Brian interviews Erin Kelly. Erin, president and CEO of Ottawa based Advanced Symbolics Inc. (ASI), says “Ask Polly”, an artificial intelligence Market Research technology started with the search for perfect, unbiased information gleaned from natural human behavior. “With the advent of social media, this was the first time this became possible because it created a kind of living laboratory that allowed you to observe people without asking them questions and without disturbing the environment in any way, and while still protecting privacy. We could get a good idea of what the population really wants.” Polly is being used to gather market research that reflects genuine consumer engagement and authentic consumer attitudes.

Brian speaks with Peter Dickinson. Peter is the editor of the UkraineAlert blog at the Eurasia Center and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines. Born in the United Kingdom and a permanent resident of Ukraine for nearly twenty years, Peter has worked to develop awareness of Ukrainian current affairs and issues in English speaking countries. Peter established himself as a journalist and media manager in Kyiv, helping to launch and manage a range of media products in Ukraine over the past fifteen years. Peter Dickinson talks about last week’s surprise Ukrainian invasion of Russia and what it means both militarily and politically.

Brian interviews Ron Duquette. Ron is President of the Mississauga Arts Council and Founder and Board Chair of Legends Row and has been involved in almost every Artistic and Cultural event in Mississauga for the past several decades. Ron talks about Mississauga Legends Row, its coming Induction Ceremony, this year’s inductees, past inductees and why Ron has been so involved in the Arts and Community in Mississauga.

Brian interviews Matt Young. Republic Developments President & CEO Matt Young talks about our current housing crisis, how 30% of the cost of housing is taxes, and a group calling itself the Coalition Against New-Home Taxes (CANT), and includes Republic, Alterra, Devron, and Forum, that have focused on these taxes and pledged that any tax decreases would be passed on to buyers through lower prices. Matt says: It kind of started with myself and a consultant that I work with having a chat early in January. So, we thought trying to do something to target governments [and get them] to pay attention to those taxes, look at reforms around those taxes, would be an interesting idea...

Brian closes the show with his own thoughts on the housing crisis.

Brian interviews Aisling Murphy. Originally from Baltimore, MD, Aisling is an award-winning theater critic and arts journalist based in Toronto. She's the senior editor of Intermission Magazine and she frequently writes about Canadian theater and pop culture for the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and CBC Arts, with additional bylines at Exclaim!!, Maclean's, and CTV News Toronto. Aisling Murphy talks about political polls and her recent op Ed in the Toronto Star about her time in a call centre and what it taught her about them.

Brian interviews Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. Dr. Tsipursky, dubbed the "Office Whisperer’" by The New York Times, is CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of seven books, including “Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams,” and “ChatGPT for Thought Leaders and Content Creators.” He has more than 20 years of consulting and coaching experience for dozens of companies such as Aflac and Microsoft and government agencies such as the Government of Nova Scotia and the RCMP. His background is as a behavioural scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Ohio State University. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky talks about Generative AI and how it will change work, the economy and our lives.

Brian interviews UK Executive Coach and author/historian Mark Smallwood. Mark talks tonight about career resilience and online dating! Mark takes his knowledge of executive and leadership coaching and applies it to lessons and cautions for mid life dating and particularly on line dating. This is a humorous and enlightening chat.

Brian interviews Jock Finlayson. Jock is currently a Senior Fellow and the Peter Brown chair in Canadian competitiveness at the Fraser Institute, Canada’s top ranked think tank. Previously he was Executive VP and chief economist at the Business Council of British Columbia. For the past 20 years, he has been a leading voice on economic and public policy issues affecting British Columbians. Jock talks about Canada’s competitiveness. We discuss where does Canada rank, globally, in terms of overall competitiveness? Are government policies and programs serving to boost Canada’s global appeal as a place to invest and grow a business? If not, where are we falling short?

Brian interviews Jonathan Diamond. Jonathan is a principal at Well Grounded Real Estate. Jonathan talks about the Rental Market in the GTA right now. Toronto saw an enormous proliferation of apartment development in the 1950s and 1960s. However, since then, we have developed very little purpose-built rental housing, with condo construction representing the bulk of new multiunit product. This shift in the market, together with our population growth, has resulted in the current rental crises. The only way developers can afford to build rental projects is hiking up the rent. That’s a problem.

Brian interviews Susan Toughlian. Susan, affectionately coined Toronto's Condo Queen, first started her real estate career working for a prominent developer along the waterfront. In her 18 year career span, she has assisted and guided hundreds of investors and end users with their real estate investments. Susan was also featured in Toronto life Magazine as one of the most influential female realtors in the pre-construction space. Tonight Susan Toughlian talks about the current condo crash.