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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April 07, 2021 'Amazing economic opportunity for Canada' in Biden's green plan
This week on Down to Business Clean Energy Canada's Sarah Petrevan talks about the economic imperative of nations going green. Canada, she says, is uniquely positioned to benefit from U.S. President Joe Biden's plan to transition to a low-carbon economy.

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March 31, 2021 Watch for more fallout as tensions between China and the West mount
This week, on Down to Business, Wesley Wark, an expert on national security and intelligence, explores the nature of Canada’s tensions with China.

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15min
March 24, 2021 CP's 'historic and transformational' merger could be the last of the big rail deals
This week, on Down to Business, it’s a story about creating the first transcontinental railroad, the corporate titans who invest in rail, the North American supply chains and trade they serve and about Hunter Harrison, who transformed the industry.

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23min
March 17, 2021 'Big, big changes' in the pipeline as COVID accelerates green shift
This week on Down to Business, Jumana Saleheen, chief economist for the commodity research firm CRU, talks about the impacts, paradoxes and opportunities in the transition away from fossil fuels.

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17min
March 10, 2021 Pandemic showed the inability of the world to act globally: Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow
This week on Down to Business, to mark PDAC's virtual mining conference, Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow explains why he does not think the crisis is over and how the gold industry still has a lot of work to do.

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26min
March 03, 2021 Buttergate, the Canadian dairy controversy that swept the world
This week Down to Business talks to Sylvain Charlebois, professor and director at the Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab, about 'Buttergate,' the hard butter controversy that cast a global spotlight on Canada's dairy business.

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20min
February 24, 2021 COVID-weary Canada should brace for 'worst wave of them all' in April
This week Down to Business looks at how we are coping with the pandemic one year on and the challenges of vaccine rollout in Canada, perhaps the single biggest issue right now affecting the economic recovery

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28min
February 17, 2021 How Alberta's old oil wells could feed the world's growing hunger for lithium
This week, on Down to Business, Chris Doornbros explains how his company Calgary-based E3 Metals is working on technology to extract lithium from old oil and gas reservoirs in Alberta, and how this process could help revolutionize the way we use energy.

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18min
February 10, 2021 Brace yourself for 'very dismal' economic numbers, then a rush for restaurant reservations
Deloitte chief economist Craig Alexander talks about what lies ahead as we battle a second wave of the coronavirus and how the pandemic's legacy will be deep economic scars, but also opportunities and innovation.

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21min
February 03, 2021 Market manipulation or David vs Goliath? Unpacking the Reddit trader phenomenon
This week on Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman talks to two financial experts with very different takes on the wild run-up in stocks brought on by Reddit message boards and online trading.

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