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Business 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
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Down 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
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Down 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
Jimmy 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
Down 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
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This 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
This 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
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Down 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
Down 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
This 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
This 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
This 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
This 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
This 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
Jean-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
This 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.fm/adchoices
Down 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
This 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
This 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 exports to the U.S.? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This 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
This 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
Last year the Port of Vancouver moved record cargo and still ranked near the bottom in performance among its global peers. Down to Business talks to economists and shipping experts about the port's struggle with pandemic bottlenecks and extreme weather and looks at the challenges to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on Down to Business, Stephanie Hughes discusses how taking the penny out of circulation has provided valuable insight into how cash is used and Andreas Park explains what blockchain means for the financial system Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week’s Down to Business looks at the business of flying and parses what’s happening at airports today amid reports of long lines and extended waits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Down to Business looks at the shift underway in the auto sector to build local, cleaner and more secure supply chains, and what Canada's role in this could be.
This week Down to Business podcast considers the possible business cases for billionaire Elon Musk's US$44 billion deal to buy a social media platform that hardly ever makes money.
This week on Down to Business, economists Derek Holt and Talan Iscan discuss what rising inflation tells us about the global economy and the pace of globalization.
This week Down to Business looks at blind bidding, who real estate agents really work for and what actually can be done to make housing more affordable for more Canadians
Canada's federal budget for 2022 devotes billions of dollars to building a new critical minerals and electric vehicle supply chain. This week on Down to Business, Pierre Gratton, Trent Mell, Dave Adams and Josipa Petronic discuss how the budget marks a departure from the past.
This week, as part of a special series for first-time homebuyers, Down to Business takes a look at what’s happened in the residential real estate market over the last 50 years and asks whether buying a house or condo is a good investment
In this special bonus episode of Down to Business, Gabriel Friedman talks to industry leaders about whether Ottawa's plan to cut 2005 level-emissions by 40 per cent by the end of the decade can work and what it would take.
This week, Down to Business delves into the auto sector’s pivot to electric vehicles, one of the largest industrial transformations in history.
The Financial Post's Gabriel Friedman on this special episode talks to three different first-time home buyers with three completely different experiences about why they chose to wade out into Canada’s housing market.
This week on Down to Business, Sprott Inc.'s Peter Grosskopf and John Hathaway talk about why gold had been trending down for much of the last year even as it nears an all-time high.
This week on Down to Business, Tu Nyugen and Jason Del Vicario talk about how rising interest rates will affect the housing market and the economy.
This week on Down to Business, Mark Manger, Alex Tuckett and Robert Huebert talk about the economic consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They point out that Russia is a critical supplier of oil and gas for much of Europe and also a huge producer of metals that will be needed for the energy transition.
This week on Down to Business, former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz identifies five "tectonic" forces that are going to create new crises for at least a decade. He explains why volatility is trending up and why politicians may be ill-equipped to handle the challenges that lie ahead.
This week on Down to Business two electricity experts Bruce Lourie and Gretchen Bakke talk about the many hurdles Canada will have to clear to get to net zero
This week on Down to Business, Douglas Porter, BMO's chief economist, talks about why tech stocks are taking a beating and what it means for investors and our economy.
This week on Down to Business, law professor Veena Dubal speaks about what Uber's deal with United Food and Commercial Workers means for the company, its workers and other similar businesses in Canada.
This week Down to Business talks to a living legend of the aviation industry: Marc Parent, chief executive of CAE. During the pandemic, this flight simulator company that derives much of its revenue from a grounded aviation sector, managed to complete nine acquisitions. Parent talks about the future of air taxis and delivery services, which is coming sooner than we think.
This week on Down to Business, Cushman & Wakefield's Samantha Sannella talks about how our office may look different once we return and why companies will need to provide perks to lure people back.
This week on Down to Business, guests Lex Sokolin and Victoria Lemieux talk about how blockchain could have profound implications on the way the internet works, particularly the attention economy.
This week on Down to Business, Scotiabank chief economist Jean-Francois Perrault talks about lessons from a shock that had no playbook and what challenges our economy faces ahead.
