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Alright you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites! Our show today centers on the passion of my professional life – public polling!

So today, a pollster panel, and an end of summer conversation about the state of federal politics. Trends in the data. Changes in the data. And how the parties need to be positioning themselves heading into the fall session, now only 3 weeks away.

With me to have that conversation are 2 of the best: Frank Graves and Dan Arnold.

Frank is the Founder and President of EKOS Research Associates. He’s one of this country’s leading applied social researchers, and an adjunct professor at Carleton University.

Dan began his research career at Pollara, leading projects for their biggest clients. In 2014, he joined the Trudeau Liberals as their Lead Research Strategist and oversaw the party’s research in the lead up to their historic third-to-first 2015 majority victory. And then, he did it all again in 2019 and 2021. Dan rejoined Pollara about 20 months ago as their Chief Strategy Officer.

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AIR "QUOTES" MEDIA SPECIAL: "CAN HARRIS MAKE HOPE A WINNING MESSAGE AGAIN?" by Keith Boag

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Alright, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites… the ticket is set: Trump + Vance versus Harris + Walz. And to cover that election, we're bringing our listeners a brilliant journalistic mind and political correspondent legend, Keith Boag!

Keith was with the CBC for more than 30 years, including as Chief Political Correspondent. His career included work for many years in Washington, D.C., and as Ottawa Bureau Chief. Keith covered seven federal elections in Canada, ten party leadership campaigns, as well as several US elections.

Keith will regularly offer his written analysis via "QUOTES" at Air Quotes Media.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.

Alright, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites. It was about one year ago that the federal government got serious about housing and undertook a flurry of announcements. Provinces all have plans to build more homes. Interest rates are now falling. Good news right? We're going to check in with our housing experts, Ron Butler and Mike Moffatt to see if there's been any real progress. Hint: "We're bathing in the water of housing desperation" ... so there's that!

Mike Moffatt is an Assistant Professor in Business, Economics, and Public Policy at Ivey Business School, Western. He’s also the Senior Director of Policy at the University of Ottawa’s Smart Prosperity Institute. His current area of research is on Canada’s housing supply and affordability crisis. He’s authored many research reports, made hundreds of media appearances from TVO’s The Agenda to CBC’s The National. His team’s work has led to several public policy changes at all levels of government. And in 2023, he was named one of the most influential people in Ontario real estate.

Ron Butler is a near 30-year veteran of the mortgage industry and one of its most prominent names. He’s the founder, and a principal, of discount brokerage Butler Mortgage Inc and he’s a hugely outspoken voice on the Twitter-verse on the subject. A few months ago, he launched his own weekly show — “Angry Mortgage Podcast” — to share his insights, and vitriol, on the subject.

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AIR "QUOTES" MEDIA SPECIAL: "TRUMP, HARRIS, HUBRIS AND A SUDDEN DIPSY-DOODLE" by Keith Boag

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Alright, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites… the ticket is set: Trump + Vance versus Harris + Walz. And to cover that election, we're bringing our listeners a brilliant journalistic mind and political correspondent legend, Keith Boag!

Keith was with the CBC for more than 30 years, including as Chief Political Correspondent. His career included work for many years in Washington, D.C., and as Ottawa Bureau Chief. Keith covered seven federal elections in Canada, ten party leadership campaigns, as well as several US elections.

Keith will regularly offer his written analysis via "QUOTES" at Air Quotes Media.

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.

Alright, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites… the ticket is set: Trump + Vance versus Harris + Walz. And to cover that election, we're bringing our listeners a brilliant journalistic mind and political correspondent legend, Keith Boag!

Keith was with the CBC for more than 30 years, including as Chief Political Correspondent. His career included work for many years in Washington, D.C., and as Ottawa Bureau Chief. Keith covered seven federal elections in Canada, ten party leadership campaigns, as well as several US elections.

Keith will regularly offer his written analysis via "QUOTES" at Air Quotes Media.

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Alright, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites… We are today, 10 days since 25,000 residents and visitors were evacuated from Jasper National Park, in just 5 hours. We are 8 years from the devastating Fort McMurray wildfires that forced more than 90,000 people from their homes and cost nearly $9 Billion. Many of us are wondering how people + fire should co-exist. I am fortunate today to be joined by two experts:

Edward Struzik is a fellow at Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. He’s been writing about scientific and environmental issues for more than 30 years. He’s the author of 8 books, including Firestorm: how Wildfire will shape our future and Dark Days at Noon: the future of fire, both written in the aftermath of the Fort McMurray blaze. He’s a regular contributor to Yale Environment 360, an international online publication of the Yale School of the Environment. His articles appear in Scientific American, Policy Options, Canadian Geographic, among others. He makes his home in Edmonton Alberta, 4 hours east of Jasper, across Highway 16.

