NOW and NEXT

The Ambassador Bridge is back in business, and I think it's remarkable that local, provincial and RCMP managed to bust up the Windsor blockade without even a hint of violence.  Might not be the case at other border crossings, but it is encouraging. Ottawa is a different picture. That occupation is dug in with no signs of giving in. We know the Prime Minister has decided to invoke the Emergencies Act. But, as noted Friday, emergency measures are meaningless unless they're enforced.

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Founder and Editor of the Queen's Park Observer, Sabrina Nanji joins us. Get-tough plans at Queen's Park are great but they're still just talk unless the OPP and local police forces are prepared to enforce the measures. Cutting off fuel and funding for the blockaders is a long game that might get results in weeks(?) The need for action is immediate. The border crossings need to be open now. The Ottawa occupation needs to end now. Police attempts to avoid violence to date seem to have made it more likely this won't end quietly.

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Okay. I've know Maru Blue SVP John Wright  for more than 25 years. And I have never heard or seen him so exorcized. WARNING This is an F-BOMB-CARPET-BOMB show.  Who can we TRUST in authority and media? Political and media "leadership" is a long line of FOLLOWERS.  Where is the LEADERSHIP?  I'm not encouraged. Listen in!  

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Today on the Daily Brief: We picked apart Pierre Poilievre's puerile pitch to be PM earlier in the week (say that 10 times fast!). He displays anything BUT leadership in his flirting with the fringe of facts and cries for FREEDOM. Candice Bergen on the other hand, who has more than her share of political baggage to slow her down, has shown what we need from leaders in Ottawa. Justin Trudeau could take a lesson from Bergen and from his dad. Have a listen!

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Just as a preview, and for those of you who are convinced I hate freedom and conservatives, I am going to tell you why I think the Interim Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition "got it right" this week in Ottawa.  But first, some fun in Story Studio Network. We're working on some NEW SHOWS I know you're going to enjoy. AND one of them is for all you guitar lovers out there! I am in the process of collecting stories for my newest show EVERY GUITAR HAS A STORY. The show "celebrates" the past fifty years I've spent learing how to play. I've got one story to share with you and I'd love it if you'd share yours with me. Have a listen!

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Pierre Poilievre says he's running to be Canada's next prime minister, skipping right over the need for him to win the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. He's either ignoring or taking for granted the will and intention of the party.

His candidacy announcement flirts with the fringes of facts and and champions the language of the Ottawa occupiers. It's a string of cliches and bumper sticker tactics. What does it mean to be "the freest people on Earth?" What's clear in all of this, the fringe among the "freedom" convoy aren't listening to the fact checked mainstream media. They are listening to Poilievre. And he's already setting media as the enemy. Buckle up. This is going to be one of the messiest periods of politics in this country.

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Excited to tell you that my radio-days colleague and friend Glenn Crouter will be bringing his Winter sports reports to Story Studio Network. He and I are going to embark on a limited series called "Head for the Hills". We won't talk about ski conditions but will talk about the state of the sport. We're planning to launch the show Feb. 11!  

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In a country where 34 per cent of the popular vote isn't enough to form a government but 33 per cent is enough, isn't it time for conservatives to admit, the Reform/Progressive Alliance is a failed experiment? Erin O'Toole's demise makes that clear. John Wright, Executive VP at Maru Public Opinion joins the Daily Brief to review the entrails of the Ground Hog Day massacre.

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Erin O'Toole's political obit will be read by the end of the day but it was written back in October when his caucus planted an IED on  his leadership path. It's kind of appropriate that his "fellow" Conservatives are using the clout of the "REFORM ACT" to make him pay for his progressive conservative tack. In this episode of The Daily Brief, how can the Conservative Party of Canada be struggling to find it's soul when it's never really had one. Even under Stephen Harper, the Conservatives only had to be better than a weak bumbling opposition.

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The numbers are staggering. Researchers say the "lost years" hit 1.25 million when they extend the number of unintentional ODs to those between 10 and 24. It certainly punctuated my reaction to Dopesick, the limited series that tracks the lengths Purdue Pharma went to cover its tracks while it developed and promoted OxyContin. We may be able to claim we didn't see COVID-19 coming. But the opiod crisis is in plain view. More than 100 thousand Americans died of opiod overdoses during the 12 months ending July 2021.

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