Episode 8: The Wayne Gretzky of Water with special guest Henk Ovink.

Presented by: Intact Insurance

When the US recovered from Sandy, President Obama looked across the Pond to Holland for their advice on how to make New York resilient to hurricanes. Henk Ovink helped America start to understand a different way of thinking about infrastructure.  Henk is one of the world’s leading thinkers on how to make our planet resilient to climate change.  

As we begin to think about recovery from COVID, Canada is preparing to spend billions of dollars in infrastructure.  New transit, retrofitted buildings, new (and low carbon) sources of energy, and other major capital projects are sure to be on the list.  Henk speaks to Hot Talk about a very Dutch way of thinking called ‘Resilient by Design’, and what it means for Canada as we recover from COVID.

Episode 7: Reversing Climate Change with special Guest(s) Phil Del Luna, Stacy Kauk, and Ryland Engelheart

Presented By: Intact Insurance

Amidst all the doom and gloom of climate change...the extreme weather, the urgent systemic changes...there is hope. In addition to those working to protect us from climate change, there are also people working to reverse climate change.

On episode 7 we explore two different thought bubbles...

First, Canada’s leading technology company, Shopify, and a leading Canadian scientist tell us about liquifying sunlight, artificial photosynthesis, and all sorts of technological changes which can help us reverse climate change

Second, The subject of the documentary Kiss the Ground, a Californian foodie gives us the contrasting perspective: that the solution to climate change may be under our feet - in the soil.

Reversing climate change - is it promising enough to get us out of the mess we’re in?  Join Elliott Cappell and find out on this episode of Hot Talk.

Episode 6: Without Nature We're Screwed, with special guest David Suzuki

Presented by: Intact Insurance

David Suzuki needs no introduction. On HOT TALK, Canada’s top environmentalist gives his truly unfiltered thoughts in a wide ranging interview on Trudeau, Greta, Trump, young people, elders, CEOs, indigenous communities, socialists, tar sands - and much, much more. 

David Suzuki is a classic Canadian icon. Join host Elliott Cappell and listen to his unfiltered thoughts on where Canada is on climate change, who is to blame for what he calls ...‘a climate emergency’... and what we need to do next.

Episode 5 "The C Words; Covid and Climate" with special guests, Sir David King (Professor in Physical Chemistry/Climate Change) and Rick Parnell (CEO for the Foundation For Climate Restoration)

Presented by: Intact Insurance

Did climate change cause COVID? Is "lockdown life" the same as "net zero life"? Can we afford to fight climate change after what we’re spending on COVID?  This week on HOT TALK, we look at the ‘C Words’: COVID and Climate.

Right from the start of the pandemic comparisons were made between COVID and climate change. Two international experts, Sir David King and Rick Parnell, wrote an article in the Washington Post which went beyond the basic headlines with an analysis that showed “STOPPING CLIMATE CHANGE COULD COST LESS THAN FIGHTING COVID 19"

On this week's episode, we ask these two experts how COVID scooped climate’s headlines. 

Episode 4: "Complex, Geeky, Dull, and Boring" with special guest Gillian Tett

Presented By: Intact Insurance 

On Episode 4 of Hot Talk! Canada's leading and most informative Podcast on Climate Change...

Gillian Tett is among the BrainTrust at the Financial Times, where she writes about “Moral Money”, and is recognized as having predicted the 2008 financial crisis nearly two years before it happened.  She was one of the first to raise an alarm over things she now calls “complex, geeky, dull and boring” surrounding climate change!

She joins HOT TALK today in a wide-ranging interview about whether climate change poses a threat to the financial system, with reference to her award-winning analysis of the 2008 crisis; her view of President-elect Biden’s climate change plan; and why some of the “complex, geeky, dull and boring” details of climate change are ultimately so important.

Episode 3 (Part 2) "Apocalypse Never" with special guest Michael Shellenberger, the author of the book titled Apocalypse Never

Presented by: Intact Insurance

HOT TALK is about an open exchange of ideas, where we turn silos into sieves, and let you the listener make up your own mind on climate issues. It is hard, if not impossible, to do that, if you are not ever exposed to the ‘other side’.

In Part 2, Elliott examines the mainstream 'climate skepticism' argument. Elliott is joined by Michael Shellenberger, the author of the book titled Apocalypse Never, who argues that climate change is not actually that serious.

Episode 3 (Part 1) "Apocalypse Now" with special guest(s) Stewart Cohen, a former scientist and researcher for Environment Canada and Jeff Berardelli, CBS' top meteorologist.

Presented by: Intact Insurance 

How important is climate change?  Will unchecked global warming bring the apocalypse upon us?  In this two-part episode we get two very different answers to the same question.  Is it Apocalypse Now, or Apocalypse Never?

In Part 1, Elliott explores the 'mainstream' climate argument. To help us understand whether the hot weather is actually owing to climate change, Elliott Cappell is joined by CBS’s top meteorologist Jeff Berardelli, and a former scientist and researcher for Environment Canada Stewart Cohen.

Episode 2 "Yes and No! At The Same Time", with special guest Christiana Figueres

Presented by: Intact Insurance

On Episode 2 of Hot Talk, host Elliott Cappell sits down with Christiana Figueres, the architect of the Paris Agreement.  Reflecting on her work with nearly every country in the world on climate change, we ask Christiana...

"How is the world doing 5 years on from the historic signing of the Paris accord?" and "What advice does she have for Justin Trudeau?"...and so much more.

Episode 1 "The War of Ideas" with special guest Jerry Taylor.

Presented by: Intact Insurance

In this episode of Hot Talk, Elliott Cappell speaks to Jerry Taylor, President and Co-founder of the Niskanen Centre (think-tank in Washington, DC) and once a professinal climate "skeptic". Then he changed his mind. 

Hear his story, his ideas, his thoughts... as Elliott and Jerry challenge the 'status quo' in the climate change conversation.