This week on Down to Business, economist Aaron Cosbey lays out what he sees happening when demand for fossil fuels peaks in the next decade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Business Council of Alberta has a plan to speed up the construction of infrastructure Canada needs to meet climate goals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in Dispatches from the battery economy, Down to Business talks to Maciej Jastrzebski of Li-Metal about technological breakthroughs in producing lithium for next-generation batteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to Prof. Rupa Banerjee about what works and what doesn't in Canada's immigration policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Carl Gomez, chief economist and head of analytics at commercial real estate data firm Costar discusses the past, present and future of the office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business examines the economic impacts of wildfires, with an eye towards the less-obvious ripple effects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analyst Kevin Birn explains why S&P Global Commodity Insights raised its oilsands production outlook for the first time in over half a decade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business ​​financial therapist Aseel El-Baba explains where money troubles come from  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to Laurentian economics professor Louis-Philippe Rochon who argues that Bank of Canada interest rate hikes are not only failing to ease inflation, they are also damaging the economy  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to a policy expert who argues that Canadian subsidies won't reap the benefits American handouts will Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week on Down to Business, Andy Willick, chair of the Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors, talks about how small theatres have survived and changed, and what the future holds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to Heidelberg Materials' David Perkins about the ground-breaking zero emissions cement plant planned for Edmonton, Alberta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TD economist James Orlando talks to Down to Business about where he thinks inflation, interest rates and the economy might be going.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to Ahmad Ghahreman about his business recycling rare earths, a material of growing importance to our society  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to Simon Somogyi, Arrell chair in the business of food at the University of Guelph, about why food prices are so high and what that means for Canadians  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to Jen Wong, chief operating officer of Reddit, about how the platform has evolved in the past 17 years, how it is different from social media, and how you don't need to track people all over the internet to sell ads online.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Down to Business looks at Canada's immigration targets, the most ambitious in the world. Economist Mikal Skuterood talks about the impact on the economy and labour market Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toronto has been named by UBS the number one real estate housing bubble in the world. This week at Down to Business we look at how Canada's biggest city got there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Down to Business talks to Henry Sanderson about his new book 'Volt Rush: The winners and losers in the race to go green,' an exploration of the dark sides of the energy transition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week Down to Business looks at what is thwarting the development of the carbon capture industry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to two experts about what it would take for Canada to establish an EV supply chain and what it would mean to the economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business looks at the decline of office buildings which started before the rise of work from home arrangements amplified the crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Inez Jabalpurwala, an expert on how viruses affect brain health, talks about how Long COVID is affecting lives, our healthcare system and our economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jean-Paul Lam, a former economist at the Bank of Canada, talks to Down to Business about how central banks fell behind the curve and missed crucial signals about the economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Down to Business talks to Peter Frise, a professor of mechanical, automotive and materials engineering at the University of Windsor, about where we are at in the electric vehicle transition and what it means for the economy and society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down to Business talks to veteran energy analyst Daniel Yergin about how copper, the metal of electrification, will reshape geopolitics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, economists Benjamin Tal and James Osborne look at what might happen to Canada's economy and housing market as the Bank of Canada embarks on an aggressive rate hiking cycle to fight inflation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business former Financial Post reporter James McLeod talks about his investigation into Tim Hortons’ data collection practices that sparked a nation-wide probe by privacy commissioners.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last year the Port of Vancouver moved record cargo and still ranked near the bottom in performance among its global peers. Down to Business talks to economists and shipping experts about the port's struggle with pandemic bottlenecks and extreme weather and looks at the challenges to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Stephanie Hughes discusses how taking the penny out of circulation has provided valuable insight into how cash is used and Andreas Park explains what blockchain means for the financial system Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Down to Business looks at the business of flying and parses what’s happening at airports today amid reports of long lines and extended waits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Down to Business looks at the shift underway in the auto sector to build local, cleaner and more secure supply chains, and what Canada's role in this could be.