Chatter that Matters

Canada Day is more than flags and fireworks. It is a reminder that this country was not inevitable. It was imagined into being by people who chose union over drift and compromise over collapse. 

My guest is JDM Stewart, author of The Prime Ministers: Canada's Leaders and the Nation They Shaped. James brings history to life by showing us Canada's prime ministers not as sa...

My guest today is Tim Moore, a serial entrepreneur with immense character. Tim's upbringing included failing a few grades, studying to become a priest, then becoming a teacher and eventually a truck driver. His life changed when he bought a secondhand pickup truck, covered it with a tarp, placed a newspaper ad, and started a moving business charging seven dollars an hour.

From there, he built AMJ Campbel...

Happy Father's Day.

Did your father ever try to bottle liquid manure, only to watch it explode in the sunlight while sitting in a store window display?

Did he ever bet the family's fortune on a machine he believed could extract gold from ...

Not long ago in Canada, who you loved could cost you everything. 

Betty Baxter knows this because it happened to her.

Betty was an elite athlete, an Olympic captain, a pioneering coach, and one of the rare women leading at the highest levels of international sport. Her athletes trusted her. Her program was working. Her future was bright.

Then, on a cold November night in ...

Robin Devine has spent her life knocking on doors, sometimes literally, and finding opportunity on the other side. Raised by her grandmother, Robin learned early that hard work, honesty, courage, and instinct could take you places credentials could not.

As a little girl, she sold lilacs and rhubarb door to door. As a young woman, she walked into an advertising agency with no portfolio, no experience...

Leslie Bradford-Scott grew up inside a story so spectacular it felt unreal.Her father drove a Rolls-Royce. A promoter, he brought Pink Floyd and Paul Anka to Hamilton, moved through a world of million-dollar diamonds, and lit up every room he entered.

Then the story cracked.

At twelve, Leslie came home to the police on the lawn. At fifteen, she had a gun pressed against her arm. At sixteen,...

Some episodes entertain. Some inspire. And some remind us what it means to be human.

This is one of those episodes.

Bailey Gee was born with the most severe form of spina bifida. Her life became a cycle of surgeries, pain, bullying, isolation, a wheelchair, and battles with mental health that often left her wondering if life was worth fighting for.  Every day she prayed to be...

Step inside the recording studio to understand more about one of the greatest voices of our time, Celine Dion. My guest is Vito Luprano, the Sony Music executive and creative force who worked on 21 of Celine's albums and helped shape her rise from a shy francophone teenager into an international superstar.

Vito found the songs. Fought for the sound. Pushed for the reinvention. And helped Celine move from...

Nick Ferguson grew up in inner-city Miami in a world that tried to define his future before he had a chance to dream. With no father figure, surrounded by poverty, prejudice, and expectations that narrowed life to "jail or a casket," Nick chose another path.

He chose books. He chose belief. He chose football. He chose the hard road.

Undrafted, overlooked, cut, injured, and forced to fight h...

I have had the privilege of knowing Paul Meehan for many years. I am a better person for it. There is no finer handshake or twinkle in the eye. Paul is a serial entrepreneur, a lover of family, life, and is guided by a higher purpose to help others. Did I mention that Paul and his wife, Melissa, created, self-funded, and built one of...

I borrowed the title of this episode from Cat Stevens, and you will soon see why. To Cat Stevens, Tillerman represented, "the man of the Earth," working to make things on this planet.  And Tea, well, my guest knows tea.

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