This week on Down To Business, the Conference Board of Canada's Sohaib Shahid explains what’s causing inflation to rise to its highest point in three decades and what that means for Canadians, especially lower income earners.
In the second of a three-part series on Down to Business exploring issues related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, Andreas Park, an economist and a professor of finance at University of Toronto, who co-authored a design proposal for a digital currency for the Bank of Canada, breaks down what blockchain means for the financial system.
This week on Down to Business, Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association of Canada, explains how the U.S. infrastructure bill will affect Canada's auto industry and why he predicts the EV tax credit will ultimately be dropped.
This week on Down to Business, Ethan Lou, author of the book "Once a bitcoin miner," offers his perspective on why blockchain technology is already important but bound to play an even greater role in the future.
This week on Down to Business, Rachel Samson, research director for clean growth at the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, talks about the COP26 summit and how the pandemic revealed a shift in attitudes about climate change.
This week on Down to Business, Beata Caranici, chief economist of TD Bank, talks about the uncertainty the economy is facing as it struggles to emerge from the pandemic.
This week on Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman talks with Calgary's first female mayor Jyoti Gondek about the polarization around climate change and fossil fuels and how she plans to attract investors to the city’s burgeoning cleantech economy.
This week on Down to Business, Lightspeed CEO Dax DaSilva talks about his company's remarkable growth spurt, how it is attracting and keeping talent and why Canada is actually an amazing place to headquarter your tech company.
This week on Down to Business podcast, Megan Takeda-Tully talks about starting a company during a pandemic, the challenges of her endeavor and what’s at stake
This week on Down To Business Prof. Jennifer Robson talks about whether employers may end up hiking wages, the labour shortage and the Canada Recovery Benefit.
This week on Down To Business Prof. Paul Kershaw talks about how rising real estate prices are distorting Canada’s economic growth and hurting younger generations.
This week on Down to Business, University of Toronto's Padraic Scanlan talks about the controversy around Henry Dundas and some unsettling chapters of Canada’s past.
This week on Down to Business Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, talks about how his tech startup survived the most disruptive time for travel since World War II — and came out stronger
This week on Down to Business, Wendy Wong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto where she is also a research lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Civil Society, discusses the ways that facial recognition technology has changed the world. Wong is an advocate for data literacy — being aware of the many ways our data is collected and how it’s used.
With the Federal Election around the corner, leaders are rolling out their political platforms, including promises on housing and affordability. This week on Down to Business we talk to John Pasalis, president of Realosophy, about whether government can do anything about this persisting problem and what's ahead for Canada's housing market.
This week on "Down to Business," Deloitte chief economist Craig Alexander talks with Financial Post's Larysa Harapyn about the election issues dominating Canada's economic landscape: the recovery, underinvestment in business and infrastructure, and where post-pandemic prosperity is going to come from.
This week on Down to Business, Natalia Mishagina, research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal, where she focuses on the future of skills and adult learning, speaks with host Gabriel Friedman to discuss technology's impact on jobs.
This week on Down to Business, urban planner Ashley Salvador talks about how Edmonton, a city with 50% more parking than it needs, is the first city in Canada to ditch minimum parking requirements. Most cities have way more mandated parking than necessary and it adds up to a huge impact on our economy, even affecting housing prices.
This week on Down to Business, Seamus O’Regan, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, talks about the importance of the oil and gas industry to the economy and why he believes the carbon tax is the “most elegant solution” to emissions.
This week on Down to Business, Lenore Newman, director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at University of the Fraser Valley, explains what climate change and extreme weather mean for Canada’s food supply.
This week, on Down to Business, Heather Reisman, chief executive of Toronto-based Indigo Books and Music Inc. speaks with host Gabriel Friedman about how her business fared during the pandemic, when customer browsing abruptly came to a halt.
This week on Down to Business, Fabian Lange, Canadian Research Chair in Labour and Personnel Economics at McGill University, talks about how the pandemic has affected employment across Canada.
This week, on Down to Business, Sharon Zhengyang Sun, trade policy economist for the Canada West Foundation, and a distinguished fellow for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, speaks to host Gabriel Friedman about the implications of Canada’s trade tensions with China.
