Down to Business

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week, Down to Business delves into the auto sector’s pivot to electric vehicles, one of the largest industrial transformations in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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