fellow with the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

Brian interviews Jon Shell. Tonight's show is about social capital investments that try to do social good.

📌 Jon Shell, Managing Director, and Partner at Social Capital Partners (SCP). SCP is an independently funded Canadian non-profit founded in 2001, whose mission is to build a more resilient economy through broad-based ownership and quality employment. SCP’s current focus is increasing employee ownership in North America through both regulatory changes in Canada and partnering with institutional investors to finance large-scale employee ownership transitions in the US.

Brian interviews two politicians. They discuss gas prices, climate change, leadership, abuse, race issues and much more.

📌 Qadira Jackson who is running for Liberal candidate in Scarborough Southwest for the upcoming provincial election. Qadira has a BA in Psychology, a Specialized Honours Bachelor of Social Work Degree and a Certificate in Dispute Resolution. She worked at Children’s Aid Society Toronto and at the Woman Abuse Council Toronto. In Law School at the University of Windsor she sat on the executive board of the Black Law Students Association, was on the steering committee for Students Against Anti-Black Racism. She currently works as a lawyer.

📌Daniel P. McTeague, PC is a Canadian businessman, former public servant and former politician. McTeague served for eighteen years as Member of Parliament for the Ontario riding of Pickering—Scarborough East. Dan is widely known in both official languages for his tireless work on energy pricing and saving Canadians money through accurate price forecasts.

Brian interviews Robert Earl Stewart. Robert is the author of “The Running-Shaped Hole". We discuss his upcoming poignant, self-deprecating memoir about the life-altering effects running had on his life, from reversing his bad habits to losing 140 pounds, and, after several mishaps like jail time, eventually running the Detroit Free Press half-marathon. Robert Earl Stewart has an M.A. from McGill University and spent fifteen years as a newspaper reporter, photographer, and editor. At turns philosophical and slapstick, his memoir examines the life-altering effects running has on a man who struggles to be a husband, a father, a son, and a writer.

Brian has a panel of conservatives to discuss the demise of Erin O’Toole and where the Tory Party goes from here. A right wing social conservative populist party or a centrist could I say Progressive Conservative party and who could actually lead it and they have a chance of bringing PM? My guests are:

📌 Tony Clement, former MP, MPP, Cabinet Minister and leadership candidate,

📌 Sara MacIntyre, former communications for PM Steven Harper and BC Premier Christie Clark,

📌 Darryl Wolk, former municipal candidate and long term Tory activist.