Latest Canadianpolitics Podcast Episodes
How Reddit, the 'old soul of the internet', succeeds when others fail
Down to Business - November 16, 2022 03:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
The Failing Your Midterms Episode
Some Politics is Local - November 11, 2022 23:30 - 39 minutesFor this episode, in US Politics, we talk about the results of the midterm elections that took place - and the implications for the country (and the US Presidential field in 2024). We then talk about Alberta Politics, with Danielle Smith's not-so-landslide victory in her Brooks-Medicine Hat by-e...
Canada's immigration boom will be biggest in 60 years
Down to Business - November 09, 2022 03:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is the Bank of Canada reaching the end of its rate raising cycle?
Down to Business - November 02, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Consumers can now get charged for using credit cards in Canada. What does this mean?
Down to Business - October 26, 2022 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Reacting Too Sloly To the Convoy Episode
Some Politics is Local - October 25, 2022 20:19 - 34 minutesFor this episode, in Federal politics, we discuss the inquiry into the use of the Emergency Measures Act. Who said what about who so far - we talk about it all (including the politics, of course). For Provincial politics, we talk about Danielle Smith taking her place as the new Premier of Albert...
How Toronto became the biggest housing bubble in the world
Down to Business - October 19, 2022 03:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsToronto 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Exposing the dark side of the green transition
Down to Business - October 12, 2022 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From scrap metal dealer to billionaire: How Anil Agarwal built one of the world's largest mining companies
Down to Business - October 05, 2022 03:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
The risky business of carbon capture in Canada
Down to Business - September 28, 2022 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis Week Down to Business looks at what is thwarting the development of the carbon capture industry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Vlad's Going Nuclear Episode
Some Politics is Local - September 23, 2022 20:54 - 36 minutesFor this episode, in Global politics, we talk about the latest developments in the Russia/Ukraine War - with the latter putting some pretty impressive wins on the board. How will Putin likely react to such losses (hint: not well)? We discuss! For Federal politics, we talk about the (decisive) as...
EV sector could mean a quarter of a million jobs and $50 billion a year to Canada
Down to Business - September 21, 2022 03:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Office buildings are having an existential crisis — and it's not just work from home
Down to Business - September 14, 2022 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown to Business looks at the decline of office buildings which started before the rise of work from home arrangements amplified the crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canada's home sales and prices are falling. Has something changed in the housing market?
Down to Business - September 07, 2022 14:28 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business, Murtaza Haider, a professor of real estate management at Toronto Metropolitan University, explains why he thinks housing prices in Canada will return to their space-ward trajectory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'The lines between travelling and living are blurring:' Airbnb CEO on the future of work and more
Down to Business - August 31, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business, Brian Chesky, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based Airbnb Inc. explains how the pandemic has reshaped the way we travel, work and live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Should Canada invest in hydrogen? Here are the pros and cons
Down to Business - August 24, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business, chemical engineers Paul Martin and Matthew Klippenstein explain the pros and cons of hydrogen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Liz Lost?! You're Pulling My Cheney Episode
Some Politics is Local - August 19, 2022 22:04 - 38 minutesFor this episode, in American politics, we talk about Liz Cheney's primary loss in Wyoming - and what it means for her, the Republican party and the country, more generally. For provincial politics, we talk about the Sovereignty Act being proposed by UCP Leadership Frontrunner, Danielle Smith. S...
The modern tragedy of Long COVID
Down to Business - August 17, 2022 03:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business, Inez Jabalpurwala, an expert on how viruses affect brain health, talks about how Long COVID is affecting lives, our healthcare system and our economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Knock, Knock, Who's There, the FBI Episode
Some Politics is Local - August 12, 2022 18:36 - 36 minutesFor this episode, it is an all-out Ameri-pod! In it, David and Mike discuss the raid on Mar-a-Lago (Trump's - very tasteful - abode in South Florida). What are the implications for the country - and the fates of the Democratic and Republican Parties, more specifically? We discuss! We also talk a...
'Soft landing is wishful thinking,' says former Bank of Canada economist
Down to Business - August 10, 2022 03:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsJean-Paul Lam, a former economist at the Bank of Canada, talks to Down to Business about how central banks fell behind the curve and missed crucial signals about the economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Without government aid, Canada's car industry would vanish in a decade
Down to Business - August 03, 2022 03:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week Down to Business talks to Peter Frise, a professor of mechanical, automotive and materials engineering at the University of Windsor, about where we are at in the electric vehicle transition and what it means for the economy and society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
The new oil? How demand for copper could reshape the world
Down to Business - July 27, 2022 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDown to Business talks to veteran energy analyst Daniel Yergin about how copper, the metal of electrification, will reshape geopolitics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Orange You Glad Your Aren't Donald Trump Episode
Some Politics is Local - July 22, 2022 20:03 - 42 minutesFor this episode, in US politics, we have a super-duper scorching hot-take on Episode 8 of the January 6th Committee: Jabba the Hut Does Nothing to Call off His Goons. For provincial/federal Canadian politics, we talk about the latest and not so greatest with healthcare in Canada (and the undue ...
The No Mo' BoJo Episode
Some Politics is Local - July 09, 2022 00:33 - 23 minutesFor this episode, in UK politics, we have a HOT-TAKE on the political demise of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has just resigned from office on July 7th, 2022. Will BoJo be able to get himself out of this capper and rise back to prominence? We discuss! For Federal (Canadian) politics, ...
How high a price will Canadians have to pay to tame inflation?
Down to Business - June 29, 2022 03:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business, economists Benjamin Tal and James Osborne look at what might happen to Canada's economy and housing market as the Bank of Canada embarks on an aggressive rate hiking cycle to fight inflation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The (January) 6-Pence None the Richer Episode
Some Politics is Local - June 24, 2022 01:30 - 36 minutesFor this episode, in American politics, the January 6th Committee's (6-part) public hearings and what they have unearthed so far...and will it make a difference at all to politics in the US. For provincial politics, we check in on the latest edition of 'Who Wants to Be Our Premiere?' More specif...
What the future holds for western Canadian oil producers
Down to Business - June 22, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week’s episode of Down To Business focuses on what the future holds for the western Canadian oil producers if pipelines and other critical infrastructure are no longer on the table. Will the Biden administration seek greater oil production from Canada, which sends 99 per cent of its oil expo...
How Bill Browder began warning the world about Putin's corruption a decade ago
Down to Business - June 15, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business, Bill Browder, once Russia’s largest foreign investor, describes how he started more than a decade ago on his campaign to convince the world that Russian President Vladimir Putin is dangerously corrupt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pulling back the curtain on Tim Hortons' nation-wide privacy breach
Down to Business - June 08, 2022 03:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on Down to Business former Financial Post reporter James McLeod talks about his investigation into Tim Hortons’ data collection practices that sparked a nation-wide probe by privacy commissioners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Ford More Years Episode
Some Politics is Local - June 04, 2022 11:21 - 39 minutesFor this episode, in federal politics, we talk about the new legislation passed by the Liberal government to tighten restrictions on guns and also the drug possession exemption requested by BC that was approved by the federal government. For provincial politics, we have a burning HOT TAKE on the...
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