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Down to Business podcast considers the possible business cases for billionaire Elon Musk's US$44 billion deal to buy a social media platform that hardly ever makes money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Down to Business looks at blind bidding, who real estate agents really work for and what actually can be done to make housing more affordable for more Canadians Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, as part of a special series for first-time homebuyers, Down to Business takes a look at what’s happened in the residential real estate market over the last 50 years and asks whether buying a house or condo is a good investment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special bonus episode of Down to Business, Gabriel Friedman talks to industry leaders about whether Ottawa's plan to cut 2005 level-emissions by 40 per cent by the end of the decade can work and what it would take.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Down to Business delves into the auto sector’s pivot to electric vehicles, one of the largest industrial transformations in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Financial Post's Gabriel Friedman on this special episode talks to three different first-time home buyers with three completely different experiences about why they chose to wade out into Canada’s housing market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business two electricity experts Bruce Lourie and Gretchen Bakke talk about the many hurdles Canada will have to clear to get to net zero Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Douglas Porter, BMO's chief economist, talks about why tech stocks are taking a beating and what it means for investors and our economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, guests Lex Sokolin and Victoria Lemieux talk about how blockchain could have profound implications on the way the internet works, particularly the attention economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Scotiabank chief economist Jean-Francois Perrault talks about lessons from a shock that had no playbook and what challenges our economy faces ahead.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second of a three-part series on Down to Business exploring issues related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, Andreas Park, an economist and a professor of finance at University of Toronto, who co-authored a design proposal for a digital currency for the Bank of Canada, breaks down what blockchain means for the financial system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Rachel Samson, research director for clean growth at the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, talks about the COP26 summit and how the pandemic revealed a shift in attitudes about climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Beata Caranici, chief economist of TD Bank, talks about the uncertainty the economy is facing as it struggles to emerge from the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, host Gabriel Friedman talks with Calgary's first female mayor Jyoti Gondek about the polarization around climate change and fossil fuels and how she plans to attract investors to the city’s burgeoning cleantech economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Lightspeed CEO Dax DaSilva talks about his company's remarkable growth spurt, how it is attracting and keeping talent and why Canada is actually an amazing place to headquarter your tech company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down To Business Prof. Paul Kershaw talks about how rising real estate prices are distorting Canada’s economic growth and hurting younger generations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, University of Toronto's Padraic Scanlan talks about the controversy around Henry Dundas and some unsettling chapters of Canada’s past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, talks about how his tech startup survived the most disruptive time for travel since World War II — and came out stronger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Federal Election around the corner, leaders are rolling out their political platforms, including promises on housing and affordability. This week on Down to Business we talk to John Pasalis, president of Realosophy, about whether government can do anything about this persisting problem and what's ahead for Canada's housing market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on "Down to Business," Deloitte chief economist Craig Alexander talks with Financial Post's Larysa Harapyn about the election issues dominating Canada's economic landscape: the recovery, underinvestment in business and infrastructure, and where post-pandemic prosperity is going to come from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, urban planner Ashley Salvador talks about how Edmonton, a city with 50% more parking than it needs, is the first city in Canada to ditch minimum parking requirements. Most cities have way more mandated parking than necessary and it adds up to a huge impact on our economy, even affecting housing prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Seamus O’Regan, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, talks about the importance of the oil and gas industry to the economy and why he believes the carbon tax is the “most elegant solution” to emissions.