Canada's Economy, Explained
Episodes
From Points to Paycheques: The Interconnection Between Canada's Immigration Design and the Skills Gap with Anna Triandafyllidou and Christopher Worswick
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Canada has built one of the most ambitious immigration systems in the world. For decades, our system has selected newcomers based on education, langua...
Postal Codes and Power: Who Gets to Grow Canada’s Economy? Part II with Ken Coates
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if economic growth is real but only in certain places? In this special two-part episode, we move beyond headline GDP to examine the territorial ...
Postal Codes and Power: Who Gets to Grow Canada’s Economy? Part I with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if economic growth is real but only in certain places? In this special two-part episode, we move beyond headline GDP to examine the territorial ...
Running Hard, Standing Still: The Productivity Problem Canada Can’t Outgrow with Paul Beaudry & Dan Breznitz
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Canada isn’t short on talent, research or ideas. Yet living standards are under pressure, and productivity growth has slowed. What is really holding...
The Limits of Prediction: What 2025 Taught Us and the Constraints Shaping 2026
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2 of Canada’s Economy, Explained! Host Marwa Abdou opens the season by stepping back from the usual ritual of economic forecasting...
The Labour Market Reckoning: Innovation and the Future of Canadian Competitiveness with Minh Tri Dang and Karla Congson
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, recorded live at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s AGM and Convention, host Marwa Abdou speaks with Minh Tri Dang, Senior ...
Show Me the Money: Tax, Infrastructure and Who Pays? with Heather Scoffield
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Taxes shape more than government revenue. They shape trust. In this episode, host Marwa Abdou sits down with Heather Scoffield, founding CEO of the Ca...
Who Gets to Work? Immigration and Labour Policy in Canada with Mikal Skuterud
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s immigration system isn’t one program; it’s an entire architecture. A maze of pathways, permits, and policies that shape who gets in, wh...
Blueprints for a Rooted Economy: Indigenomics with Carol Anne Hilton
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the greatest comeback Canada has never seen? According to special guest Carol Ann Hilton, Founder and CEO of the Indigenomics Institute, it...
The Algorithm Rules: Who Governs the New Economy? with Vass Bednar & Kaylie Tiessen
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does your favourite social media app or e-commerce site’s algorithm hold more power than your country’s elected government? Do regulators really h...
Ties That Bind: Canada, APEC, and the Future of Regional Resilience with Eduardo Pedrosa and Carlos Kuriyama
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that nearly half of the world’s trade moves through the Asia-Pacific? That your blueberries in January, the anime you stream, and your ...
“It’s (Still) the Economy, Stupid.” – Canadian Edition
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special back-to-basics episode of Canada’s Economy, Explained, host Marwa Abdou cuts through the alphabet soup of GDPs, CPIs, and BoC rate c...
Zoned Out: How We Underbuilt an Entire Generation with Mike Moffatt
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once a pillar of middle-class security, affordable homeownership has slipped out of reach for millions of Canadians. But economist Mike Moffatt (Missi...
The Time of Your Life: On the Economics of Longevity and Mortality with Kevin Milligan
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s population is retiring earlier and living longer. Even so, the age 65 retirement threshold, inherited from 19th-century Prussia, continues ...
Beyond the Paycheque: Rethinking Economic Security in an Age of Transformation with Tammy Schirle & Jennifer Robson
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do Canada’s public policies reflect the reality of today’s workers?Many of the social programs Canadians rely on for economic security were design...
AI at the Margins: Power, Prediction, and Who Gets to Decide? with Avi Goldfarb
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Canada’s Economy, Explained, host Marwa Abdou sits down with Avi Goldfarb—Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcar...
The Digital Balance: How Canada Can Develop a Sustainable Digital Future with Capgemini
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Canada’s Economy, Explained, host Marwa Abdou explores Canada’s pivotal role as G7 and B7 president in 2025 and the country’s...
The Case for Canada: A Matter of Trust?
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Canada’s Economy, Explained, host Marwa Abdou brings us insights from the inaugural Business Data Lab conference, The Case for Ca...
The Scale of Canada's Deficit and What it Means: Lessons on Fiscal Policy with Trevor Tombe
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Canada’s Economy, Explained, host Marwa Abdou sits down with Dr. Trevor Tombe, Professor of Economics at the University of Calgar...
Calm Before the Storm: Canada’s Economic Outlook & Recession Risk with Dawn Desjardins
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Marwa Abdou speaks with Dawn Desjardins, Chief Economist at Deloitte Canada, about the country's fragile economic outlook for 20...
The Incoherent Case of Tariffs: Trade Talk with Chad Bown
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Canada’s Economy, Explained, host Marwa Abdou sits down with Dr. Chad P. Bown, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Insti...
Canada’s Biggest Missed Opportunity: Women Entrepreneurs with Isabelle Hudon
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores Canada’s gender gap in entrepreneurship with Isabelle Hudon, President and CEO of the Business Development Bank of Canada, and...
How Can Canada Navigate a World of Trump-ed Trade? with Mairead Lavery
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
U.S. tariffs threaten Canada’s economy and will put industries, jobs, and supply chains at risk. According to the Business Data Lab, $3.6 billion in...
Canada’s Productivity — An Emergency 40 Years in the Making with Andrew DiCapua
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of The Business Data Lab Podcast explores Canada’s “productivity emergency” and why the country ranks second-lowest in the G7 for l...
Economic Outlook 2025: Predicting What's Ahead for Canada
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Canada’s Economy Explained: The Business Data Lab Podcast, host Marwa Abdou speaks with Stephen Tapp, Chief Economist, and Patric...
About the BDL Podcast
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Business Data Lab Podcast: Canada's Economy, Explained. An initiative of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.Hosted by Senior Research Dir...