Down to Business

By Postmedia

Welcome to Down to Business, the Financial Post podcast that brings you deep-dives on Canada's economy, and explains the biggest business stories of the day through interviews with newsmakers. Hosted ... more

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The podcast currently has 199 episodes available.

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June 16, 2021 Canada is showing the world how carbon pricing should be done: Nobel-prize winning economist William Nordhaus
This week on Down to Business, Yale economist William Nordhaus discusses the economics of climate change.

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June 09, 2021 Death of the office, no. But there will be an evolution: RioCan CEO
This week on Down to Business, Financial Post's Larysa Harapyn talks to RioCan CEO Jonathan Gitlin about how the pandemic is changing the commercial real estate landscape.

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17min
June 02, 2021 Canadian restaurants closed for more than 365 days suffer in 'lost year of business'
As we look forward to a summer of possibly "getting back to normal," businesses struggle with the prospect of reopening, only to close again. In this first of a two-part series on reopening, Down to Business talks to Todd Barclay, CEO of Restaurant Brands Canada, about the impact and outlook for one of the economy's hardest hit sectors.

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18min
May 26, 2021 Working from home and the office not as easy as you might think
This week Down to Business talks to workplace expert Doron Melnick who says a hybrid between working from home and in the office could be the best of both worlds. But before we get there employers need to address the challenges of integrating a workforce that's partially onsite and at home, including the biases that can bring.

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May 19, 2021 Myths about Canada's pandemic 'recession': Sprott School of Business' Ian Lee
This week, on Down to Business, Ian Lee, an associate professor of Management at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business, offers his passionate take on how Canada has squandered precious resources on a recession that wasn't a recession.

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18min
May 12, 2021 Why everybody is stressing out about rare earth metals
This week on Down to Business, Neo Performance Materials CEO Constantine Karayannopoulos talks about brewing international tensions over rare earths and why we need them for the future.

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22min
May 05, 2021 ESG 'fantasy' distracts from real climate change fight, says former Blackrock insider
This week on Down to Business, Tariq Fancy, the former chief investment officer for sustainable investing at Blackrock, explains how he became a cynic about ESG investments.

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22min
April 28, 2021 How 'urban mining' could someday replace pulling minerals from the ground
This week on Down to Business, Li-Cycle's Ajay Kochar talks about the race to remake the North American recycling landscape.

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17min
April 21, 2021 Forget bubbles, Canada has a housing affordability crisis: Frances Donald
High home prices and child care costs hurt Canada more than people think, economically hampering our next generation of workers and spenders, warns Manulife's chief economist.

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April 14, 2021 Days are numbered for fossil-fuel cars. Is Canada ready?
This week, on Down to Business, Brian Kingston, president and chief executive of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association, and Benjamin Sharpe, a senior researcher and Canada Regional Lead at the International Council on Clean Transportation, based in California, talk about what lies ahead for the auto industry.

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How many episodes does Down to Business have?

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