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Down to Business
Welcome to Down to Business, the Financial Post podcast that brings you deep-dives on Canada's economy, and explains the biggest business stories of the day through interviews with newsmakers. Hosted by Gabe Friedman.
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What's ahead for Canada's energy sector as new era of nation-building dawns
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...
Is Canada setting itself up for a big home price spike in 2030?
Down to Business podcast talks to Mike Moffatt, founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative, about how the housing crisis started and where we...
Canada's auto industry at 'hinge moment'
On this episode of Down to Business, Stephen Beatty, a former Toyota Canada executive, describes the threats to the auto industry and solutions.
Canada gets wakeup call that world 'unstable and dangerous place'
Margaret MacMillan, emeritus professor of history at the University of Toronto, gives perspective on what Donald Trump's presidency means to Canada an...
How the old trading rules are failing Canada
Lawrence Herman, who spent decades practicing international trade law, explains how anti-dumping remedies aren't working for Canadian companies.
'No way Canada can win a trade war:' John Manley shares some hard truths
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 'r...
How Trump is pouring gas on the fire of de-globalization
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: A Down to Business deep dive - Part 1
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 tw...
The Delivery Economy explodes: Reverberations throughout the economy & ceilings to online - Part 3
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...
The Delivery Economy explodes: Looking for a relief valve in the delivery economy as traffic grows - Part 2
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 b...
An update on Down to Business - A message from Gabe Friedman
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
This week on Down to Business, John McNally, program director for clean growth at PLACE Centre, discusses some of the surprising challenges that could...
What happens to Canada after oil demand peaks?
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
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
This week in Dispatches from the battery economy, Down to Business talks to Maciej Jastrzebski of Li-Metal about technological breakthroughs in produc...
What Canada is doing wrong in its world-leading immigration push
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
This week on Down to Business, Paula Allen, senior vice-president of research and client insights at Telus Health, discusses what’s happening to worke...
Why higher interest rates could be bad for workers
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'...
Dispatches from the battery economy: How Nano One pivoted its focus after North America's rapid EV adoption
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 ado...
The pandemic didn't kill the office, it was already dying
This week on Down to Business, Carl Gomez, chief economist and head of analytics at commercial real estate data firm Costar discusses the past, presen...
How the devastation of wildfires ripples through the whole economy
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
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
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
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
Down to Business talks to Laurentian economics professor Louis-Philippe Rochon who argues that Bank of Canada interest rate hikes are not only failing...
Why are cars so expensive in Canada today?
This week on Down to Business podcast, Charles Bernard, lead economist for the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association in Ottawa, talks about the forc...
What Canada gets for its $13-billion investment in VW's battery plant
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?
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How the small movie theatre came back from the dead
This week on Down to Business, Andy Willick, chair of the Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors, talks about how small theatres have survived and...
Canada on the road to first net-zero cement in the world
Down to Business talks to Heidelberg Materials' David Perkins about the ground-breaking zero emissions cement plant planned for Edmonton, Alberta
Safety Net: The impact of ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in Canada
Energy pipelines, government websites and numerous companies have all reported cyber attacks in recent weeks. This week’s episode of Down to Business...
Inside the only rare-earths mine in Canada
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 on...
Critical minerals in spotlight as global miners gather in Toronto
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 wo...
What lies ahead for Canada's economy as it seeks to reduce carbon emissions
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...
How immigration and an aging population will affect Canada's housing market
Desjardins' Randall Bartlett talks to Down to Business about why Canada needs to build housing faster than its currently doing to accommodate immigrat...
Maybe Canada can pull off a soft landing after all
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
This week on Down to Business, Greg Twinney, chief executive of Vancouver-based General Fusion Inc., talks about his company’s efforts to replicate th...
Why Canada ran short of Children's Tylenol — and why it could happen again
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 op...
The four-day work week is coming
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
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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