NOW and NEXT

By: Story Studio Network Dave Trafford
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  • Welcome In!

    This is NOW & NEXT.

    Story Studio Network's Chief Executive Producer Dave Trafford pokes holes, pokes fun and provokes the "second thing that comes to mind" on the big stories of the week.

    His regular contributors include a bi-weekly visit by the Now and Next C.A.S.T (Comms and Strategy Team!)

    Brad Ross has made a career leading the communications strategies for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission.

    Lindsay Broadhead brings her comms experience and insights base on her time leading teams at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and, most recently, the Chief Communications Officer at the City of Toronto.

    Bob Reid applies his earned experience as a major market journalist and a Senior Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to his analysis of the communications "Touchdowns and Fumbles".

    Anne Marie Aikins is a "media relations maven", a sought after pundit and speaker, and a strategic comms adviser specializing in public transit in Ontario.
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Episodes
  • A political bombshell sets the tone for the holidays on Parliament Hill

    A political bombshell sets the tone for the holidays on Parliament Hill
    Dec 20 2024
    Our Now and Next C.A.S.T. (Comms and Strategy Team) weighs in in the chaos ignited on Parliament Hill by the sudden resignation of Finance Minster and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland.

    Nobody saw it coming. But the Prime Minister should have expected it - considering he FIRED Freeland from Finance mere days before she was expected to table the Fall Economic Statement.

    The strangest thing in a weird political week us Trudeau wanted Freeland to present the FES even after telling her he was moving her out of Finance!

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    Meet the NOW and NEXT C.A.S.T!

    Brad Ross has made a career leading the communications strategies for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission.

    Lindsay Broadhead brings her comms experience and insights base on her time leading teams at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and, most recently, the Chief Communications Officer at the City of Toronto.

    Bob Reid applies his earned experience as a major market journalist and a Senior Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to his analysis of the communications "Touchdowns and Fumbles".

    Anne Marie Aikins is a "media relations maven", a sought after pundit and speaker, and a strategic comms adviser specializing in public transit in Ontario.

    Dave Trafford is a “Podcast Journalist”, the Chief Executive Producer at Story Studio Network, and a Recovering News Director, (having led the news operations at Global News Toronto, Newstalk 1010 and AM640 radio in Toronto) with more than forty years of experience in Canadian media.
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    48 mins
  • NOW and NEXT LIVE from the PAAC Conference in Toronto

    NOW and NEXT LIVE from the PAAC Conference in Toronto
    Dec 11 2024
    It's a NOW and NEXT first!

    Our Comms and Strategy Team (C.A.S.T.) presented this edition of the podcast LIVE at the Public Affairs Association of Canada conference in Toronto. It was held in November at the waterfront campus of George Brown College.

    We riffed on the emergence of podcasting a powerful weapon in the comms and stategy arsenal for brands and organizations in a day and age when "earned media" is increasingly more difficult to land.

    We also talked about the political power of podcasting - particularly against the backdrop of the US Presidential election that gives Donald Trump another four years behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

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    Meet the NOW and NEXT C.A.S.T!

    Brad Ross has made a career leading the communications strategies for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission.

    Lindsay Broadhead brings her comms experience and insights base on her time leading teams at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and, most recently, the Chief Communications Officer at the City of Toronto.

    Bob Reid applies his earned experience as a major market journalist and a Senior Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to his analysis of the communications "Touchdowns and Fumbles".

    Anne Marie Aikins is a "media relations maven", a sought after pundit and speaker, and a strategic comms adviser specializing in public transit in Ontario.

    Dave Trafford is a “Podcast Journalist”, the Chief Executive Producer at Story Studio Network, and a Recovering News Director, (having led the news operations at Global News Toronto, Newstalk 1010 and AM640 radio in Toronto) with more than forty years of experience in Canadian media.
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    53 mins
  • Phil Verster's time as Metrolinx CEO has been an unmitigated, abject disaster for public transit in the GTHA

    Phil Verster's time as Metrolinx CEO has been an unmitigated, abject disaster for public transit in the GTHA
    Dec 5 2024
    This week on NOW and NEXT:

    Phil Verster has QUIT as CEO of Metrolinx - catching the Ford government by surprise and leaving a litany of of billion dollar transit project in disarray. Not one project has been completed during Verster's leadership. They're running over time and over budget with no clear sign as to when they'll be delivered.

    And we've got the best brains to talk us through the fallout. We've assembled our NOW and NEXT
    C.A.S.T. (Comms and Strategy Team), starting with Anne Marie Aikins, who spent a good deal of her career as the Comms leaders at Metrolinx; Brad Ross brings his insights as the former Comms Director at the Toronto Transit Commission; Lindsay Broadhead who spent time leading the corporate comms at Toronto City Hall and worked with Metrolinx when Verster joined the agency in 2017; and Bob Reid - a former Senior Adviser to former Ontario Premier Mike Harris.

    We also weigh in on the congestion crisis in Toronto - including talk at City Hall to limit ride-sharing licences.

    And nobody saw it coming, but Justin Trudeau showed Prime Ministerial strength when he paid an unplanned visit to Mara-lago and THEN sat down with the Opposition Leaders in Ottawa to brief them on the Trump-Trudeau convo.


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    1 hr and 1 min

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