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VanRamblings Returns | The Curse of Politics | This Week’s Episode

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Please click on the YouTube link above for the latest edition of the Curse of Politics

After two long and arduous weeks, VanRamblings is back on the Internet.

Today on VanRamblings, we present the latest episode of our favourite podcast, David Herle’s The Curse of Politics, the must-watch and must-listen-to weekly political podcast that is mandatory viewing and listening.

We wrote about The Curse of Politics on June 24th.

You can access that column by clicking on the underlined link in the paragraph above, to read all about the history of the folks who each week make The Curse of Politics the place to be if you give a galldarn about the state of our society, and want the no-holds-barred inside scoop on what’s going on in Ottawa.

We’re going to hold off on writing about politics on VanRamblings until next week.

We have a column already to go, a couple of weeks late in the publishing, all about our friend Bill McCreery — who we visited in Sechelt last week — that will just knock your socks off. Look for that must-read column next Monday, July 27th.

On Thursday, we’ll publish a health update on the founder of this site, that is all kinds of hopeful, I think. That column will not be the detailed column we’ll publish in the future, but will present information that places VanRamblings into context.

We’ll see what Friday brings.

Birthday countdown: only 22 days (actually, three weeks today) til Raymond Tomlin’s birthday. Yes, the annual Fraser Valley tour is in the offing.

Click on the link directly below for the birthday tour itinerary.

The 35th anniversary of Raymond’s Annual Birthday Tour of the Fraser Valley.

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Today, VanRamblings leaves you in the capable hands of …

  • David Herle, host of the Curse of Politics podcast, longtime Liberal strategist and pollster, frequent CBC News commentator, principal in the Gandalf Research Group, and in 2013 Ontario Liberal Party campaign manager in that year’s election, which afforded Kathleen Wynne a come-from-behind victory, electing her as Premier;
  • Scott Reid, Director of Communications for former Prime Minister Paul Martin, and current CTVNews’ political commentator — both Mr. Herle and Mr. Reid proudly successful 40-year veterans of federal (and provincial) Liberal politics;
  • Kory Teneycke, former Director of Communications in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office, and 2018 campaign manager for Doug Ford’s Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during that year’s election, which elected Mr.  Ford Premier; and
  • Jordan Leichnitz, an NDP stalwart, longtime progressive political strategist who worked for over a decade in the offices of former federal NDP leader, Jack Layton, and current NDP leader Jagmeet Singh,  and CBC Power & Politics commentator.

The four Curse of Politics panelists discuss the state and nature of federal politics in Canada, providing delightfully profane insight into what the heck is going in Canadian federal politics, the issues of the week, and more, much much more.

The Curse of Politics is also available as an Apple, Android and Spotify podcast.