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George Stroumboulopoulos – just call him Strombo – has some stories to tell. He has been one of Canada’s most versatile broadcasters and authentic public figures since his voice first crackled over radio airwaves in the 1990s while barely in his 20s. From there, he went to a national platform at MuchMusic as a marquee host before moving to CBC TV then Hockey Night in Canada where he weathered intense criticism under the microscope. Strombo never really stopped his unique freeform broadcasting and streaming shows combining great music, interesting interviews and deep audience connection. He is a master storyteller and culture curator driven by intense curiosity.

Strombo joins Christy Clark in the studio for a wild ride of an interview that touches on every chapter of his life and career: growing up under the poverty line, how punk rock gave him passion and purpose, the decline of corporate media, championing social change, impatience with politicians, bouncing back from Hockey Night in Canada, rejecting celebrity status and being sober as a lifestyle.

Now in his 50s, Strombo is still breaking new ground as a broadcaster, interviewer and documentary maker, but is also busy with loads of charitable work and using his voice to bring attention to issues close to his heart.

His credo is simple: “My only concern is that the audience is learning something.”

There’s a lot to unpack … and you’ll definitely want to hear how he rescued a horse.

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For over a decade, Lisa LaFlamme was the anchor of the CTV National News. She earned the trust of Canadians through dedication and relentless reporting. Then her grey hair led to a firestorm over sexism in the media.

LaFlamme joins Christy Clark for an intense interview about LaFlamme’s 35-year journalism career and beyond: Starting out in her hometown of Kitchener, covering 9/11 on only her second day as Canada AM co-host, advice for new journalists, the plight of girls in downtrodden countries, and the need for women to stick together.

She is also animated about how women are unfairly judged on their appearance especially as they get older. She experienced this firsthand at CTV when she let her grey hair grow during the pandemic. Her controversial and abrupt departure kicked off a national conversation about how women are unfairly hung out to dry as they age.

Today LaFlamme is working hard training a new generation of media in the developing world with Journalism for Human Rights, and warning that disinformation is damaging our ability to separate truth from lies.

She is also fighting another battle against AI deepfakes on social media that use her image and credibility to sell everything from gummies to crypto. Yet you’ll be surprised about where she sees hope.

One thing is for sure: there is never a dull moment in LaFlamme’s life.

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If you hike, run, snowboard, do yoga or any other fitness routine, you have probably done it in high-quality attire made by fashion business legend Chip Wilson. The outspoken Canadian entrepreneur rose to fame through the Lululemon clothing brand he started, but at 71, he is still launching new businesses.

Wilson joins Christy Clark for a wide-ranging chat: his youth bouncing between the U.S. and Canada, his first big payday as a labourer on an Alaskan pipeline, the competitive streak that drove him to be an entrepreneur, and the women he calls “supergirls” who found enriching careers at Lululemon, why he chose to stay in Canada to run his businesses, his tolerance for risk, being willing to fail and get back up, and his struggle with a form of muscular dystrophy.

Wilson is noted for his blunt talk and dropping truth bombs, and he does not disappoint. You will want to hear how he feels about Canada’s political drift toward Europe and what he calls “suicidal empathy” holding our society back.

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For this episode, Christy explores what Hillary Clinton, Stormy Daniels, Elizabeth Holmes and so many other women who’ve ended up in the media crosshairs have in common with journalist, author and screenwriter Amy Chozick.

As an award-winning New York Times reporter, Chozick spent years covering two-time US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Her acclaimed memoir Chasing Hillary explores how women of ambition are dismissed as inauthentic and pushy, and mostly judged by their flaws instead of their achievements.

Christy Clark talks to Chozick about her first novel, With Friends Like You, probing a woman’s search for an old friend while struggling with motherhood and lost identity. They explore how the novel was partially inspired by adult star Stormy Daniels, as well as the complexity and competitiveness of female friendships, why people dislike Lauren Sanchez Bezos for enjoying her wealth more than her husband Jeff, and why it’s so hard for the public to accept that women can be intelligent and sexy at the same time, like the Kardashians.

And she has a surprising prediction about who will be the first female U.S. President.

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If you’re interested in politics, women’s friendships, Hillary Clinton, Lauren Sanchez,

Martha Stewart and surviving media scandal, this episode is for you.

Check out Amy’s books at: https://amychozick.com/

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The Canada-U.S. trade war is now going full tilt, and Kim Haakstad is on the front line. She is the President of the B.C. Council of Forest Industries and one of the most powerful people in Canada’s resource sector. For the past 30 years, Haakstad has worked tirelessly in advocating for economic growth in western Canada, and there’s never been a dull moment.

She has spent much of her time in Washington D.C. over the summer in representing the forestry sector in supporting Canada’s negotiating team in trying to hammer out a trade deal with its biggest customer - the USA and President Donald Trump.