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Lenore Newman, director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at University of the Fraser Valley, explains what climate change and extreme weather mean for Canada’s food supply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Fabian Lange, Canadian Research Chair in Labour and Personnel Economics at McGill University, talks about how the pandemic has affected employment across Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, David Jacobson, a former U.S Ambassador to Canada, talks about the economic impact, both directly and indirectly, of closing our borders with our biggest trading partner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Down to Business talks to Alex Himelfarb, a former clerk of the privy council, about why more than two-thirds of Canada's deaths during the COVID-19 crisis occurred in long-term care homes, 50 per cent more than in other OECD countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Yale economist William Nordhaus discusses the economics of climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Li-Cycle's Ajay Kochar talks about the race to remake the North American recycling landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, on Down to Business, Wesley Wark, an expert on national security and intelligence, explores the nature of Canada’s tensions with China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, economist David Dodge, former governor of the Bank of Canada, talks about missed opportunities during the pandemic and how the government now must find a way to invest money so that it increases the country’s productivity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Carleton political science professor Laura Macdonald talks about the angry mobs storming the Capitol and what U.S. instability means for Canada, and for the North American regional economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business CIBC senior economist Royce Mendes tells us why he is more optimistic than many of his peers and how the economic recovery is already within sight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business Andy Yan of Simon Fraser University, who has earned a reputation as a keen observer of trends in real estate and small business, talks about how the pandemic has interrupted, accelerated and amplified trends and what our economy and cities could look like once we come out the other side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s episode of Down to Business, Trevor David, the owner, and self-described “chief cook and bottlewasher” at The Art of BBQ smokehouse in locked-down Toronto, describes how restaurants who have had their business cut by more than half in the pandemic are struggling to survive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain, a billionaire known for his ability to handle a crisis, says 2020 has generated new levels of anxiety and inspiration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Shari Eli, an economist at the University of Toronto, explains what history says about the long-term effects of welfare and work programs and talks about the recovery from the pandemic and who is affected most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down To Business, Tom Blackwell, a reporter for the National Post, talks about how we are not getting the whole story on the new COVID-19 vaccines and how it’s a mistake to think they can end the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, on Down to Business, Meredith Lilly, a former trade adviser for Stephen Harper, discusses how Canada’s trade relationship with the U.S. has evolved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, the former governor of the Bank of Canada talks about the state of Canada’s affairs, including its economic recovery and any potential impacts from the U.S. election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada’s finance minister Bill Morneau abruptly resigned last week in the middle of one of worst economic crises since the Second World War. His replacement, deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, has strong experience on Parliament Hill but less on Bay Street. To help break down the news, Down to Business interviewed Rebekah Young, director of fiscal and provincial economics at Scotiabank, who has been keeping a close eye on the state of Canada’s recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s Down to Business, as part of our series on Reopening Canada, Clementine Van Effenterre, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto, talks about how the pandemic is affecting working families and what that means for the economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Down to Business, Irene Lauro, a senior economist at Schroders, explains the ripple effects of “reshoring” and how deflation is a top concern for economists as the recovery moves forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Jaqui Parchment, chief executive of Mercer Canada, one of the largest human resources consulting firms in the world, talks to Gabriel Friedman about what’s happening in workplaces throughout the country, whether in the office or at home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Down to Business, CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld talks to host Gabriel Friedman about the shape and speed of the recovery. While some sectors will rebound quickly, a second big chunk of the economy will see a very shallow recovery or no recovery at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip talks to host Emily Jackson about how COVID-19 has affected his business and how he believes the travel industry should evolve once people are free to move around again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nadine Spencer, president of the Black Business and Professional Association, talks to host Emily Jackson about the ongoing challenges faced by Canada’s black business community and what can be done to improve access to capital and diversity in the boardroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial Post columnist Kevin Carmichael talks to host Emily Jackson about the legacy of outgoing Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz, the decision to replace him with Tiff Macklem, what the bank needs to focus on going forward and why leadership at the bank is so critical now to the Canadian economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Retail Council of Canada CEO Diane Brisebois talks with host Emily Jackson about the challenges facing retailers as they re-open and how between 25% and 30% may never come back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Ryerson University real estate management professor Murtaza Haider talks to host Emily Jackson about the pandemic’s impact on housing and rental prices, how the shift to working from home could affect real estate in downtown cores and a rethinking of the suburbs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Demand