Episodios

  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1191 - Canada's Problem with Safe Supply Drug Policy, & Our Lack of Support for Ukraine with Adam Zivo

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1191 - Canada's Problem with Safe Supply Drug Policy, & Our Lack of Support for Ukraine with Adam Zivo
    Jul 26 2024
    Brian interviews Adam Zivo. Adam is a columnist for the National Post and the executive director of the Centre For Responsible Drug Policy. He is best known for his provocative writing on Canada’s drug crisis, as well as his war reporting in Ukraine. In the late 2010s, he was the founder of LoveisLoveisLove, an LGBTQ advocacy campaign known for producing large scale art installations, including Toronto’s “Big Gay Bus”. Adam Zivo talks about what he believes is our wrong policy on safe supply of harmful drugs, our lack of support for Ukraine and our need for cross partisan dialogue.
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    52 m
  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1190 - State of Democracy in Canada and Around the World with Jerry Levitan

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1190 - State of Democracy in Canada and Around the World with Jerry Levitan
    Jul 25 2024
    Brian interviews Jerry Levitan. Jerry is a regular columnist with the Toronto Star, an accomplished lawyer, writer, actor, filmmaker and musician, and a candidate in the last provincial election. Levitan produced the 2008 Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning film, "I Met The Walrus", about the day he spent with John Lennon at age 14. And in 2010, he authored the best-selling autobiographical book, also titled "I Met The Walrus", published by HarperCollins. As a lawyer, Levitan has practiced in the fields of litigation – including constitutional and administrative law – having been counsel in a number of landmark and precedent setting cases. Jerry Levitan talks about the State of Democracy right now in Canada and around the world.
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    51 m
  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1189 - Aging with Dr. Samir Sinha

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1189 - Aging with Dr. Samir Sinha
    Jul 24 2024
    Brian interviews Dr. Samir Sinha currently serves as the Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto and was recently appointed the Peter and Shelagh Godsoe Chair in Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2012 he was appointed by the Government of Ontario to serve as the expert lead of Ontario’s Seniors Strategy. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Tonight Dr. Samir Sinha talks about aging.
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    53 m
  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1188 - “Future Canadian Party” with Dominic Cardy

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1188 - “Future Canadian Party” with Dominic Cardy
    Jul 24 2024
    Brian interviews Dominic Cardy. Dominic talks tonight about the “Future Canadian Party” a new political party launched in the centre of our political spectrum. More than two thirds of Canadians feel politically homeless. They’re worried about growing extremism on the left and right, worried our institutions are growing weaker, even as government gets bigger. Canadian Future has a message for those Canadians: we may have been politically homeless but we are not helpless. Together, we can create a Canada with sensible, bold solutions to the problems our country faces - from health care to housing to the climate crisis.
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    49 m
  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1187 - How Algorithms Influence our Thinking, Preferences, and Politics with Murray Simser

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1187 - How Algorithms Influence our Thinking, Preferences, and Politics with Murray Simser
    Jul 22 2024
    Brian catches up with Murray Simser. Murray is founder and CEO of CITIZN, Democracy's Social Network. Murray is a serial entrepreneur trained in Silicon Valley and a Microsoft alumnus. His first love was politics, working at Parliament was his dream, Alas, Silicon Valley called... and instead of Prime Minister he became an entrepreneur. Those two worlds collided once more when democracy started falling apart. CITIZN is a social network focused on democracy, a "Societal Network". Murray Simser talks tonight about CITIZN and algorithms that influence our thinking and preferences and politics.
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    51 m
  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1186 - GTA Real Estate Market with Simeon Papailias

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1186 - GTA Real Estate Market with Simeon Papailias
    Jul 19 2024
    Brian interviews Simeon Papailias. Simeon is co-founder and CEO of REC Canada, and expert on the current real estate market, interest rates, refinancing, pre construction condos and the business of real estate investment, sales and brokerage. Simeon Papailias talks tonight about GTA real estate market and our housing crisis.
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    50 m
  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1185 - France Election with Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1185 - France Election with Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel
    Jul 18 2024
    Brian interviews Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel. Pierre-Jean runs his own Investment Bank, has lived in and worked for major banks in Paris, London and New York and has been CFO for a biotech / pharma company. He is a passionate amateur historian and foreign affairs critic. Pierre-Jean Esmieu-Fournel talks about the recent election in France where it was believed the right wing would win big but cooperation between the parties of the centre and left has left a divided government.
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    46 m
  • Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1184 - “Love Without Limits”, A Speed-Dating Event for Adults with Level 1 ASD with Kathy Carsley

    Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1184 - “Love Without Limits”, A Speed-Dating Event for Adults with Level 1 ASD with Kathy Carsley
    Jul 17 2024
    Brian interviews Kathy Carsley. Kathy, the Founder of Unity for Autism (UFA) a national charitable foundation, ran a successful corporate fundraiser that continues to raise ¾ of a million dollars each year. Over the past 20 years, UFA raised $15 million dollars, making it the largest charitable funder of autism in the country! Kathy talks about autism and an event “Love Without Limits”, a speed-dating event that will be held on Monday, July 22nd, in downtown Toronto. It is for women and men between the ages of 28-40 with Level 1 ASD or related exceptionalities; ADHD, high-functioning autism, giftedness, or a learning disability.
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    50 m