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Down to Business episodes

November 04, 2020 What went wrong with Ontario's COVID-19 testing
On this week’s Down to Business, the National Post's Richard Warnica talks about how the province has not been able to meet its testing needs and the lack of foresight behind it.

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23 min
October 28, 2020 How luxury parka maker Canada Goose filled a critical need in the pandemic
This week, on Down to Business, Dani Reiss, chief executive of Canada Goose, talks about how his company stepped up when the country found itself facing a critical shortage of personal protective equipment.

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25 min
October 21, 2020 Unpacking the ugly conflict over lobster fisheries in Nova Scotia
This week on Down to Business, Dalhousie’s Megan Bailey sets the record straight on the historical, legal and environmental facts of the dispute that has sparked shocking violence in southern Nova Scotia.

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27 min
October 14, 2020 Will Canada's housing friendly recession last? (With Benjamin Tal, CIBC Deputy Chief Economist)
This week on Down To Business, Gabriel Friedman talks to CIBC Deputy Chief Economist Bejamin Tal about how high housing prices in the middle of one of the worst recessions in history have exposed Canada’s income inequality crisis and where the housing market is going from here.

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23 min
October 07, 2020 Oil’s demise will be more gradual than many imagine (Daniel Yergin)
This week on Down To Business, Gabriel Friedman talks to pulitzer prize-winning analyst Daniel Yergin on the future of energy and Canada’s oilsands and how pipelines have become the new political battleground.

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23 min
September 30, 2020 How Canada can pull from behind the curve to a world leader in EVs
This week on Down to Business, Cedric Smith, an analyst at the clean energy think tank, Pembina Institute, talks about the opportunities for this country in the green economy.

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16 min
September 23, 2020 Oil and Blood: Saudi Arabia's crown prince poses a challenge for the West (with journalist and author Justin Scheck)
This week, on Down to Business, Justin Scheck, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal and co-author of Blood and Oil, a new book about Saudi Arabia, discusses how the oil-rich nation is trying to diversify its economy. The book takes a closer look at Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who has been making huge bets on tech companies with money from the country's oil revenues.

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23 min
September 16, 2020 How consumer behaviour has changed during COVID-19 (Economist Anindya Sen)
The last recession gave birth to the gig economy, in which companies like Airbnb and Uber convinced people to monetize their houses and cars. COVID will make changes too, in commerce and beyond. This week, on Down to Business, Anindya Sen, an economist at the University of Waterloo, talks about how consumer behavior has changed during the pandemic and how that in turn could change our economy.

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19 min
September 09, 2020 Why the world’s resource king is so interested in Saskatchewan
BHP Group, one of the world’s largest mining corporations, is known for iron ore and copper, petroleum and coal, not potash. But that may be changing. This week on Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman talks to BHP’s new chief executive Mike Henry about the mega-miner’s interest in mining potash in Saskatchewan and how climate change is changing the commodities game.

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23 min
September 02, 2020 Conflicting data show this recession is anything but normal
Despite a record drop in economic activity, 2020 is set to be a bumper year for growth in disposal income — what gives? This week on Down to Business host Gabriel Friedman talks to Conference Board of Canada chief economist Pedro Antunes about the unusual nature of this recession and the speed and quality of the economic recovery so far.

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20 min

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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…