for entertainment has skyrocketed during the pandemic shut-in. Thunderbird Entertainment chief executive Jennifer Twiner-McCarron talks to host Emily Jackson about how her company has been able to thrive even with employees working from home and how she expects this crisis will change the entertainment industry in the long term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Auto sales are down 75% as the industry struggles with closed dealerships and shuttered factories. This week on Down to Business, Honda Canada’s new chief executive Jean Marc Leclerc discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the auto sector and its global supply chains, and how long he expects it will take for the industry to recover as Honda looks to resume production next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on people and economies around the world, Canada’s business community is starting to ask – what can we do to better prepare before the next crisis hits? Conference Board of Canada senior economist Julie Ades joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss how the pandemic could be a catalyst for long-term changes to Canada’s supply chains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, host Emily Jackson talks to food market analyst Kevin Grier about why the meat industry was one of the first hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, how big is the risk of a meat shortage and why this break in the supply chain will hurt farmers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association president Jim Keon joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss the vulnerabilities in Canada’s drug supply chain during the pandemic, which has led to a run on drugs hospitals use to sedate coronavirus patients and help them breathe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, the CEO of the country’s largest community credit union talks to host Emily Jackson about how COVID-19 has affected members, the government’s response to the crisis, the lessons financial institutions can learn and why a gradual, uninterrupted reopening is the economy’s best bet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian Federation of Agriculture president Mary Robinson joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in our food system and what lessons Canada can learn from the crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, host Emily Jackson talks to Telus executive Jim Senko about how telecoms are grappling with the huge boost in demand because of the pandemic shutdown and the industry’s earlier view on Ottawa’s push for a 25% price cut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall joins Down to Business host Emily Jackson to discuss what energy self-sufficiency would look like in Canada and how the government could take action to create such a strategy. This special episode of Down to Business is part of the National Post’s new series Strong & Free: Shockproofing Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CIBC tax expert Jamie Golombek talks to host Emily Jackson about new benefits designed to help Canadians weather the coronavirus crisis financially and how to access them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ventilators, surgical masks and testing kits have become hot commodities as countries race to buy up the medical equipment needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Host Emily Jackson talks to the small Canadian manufacturers who are stepping up to make the vital gear that our front-line health workers need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Watching the stock market these days is like looking at a falling elevator — and investors are starting to panic. Personal finance columnist Jonathan Chevreau joins host Emily Jackson with advice on how best to ride out this storm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BMO Financial Group chief economist Doug Porter joins host Emily Jackson to talk about the unprecedented turmoil the Canadian economy is already going through from the impact of coronavirus shutdowns and what it faces ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada lags the G7 on promoting women in leadership roles. Only four per cent of companies listed on the TSX have a female CEO and 15 per cent a female chief financial officer. This week on Down to Business, Women in Capital Markets chief executive Camilla Sutton joins host Emily Jackson to discuss why Canada has a long way to go when it comes to equality Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bombardier chief executive Alain Bellemare joins host Emily Jackson on this week’s Down to Business to talk about why the one-time Quebec manufacturing giant sold off major assets to focus exclusively on business jets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, Financial Post resources reporter Gabe Friedman joins host Emily Jackson to discuss how the Wet’suwet’en rail blockades are connected to Teck Resources' decision not to build a $20-billion oilsands mine in Alberta, and what it means for Canada’s reputation with investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drones are poised to be a big future player in the logistics and delivery business, whether they drop off pizza on your doorstep or carry replacement parts to offshore oil rigs. Drone Delivery Canada CEO Michael Zahra talks to host Emily Jackson about the scope of the industry, its potential for growth and why Canada is ahead of the game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Down to Business, host Emily Jackson speaks with Re/Max Canada owner operator Pamela Alexander about the boom in real estate agents, how technology may disrupt how homes are bought and sold, and where she sees the real estate market going next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial Post editor Nicole MacAdam is moving on to become editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun. In this Down to Business bonus episode, she talks with host Emily Jackson about the important trends she has seen over the past four years, including the disruption of businesses by innovation and technology, trade protectionism and the rise of the #MeToo movement in the business community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices