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| What's ahead for Canada's energy sector as new era of nation-building dawns | 03 juil. 2025 | 00:56:30 | |
This episode of Down to Business explores what's lies ahead for Canada's energy sector as the country enters a "generational opportunity" for economic development.
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| Is Canada setting itself up for a big home price spike in 2030? | 26 juin 2025 | 00:40:54 | |
Down to Business podcast talks to Mike Moffatt, founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative, about how the housing crisis started and where we could go from here.
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| Canada's auto industry at 'hinge moment' | 24 juin 2025 | 00:44:13 | |
On this episode of Down to Business, Stephen Beatty, a former Toyota Canada executive, describes the threats to the auto industry and solutions.
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| Canada gets wakeup call that world 'unstable and dangerous place' | 06 mars 2025 | 00:21:29 | |
Margaret MacMillan, emeritus professor of history at the University of Toronto, gives perspective on what Donald Trump's presidency means to Canada and the world
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| How the old trading rules are failing Canada | 25 févr. 2025 | 00:24:55 | |
Lawrence Herman, who spent decades practicing international trade law, explains how anti-dumping remedies aren't working for Canadian companies.
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| 'No way Canada can win a trade war:' John Manley shares some hard truths | 21 févr. 2025 | 00:26:09 | |
John Manley, the former federal minister who managed our relationship with the U.S. at the highest levels, says Donald Trump's tariff threats are a 'really loud wakeup call' for Canada
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| How Trump is pouring gas on the fire of de-globalization | 14 févr. 2025 | 00:29:50 | |
Meredith Lilly, a trade adviser under former prime minister Stephen Harper, says the world is on the cusp of a new trade order
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| The Delivery Economy explodes: Reverberations throughout the economy & ceilings to online - Part 3 | 11 déc. 2024 | 00:13:18 | |
In the final episode of The Delivery Economy, Clarence Woudsma, a professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning, joins Gabe to explain how e-commerce is evolving and the trends that may lie ahead, from growth markets such as grocery to the shifting labour landscape.
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| The Delivery Economy explodes: Looking for a relief valve in the delivery economy as traffic grows - Part 2 | 11 déc. 2024 | 00:21:24 | |
In episode two of The Delivery Economy, Gabe speaks with Ivan Waissbluth. Fed up with traffic in Toronto, Waissbluth co-founded NRBI, which has been building a rapidly growing fleet of electric cargo bikes to deliver goods around the city's dense core. Then a bike courier with decades of experiences tells Gabe what it’s like to ride a bike around Toronto, and how conditions have changed for bike couriers in the past 30 years.
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| The Delivery Economy explodes: A Down to Business deep dive - Part 1 | 11 déc. 2024 | 00:43:29 | |
In the first episode of The Delivery Economy, Down to Business host Gabe Friedman explores the astonishing economics of e-commerce with the CEOs of two Canadian companies.Sylvia Ng discusses her decision to leave Shopify Inc and found ReturnBear in 2021 as she watched a growing number of companies struggle with the high level of returns from online sales; and Mark Ang explains how his decision to co-found a self-storage company in 2017 inadvertently set him up to build the logistics infrastructure and software that allows the largest brands in the world to sell goods online.
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| An update on Down to Business - A message from Gabe Friedman | 05 déc. 2024 | 00:01:57 | |
Down to Business has been on hiatus for a while. But our host Gabe Friedman has some exciting news to share about the future of the show!
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| Why it might be hard for Canada to capture economic opportunities from the energy transition | 04 oct. 2023 | 00:21:30 | |
This week on Down to Business, John McNally, program director for clean growth at PLACE Centre, discusses some of the surprising challenges that could make it harder for Canada to capture economic opportunities from the energy transition — such as high housing prices.
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| What happens to Canada after oil demand peaks? | 20 sept. 2023 | 00:22:23 | |
This week on Down to Business, economist Aaron Cosbey lays out what he sees happening when demand for fossil fuels peaks in the next decade
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| Why Canada must build faster to reach climate goals | 13 sept. 2023 | 00:19:15 | |
Business Council of Alberta has a plan to speed up the construction of infrastructure Canada needs to meet climate goals
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| Battery eureka moment found in a bag of potato chips | 16 août 2023 | 00:21:07 | |
This week in Dispatches from the battery economy, Down to Business talks to Maciej Jastrzebski of Li-Metal about technological breakthroughs in producing lithium for next-generation batteries
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| What Canada is doing wrong in its world-leading immigration push | 02 août 2023 | 00:41:05 | |
Down to Business talks to Prof. Rupa Banerjee about what works and what doesn't in Canada's immigration policy
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| Why more Canadian workers are at risk of mental health incidents | 26 juil. 2023 | 00:25:18 | |
This week on Down to Business, Paula Allen, senior vice-president of research and client insights at Telus Health, discusses what’s happening to workers across Canada from a mental health standpoint.
