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This meeting could have been an email from 2023-06-16T19:40
Producer Danielle Nerman looks at what happened when the Canadian tech company Shopify erased meetings from everyone's calendar for two weeks. Producer Jen Keene explains why the forgotten flip pho...
ListenThere just aren't enough houses for Canadians to buy — why can't developers build more and faster? from 2021-09-10T02:10
If you build them, Canadians will buy. The problem is, we're not building enough homes for that to happen. Canada's population growth has outstripped housing starts for decades. So what's the deal?...
ListenSecond-wave advertising, the business of time zones and banking while Black from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, the Cost of Living talks with actors and an ad executive about the future of advertising. We also take a closer look at time zones and how they help or hurt business. Finally, we hear fr...
ListenGrounded flights, soaring credit scores and getting on board with thrifting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, the Cost of Living looks at the future of Canada's airline industry. Plus we look at how your credit score is calculated, and talk about why the 'buy nothing' trend is still gaining mome...
ListenBiden, Trump and what the U.S. election could mean for Canada's economy — plus why the Bank of Canada is looking at digital currencies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What would a Biden vs. a second Trump administration mean for Canada's economy? We can speculate a little based on clues from each candidate's platform, and we check in with a Canadian farmer to he...
ListenWhat could a wealth tax look like in Canada? And what are global regulators looking at when it comes to Amazon? The Cost of Living — October 11, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The federal Liberals say they want to address Canada's "extreme wealth inequality." Does that mean a wealth tax? And what could one look like? Plus just how did the Mason jar, of all things, becom...
ListenCOVID consequences: immigration interrupted, who gets Canada's first vaccines, and Trekonomics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The coronavirus pandemic has meant the Canadian border is closed to many, if not most travellers, since March 18, 2020. That interruption of immigration is already having consequences on businesse...
ListenWhat universal childcare could cost and whether it pays for itself, the perception versus the reality of inflation, and why you just can't find that jar for your pickles or a fridge to keep them in from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on the Cost of Living, we take a closer look at the government's new childcare promise. Plus the perception versus the reality of inflation — according to the Bank of Canada. And we ask ...
ListenThe realities of where business is done in today's world - from international customs to the retail space here at home from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When corporations do business abroad, they have to adjust what they do and how they do it for their international partners. But today, our connected world is watching like never before. As Disney f...
ListenThe future of the fur trade: what Canada's oldest industry is going through and what comes next from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We head to North Bay, Ontario, for the only wild fur auction happening in North America this year despite a global pandemic. What is happening to the fur trade, a business that predates this countr...
ListenThe Cost of Living answers your questions about the cost of stuff — like payday loans, baby formula, glasses and ... modern monetary theory? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week the team takes on questions from our listeners, who wanted business mysteries solved like - why has the price of baby formula changed so much over the years? Why are eyeglasses so expensi...
Listen'Yes, they still use books!' — the familiar but different reality of back-to-school shopping in a pandemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The return to the classroom for many, if not all, Canadian students means their parents are also heading back-to-school shopping. So what does that mean for kids, parents … and the retailers adjust...
ListenWhat Canadians, their economy and their businesses can expect from new finance minister Chrystia Freeland from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Canada has a new finance minister, and while Chrystia Freeland has been at the cabinet table in senior roles for years now, she's the first woman to hold many of the proverbial purse strings attach...
ListenWe smelt it, Trump dealt it — aluminum and tariffs, that is. We explain how international trade affects prices from tinfoil to cooking oil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Whether you are growing canola on the prairies or canning craft beer in Vancouver - international trade spats have been a thorn in the side of Canadian businesses and consumer for the past two year...
ListenIs the reboot of our economy on an upward trajectory or is it game over (user wins)? Plus what happens when Donald Trump and China are Microsoft's window into TikTok? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Canada's economy is trudging back from the depths of the coronavirus lockdown. But the road isn't exactly smooth. We look at the state of our economic recovery, and whether it's all clear or more w...
ListenHow Trump's H-1B policy is benefiting the Canadian economy, plus a closer look at 'pandemic pay' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Cost of Living, host Paul Haavardsrud asks: Is Canada "Plan B" for the world's best and brightest? As the Trump administration continues to close U.S. borders, we find out if a los...
ListenThe price of delaying the Olympic dream, the cost of wildfires and why we're hoarding cash from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We explore the cost of delayed Olympic dreams, as we hit the time that Tokyo 2020 would have been getting started… before it changed to Tokyo 2021. How does postponing the Games affect the finances...
ListenThe economics of childcare, plus the surge in cosmetic procedures you can't see behind all those COVID masks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Much of Canada's economic recovery post-COVID-19 relies on people getting back to work. But without a firm plan for schools to resume classes in September or childcare centres to offer alternatives...
ListenDeficit spending, vanishing summer camp jobs — and a look back at sauce from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A $343 billion deficit from the federal government means Canada's total debt will exceed a trillion dollars for the first time ever — does that number ever start to look smaller, and when? And whil...
ListenWe answer your questions! Like how will Canada pay for all the COVID financial aid? And just how much money should I give my kids for an allowance? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Cost of Living investigates the mysteries our listeners have been calling in. Just where is the money for COVID-19 bailouts coming from? How much of an allowance should we give our children eac...
ListenPandemic aftermath: what's happening to tourism, why Robinhood is getting so big, and COVID-driven cars in Canada from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We look at what COVID-19 has done to the 2020 tourism economy on both east and west coasts of Canada, and what "high season" will look like if international tourists can't cross borders before the ...
ListenDefunding the police in the face of wages that have gone up, and keep going up. Plus physical vs. virtual futures for office space, and how to look like a boss in your next Zoom meeting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Billions of dollars go into policing in this country, but where is that money going now and what happens to it amid the calls to defund police? We break down the numbers in police budgets and expla...
ListenRacism in corporate Canada — plus snitching on CERB cheats, and the financial consequences facing international students over COVID from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How are business leaders — like Capital One Canada's president Jennifer Jackson — discussing the Black Lives Matter movement with their employees? Jackson speaks with host Paul Haavardsrud to discu...
ListenPerformative brands, plumbing and property taxes: we go from social media to societal costs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Cost of Living: #BLM Marketing: Corporate responses to the Black Lives Matter movement range from courageous to tone-deaf. What makes a campaign inauthentic? Plumbing Rush: More...
ListenFrom gambling on beer pong to how the pandemic has meant less red tape — and what ugly bank earnings in Canada tell us about the state of the economy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Beer pong isn't exactly the NHL — but it might be one of the sports gamblers are turning to when they can't place a bet on the usual suspects. We also look at some of the deregulation taking place ...
ListenThe future of retail, CERB and dating: how pandemic changes might offer slim silver linings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What is the future of retail in the wake of COVID-19? Also, we follow one Canadian who has been collecting the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit — could CERB could transform into a universal basic in...
ListenThe struggles of newly-minted graduates and of independent restaurants in the face of the pandemic — plus how young Canadians are growing the garden(ing business) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A whole cohort of young Canadians are entering the workforce at the same time the economy is shedding jobs seemingly by the minute. What challenges lie ahead for these very, very unlucky post-secon...
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