Levelling Up with TELUS #2: Vass Bednar and Robin Shaban on competition in the digital age
Leadership Perspectives
English - July 21, 2021 20:00 - 38 minutes - 26.1 MBManagement Business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Power, prices, and choice: Canada’s Competition Act hasn’t been updated in two decades. What does this mean for digital competition in Canada, and the ways we could bridge the digital divide? Keara talks to two leading researchers for a lively discussion on how Canada’s competition space has changed in the digital age—and what needs to be done to ensure an equitable playing field for all.
Discover more about the digital divide and how TELUS is supporting meaningful change at telus.com/connectingcanada.
About our guests:
Robin Shaban is co-founder and senior economist of Vivic Research, an economic consulting firm supporting agents working toward social justice with economic research. This year she was also a winner of the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business 2021 Changemakers award. She has served several advocacy organizations, think tanks, government clients, and labour unions such as the Ontario Living Wage Network, the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, and the office of the EI Commissioner for Workers. In addition, she has also published commentary on the state of competition law and policy in Canada.
Vass Bednar is an interdisciplinary wonk working at the intersections of technology and public policy in Canada. She's the founding Executive Director of McMaster University's Public Policy in Digital Society Program, and has held leadership roles across private and public sectors. Vass is recognized as a creative, data-driven thinker and was the Chair of the Expert Panel on Youth Employment.
Vass holds her Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the University of Toronto, and completed Action Canada and DiverseCity Fellowships. She was also the co-host of "Detangled," a weekly pop-culture and public policy radio show. Currently she writes a newsletter called "regs to riches.”
This is the second episode of Levelling Up, a mini-series from TELUS and The Conference Board of Canada. Access all our research at conferenceboard.ca.