Down to Business

This 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

Down 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

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This 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

Down 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

Energy 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

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 only two mines in North America  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 world  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Michael Bernstein discuss what lies ahead for Canada as it seeks to reduce emissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Desjardins' 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

TD 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

This 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

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 opaque pharmaceutical supply chain makes it vulnerable to disruption Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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

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