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Ep. 531: Real Estate Development Permit Crisis
We invited Anne McMullin, the President and CEO of the Urban Development Institute, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about how to encourage builders to build.
Ep. 521: Addressing Energy Poverty in Africa
We invited Mr. NJ Ayuk of the African Energy Chamber to join us for a Conversation That Matters about how to utilize those resources to ignite economies throughout Africa.
Ep. 520: Artificial intelligence: Is it a good investment?
We invited Murray Leith, Chief Investment Officer at Odlum Brown, to join us for a Conversation That Matters on what to know if we dare to venture into AI investments.
Ep. 519: Better Food, Better Lives
We invited James Donaldson to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the challenges the industry faces in BC and paths to solutions that will ensure we have access to the food we need at prices we can afford.
Ep. 516: Weaving Two Worlds
We invited Christy Smith and Michael McPhie to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the path forward, together.
Ep. 514: Real Estate Lessons from Singapore
We invited Ernest Lang of Promerita to join us for a Conversation That Matters about Singapore’s housing market and what lessons we could apply here.
Ep. 510: Post-Pandemic Leadership
We invited Ron Bremner to join us for a Conversation That Matters about post-pandemic leadership.
Ep. 507: A Bleak Market for EVs
We invited Adam Pankratz to join us for a Conversation That Matters on the trajectory of electric vehicle sales and what that says about government directives versus market forces.
Ep. 506: Will AI produce a state of deep utopia?
We invited Nick Bostrom to join us for a Conversation That Matters about our flirtatious and tempestuous relationship with the evolution of intelligence.
Ep. 504: Vancouver: Beautiful, yes – but!
We invited Bridgitte Anderson, the CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, to join us as a guest on Conversations That Matter about where our attention needs to turn to close our productivity and prosperity gap.
Ep. 503: Canada’s Sagging Productivity
We invited Jock Finlayson to join us for a Conversation That Matters about Canada’s productivity crisis and why it matters.
Ep. 500: Are Bitcoin and A.I. Energy Pigs?
We invited Alex de Vries of Digiconomist to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the unintended consequences of digital technology consumption.
Ep. 499: How to be a Chief People Officer
We invited Jennifer Geary, the co-author of “How to Be a Chief People Officer,” to join us for a Conversation That Matters about strategically enabling sustainable organizations.
Ep. 497: Climate Action: The Net Zero Economy
We invited RBC’s Head of Thought Leadership, John Stackhouse, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the highlights of the RBC Net Zero economy report.
Ep. 496: Ballooning Public Service
We invited Renaud Brossard of MEI to join us for a Conversation That Matters about why a rapidly expanding civil service is a cause for concern.
Ep. 494: Canada and China: What Happened?
We invited Paul Evans, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, to join us for a Conversation That Matters on what happened between Canada and China and what is happening between us and India.
Ep. 488: A Ministry of Entrepreneurialism
We invited Naseem Javed to join us for a Conversation That Matters about unleashing the power of entrepreneurship in an effort to turn around Canada’s sinking economy.
Ep. 486: Can First Nations save Canada’s economy?
We invited Chris Sankey to join us for a Conversation That Matters about economic reconciliation and how it can reverse Canada’s sinking attractiveness to investors.
Ep. 483: Youthful Cities: Attracting and retaining a young population
We invited Robert Barnard of Youthful Cities to join us for a Conversation That Matters about how we engage young people in the building of better cities.
Ep. 482: Save Our Streets: Combating crime and lawlessness
We invited Jess Ketchum of SOS to join us for a Conversation That Matters about ways to combat crime and lawlessness.