Today we are joined by super special guest (and my favorite person to hate on the government with) Emma! Join us as we banter thru the feasibility of mermaids' existence, Disney princess preferences, and touch on our worries for the country's future

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LOVE IS ON THE LINE...CALL NOW! You lovely listeners wrote in on the pod's Instagram (⁠@noisep0llution⁠) about your qualms, frustrations, opinions, and questions about ♥LOVE♥. I read your submissions and give my 2 cents* in this exciting Loveline Special!! Also all the songs I play have the word "love" in the title tee hee enjoy!!! 
 *I feel the need to add that I am SORELY unqualified to be giving ANY romantic advice (or advice in general)

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Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - As Canada prepares for an election, which may be called sometime before parliament is recalled on March 24, polls show the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical tie. But 6 out of 8 recent polls also show the Liberals rising quickly and now narrowly ahead. On Sunday 338Canada projected the odds of a Conservative forming a majority government has fallen from 99% on January 19 to a mere 13%. About 8 AM Tuesday - an hour after Cortes Currents sent in its daily radio broadcast! - 338Canada revised its projections to suggest Mark Carney’s Liberals may be on it’s way to forming a majority government. 

That may have been because the first of this week’s polls. 

The Angus Reid Institute suggests the Liberals may be on their way to a majority. 

Mark Carney is believed to be better equipped to:
 handle the trade war with the United States (55%-30%),  
develop or expand new trade relationships outside the US (54%-28%)
handle Trump’s threats of annexing Canada (53%-31%)
protect Canada’s economy (53%-33%)
deal with the provinces (47%-31%)
protect health care (44%-26%)
and reduce the cost of living (41%-35%)

That said, Angus Reid only found the Liberals leading by 5% in the popular vote. 

Leger gave them a 3% lead and also identified a ‘wild card.’ 28% of their respondents said they did not know enough about Carney to have an opinion, compared to just 12% who said that about Poilievre.

338Canada’s latest projection, from this morning, suggests the Liberals could be elected in 177 seats, which is 5 more than what is needed for a majority.

The Liberals are now projected as leading in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario the Yukon and Northwest Territories. They are tied with the Conservatives in Manitoba. The Conservative Party currently only leads in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Angus Reid and Leger suggest the NDP’s support is now down to a single digit (9%).

In British Columbia, where 338Canada projected the Conservatives may be elected in many as 22 seats, a dozen former NDP seats may be going Conservative or LIberal.  Six of them are on Vancouver Island, where there is not a single NDP candidate leading in the race. 

North Island Powell River (NIPR) has been an NDP riding since Rachel Blaney was elected in 2015, but Blaney stepped down and the new NDP candidate, Tanille Johnson, is 25 points behind Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn. The big story in this riding may be the Liberal’s jump from 12% to 20% since Jennifer Lash announced her candidacy last week. While the NDP are currently second in this riding, they just lost 6 points and the Liberals picked up 5. 

338Canada suggests the progressive vote in North Island Powell River is split between three parties: with the NDP falling to 23%, the Liberals rising to 20% and the Greens unchanged at 6%. 

Sometime in the next two weeks, Prime Minister Carney will dissolve parliament and an election will be declared. Once the writ is dropped, there will be a campaign of at least 37 days and no more than 51 days.

Polls suggest Liberals may be on their way to forming a majority government

The Business of Polling with Sir John Curtice

Polling shapes political strategy, fuels media headlines, and influences public perception—but how does it actually work? And how did polls do during 2024, the so-called Super Year of elections.

You've seen him on the BBC during UK General elections. Now you can join a session with Sir John Curtice, the UK’s most trusted polling expert, as we dive deep into:

🔹 What makes a high-quality poll vs. one you shouldn’t trust
🔹 How polls balance speed and accuracy—especially in high-stakes elections
🔹 Do polls predict elections, or actually influence them?
🔹 The biggest mistakes journalists make when reporting poll data
🔹 How AI could transform the future of polling

The Business of Polling with Sir John Curtice

This week is all about PERSONALITY!!!! Join me as I psychoanalyze you beautiful listeners based on your attachment styles, birth order, MBTI types, and astrological signs!!!!! 

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Tonight, Tuesday, April 8th, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Greg Lyle. ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 video casts can be accessed any time on my web site https://briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 📌 Greg Lyle is a founder and President of Innovative Research Group. He talked about the current federal election polls. 

✅ We have the Liberals 6 points ahead at the end of last week, clearly benefiting from the Trump tariffs.
✅ Carney came out of last week even stronger than before.
✅ Carney favourables up to +15, Poilievre favourables down to -7.
✅ Carney leads on best to be PM by nine points. Carney now leads Poilievre in all value clusters other than Populist Conservatives.
✅ Carney leads Poilievre by 14 points on best equipped to handle Canada-US relations (Carney 45%; Poilievre 31%).

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Greg Lyle | Federal Election Polls

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Depending on which election poll you are looking at, the Liberals are leading by anywhere from 5 to 10 points nationally. The last poll to suggest the Conservatives were tied with them was taken by Abacus on February 4, 2025. An Angus Reid poll taken on April 7, 2025 found that in British Columbia the Liberal Party leads by 11 points. 

It’s more difficult to get a breakdown riding by riding. While 338Canada’s projections are generally fairly accurate, they are calculated using a mostly proportional swing model adjusted with provincial and regional polls. In North Island Powell River there are currently at least three factors which this approach does not take into account. 

Firstly there is the widespread reaction to a series of tweets Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn made between 2019 and 2021. Many people feel his comments about residential schools are demeaning to First Nations and at this point 57 elected and former politicians, as well as Frst Nation leaders, have signed a joint letter calling for his resignation. So has every other candidate in North Island Powell River. There is also a little group of 9 politicians, primarily based in Campbell River, who have come out in support of Gunn. However with this kind of controversy going on, it is difficult to believe that 48% of the electorate would vote for Aaron Gunn if there were an election today. 

There is also NDP candidate Tanille Johnson’s popularity with some of the electorate, and the fact Bob Chamberlain, former Vice President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, endorses her.  

Lastly, Liberal candidate Jennifer Lash, her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager are all government staffers with an intimate understanding of how elections are run. When I interviewed Deputy Campaign Manager Holly Johnson last week, they had recruited 150 volunteers.  

Those are three good reasons to ignore 338Canada’s projections for North Island Powell River. 

The only poll that could tell us what is going on in North Island Powell River must be taken here.


Three Reasons 338Canada’s Riding Projections Don’t apply to North Island Powell River

belated EID MUBARAK!!!!!!! This week I asked yall questions about how you were raised, so stuff like what media you weren't allowed to watch as a kid and what music your parents played in the car and whatnot!

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This week, my polls and the 2 protest songs I played lament the decline of our democracy. At least your voices actually matter in my polls.  73% of you answered that you have been impacted by the insane Executive Orders being passed. I am sending all the support and cautious optimism your way :( I also found out that the majority of you are totally okay with being draft dodgers.....lol enjoy!

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Tonight, Wednesday, April 23rd, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Greg Lyle. ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 video casts can be accessed any time on my web site https://briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 📌 Greg Lyle is founder and President of Innovative Research Group. He talks about the current federal election polls with less than one week to go.

✅ The gap between the Liberals and Conservatives is narrowing, as Trump and tariffs fade from the headlines.
✅ Both Carney and Poilievre performed strongly in the debates.
✅ Support for the NDP and the Bloc is collapsing.
✅ Even if the Tories win the popular vote, they’re unlikely to win the most seats.
✅ This will motivate all parties to push hard for higher voter turnout.

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Greg Lyle | Polls Narrowing

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