NOW and NEXT

This week on Now and Next:

It's THE C.A.S.T. - our Comms and Strategy Team: Lindsay Broadhead, Bob Reid, and Anne Marie Aikins.

"Elbows Up!" isn't just a cute slogan, it's a posture Canadians are assuming on a number of levels knowing tough times are coming thanks to the stupid antics of the useful idiot and his White House minions.

Also, Olivia Chow rings the right bell banning US companies from doing business with the City of Toronto.

AND, Prime Minister Mark Carney chastises two women in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, telling one of them to "look into yourself". It was a disastrous exchange for the rookie PM on two levels - one, the reporters were asking legitimate questions about his financial assets and he refused to answer; two, "Look deep within yourself" said Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling!

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It's my bi-weekly visit to Moore in the Morning on Newstalk 1010 in Toronto!

Sitting in on the Roundtable with Paven Bratch, Rowena Santos and host John Moore.

Lots of Trump and tariff talk:

• Trump says he respects Doug Ford as the premier heads to Washington DC (copy below)
  https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/donald-trump-calls-doug-ford-a-very-strong-man-as-premier-continues-u-s-media/article_615de6ce-fe73-11ef-9f9f-a7c549eece24.html
• New poll says Canadian opinion of the US is cratering 
  https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-united-states-donald-trump-poll

But not all Trump all the time.

• Poilievre says he plans to promote adoption as 'greater good' over legislating abortion
  https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/poilievre-to-promote-adoption-over-legislating-abortion
• Driver asks judge to toss indictment in death of 'intoxicated' Gaudreau brothers
  https://nationalpost.com/news/world/higgins-gaudreau-motion-dismiss-indictment

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Welcome to POLITICALLY SPEAKING on Now and Next. Former Bank of Canada Governor and self proclaimed political outsider, Mark Carney won't nearly 86% of the vote in his bid to be leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

He set a new tone for the party while setting his sights on CPC Leader Pierre Polievre in anticipation of a soon-to-be-called federal election and he set the stage for the coming trade war with Donald Trump's America.

Joining us around the table is former Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, former Mayor of Toronto, John Tory, founding co-host and pollster from On the Ledge - your Ontario politics podcast, John Wright and Keith Leslie, Queen's Park commentator at CHCH TV in Hamilton.

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Our Canadian Sovereignty is front, centre and focussed as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of our Maple Leaf national flag.

So we explore it against the backdrop of the Trump tariffs, Pierre Poilievre's commitment to beefing up our defence in the Far North, and the seriousness of the Annexation rhetoric.

Scott Clancy is a retired Major General, having served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He finished his military career as Director of Operations at NORAD and brings an important and interesting perspective on all of the above.

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In this episode of Now and Next, we take a moment from the chaos of the news cycle to remember our friend, colleague and competitor Christie Blatchford.

Christie passed away five years ago on Feb. 12, 2020. 

This episode of the pod features an Edward R. Murrow award winning radio documentary called Embedded in Kandahar. It was based on Christie's Governor General award winning book "Fifteen Days" and produced for Newstalk 1010 CFRB in Toronto.

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We are dropping our DAILY edition of On the Ledge - your Ontario Politics Podcast into the NOW and NEXT feed through the course of the proviincial campaign.

We've lined up the Traveling Wilburys SUPER GROUP of political commentators in Ontario to dissect, discuss, analyze and scrutinize this provincial campaign.
 
In this DAILY edition of On the Ledge - your Ontario Politics Podcast: 

• We expect Doug Ford to run a front runner’s campaign.
• The Liberals and NDP appear to be alarmingly unprepared for this campaign
• BUT, Bonnie Crombie has finally announced where she’ll run for election
We’re joined by our C.A.S.T. (Comms and Strategy Team) from Story Studio Network’s NOW and NEXT podcast. 