Haakstad tells Christy that while U.S. trade and tariff threats are her top concern, there’s a lot more Canada can be doing to help resource industries succeed, including sensible regulation and conservation policy.

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00:00 - Opening on the Canada-US trade war and why forestry is the long-running flashpoint

01:01 - Kim Haakstad’s role leading Canada’s forest sector advocacy

03:37 - Why softwood lumber keeps getting pulled into trade disputes

04:45 - The “we don’t need Canadian lumber” argument and its real-world costs

06:08 - Why Canadian and US lumber products are not direct substitutes

07:39 - The Crown land subsidy claim and how Canada and the US define forestry ownership differently

09:08 - Why the dispute keeps resurfacing even when the rules change

10:19 - Section 232 tariffs and how forestry got treated as a national security issue

11:20 - The new Section 338 tariffs and the jump to 50% and even 85% effective rates

13:45 - How tariffs add about $11,000 per home and worsen housing affordability

14:26 - Why American lawmakers are focused on affordability and housing costs

15:41 - Forestry as Canada’s largest directly affected employer in this trade fight

17:23 - What happens to a small town when a mill slows down or closes

18:22 - What a curtailment means for workers and families

20:26 - Why pulp mills and chip supply are still central to community survival

22:09 - Forestry as the foundation of housing, packaging, and everyday consumer products

24:24 - Average forestry wages and why these jobs pay so well

26:15 - First Nations ownership and management changing the politics of forestry

28:34 - The shifting public mood toward natural resource industries

30:02 - Kim’s Washington, DC experience as tariffs escalated mid-negotiation

31:29 - Why Canada may be better off with no deal than a bad deal

32:47 - Market diversification beyond the United States, especially in Asia

34:19 - Permitting delays in BC and the long timeline to approve forestry cuts

35:22 - How regulatory change over the past decade has created unintended consequences

36:21 - Conservation areas, wildfire mitigation, and protecting the timber harvesting land base

37:17 - The growing complexity of the permitting system for a single cut block

38:15 - BC versus Alberta: allowable cut, competitive pressure, and sector growth

39:20 - Why companies are cutting below allowable levels because the economics and permits do not work

41:22 - BC’s gap between the 60 million cubic meter allowable cut and the 30 million actually harvested

43:01 - Importing pulp logs and chips because domestic supply is not available at a workable price

44:44 - Why BC and Canada should be managing forestry for growth, not decline

No politics this week!

Even better: Soccer legend Thomas Müller brings his charm and grace into the studio to share stories of his spectacular career over two decades and two continents.

Müller is one of soccer’s (or Fußball’s!) brightest stars and most decorated players. He left his town in Bavaria to join the Bayern Munich academy at 10 years old. He played for 17 years at the legendary Bundesliga club, collecting 13 league titles and two UEFA Champions’ League crowns. In 2014, Müller lifted the FIFA World Cup trophy as a member of the German national squad. But in 2025, he left the only club he ever knew and came to Vancouver, where he has helped the Whitecaps become a powerhouse in Major League Soccer.

Müller talks to Christy about the highs and lows of his soccer career, his mastery of social media, how Canada can develop into a soccer powerhouse, sharing the field with fellow Bayern Munich and Canada men’s national team star Alphonso Davies, and his future in Vancouver with the MLS.

On this episode:

00:00 - Why Thomas Müller is one of the most decorated players of the era

00:57 - Smiling, optimism, and why a good mood matters

02:52 - Jokes, provocation, and telling farewell stories without bragging

05:05 - The funeral cake joke and saying goodbye with humor

07:52 - Why Müller avoids self-praise and lets performance speak

08:22 - Optimism as a realistic mindset built through experience

10:24 - Hunting mode, competition mode, and staying loose without losing focus

11:19 - Hard work, resilience, and giving luck more chances to find you

13:43 - Why adaptation matters in sport, work, and family life

14:41 - Why Vancouver, Jesper Sørensen, and the right football project mattered

16:14 - Leadership, experience, and helping younger teammates in real time

17:41 - How a player reads and reacts to the flow of a 90-minute match

18:38 - Why he chose Vancouver over bigger MLS markets

22:05 - Whether Europe should borrow MLS-style parity

24:00 - Player fandom, social media, and why teams are harder to love than stars

25:27 - Why Canadian soccer development needs time, parents, and local coaching

27:16 - Vancouver’s young academy players and the club’s development pipeline

28:46 - Showing the journey on social media for German fans and beyond

30:12 - Privacy, public attention, and finding the right balance

32:08 - Cold plunges, False Creek, and the myth of the daily ocean dip

33:31 - Morning routines, treatment, and staying ready in your 30s

35:28 - Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and why one match never tells the whole story

38:19 - What Müller might do after football: business, TV, coaching, or something else

40:47 - Why the post-career transition can be emotionally difficult for athletes

43:11 - Contribution, feedback, and wanting to matter to something beyond fame

44:35 - “Game on” and closing thoughts on Vancouver’s championship ambitions

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In this shared episode of The Christy Clark Show and the Disagreeing Well podcast, former Ontario MPP John Milloy and Christy share their experiences watching partisan politics evolve into hostility and polarization in the digital age.