This week on Down to Business, David Jacobson, a former U.S Ambassador to Canada, talks about the economic impact, both directly and indirectly, of closing our borders with our biggest trading partner.
This week Down to Business talks to Alex Himelfarb, a former clerk of the privy council, about why more than two-thirds of Canada's deaths during the COVID-19 crisis occurred in long-term care homes, 50 per cent more than in other OECD countries.
This week on Down to Business, Yale economist William Nordhaus discusses the economics of climate change.
This week on Down to Business, Financial Post's Larysa Harapyn talks to RioCan CEO Jonathan Gitlin about how the pandemic is changing the commercial real estate landscape.
As we look forward to a summer of possibly "getting back to normal," businesses struggle with the prospect of reopening, only to close again. In this first of a two-part series on reopening, Down to Business talks to Todd Barclay, CEO of Restaurant Brands Canada, about the impact and outlook for one of the economy's hardest hit sectors.
This week Down to Business talks to workplace expert Doron Melnick who says a hybrid between working from home and in the office could be the best of both worlds. But before we get there employers need to address the challenges of integrating a workforce that's partially onsite and at home, including the biases that can bring.
This week, on Down to Business, Ian Lee, an associate professor of Management at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business, offers his passionate take on how Canada has squandered precious resources on a recession that wasn't a recession.
This week on Down to Business, Neo Performance Materials CEO Constantine Karayannopoulos talks about brewing international tensions over rare earths and why we need them for the future.
This week on Down to Business, Tariq Fancy, the former chief investment officer for sustainable investing at Blackrock, explains how he became a cynic about ESG investments.
This week on Down to Business, Li-Cycle's Ajay Kochar talks about the race to remake the North American recycling landscape.
High home prices and child care costs hurt Canada more than people think, economically hampering our next generation of workers and spenders, warns Manulife's chief economist.
This week, on Down to Business, Brian Kingston, president and chief executive of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association, and Benjamin Sharpe, a senior researcher and Canada Regional Lead at the International Council on Clean Transportation, based in California, talk about what lies ahead for the auto industry.
This week on Down to Business Clean Energy Canada's Sarah Petrevan talks about the economic imperative of nations going green. Canada, she says, is uniquely positioned to benefit from U.S. President Joe Biden's plan to transition to a low-carbon economy.
This week, on Down to Business, Wesley Wark, an expert on national security and intelligence, explores the nature of Canada’s tensions with China.
This week, on Down to Business, it’s a story about creating the first transcontinental railroad, the corporate titans who invest in rail, the North American supply chains and trade they serve and about Hunter Harrison, who transformed the industry.
This week on Down to Business, Jumana Saleheen, chief economist for the commodity research firm CRU, talks about the impacts, paradoxes and opportunities in the transition away from fossil fuels.
This week on Down to Business, to mark PDAC's virtual mining conference, Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow explains why he does not think the crisis is over and how the gold industry still has a lot of work to do.
This week Down to Business talks to Sylvain Charlebois, professor and director at the Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab, about 'Buttergate,' the hard butter controversy that cast a global spotlight on Canada's dairy business.
This week Down to Business looks at how we are coping with the pandemic one year on and the challenges of vaccine rollout in Canada, perhaps the single biggest issue right now affecting the economic recovery
This week, on Down to Business, Chris Doornbros explains how his company Calgary-based E3 Metals is working on technology to extract lithium from old oil and gas reservoirs in Alberta, and how this process could help revolutionize the way we use energy.
Deloitte chief economist Craig Alexander talks about what lies ahead as we battle a second wave of the coronavirus and how the pandemic's legacy will be deep economic scars, but also opportunities and innovation.
This week on Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman talks to two financial experts with very different takes on the wild run-up in stocks brought on by Reddit message boards and online trading.
This week on Down to Business, economist David Dodge, former governor of the Bank of Canada, talks about missed opportunities during the pandemic and how the government now must find a way to invest money so that it increases the country’s productivity.
This week on Down to Business, Carleton political science professor Laura Macdonald talks about the angry mobs storming the Capitol and what U.S. instability means for Canada, and for the North American regional economy.
This week on Down to Business CIBC senior economist Royce Mendes tells us why he is more optimistic than many of his peers and how the economic recovery is already within sight.
