Down to Business

What you need to know about Canadian business this week in under 30 minutes. Hosted by the Financial Post's Gabe Friedman.

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The Crypto Files: If you think it doesn't affec...
Andreas Park, who co-authored a design proposal for a digital currency for the Bank of Canada, breaks down what blockchain means for the financial system
26 min
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What the U.S. EV tax credit means for Canada
Flavio Volpe explains how the U.S. infrastructure bill will affect Canada's auto industry
21 min
78
Why blockchain development technology is crucia...
Ethan Lou explains why he thinks blockchain technology holds so much promise
23 min
79
Canada's biggest risk in green transition is mi...
Rachel Samson, research director for clean growth at the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, talks about the COP26 summit
18 min
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Why the post-pandemic economy is humbling forec...
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.
23 min
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Why Calgary's new mayor wants to declare a 'cli...
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.
15 min
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This tech company grew fivefold in just over a ...
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.
19 min
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Addressing single use plastics left behind by t...
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
14 min
84
Canada's unemployment is high but the number of...
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.
16 min
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Canada is addicted to high-rising home prices —...
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.
21 min
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Uncovering Canada's role in supporting slavery ...
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.  
18 min
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'That world is over:' Airbnb CEO on how the pan...
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
33 min
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How facial recognition technology impacts our d...
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...
19 min
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Smaller housing markets set for a shock when li...
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...
12 min
90
'The pandemic is going to be a catalyst to chan...
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...
18 min
91
The jobs most at risk of being transformed by a...
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...
15 min
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Pave paradise … how parking lots are choking ou...
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...
19 min
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People need to accept that Canada is the fourth...
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. 
21 min
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'We're in trouble:' Ag expert warns there's no ...
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.
21 min
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The huge human, social and economic costs of go...
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.
19 min
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Deciphering the mysteries of the pandemic job c...
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.  
14 min
97
Canada can't escape China, so here's how it can...
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...
18 min
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Not since Expo '67: pandemic leads to first tra...
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.
16 min
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'Stark, unmistakeable and tragic': The failure ...
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.
14 min
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Canada is showing the world how carbon pricing ...
This week on Down to Business, Yale economist William Nordhaus discusses the economics of climate change.
19 min