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Carlo Dade (0:42), director of the centre for trade and investment policy at the Canada West Foundation, breaks down President Trump’s tough trade talk, and where Canada and U.S. relations go from here.

BIV’s weekly tech panel (15:14) discusses Amazon’s labour concerns, and whether Sesame Street’s venture fund can get kids coding for play. Amielle Lake, entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of British Columbia, rejoins the show, along with Linda Fawcus, founder and CEO of Gluu Technology Society.

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Simmering tensions at the G7 summit in Quebec quickly escalated over the weekend as U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Twitter. Are trade and diplomatic relations really at their worst point in years or is this part of an effort for Trump to look tough ahead of his historic meeting in Singapore with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? Daniel Schwanen from the C.D. Howe Institute (1:52) joins the show to recap the biggest developments to come out of the G7 summit.

What makes for a good corporate citizen in Canada? From diverse representation in the boardroom to documented reductions in the output of emissions, Corporate Knights CEO Toby Heaps (20:20) discusses his firm’s annual corporate citizenship rankings and where B.C. organizations stack up vs. the rest of Canada.

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Simmering tensions at the G7 summit in Quebec quickly escalated over the weekend as U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Twitter. Are trade and diplomatic relations really at their worst point in years or is this part of an effort for Trump to look tough ahead of his historic meeting in Singapore with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? Daniel Schwanen from the C.D. Howe Institute joins the show to recap the biggest developments to come out of the G7 summit.

What makes for a good corporate citizen in Canada? From diverse representation in the boardroom to documented reductions in the output of emissions, Corporate Knights CEO Toby Heaps discusses his firm’s annual corporate citizenship rankings and where B.C. organizations stack up vs. the rest of Canada.

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Deepak Anand (0:43), vice-president of government relations at Cannabis Compliance, walks through the Senate’s passing of Canada’s legalization bill.

Blakes Vancouver partner John-Paul Bogden (13:55) sheds light on some of Canada’s most significant private M&A deals from the past several years.

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How well positioned is Canada, and by extension B.C., to do business with countries across Asia in the coming years? Will we be looking to build even closer ties amid trade uncertainty with the U.S.? HSBC economist Fred Neumann (1:17), who’s in Toronto this week at the Global Emerging Markets conference, joins the show to discuss the state of Asian economies amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty.

And we’ve all heard the word blockchain bandied about the past two years. Now companies are wising up to the need to find credible technical experts in this emerging field. Lighthouse Labs co-founder Jeremy Shaki (14:46) discusses why his coding school is launching a new program aimed at experienced developers who want to become blockchain experts.

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Two guests from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada walk through how Canadians are feeling about Asia in 2018, as captured by the organization’s National Opinion Poll. Dr. Eva Busza (0:41), vice-president of research and programs, and Yushu Zhu, program manager for surveys and polling, discuss why sentiment about the world’s fastest growing region is strengthening, just as feelings about Canada’s largest trade partner worsen.

The B.C. based Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology has launched a new partnership with Quebec startup Mylo Financial Technologies to help the not-for-profit raise micro-donations. SCWIST board member Danniele Livengood (17:08) and Mylo CEO Phil Barrar talk fundraising and tech.

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Questions persist about whether we’re on the brink of a global trade war following the Americans’ decision to slap Canada and other allies with metal tariffs. But have the economic impacts of these tariffs been overstated? RBC economist Nathan Janzen (1:02)takes a closer look at the fallout from this trade flap ahead of the upcoming G7 summit in Quebec.

Meanwhile, Canadians should prepare to pay up at the pumps. Sean Coakley (13:31) from Cambridge Global Payments discusses why gas prices are so high right now and why they’re only going to get worse during the summer months.

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Keri Fraser (0:46), vice-president of people services with Colliers North America, shares why the firm is pulling from the playbooks of major sports teams for recruitment strategies.

And David Grayson (11:26), emeritus professor of corporate responsibility from the UK's Cranfield School of Management, visits Vancouver to launch his new book: All in: The Future of Business Leadership. He joins BIV to discuss high-impact corporate sustainability.

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Almost immediately after the U.S. slapped steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and its allies, Ottawa fired back with retaliatory measures of its own. Are we entering a global trade war? Prof. John Ries (1:18) from the Sauder School of Business at UBC talks about the kind of fallout we should expect from these tariffs.

Later, Tantalus Labs founder Dan Sutton (13:44) discusses why home-growers may be out of luck in the wake of Senate amendments to cannabis legislation.

Then, Surrey Board of Trade CEO Anita Huberman (29:00) explains the challenges ahead for employers as they deal with a potential uptick in cannabis use in the workplace.

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A new report UBC report has found that the effect of regulation and zoning constraints on housing prices is six times larger than the effect of speculators. Report author James Tansey (0:47), executive director of the Centre for Social Innovation and Impact Investing, discusses his findings.

The City of Toronto’s former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat (11:18), CEO of the Creative Housing Society, joins BIV in Vancouver to talk smart and sustainable cities.

BIV’s weekly tech panel (33:37) examines the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation rules, net neutrality in Canada, and Best Buy’s health care foray. Progressa CEO Ali Pourdad and Exvera Communications founder and CEO Brittany Whitmore join the show.

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