This week on Down to Business Andy Yan of Simon Fraser University, who has earned a reputation as a keen observer of trends in real estate and small business, talks about how the pandemic has interrupted, accelerated and amplified trends and what our economy and cities could look like once we come out the other side.
On this week’s episode of Down to Business, Trevor David, the owner, and self-described “chief cook and bottlewasher” at The Art of BBQ smokehouse in locked-down Toronto, describes how restaurants who have had their business cut by more than half in the pandemic are struggling to survive.
This week on Down to Business, Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain, a billionaire known for his ability to handle a crisis, says 2020 has generated new levels of anxiety and inspiration.
This week on Down to Business, Shari Eli, an economist at the University of Toronto, explains what history says about the long-term effects of welfare and work programs and talks about the recovery from the pandemic and who is affected most.
This week on Down To Business, Tom Blackwell, a reporter for the National Post, talks about how we are not getting the whole story on the new COVID-19 vaccines and how it’s a mistake to think they can end the pandemic.
This week, on Down to Business, Meredith Lilly, a former trade adviser for Stephen Harper, discusses how Canada’s trade relationship with the U.S. has evolved.
This week on Down to Business, the former governor of the Bank of Canada talks about the state of Canada’s affairs, including its economic recovery and any potential impacts from the U.S. election.
On this week’s Down to Business, the National Post's Richard Warnica talks about how the province has not been able to meet its testing needs and the lack of foresight behind it.
This week, on Down to Business, Dani Reiss, chief executive of Canada Goose, talks about how his company stepped up when the country found itself facing a critical shortage of personal protective equipment.
This week on Down to Business, Dalhousie’s Megan Bailey sets the record straight on the historical, legal and environmental facts of the dispute that has sparked shocking violence in southern Nova Scotia.
This week on Down To Business, Gabriel Friedman talks to CIBC Deputy Chief Economist Bejamin Tal about how high housing prices in the middle of one of the worst recessions in history have exposed Canada’s income inequality crisis and where the housing market is going from here.
This week on Down To Business, Gabriel Friedman talks to pulitzer prize-winning analyst Daniel Yergin on the future of energy and Canada’s oilsands and how pipelines have become the new political battleground.
This week on Down to Business, Cedric Smith, an analyst at the clean energy think tank, Pembina Institute, talks about the opportunities for this country in the green economy.
This week, on Down to Business, Justin Scheck, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal and co-author of Blood and Oil, a new book about Saudi Arabia, discusses how the oil-rich nation is trying to diversify its economy. The book takes a closer look at Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who has been making huge bets on tech companies with money from the country's oil revenues.
The last recession gave birth to the gig economy, in which companies like Airbnb and Uber convinced people to monetize their houses and cars. COVID will make changes too, in commerce and beyond. This week, on Down to Business, Anindya Sen, an economist at the University of Waterloo, talks about how consumer behavior has changed during the pandemic and how that in turn could change our economy.
BHP Group, one of the world’s largest mining corporations, is known for iron ore and copper, petroleum and coal, not potash. But that may be changing. This week on Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman talks to BHP’s new chief executive Mike Henry about the mega-miner’s interest in mining potash in Saskatchewan and how climate change is changing the commodities game.
Despite a record drop in economic activity, 2020 is set to be a bumper year for growth in disposal income — what gives? This week on Down to Business host Gabriel Friedman talks to Conference Board of Canada chief economist Pedro Antunes about the unusual nature of this recession and the speed and quality of the economic recovery so far.
Canada’s finance minister Bill Morneau abruptly resigned last week in the middle of one of worst economic crises since the Second World War. His replacement, deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, has strong experience on Parliament Hill but less on Bay Street. To help break down the news, Down to Business interviewed Rebekah Young, director of fiscal and provincial economics at Scotiabank, who has been keeping a close eye on the state of Canada’s recovery.
On this week’s Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman speaks with Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. CEO Sean Boyd about what it’s been like to run a gold company amid a pandemic and record gold prices.
