Celebrating 5 Years on the CBC News Network Weekend Business Panel (August, 2022)
Grateful to be celebrating five years on the CBC News Network Weekend Business Panel; what a journey it has been! It began with two and a half years live in CBC’s flagship studio in Toronto, followed by over two years of remote work, all the while covering an incredible range of business stories. Here is a sample of topics upon which I’ve provided commentary over the past five years:
- Online ticket fees at Cineplex
- Canada’s latest economic numbers
- Air Canada’s schedule cuts
- Interest and inflation rates continue to rise
- The end of remote work at Tesla
- Changing consumer shopping habits
- The end of COVID19 support programs
- Falling stock markets
- Rising interest and inflation rates
- First successful unionization steps at Amazon
- Rising prices at Dollarama
- Federal Budget day in Canada
- Sanctions on Russia
- The invasion of Ukraine
- Blackrock’s message for CEOs
- Netflix stock and the state of streaming
- Vaccine mandates and logistics
- Inflation implications
- IP dispute between Peloton and Lululemon
- Latest Canada jobs report
- Impact of Omicron on the markets
- Worker concerns at Instacart (among other companies)
- US opens its land border to vaccinated Canadians
- Global supply chain woes
- The tenuous circumstances of Chinese real estate giant, Evergrande
- The Federal government’s post-election priorities
- Vaccine passports and implications for business
- 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 2020)
- 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
On a personal level, a story that I have been watching closely is the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a tragedy on so many levels. As a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, it is difficult to imagine what people in Ukraine are experiencing from a personal and family perspective, much less on a business and economic level. Everyone deserves to live in a peaceful world, and I hope for this for everyone in Ukraine each day.
The Summer of 2022 brought my first travel since before the pandemic and an opportunity to provide my commentary from beautiful Nova Scotia! Each week also brings a bit of home studio styling fun.
Thanks for watching; it is a privilege to bring the news to you, whatever the business world has in store!
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