Latest Canadianpolitics Podcast Episodes
Why it might be hard for Canada to capture economic opportunities from the energy transition
Down to Business - October 04, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad cho...
What happens to Canada after oil demand peaks?
Down to Business - September 20, 2023 03:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business, economist Aaron Cosbey lays out what he sees happening when demand for fossil fuels peaks in the next decade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Canada must build faster to reach climate goals
Down to Business - September 13, 2023 03:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsBusiness Council of Alberta has a plan to speed up the construction of infrastructure Canada needs to meet climate goals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Battery eureka moment found in a bag of potato chips
Down to Business - August 16, 2023 03:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Canada is doing wrong in its world-leading immigration push
Down to Business - August 02, 2023 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown to Business talks to Prof. Rupa Banerjee about what works and what doesn't in Canada's immigration policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why more Canadian workers are at risk of mental health incidents
Down to Business - July 26, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why higher interest rates could be bad for workers
Down to Business - July 19, 2023 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dispatches from the battery economy: How Nano One pivoted its focus after North America's rapid EV adoption
Down to Business - July 05, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Lea...
The pandemic didn't kill the office, it was already dying
Down to Business - June 21, 2023 03:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How the devastation of wildfires ripples through the whole economy
Down to Business - June 14, 2023 03:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown to Business examines the economic impacts of wildfires, with an eye towards the less-obvious ripple effects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'A ticking time-bomb': The rise of the variable-rate, fixed-payment mortgage
Down to Business - June 07, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsJimmy Jean of Desjardins Group talks to Down to Business about the risks of variable-rate, fixed-payment mortgages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canada's oilsands poised for age of optimization
Down to Business - May 31, 2023 03:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAnalyst Kevin Birn explains why S&P Global Commodity Insights raised its oilsands production outlook for the first time in over half a decade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The hidden beliefs about money that sabotage us all
Down to Business - May 24, 2023 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business financial therapist Aseel El-Baba explains where money troubles come from Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This economist thinks interest rate hikes are doing more harm than good
Down to Business - May 17, 2023 03:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why are cars so expensive in Canada today?
Down to Business - May 10, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Canada gets for its $13-billion investment in VW's battery plant
Down to Business - May 03, 2023 03:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown to Business talks to a policy expert who argues that Canadian subsidies won't reap the benefits American handouts will Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is the world running out of copper just when we need it the most?
Down to Business - April 26, 2023 03:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How the small movie theatre came back from the dead
Down to Business - April 20, 2023 03:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canada on the road to first net-zero cement in the world
Down to Business - April 13, 2023 18:19 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown to Business talks to Heidelberg Materials' David Perkins about the ground-breaking zero emissions cement plant planned for Edmonton, Alberta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Safety Net: The impact of ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in Canada
Down to Business - March 15, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsEnergy 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Inside the only rare-earths mine in Canada
Down to Business - March 03, 2023 19:15 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Critical minerals in spotlight as global miners gather in Toronto
Down to Business - March 02, 2023 20:01 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsJeff 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What lies ahead for Canada's economy as it seeks to reduce carbon emissions
Down to Business - March 01, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsCanada 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How immigration and an aging population will affect Canada's housing market
Down to Business - February 22, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDesjardins' Randall Bartlett talks to Down to Business about why Canada needs to build housing faster than its currently doing to accommodate immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Maybe Canada can pull off a soft landing after all
Down to Business - February 15, 2023 03:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsTD economist James Orlando talks to Down to Business about where he thinks inflation, interest rates and the economy might be going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harnessing the sun is closer than ever
Down to Business - December 21, 2022 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Canada ran short of Children's Tylenol — and why it could happen again
Down to Business - December 14, 2022 03:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The four-day work week is coming
Down to Business - December 07, 2022 03:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhy 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rare-earth magnets are key to our electric future — and china controls 93% of them
Down to Business - November 30, 2022 03:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown to Business talks to Ahmad Ghahreman about his business recycling rare earths, a material of growing importance to our society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why lettuce is suddenly so unbelievably expensive
Down to Business - November 23, 2022 03:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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