by admin | Oct 12, 2021 | Podcast, The Brief
While the issue of child care has been a part of policy conversations for decades, COVID-19 sharpened the spotlight on this issue. And back in April 2021, the federal government featured child care as one of the central planks of its budget and announced a program to...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Podcast, The Brief
More than a year and a half of living with COVID-19, nothing has dominated conversations in board rooms, newsrooms, and living rooms than the pandemic. Vaccinations have been the critical ingredient to not only protecting our loved ones, community,...
by admin | Sep 14, 2021 | C-Suite Unplugged, Podcast
It doesn’t take long to see Trent Fequet’s passion for people. Rooted in his own Indigenous worldview and driven by his core values, Trent took his passion for people and community and developed an innovative way of doing business around it—and, in 2017, Steel River...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Podcast, The Brief
“In the mid-late 1970s, intangibles was 17% of the S&P 500. Now, it is over 91% and climbing.” Over the past few decades, we’ve seen a new kind of economy emerge—one that has been borne out of and continue to be driven by innovation and digital transformation. As...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Podcast, The Brief
Even though it has been around for more than 100 years, geothermal energy has not been able to breakthrough its niche and become a significant part of the conversation around energy and our energy future. Until recently. With recent advances in new technologies and...
by admin | Aug 3, 2021 | Podcast, The Brief
For a long time, even throughout the boom-and-bust cycles well known to the Alberta’s labour force, those who found themselves unemployed could quickly find work because the job market was strong. However, the 2015/16 oil price crash and resulting recession sent the...