Kate Lindsay is the Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC). Kate is a graduate of the University of Victoria and a Registered Professional Biologist (R.P.Bio). At FPAC, Kate was selected to participate in formal advisory roles to the federal government, including as co-lead of the Species at Risk Advisory Committee and a member of the Pathway to Target 1, National Advisory Panel (NAP). FPAC provides a voice for Canada’s wood, pulp, paper and wood-based bioproducts producers, an industry with annual revenues exceeding $73 billion!

#Climate. #Fire. #Forests. #Weather. We’ll talk about it all.

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Alright, you curious, you courageous Herle Burly-ites … welcome to the pod!

On the heels of the NATO Summit in Washington, I want to do some real talk on Canada’s stated commitment and the Prime Minister’s comments at the Summit. In the context of an increasingly volatile world, 23 of 32 NATO Allies are currently meeting the 2% of GDP military investment threshold. Canada is not one of them.

But, by 2032, Trudeau says the government “hopes to reach the target”. By spending on new capabilities like submarines, which have yet to be costed or approved. So, what does this all mean, exactly? And how best should we be spending our 2%?

With me to have that discussion is Dr. David Perry, President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, a non-partisan, independent think tank. He’s the author of multiple publications on defence budgeting, transformation and procurement, and a columnist for the Canadian Naval Review. His PhD in political science came from Carleton University and he’s an adjunct professor at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, as well as a research fellow of the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie University.

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Greetings you loyal, you curious Herle Burly-ites!

We’ve got a “MP Alert” on the pod today!

The Honourable Marco Mendicino has graciously made some time for us.

Marco is the long serving — since 2015 — Member of Parliament from Eglinton/Lawrence in Toronto. He’s served in Cabinet as both the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship … and more recently, Minister of Public Safety. Before public life, he was a federal prosecutor for more than a decade.

And it’s both his personal experiences and his political experience in the latter cabinet portfolio – Public Safety – that’s going to inform the discussion we’re having today.

In the wake of last weekend’s Trump assassination attempt, I want to explore this visceral and growing issue of political violence. As well as dive into the broader issues of national security and public safety. 

What’s fueling the vitriol and behaviour?
How do we mitigate it?
What’s the government’s role and what’s the public’s role?

As I said, Marco has first-hand experience with all of it. So, who better to talk about it?

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Alright, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites. Let’s get this pod underway.

In the realm of CVs that I’ve seen and determined are far more impressive than mine – that’s a helluva lot of CVs, by the way – today’s guest ranks way up there: Dan Gardner!

Don’t know Dan? Let me give you just a smattering of his accomplishments.  He’s a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and freelance writer/editor. His latest book is “How Big Things Get Done”. Trained in history and law, Dan worked as a senior policy advisor to a Premier and Minister of Education, before turning to journalism in 1997. He’s been nominated for every major award in Canadian newspaper journalism – and won a bunch of them – and his books have been published in 26 countries and 20 languages. Dan’s also won awards from Amnesty International Canada, the John Howard Society, the Department of Justice, and other organizations. And his work also contributed to significant changes in Canadian public policy. So just a little bit impressive!

Today … I thought it would be interesting if Dan and I took a deep dive on one very broad question: “Elections in the modern era. What matters in them?”

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Alright, you Herle Burly-ites. A pretty cool show we’ve got for you today. We’re doing a bit of pod crossover, and here’s the reason:

Naheed Nenshi became leader of Alberta’s NDP, just 2 weeks ago. Not just by a large margin. Or an extra-large margin. Landslide may not even be a strong enough a word. Mr. Nenshi’s win was first ballot. 86% of the vote. More than 10 times that of the runner up. So we’re going to talk about how that happened.

And there’s few better to do that with than his campaign co-director … a man who also happens to be a co-creator, and 1/3 of “The Strategists” Podcast, Zain Velji. Hence, it’s a Canadian Political Pod crossover today, Herle Burly-ites!

Zain is the man behind Nenshi’s powerful political brand. He’s a vice-president and partner with Northweather, a strategy and marketing firm, focusing on charities, non-profits, causes, and advocacy. He helped lead Nenshi’s successful mayoral campaigns and he played a big part in the Alberta NDP campaigns in 2019 and 2023.

Zain is a regular political commentator with the CBC, his work has also appeared in the Toronto Star, and Globe and Mail and in 2019 was a panelist on CTV’s National federal election coverage. So, lots of bona fides there. Alberta and beyond.

We’re going to talk about it all today:

• Nenshi.
• Alberta Politics provincial and federal.
• And the federal scene more generally.

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