BCA Podcasts
Business Council of Alberta
C-Suite Unplugged: Real leaders. Real stories.
C-Suite Unplugged features Alberta’s top business leaders sharing how they got to the top, what drives them, and the personal experiences that shaped their career paths. Go beyond the boardroom to get an inside look at the people behind the title and what it really means to lead.
The Brief: What can business, government, and Albertans do—together—to make life better?
The Brief explores exactly that question through examining the biggest issues impacting life in this province. From economic trends and policy shifts to social challenges and community well-being, each episode offers clear analysis and fresh insight to help you stay informed.
New episodes drop every other Tuesday.
C-Suite Unplugged features Alberta’s top business leaders sharing how they got to the top, what drives them, and the personal experiences that shaped their career paths. Go beyond the boardroom to get an inside look at the people behind the title and what it really means to lead.
The Brief: What can business, government, and Albertans do—together—to make life better?
The Brief explores exactly that question through examining the biggest issues impacting life in this province. From economic trends and policy shifts to social challenges and community well-being, each episode offers clear analysis and fresh insight to help you stay informed.
New episodes drop every other Tuesday.
Episodes
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Aug 6, 2020 • 10min
Child Care Subsidy Redesign and What it Means for Albertans
Hardly a conversation about Alberta's economic recovery goes by without mentioning the need for affordable and accessible child care. With recent funding from the federal government, Alberta's child care program is undergoing some major changes, so we are diving deep into what those changes are and how they affect Albertan families—and we try to answer the question: will this new program get more Albertans back to work?
Jul 28, 2020 • 57min
More Than a Cheque: Reducing Poverty and Building Shared Prosperity in Alberta
More than 220,000 Albertans live in poverty—and that’s just in Calgary and Edmonton alone. In this episode, we dive into the landscape of poverty in Alberta with economists and poverty reduction strategists Meaghon Reid, Executive Director of Vibrant Communities Calgary and Erick Ambtman, End Poverty Edmonton and what opportunities there are today to not only set out a framework for an inclusive economic recovery amid COVID-19 but eliminate poverty and build long-term shared prosperity.
Jul 14, 2020 • 1h 26min
Canada’s Energy Future in a Climate-Focused World
What does Canada’s energy sector look like in the future? Two of Canada’s top energy business leaders join the show to talk energy, environment, ESG and the possibilities and opportunities for one Canada’s most vital sectors in the transition to a low carbon world.
Jul 9, 2020 • 1h 29min
A Challenge-Driven Industrial Strategy
The world—and its economies—are changing. The rise in intangible assets and capital and shifting geopolitical assumptions and priorities have prompted a shift around the world as nations start to think differently about their economic strategies. This episode is a recording of a webinar from the Business Council of Alberta on A Challenge-Driven Industrial Strategy and how this shift in economic policy might give Canada the competitive advantage it needs in a post-COVID world.
Jun 16, 2020 • 36min
Behind the Scenes with Russ Girling, President & CEO of TC Energy
Go behind the scenes and get to know Russ Girling, President & CEO of TC Energy and founding member of the Business Council of Alberta. We talk about his path to the C-Suite; mentorship; COVID-19; and the importance of doing the right thing for your employees, communities and Albertans. And we talk about the post-shutdown recovery, building prosperity long term, and the role of energy in recovery.
Jun 4, 2020 • 9min
Relaunching Alberta Part 3: Is Big Brother watching? Demystifying contact tracing
Contact tracing has a long history in helping manage public health crises, but gaps in traditional methods have given rise to digital solutions. But, how do these digital contact tracing apps work, and how well do they protect user privacy? Aaron Olsen, an app development expert and maintainer of the COVID Shield Open Source Project breaks down these questions and more.
May 28, 2020 • 14min
Relaunching Alberta Part 2: Adapting CERB to a post-shutdown economy
What was designed to help support Canadians through a health crisis, no longer works as economies re-open and people return to the workforce. In Part 2 of the miniseries, Relaunching Alberta, we look at how the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) needs to be adapted to a post-shutdown economy.
May 20, 2020 • 16min
Relaunching Alberta Part 1: Solving the daycare problem
In a special series of AlbertaBETTER, Relaunching Alberta, we explore some of the key issues and questions that need to be considered as we relaunch and rebuild Alberta's economy. In Part 1, we talk about why solving the daycare challenge is critical to a successful recovery. We'll also hear from Melyssa, one of the thousands of Albertans who are navigating this challenge right now as many prepare to go back to work.
May 11, 2020 • 29min
Rebuilding Alberta's economy wisely: A conversation with Dawn Farrell
Dawn Farrell, President & CEO of TransAlta and a founding member of the Business Council of Alberta joins the show to share her insights to how we make Alberta’s economic re-launch a success, developing a plan to protect employee health and safety and build employee confidence while operating as an essential service and what Alberta needs to focus on as the province recovers and rebuilds.
May 8, 2020 • 25min
There’s a crisis in our beef industry, so what do we do about it?
Dr. Kee Jim joins the show to talk about the ongoing crisis in the livestock industry in Canada. We dive into the events that got us to the crisis, how a set-aside program, like the one used during the BSE crisis, would provide a short-term solution and what the long-term outlook for the industry is.
