Podcast Episodes

Wildfire tech 🔥 — Big city landlords have a cash flow problem. Tech takes on wildfires. Charging station shortage poses EV roadblock.

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Rents in Canada’s big cities are through the roof, and somehow many landlords are still losing money on their rental properties. It’s just another da…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Greek sun ☀️— Greeks and Albertans team up on solar power. Canadian travellers enjoy their last hurrah. Nova Scotia faces record fires.

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New to the list of things Greece is famous for—after (of course) philosophy, souvlaki, and beaches—is solar power. In a new energy deal, Alberta hope…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Class action suit 👨‍⚖️ — Stellantis subsidies could surpass VW’s. Retailers want to replace tags with QR codes. Shopify faces class action suit over severance pay.

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Stellantis looked at the subsidies Volkswagen was offered for its Ontario electric vehicle (EV) battery plant—the total could end up hitting $13 bill…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Car thief 🚗 — Your Kia is (kind of) safe in Canada. Canada’s ketamine supplies are running low. A small province tackles big problems.

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A year after the “Kia challenge”—the “challenge” is to steal a Kia—emerged on TikTok, software fixes haven’t stopped thieves from continuing to make …

3 years, 2 months ago

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Busy parks 🏞️ — Canada’s national parks are selling out fast. A tale of two job markets complicates labour shortage story. And Quebéc gets stricter on immigration.

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Ahhh, spring. If you ask us, there’s no better time to take advantage of the great Canadian outdoors… that is, if you can snag a reservation.

We’ve al…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Hard to sell 🌿 — Don’t believe everything you see. Weed is too hard to sell. And Albertans go to the polls.

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It’s time to update the old warning, “Don’t believe everything you read,” to “Don’t believe everything you see.”

Here’s an only-in-Canada story for yo…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Critical minerals 🪨 — Canadian banks hurt by weak earnings. Falling behind on critical minerals mining. The era of easy returns is over.

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Our high-level bank earnings summary: “Not great, but things could be worse.”

How do you mine critical minerals in Canada? Very slowly, according to o…

3 years, 2 months ago

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AI podcasts 🎤 — We’re number one (in debt). AI comes for the podcasters. Why cities can’t have nice things anymore.

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Sometimes being number one isn’t anything to brag about—take Canada’s household debt situation, for example.

There are a lot of podcasts. About 4 mill…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Post-plastic 🥤 — Ontario clears path for foreign trained engineers. Welcome to your (sort-of) post-plastic future. And no public inquiry needed.

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Becoming an engineer in Ontario just got easier (you know, aside from all the math).

By the end of this year, plastic straws are set to officially bec…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Trucker tax 🚛 – The CRA is looking into a trucking scam. Who’s paying for the EV transition. And no such thing as a free TV.

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A group representing Canadian truckers is sounding the alarm about a scam it thinks has reached a “crisis level.” And unlike a novelty mudflap, it’s …

3 years, 2 months ago

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