Brad Ross has made a career leading the communications strategies for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission. 
Lindsay Broadhead brings her comms experience and insights base on her time leading teams at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and, most recently, the Chief Communications Officer at the City of Toronto. 
Bob Reid applies his earned experience as a major market journalist and a Senior Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to his analysis of the communications "Touchdowns and Fumbles". 
Anne Marie Aikins is a "media relations maven", a sought after pundit and speaker, and a strategic comms adviser specializing in public transit in Ontario. 
Dave Trafford is a “Podcast Journalist”, the Chief Executive Producer at Story Studio Network, and a Recovering News Director, (having led the news operations at Global News Toronto, Newstalk 1010 and AM640 radio in Toronto) with more than forty years of experience in Canadian media. 

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We’ve reassembled our NEXT NORMAL Roundtable!

The NEXT NORMAL, with David Hardy Lisa Taylor, CCDP and Ujwal Arkalgud, is the first podcast series produced under the Story Studio Network banner. It launched in 2021.

It explored the foundational shifts in culture, in politics, education, healthcare, and economics - all forced upon us by the COVID 19 pandemic.

The immediate effects of the pandemic may be in the rearview mirror but the recovery and reckoning lingers in 2025 - in this era of the NEXT NORMAL.

What are the key learnings and challenges from 2024?

Have we normalized anti-semitism?

Can we be hopeful but not optimistic about opportunities and prospects for 2025?

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In this episode of 'Now and Next with Dave Trafford' for Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 

Our C.A.S.T (Comms and Strategy Team), featuring Anne Marie Aikins, Bob Reid, Lindsay Broadhead and Brad Ross, dives into a range of pressing issues.

The discussion covers he political turbulence and leadership challenges in Ottawa and Washington, budget concerns at Toronto City Hall, and effective crisis communication in the face of the Los Angeles wildfires.

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Our Now and Next C.A.S.T. (Comms and Strategy Team) weighs in in the chaos ignited on Parliament Hill by the sudden resignation of Finance Minster and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland.

Nobody saw it coming. But the Prime Minister should have expected it - considering he FIRED Freeland from Finance mere days before she was expected to table the Fall Economic Statement.

The strangest thing in a weird political week us Trudeau wanted Freeland to present the FES even after telling her he was moving her out of Finance!

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Meet the NOW and NEXT C.A.S.T!  

Brad Ross has made a career leading the communications strategies for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission.   

Lindsay Broadhead brings her comms experience and insights base on her time leading teams at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and, most recently, the Chief Communications Officer at the City of Toronto.  

Bob Reid applies his earned experience as a major market journalist and a Senior Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to his analysis of the communications "Touchdowns and Fumbles".  

Anne Marie Aikins is a "media relations maven", a sought after pundit and speaker, and a strategic comms adviser specializing in public transit in Ontario.  

Dave Trafford   is a “Podcast Journalist”, the Chief Executive Producer at Story Studio Network, and a Recovering News Director, (having led the news operations at Global News Toronto, Newstalk 1010 and AM640 radio in Toronto) with more than forty years of experience in Canadian media.

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It's a NOW and NEXT first!

Our Comms and Strategy Team (C.A.S.T.) presented this edition of the podcast LIVE at the Public Affairs Association of Canada conference in Toronto. It was held in November at the waterfront campus of George Brown College.

We riffed on the emergence of podcasting a powerful weapon in the comms and stategy arsenal for brands and organizations in a day and age when "earned media" is increasingly more difficult to land.

We also talked about the political power of podcasting - particularly against the backdrop of the US Presidential election that gives Donald Trump another four years behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

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Meet the NOW and NEXT C.A.S.T!
 
Brad Ross has made a career leading the communications strategies for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission. 
 
Lindsay Broadhead brings her comms experience and insights base on her time leading teams at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and, most recently, the Chief Communications Officer at the City of Toronto.
 
Bob Reid applies his earned experience as a major market journalist and a Senior Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to his analysis of the communications "Touchdowns and Fumbles".
 
Anne Marie Aikins is a "media relations maven", a sought after pundit and speaker, and a strategic comms adviser specializing in public transit in Ontario.
 
Dave Trafford   is a “Podcast Journalist”, the Chief Executive Producer at Story Studio Network, and a Recovering News Director, (having led the news operations at Global News Toronto, Newstalk 1010 and AM640 radio in Toronto) with more than forty years of experience in Canadian media. 

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