Celebrating 4 Years on the CBC News Network Weekend Business Panel (August, 2021)
Gratefully celebrating four years of regular appearances on the CBC News Network Weekend Business Panel, broadcast nationally and streaming globally! Our panel reviews the week in business every Saturday morning after the 10 AM news (Eastern Time), discussing a wide range of topics, including breaking news, on the fly. Here’s just a sample of topics upon which I’ve provided commentary over the past four years:
- Implications of opening the border to some US citizens
- What’s behind Canada’s big trade surplus
- Canada’s monthly jobs report
- Tourism industry woes have operators looking South
- Canada’s electric car push
- Volkswagen and its oops of an April Fools joke
- Joe Biden’s big infrastructure plan
- Canada’s national regulator plans shuttered
- Air Canada’s and Air Transat’s merger plans fly away
- Leadership transition at Amazon
- Australia’s plan to make big tech pay for news content
- Gamestop trading lessons learned
- The universe and beyond: China’s Moon travels
- The NASDAQ takes on diversity (or lack thereof)
- Canada’s big bank accounts, as savings continue to soar
- More COVID19 support for business; how companies are managing as the pandemic continues
- Election week in the US; Canada and a Biden Administration
- Markets in turmoil, as Trump is hospitalized with COVID19
- Federal aid and the Canada Infrastructure Bank
- Businesses face stricter COVID19 measures; as cases rise, cashflow is challenged
- Increasing consumer debt levels, as COVID19 continues
- The future is now, with the successful launch of a flying car
- Walmart takes on Amazon, with the launch of Walmart Plus
- The story of 2020: Business in times of COVID-19 (too many links to post here, as the global pandemic impacts every aspect of our lives)
- Diversity and Black Lives Matter
- Travel bubbles and re-opening the economy (still very much in the news)
- Facebook ad boycotts (big business finally steps up)
- The struggling tourism industry (as the world stays inside)
- Ongoing retail troubles, as stores big and small cease operations
- Interest rate cuts in challenging economic times
- New NAFTA reaches the finish line (but, implementation would take a while longer; talked about that too!)
- Removing the cap on cannabis shops in Ontario
- Business and the Federal election
- The CN Rail Strike
- The final chapter for Sears
- The gender gap, globally and in business (and the alarming estimate that women won’t have equality for 100 years or more)
- Small business tax changes (remember those?)
- NAFTA, NAFTA, and more NAFTA
- Falcon Heavy, Spacex, and Tesla’s wild ride (a personal favorite!)
- Humans Wanted: automation, disruption, and the future in jobs
- Millennials and home ownership, impacting real estate, rates, and more
- Google Duplex and artificial intelligence
- G7 analysis on the fly (the fun of live TV!)
- Bombardier’s latest competitive threat
- The Global Financial Crisis 10 years later
- Cannabis in the workplace
- Back to the future: Amazon’s toy catalogue
- Huawei, Canada, and China: early days of conflict and trade implications (still a story in 2021)
- Turmoil in Venezuela
- Shorting Canada’s banks
- Breaking News: Canada, US eliminate steel tariffs (live TV means commentating in real time)
- Where’s the beef? Beyond Meat’s ongoing attention
- The Raptors (and businesses) win big
- Facebook’s big fine
COVID-19 has resulted in those in the media continuing to report from their home studios, and I have not been in studio since March, 2020. In the meantime, CBC News Network has been streaming globally, bringing our work to a new and broader range of viewers.
The collage photo for this post includes a throwback to some in studio times, while we all continue to do our best to stay safe and informed (as the “hair and makeup” room takes on a remote life of its own). Sincere thanks to everyone at CBC News Network and our audience for watching; I am grateful to do my part in bringing the news to you!
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