Podcast
Connexion With Howard Green
Hosted by Toronto Star · EN
Engagement is one of the hallmarks of great conversation. This will be the core of a twelve-part, bi-weekly video streaming series for Toronto Star. Howard Green, author of three bestselling business books and part of the founding team at BNN (now BNN Bloomberg) will host. Known for his in-depth, probing, human interviews of business leaders and policy makers, Green will bring his decades of experience to bear, giving viewers unusual insight into influencers and power brokers -- and the key issues facing them and society.
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Disney heiress, filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney
Jun 2, 202200:30:37Tap to summarizeHoward Green Speaks to Disney heiress, filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney on the treatment of workers at her family's legacy theme park and a reckoning around income and wealth inequality.
Transcribe →Governor of the Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem
Apr 28, 202200:32:47Tap to summarizeConnexion host Howard Green speaks with Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, who recalls 1970s inflation as he and the Bank of Canada fight the inflation of today.
Transcribe →WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Apr 14, 202200:33:02Tap to summarizeHoward Green speaks with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade Organization's first female director, and they discuss supply chains, why globalization is not dead and what keeps her up at night
Transcribe →Suncor Energy's chief climate officer Martha Hall Findlay discusses the climate targets and how Canada's oil and gas sector plans to meet them
Mar 31, 202200:30:30Tap to summarizeHoward Green speaks with Martha Hall Findlay, Suncor Engery's chief climate officer.
Transcribe →Howard Green speaks with Knix founder Joanna Griffiths
Mar 17, 202200:28:58Tap to summarizeJoanna Griffiths, founder and CEO of Knix intimate apparel, shares the trials and tribulations of building a business that half the population can't get their head around.
Transcribe →Vector Institute chair Ed Clark discusses an AI world
Mar 3, 202200:28:42Tap to summarizeMore and more, artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into our lives. AI is your Google search. It can scan for tumours, discover new drugs, optimize heating and cooling...eliminate jobs. Toronto is the largest AI hub outside of China and Silicon Valley, according to Forbes magazine. That, in part, is due to the Vector Institute, an artificial intelligence research institute invested in deep and machine learning. Howard Green speaks with Vector Institute chair Ed Clark about the opportunities and challenges of an AI driven world.
Transcribe →Automotive designer Henrik Fisker speaks with Connexion host Howard Green
Feb 3, 202200:30:58Tap to summarizeHoward Green speaks with Danish-American automotive designer and entrepreneur Henrik Fisker about lessons learned from going bankrupt and the new Fisker electric Ocean SUV.
Transcribe →Q&A with Constantine Karayannopoulos, CEO of NEO Performance Materials
Jan 20, 202200:32:25Tap to summarizeConnexion host Howard Green speaks with the CEO of rare earths company NEO Performance Materials about the recent surge in demand for electric vehicle production.
Transcribe →Tim Gitzel, president and CEO of Cameco Corporation, on the rewards and risks of nuclear energy
Jan 6, 202200:27:29Tap to summarizeHoward Green speaks with Tim Gitzel, CEO of Saskatchewan-based uranium company Cameco Corporation, about nuclear power and climate change.
Transcribe →From immigrant to change agent: Rania Llewellyn, the first female CEO of a major Canadian bank
Dec 16, 202100:31:13Tap to summarizeHoward Green, host of Connexion, talks with Rania Llewellyn about her journey from shy kid in the Middle East to first female CEO of a major Canadian bank. Born in Kuwait, Llewellyn became head at Quebec-based Laurentian Bank in 2020, without many local social connections or speaking French. She accomplished this feat in the middle of a pandemic and economic shutdown, the digitization of the banking industry, a crypto revolution, and the most inflation in years.
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