On this week’s Down to Business, as part of our series on Reopening Canada, Clementine Van Effenterre, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto, talks about how the pandemic is affecting working families and what that means for the economy
On this week’s Down to Business, Ernie Johannson, group head of personal and business banking in North America for BMO Financial Group, speaks to host Gabriel Friedman about shifting consumer habits and describes the initial challenges of trying to stabilize bank operations during a financial crisis and a health pandemic.
On this week's Down to Business, Irene Lauro, a senior economist at Schroders, explains the ripple effects of “reshoring” and how deflation is a top concern for economists as the recovery moves forward.
This week on Down to Business, Jaqui Parchment, chief executive of Mercer Canada, one of the largest human resources consulting firms in the world, talks to Gabriel Friedman about what’s happening in workplaces throughout the country, whether in the office or at home.
On this week's Down to Business, CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld talks to host Gabriel Friedman about the shape and speed of the recovery. While some sectors will rebound quickly, a second big chunk of the economy will see a very shallow recovery or no recovery at all.
This week on Down to Business, G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip talks to host Emily Jackson about how COVID-19 has affected his business and how he believes the travel industry should evolve once people are free to move around again.
Nadine Spencer, president of the Black Business and Professional Association, talks to host Emily Jackson about the ongoing challenges faced by Canada’s black business community and what can be done to improve access to capital and diversity in the boardroom.
Financial Post columnist Kevin Carmichael talks to host Emily Jackson about the legacy of outgoing Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz, the decision to replace him with Tiff Macklem, what the bank needs to focus on going forward and why leadership at the bank is so critical now to the Canadian economy.
This week on Down to Business, Retail Council of Canada CEO Diane Brisebois talks with host Emily Jackson about the challenges facing retailers as they re-open and how between 25% and 30% may never come back.
This week on Down to Business, Ryerson University real estate management professor Murtaza Haider talks to host Emily Jackson about the pandemic’s impact on housing and rental prices, how the shift to working from home could affect real estate in downtown cores and a rethinking of the suburbs.
Demand for entertainment has skyrocketed during the pandemic shut-in. Thunderbird Entertainment chief executive Jennifer Twiner-McCarron talks to host Emily Jackson about how her company has been able to thrive even with employees working from home and how she expects this crisis will change the entertainment industry in the long term.
Auto sales are down 75% as the industry struggles with closed dealerships and shuttered factories. This week on Down to Business, Honda Canada’s new chief executive Jean Marc Leclerc discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the auto sector and its global supply chains, and how long he expects it will take for the industry to recover as Honda looks to resume production next week.
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on people and economies around the world, Canada’s business community is starting to ask – what can we do to better prepare before the next crisis hits? Conference Board of Canada senior economist Julie Ades joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss how the pandemic could be a catalyst for long-term changes to Canada’s supply chains.
This week on Down to Business, host Emily Jackson talks to food market analyst Kevin Grier about why the meat industry was one of the first hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, how big is the risk of a meat shortage and why this break in the supply chain will hurt farmers.
Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association president Jim Keon joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss the vulnerabilities in Canada’s drug supply chain during the pandemic, which has led to a run on drugs hospitals use to sedate coronavirus patients and help them breathe.
This week on Down to Business, the CEO of the country’s largest community credit union talks to host Emily Jackson about how COVID-19 has affected members, the government’s response to the crisis, the lessons financial institutions can learn and why a gradual, uninterrupted reopening is the economy’s best bet.
Canadian Federation of Agriculture president Mary Robinson joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in our food system and what lessons Canada can learn from the crisis.
This week on Down to Business, host Emily Jackson talks to Telus executive Jim Senko about how telecoms are grappling with the huge boost in demand because of the pandemic shutdown and the industry’s earlier view on Ottawa’s push for a 25% price cut.
Former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss what energy self-sufficiency would look like in Canada and how the government could take action to create such a strategy. This special episode of Down to Business is part of the National Post’s new series Strong & Free: Shockproofing Canada.
CIBC tax expert Jamie Golombek talks to host Emily Jackson about new benefits designed to help Canadians weather the coronavirus crisis financially and how to access them.
Ventilators, surgical masks and testing kits have become hot commodities as countries race to buy up the medical equipment needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Host Emily Jackson talks to the small Canadian manufacturers who are stepping up to make the vital gear that our front-line health workers need.