John Milloy is the director of the Centre for Public Ethics at Martin Luther University College in Waterloo and a former senior cabinet minister in the Ontario government under premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. He's dedicated to exploring the roots of political and social polarization and building bridges of understanding and respect so we can 'disagree well.'

Polarization driven by social media, disinformation, AI slop and grievance politics has turned the partisan political arena into a harsh and unforgiving environment. John and Christy lived through this evolution while in office, and they talk openly about what it cost their careers and the toll polarization takes on democratic engagement.

The topics they discuss include:

• Leaving politics and becoming less partisan
• The "I'm right and you're an idiot" hostility to opposing views online and on university campuses
• Accommodating pro-life views in a pro-choice party & Justin Trudeau's purity test
• How the media makes it hard to work with opposition parties
• How partisan attacks feed broader polarization
• Regrets about being overly partisan in the past
• How parties juice their fundraising by exploiting polarization
• Why politicians need incentives to be less partisan
• The role of faith in combatting polarization

Check out John Milloy's podcast Disagreeing Well and his book "Faith in Politics in a Polarized World" at centreforpublicethics.substack.com

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If you're interested in Canadian politics, democracy, digital media and polarization, this episode is for you.

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Premier Scott Moe joins Christy Clark for an animated interview about how he has helped transform Saskatchewan into an economic powerhouse at a time when other provinces are struggling.

Like his parents, Moe was a farmer but wasn’t interested in politics until he got involved with boosting businesses in his hometown. Since becoming a Saskatchewan Party MLA in 2011, Moe has always championed energy, economic growth and resource development, and he got into some big battles with former prime minister Justin Trudeau over it.

Moe has been laser-focused on developing Saskatchewan’s resources and exporting them around the world but has also faced western alienation in his own province as separatism dominates the agenda in neighbouring Alberta.

In this interview with Christy Clark, Moe speaks openly about:

• How Saskatchewan became a global trade powerhouse
• Leading in a big tent party
• Challenge of saving public health care
• Canada Health Act is outdated and has to change
• Battling it out with Justin Trudeau
• Mark Carney isn’t going fast enough!
• Tackling western frustration
• Taking our national energy sovereignty for granted
• What the heck is a bunny hug? A Saskatchewan necessity

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Bob Lenarduzzi grew up in an Italian family in East Vancouver and became one of Canada’s first soccer legends in the 1970s and 80s as a member of the OG NASL Vancouver Whitecaps and the national men’s team that played in the 1986 World Cup.

His career took him to England as a teenager, but he returned to Vancouver to become the face of soccer in a soccer-mad town.

In this interview with Christy, Lenarduzzi offers a ton of great stories over five decades in the game about the characters who shaped Canadian soccer history:

1. Getting tough growing up in East Vancouver
2. Going to play football in England at 14
3. Meeting his wife … and intimidating father-in-law
4. With the NASL Vancouver Whitecaps
5. Winning N. American Player of the Year
6. Whitecaps win the Soccer Bowl but…
7. ….NASL is on the decline
8. MLS Whitecaps return…with fighting teammates
9. Canadian soccer talent exploding
10. Superstar Alphonso Davies emerges on Whitecaps
11. Giving back to community with mini-pitches
12. Losing MLS Whitecaps … again

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Frank McKenna was a rural New Brunswick lawyer who rose to become one of Canada’s most successful politicians in the 1980s and 90s.

As NB Premier, he turned around that province’s economy through modernization and created thousands of jobs. He has been touted as a possible Liberal leader and future prime minister for decades, but instead emerged as one of Canada’s top business leaders.

McKenna is very passionate and direct about how Canada should invest in energy and infrastructure, and has a lot of advice for current Prime Minister Mark Carney in dealing with the “betrayal” of the US administration and separatist threats.

In this interview with Christy Clark, McKenna speaks openly about:

• Growing up poor in rural NB
• Winning every seat in 1987 to become Premier
• Becoming the “Job Hustler” turning around NB economy
• Mark Carney needing to show results now
• Why Carney should rely more on his ministers
• Europe struggling and UK circling the drain
• US “betrayal” of Canada as a friend and trading partner
• How Alberta separatism referendum could be as corrosive as Brexit
• How referendums are like cockroaches (there’s never just one)
• How Ottawa needs to play more hardball to get things built
• Giving back with scholarships to St. Francis Xavier University (St. FX)

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