Episodes
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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Published 02/15/23
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
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Published 12/21/22
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
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Published 12/14/22
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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Published 12/07/22
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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Published 11/30/22
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
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Published 11/23/22
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.
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Published 11/16/22
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
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Published 11/09/22
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.
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Published 11/02/22
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.
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Published 10/26/22
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.
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Published 10/19/22
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
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Published 10/12/22
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.
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Published 10/05/22
This Week Down to Business looks at what is thwarting the development of the carbon capture industry
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Published 09/28/22
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
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Published 09/21/22
Down to Business looks at the decline of office buildings which started before the rise of work from home arrangements amplified the crisis
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Published 09/14/22
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.
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Published 09/07/22
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.
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Published 08/31/22
This week on Down to Business, chemical engineers Paul Martin and Matthew Klippenstein explain the pros and cons of hydrogen.
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Published 08/24/22
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
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Published 08/17/22
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
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Published 08/10/22
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
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Published 08/03/22
Down to Business talks to veteran energy analyst Daniel Yergin about how copper, the metal of electrification, will reshape geopolitics
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Published 07/27/22
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
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Published 06/29/22
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.?
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Published 06/22/22