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Down to Business episodes

March 15, 2023 Safety Net: The impact of ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in Canada
Energy pipelines, government websites and numerous companies have all reported cyber attacks in recent weeks. This week’s episode of Down to Business examines the impact of ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in Canada.

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32 min
March 03, 2023 Inside the only rare-earths mine in Canada
Down to Business talks to Vital Metals' David Connelly about starting a rare-earths operation in a remote area of the Northwest Territories, one of only two mines in North America

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16 min
March 02, 2023 Critical minerals in spotlight as global miners gather in Toronto
Jeff Killeen talks about the hot trends and topics in commodity markets ahead of PDAC 2023 in Toronto, one of the largest mining conferences in the world

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15 min
March 01, 2023 What lies ahead for Canada's economy as it seeks to reduce carbon emissions
Canada is reaching an inflection point in which carbon emissions and economic growth are decoupling. On this week's Down to Business, Dave Sawyer and Michael Bernstein discuss what lies ahead for Canada as it seeks to reduce emissions.

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30 min
February 22, 2023 How immigration and an aging population will affect Canada's housing market
Desjardins' Randall Bartlett talks to Down to Business about why Canada needs to build housing faster than its currently doing to accommodate immigration.

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22 min
February 15, 2023 Maybe Canada can pull off a soft landing after all
TD economist James Orlando talks to Down to Business about where he thinks inflation, interest rates and the economy might be going.

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25 min
December 21, 2022 Harnessing the sun is closer than ever
This week on Down to Business, Greg Twinney, chief executive of Vancouver-based General Fusion Inc., talks about his company’s efforts to replicate the power of the sun in a laboratory right here on earth

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26 min
December 14, 2022 Why Canada ran short of Children's Tylenol — and why it could happen again
Down to Business talks to Mina Tadrous, of the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, about how the very nature of the fragile and opaque pharmaceutical supply chain makes it vulnerable to disruption

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29 min
December 07, 2022 The four-day work week is coming
Why are we still working the same hours we were in the 1970s? This week Down to Business looks at the future of the work week — and it's shorter

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32 min
November 30, 2022 Rare-earth magnets are key to our electric future — and china controls 93% of them
Down to Business talks to Ahmad Ghahreman about his business recycling rare earths, a material of growing importance to our society

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20 min

About Down to Business

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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…