Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Apr 18 2024

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A high-profile businessman and political strategist, Brian Crombie brings his straightforward and highly informed perspective to his new show – The Brian Crombie Hour on Sauga 960AM Tuesdays and Thursday evenings at 7 pm. His vast experience working on Federal, Provincial, and Local politics and at the high levels of the business world, Brian gives us a glimpse inside the political war rooms and behind the boardroom doors. A man constantly on the move, Brian easily navigates between issues here in Canada and abroad.

While politics and business dominate his time, Brian also explores his other great interest, The Arts. Whether it's politics, business, or the Arts, there will be no shortage of guests for his weekly roundtable. Politics of the day, emerging businesses, Economic issues, or the hottest trends in the Arts- they will be all under Brian’s microscope to get his own political opinions and thoughts. Every hour will end with a robust round table debate with an incredible array of guests from all across the political, business, and arts spectrum.

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Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1121 - Federal Budget Analysis with Nicolas Ruszkowski

Apr 18 2024 51 mins

Brian interviews Nicolas Ruszkowski. Nicolas is founder of Tactix Government Relations and Public Affairs that represents some of the largest and most important brands, globally. Nic believes his TacTix AI enabled research model has unique deep learning capabilities. Given the Prime Minister's approach to rolling out key planks of his budget in advance this year, he thought it was

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1120 - "Fuse", A Memoir of Mixed-Race Identity and Mental Health with Hollay Ghadery

Apr 17 2024 51 mins

Brian interviews Hollay Ghadery. Hollay is an Iranian-Canadian writer living in Ontario. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. "Fuse", her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions (2021) and won 2023 The Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, "Rebellion Box", came out Radiant Pr

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1119 - Federal Government Announcements About Housing with Carolyn Whitzman

Apr 16 2024 47 mins

Brian interviews Carolyn Whitzman. Carolyn is a housing expert at the University of Ottawa. She focuses on the homeless and less advantaged in our society. "I am concentrating on the Canadian and global challenges inherent in scaling up affordable housing for all. I also have a long-standing interest in the right to the city as it supports women, children, people with disability, r

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1118 - How to Make Our Cities Great with Mark Kealey

Apr 15 2024 50 mins

Brian interviews Marc Kealey. Marc is the President of K&A Inc., a Canadian public policy, research and management consultancy. K&A has clients throughout Canada and globally. Over the past several elections he has provided in-depth research riding by riding and his research has led to interesting outcomes that far and away reveal more than even some of the main stream poll

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1117 - Sailing Across the Atlantic Ocean with Magdalena Stoch, & Storytelling with Miranda O'Connor

Apr 12 2024 52 mins

Brian welcomes on two different guests.First guest is Magdalena Stoch. Magdalena has just finished sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Martinique to Miami! She swam with sea turtles, fished for dinner, saw some beautiful coral reef and much more...Then, Miranda O'Connor. Miranda talks about her Storytelling video business, the amazing people she’s met and stories she’s heard.

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1116 - Housing Affordability Crisis in the GTA with Dr. Diana Mok

Apr 11 2024 49 mins

Brian interviews Dr. Diana Mok. Dr. Mok is Associate Professor at Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. Her interests are broadly defined in the realm of real estate and urban economics, with a focus on housing and urban development. Specifically, her work has evolved and developed around three themes, intertwined, and with a spatial focus: risk, real estate, and urban g

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1115 - How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine is Similar to Europe in 1935-1945 with Mark Smallwood

Apr 10 2024 51 mins

Brian interviews Mark Smallwood. UK Executive Coach and author/historian Mark Smallwood has recently written a compelling piece comparing the invasion of Ukraine and Russian moves both before and after the invasion to the historical comparable 1935-1945 and the comparisons and similarities are striking. Mark goes on to draw out the lessons which are bottom line, we need to do more

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1114 - The Importance of Strong, Capable Leadership for Cities with Dan Donovan

Apr 09 2024 54 mins

Brian speaks with Dan Donovan. Dan is the Publisher and Editor of Ottawa Life Magazine, a former political staffer, stand up comedian and an excellent writer. After my announcement from April 1 Dan contacted me saying our cities are broken and need massive change. Dan Donovan talks about city politics and how critical he thinks strong capable leadership is for our cities. We discus

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1113 - Housing Affordability Crisis in the GTA with Sabine Matheson

Apr 08 2024 53 mins

Brian interviews Sabine Matheson. Since 1998, Sabine Matheson has been a Principal at StrategyCorp, which serves clients across Canada and internationally. She is the founder of StrategyCorp’s Municipal Affairs Practice Group, which has served well over a hundred municipalities across Canada on a variety of strategic projects. She is currently strategic advisor to Ontario’s Lar

Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1112 - Spiritual Aspects of a Full Solar Eclipse with Maria Fudas

Apr 05 2024 48 mins

Brian interviews Maria Fudas. Maria is a Certified Assertiveness Transformational Coach, Speaker and Author of "Connect with Yourself and Others". Maria Fudas talks about the spiritual aspects of a full solar eclipse. It is a rare event happening in the same spot on earth every 375 years. It is thought of as mystical, magical event. Solar eclipses are believed to highlight the thin