Watching the stock market these days is like looking at a falling elevator — and investors are starting to panic. Personal finance columnist Jonathan Chevreau joins host Emily Jackson with advice on how best to ride out this storm
BMO Financial Group chief economist Doug Porter joins host Emily Jackson to talk about the unprecedented turmoil the Canadian economy is already going through from the impact of coronavirus shutdowns and what it faces ahead.
Canada lags the G7 on promoting women in leadership roles. Only four per cent of companies listed on the TSX have a female CEO and 15 per cent a female chief financial officer. This week on Down to Business, Women in Capital Markets chief executive Camilla Sutton joins host Emily Jackson to discuss why Canada has a long way to go when it comes to equality
Bombardier chief executive Alain Bellemare joins host Emily Jackson on this week’s Down to Business to talk about why the one-time Quebec manufacturing giant sold off major assets to focus exclusively on business jets
This week on Down to Business, Financial Post resources reporter Gabe Friedman joins host Emily Jackson to discuss how the Wet’suwet’en rail blockades are connected to Teck Resources' decision not to build a $20-billion oilsands mine in Alberta, and what it means for Canada’s reputation with investors.
Drones are poised to be a big future player in the logistics and delivery business, whether they drop off pizza on your doorstep or carry replacement parts to offshore oil rigs. Drone Delivery Canada CEO Michael Zahra talks to host Emily Jackson about the scope of the industry, its potential for growth and why Canada is ahead of the game
This week on Down to Business, host Emily Jackson speaks with Re/Max Canada owner operator Pamela Alexander about the boom in real estate agents, how technology may disrupt how homes are bought and sold, and where she sees the real estate market going next.
Canadians buy almost everything online these days, yet we have lagged behind other countries when it comes to purchasing groceries over the internet. This week host Emily Jackson talks to Goodfood CEO Jonathan Ferrari about how that trend is turning, shown by his meal subscription and grocery delivery company growing 90% last year.
Seventeen years ago BRP was split from its parent company Bombardier; today its market value is almost twice as much. BRP CEO José Boisjoli talks to Down to Business host Emily Jackson about how they did it and what’s next
The stock market is on fire this year even as economic indicators remain on the shaky side. Exuberance on one hand, skepticism on the other. Manulife chief economist Frances Donald talks to host Emily Jackson about how she sees the year unfolding for the markets and economy
On this week's Down to Business, host Emily Jackson speaks with Jackie Forrest, senior director at the Arc Energy Research Institute, about some of the pressing issues facing the country’s oil and gas sector, from rising tensions in the Middle East to increased investor focus on carbon emissions.
Financial Post editor Nicole MacAdam is moving on to become editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun. In this Down to Business bonus episode, she talks with host Emily Jackson about the important trends she has seen over the past four years, including the disruption of businesses by innovation and technology, trade protectionism and the rise of the #MeToo movement in the business community.
On this week’s Down to Business, Joanna Rotenberg, group head of BMO wealth management, talks to host Emily Jackson about three sweeping changes coming in the next decade, how investment strategies will evolve and where the smart money is going in 2020.
This week on Down to Business, Financial Post national business columnist Kevin Carmichael joins host Emily Jackson to discuss Canada’s economic performance in 2019 and what it says about 2020.
25 years ago Kate Ross LeBlanc and her husband started a company selling the essential oils that had helped him recover from a car accident. Now they have 84 stores in North America and revenue has grown 1,500% over the past five years. Host Emily Jackson talks to Kate about how they did it
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are here, along with the onslaught in advertising. We know these shopping holidays, and the holiday season in general, are massive events for major retailers. But what about the entrepreneurs navigating e-commerce? Shopify Chief Operating Officer Harley Finkelstein joins host Emily Jackson to discuss how Shopify is helping businesses in the new direct-to-consumer retail world.
Big box stores have had to rethink their strategies in a digital world where online shopping has taken a bite out of in-person sales. Disruption to distribution models and demographic shifts in where people live have forced even the biggest retailers to rethink their plans for the future. Ikea Canada president Michael Ward joins host Emily Jackson to discuss how Ikea is evolving for the digital world.