Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast The Drift: How Canadians are navigating AI

AI is changing every corner of Canadian life. The Drift goes inside that change, one industry at a time.

Hosted by journalist Aalia Adam, each episode features a real conversation with a Canadian navigating AI in their own work, from healthcare to education to journalism and beyond.

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In this first episode of The Drift, Montreal cardiologist Dr. Ragui Ibrahim talks about what's actually broken in Canadian healthcare, the AI he built to try to fix it, and what happens to the connection between a doctor and a patient when there's a third party in the room.

Nearly three in four Canadian students use AI for their schoolwork and most feel guilty doing it. So why are two-thirds of teachers still untrained to handle it?

Dr. Maggie McDonnell teaches professional writing at Concordia University. Instead of banning AI or policing her students, she sat down with her class and wrote the rules together. We talk about why a ban just turns teachers into cops, the real reason students cheat, and what school is even for when a machine can do the homework.

Real conversations with Canadians navigating AI in their industries. Follow @TheDriftCanada.

More than a third of Canadian real estate listings are now written by AI. So how do you know what’s real when you’re making the biggest purchase of your life?

In this episode, Aalia sits down with David Ursino, a managing broker in Ontario responsible for over 300 agents. When AI arrived in his industry, he didn’t wait to see what would happen , he taught himself to build his own systems from scratch, no coding background, and now trains his entire brokerage on them.

They discuss what AI can do for agents, the deal it blew up, and why the biggest moments in real estate still need a human in the room.

Real conversations with Canadians navigating AI in their industries.

A chatbot can plan your next vacation in ten seconds. So what happens to the people who used to do it for a living?

In this episode, Aalia sits down with Jamie Prince who left a corporate career to run a travel company, Prince Adventures, with his wife Jakki in Guelph, Ontario. He's been to 90 countries and he uses AI every single day. They discuss what the machine can do, what it gets wrong, and the human work no algorithm can touch.

Real conversations with Canadians navigating AI in their industries.

When a machine can make the picture, what exactly is a photographer selling?

Monique Weston has spent 25 years behind the camera, from film and darkrooms to digital, and now AI. She isn't anti-AI; she'll tell you exactly where she uses it and exactly where she won't.

In this episode: the collapse of the headshot studio, why she thinks real photography is about to become a luxury, the consent question no one's reading the fine print on, and what she tells a 22-year-old who still wants to pick up a camera.

Real conversations with Canadians navigating AI in their industries.

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Leo Separovic, a research scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, walks us through the country's new hybrid AI-physics forecasting system: how it works, where it still falls short, and what it means for how much warning we get before a major storm.

Real conversations with Canadians navigating AI in their industries.

In this episode, Dr. Jean Clinton discusses the profound impact of AI on parenting and childhood development, emphasizing the importance of human connection and cautioning against over-reliance on AI for support and learning.