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| Why higher interest rates could be bad for workers | 19 juil. 2023 | 00:23:35 | |
This week on Down to Business, economist Jim Stanford talks about how higher interest rates could suppress wage growth. He discusses his view on what's happening with inflation and more.
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| Dispatches from the battery economy: How Nano One pivoted its focus after North America's rapid EV adoption | 05 juil. 2023 | 00:39:37 | |
This week on Down to Business, Dan Blondal, chief executive of Nano One Materials Corp., talks about how his company has been affected by rapid EV adoption in North America. Blondal discusses how shifting geopolitical winds have caused the company to rethink its focus, the pandemic and more.
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| The pandemic didn't kill the office, it was already dying | 21 juin 2023 | 00:44:39 | |
This week on Down to Business, Carl Gomez, chief economist and head of analytics at commercial real estate data firm Costar discusses the past, present and future of the office.
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| How the devastation of wildfires ripples through the whole economy | 14 juin 2023 | 00:22:04 | |
Down to Business examines the economic impacts of wildfires, with an eye towards the less-obvious ripple effects
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| 'A ticking time-bomb': The rise of the variable-rate, fixed-payment mortgage | 07 juin 2023 | 00:20:17 | |
Jimmy Jean of Desjardins Group talks to Down to Business about the risks of variable-rate, fixed-payment mortgages.
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| Canada's oilsands poised for age of optimization | 31 mai 2023 | 00:26:09 | |
Analyst Kevin Birn explains why S&P Global Commodity Insights raised its oilsands production outlook for the first time in over half a decade
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| The hidden beliefs about money that sabotage us all | 24 mai 2023 | 00:16:50 | |
This week on Down to Business financial therapist Aseel El-Baba explains where money troubles come from
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| This economist thinks interest rate hikes are doing more harm than good | 17 mai 2023 | 00:23:43 | |
Down to Business talks to Laurentian economics professor Louis-Philippe Rochon who argues that Bank of Canada interest rate hikes are not only failing to ease inflation, they are also damaging the economy
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| Why are cars so expensive in Canada today? | 10 mai 2023 | 00:32:09 | |
This week on Down to Business podcast, Charles Bernard, lead economist for the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association in Ottawa, talks about the forces causing vehicle prices to rise.
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| What Canada gets for its $13-billion investment in VW's battery plant | 03 mai 2023 | 00:21:24 | |
Down to Business talks to a policy expert who argues that Canadian subsidies won't reap the benefits American handouts will
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| Is the world running out of copper just when we need it the most? | 26 avr. 2023 | 00:23:19 | |
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| How the small movie theatre came back from the dead | 20 avr. 2023 | 00:24:44 | |
This week on Down to Business, Andy Willick, chair of the Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors, talks about how small theatres have survived and changed, and what the future holds
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| Canada on the road to first net-zero cement in the world | 13 avr. 2023 | 00:28:11 | |
Down to Business talks to Heidelberg Materials' David Perkins about the ground-breaking zero emissions cement plant planned for Edmonton, Alberta
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| Safety Net: The impact of ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in Canada | 15 mars 2023 | 00:31:26 | |
Energy pipelines, government websites and numerous companies have all reported cyber attacks in recent weeks. This week’s episode of Down to Business examines the impact of ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in Canada.
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| Inside the only rare-earths mine in Canada | 03 mars 2023 | 00:15:27 | |
Down to Business talks to Vital Metals' David Connelly about starting a rare-earths operation in a remote area of the Northwest Territories, one of only two mines in North America
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| Critical minerals in spotlight as global miners gather in Toronto | 02 mars 2023 | 00:14:40 | |
Jeff Killeen talks about the hot trends and topics in commodity markets ahead of PDAC 2023 in Toronto, one of the largest mining conferences in the world
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| What lies ahead for Canada's economy as it seeks to reduce carbon emissions | 01 mars 2023 | 00:29:40 | |
Canada is reaching an inflection point in which carbon emissions and economic growth are decoupling. On this week's Down to Business, Dave Sawyer and Michael Bernstein discuss what lies ahead for Canada as it seeks to reduce emissions.
