BCA Podcasts

Go behind the scenes and get to know Russ Girling, President & CEO of TC Energy and founding member of the Business Council of Alberta. We talk about his path to the C-Suite; mentorship; COVID-19; and the importance of doing the right thing for your employees, communities and Albertans. And we talk about the post-shutdown recovery, building prosperity long term, and the role of energy in recovery.

Contact tracing has a long history in helping manage public health crises, but gaps in traditional methods have given rise to digital solutions. But, how do these digital contact tracing apps work, and how well do they protect user privacy? Aaron Olsen, an app development expert and maintainer of the COVID Shield Open Source Project breaks down these questions and more.

What was designed to help support Canadians through a health crisis, no longer works as economies re-open and people return to the workforce. In Part 2 of the miniseries, Relaunching Alberta, we look at how the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) needs to be adapted to a post-shutdown economy.

In a special series of AlbertaBETTER, Relaunching Alberta, we explore some of the key issues and questions that need to be considered as we relaunch and rebuild Alberta's economy. In Part 1, we talk about why solving the daycare challenge is critical to a successful recovery. We'll also hear from Melyssa, one of the thousands of Albertans who are navigating this challenge right now as many prepare to go back to work.

Dawn Farrell, President & CEO of TransAlta and a founding member of the Business Council of Alberta joins the show to share her insights to how we make Alberta's economic re-launch a success, developing a plan to protect employee health and safety and build employee confidence while operating as an essential service and what Alberta needs to focus on as the province recovers and rebuilds.

Dr. Kee Jim joins the show to talk about the ongoing crisis in the livestock industry in Canada. We dive into the events that got us to the crisis, how a set-aside program, like the one used during the BSE crisis, would provide a short-term solution and what the long-term outlook for the industry is.

Energy expert Peter Tertzakian breaks down what a negative price environment means for the energy industry and what the future of the sector might look like in a post-COVID world. We also talk low-carbon transition, net-zero and Peter's new EnergyPhile project.

Small businesses have been acutely impacted by COVID-19, as public health orders to stay home, physically distance and close non-essential businesses have kept people off the streets and out of the stores. Dan Kelly is the President and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and shares with us the enormous challenges Canadian small businesses are navigating and what they need in order to stay open, both now and in recovery.

As COVID-19 continues to have a devastating effect on the economy, we turn our attention to the state of liquidity with the larger companies in Canada and what kind of policy solutions are needed to ensure that Canada's largest firms have enough financial power to endure the economic storm, keep people employed and maintain some level of economic activity.

Robbie-Babins Wagner, CEO of the Calgary Counselling Center joins co-hosts Adam Legge and Brittany Brander for a thoughtful look at how crisis situations, like COVID-19, have a profound impact on our mental health; how employers can have healthy conversations with their teams about mental health and well-being, especially as remote working situations and physical distancing measures take their toll on employees and what people can do to protect their mental health and when it's time reach out to someone.