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| How immigration and an aging population will affect Canada's housing market | 22 févr. 2023 | 00:21:22 | |
Desjardins' Randall Bartlett talks to Down to Business about why Canada needs to build housing faster than its currently doing to accommodate immigration.
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| Maybe Canada can pull off a soft landing after all | 15 févr. 2023 | 00:24:59 | |
TD economist James Orlando talks to Down to Business about where he thinks inflation, interest rates and the economy might be going.
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| Harnessing the sun is closer than ever | 21 déc. 2022 | 00:25:02 | |
This week on Down to Business, Greg Twinney, chief executive of Vancouver-based General Fusion Inc., talks about his company’s efforts to replicate the power of the sun in a laboratory right here on earth
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| Why Canada ran short of Children's Tylenol — and why it could happen again | 14 déc. 2022 | 00:28:44 | |
Down to Business talks to Mina Tadrous, of the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, about how the very nature of the fragile and opaque pharmaceutical supply chain makes it vulnerable to disruption
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| The four-day work week is coming | 07 déc. 2022 | 00:31:24 | |
Why are we still working the same hours we were in the 1970s? This week Down to Business looks at the future of the work week — and it's shorter
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| Rare-earth magnets are key to our electric future — and china controls 93% of them | 30 nov. 2022 | 00:19:11 | |
Down to Business talks to Ahmad Ghahreman about his business recycling rare earths, a material of growing importance to our society
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| Why lettuce is suddenly so unbelievably expensive | 23 nov. 2022 | 00:24:07 | |
Down to Business talks to Simon Somogyi, Arrell chair in the business of food at the University of Guelph, about why food prices are so high and what that means for Canadians
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| How Reddit, the 'old soul of the internet', succeeds when others fail | 16 nov. 2022 | 00:26:05 | |
Down to Business talks to Jen Wong, chief operating officer of Reddit, about how the platform has evolved in the past 17 years, how it is different from social media, and how you don't need to track people all over the internet to sell ads online.
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| Canada's immigration boom will be biggest in 60 years | 09 nov. 2022 | 00:27:36 | |
This week Down to Business looks at Canada's immigration targets, the most ambitious in the world. Economist Mikal Skuterood talks about the impact on the economy and labour market
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| Is the Bank of Canada reaching the end of its rate raising cycle? | 02 nov. 2022 | 00:31:49 | |
This week on Down to Business, Financial Post Editor-in-Chief Kevin Carmichael discusses whether the economy has reached an inflection point yet and how far along he thinks the Bank of Canada is in its rate raising cycle, given that inflation remains elevated.
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| Consumers can now get charged for using credit cards in Canada. What does this mean? | 26 oct. 2022 | 00:22:34 | |
This week on Down to Business, Laurence Ashworth, a professor at Queens University’s Smith School of Business, whose research focuses on consumer behaviour, discussed a change in credit card fee.
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| How Toronto became the biggest housing bubble in the world | 19 oct. 2022 | 00:24:46 | |
Toronto has been named by UBS the number one real estate housing bubble in the world. This week at Down to Business we look at how Canada's biggest city got there.
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| Exposing the dark side of the green transition | 12 oct. 2022 | 00:25:33 | |
This week Down to Business talks to Henry Sanderson about his new book 'Volt Rush: The winners and losers in the race to go green,' an exploration of the dark sides of the energy transition
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| From scrap metal dealer to billionaire: How Anil Agarwal built one of the world's largest mining companies | 05 oct. 2022 | 00:22:10 | |
This week on Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman speaks with Anil Agarwal, an Indian billionaire who is the founder and chairman of London-headquartered Vedanta Resources Ltd., about his career and the relationship between Canada and India.
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| The risky business of carbon capture in Canada | 28 sept. 2022 | 00:16:00 | |
This Week Down to Business looks at what is thwarting the development of the carbon capture industry
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| EV sector could mean a quarter of a million jobs and $50 billion a year to Canada | 21 sept. 2022 | 00:14:36 | |
Down to Business talks to two experts about what it would take for Canada to establish an EV supply chain and what it would mean to the economy
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