REBOOT: Port to Prosperity: How Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Is Rebuilding Canada’s Pacific Gateway
Canada’s prosperity depends on how efficiently it can move goods to market — yet its largest ports have fallen behind the world’s best. With...
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Disruptors, an RBC podcast, is an ongoing podcast series co-hosted by SVP John Stackhouse and Trinh Theresa Do about reimagining Canada’s economy in a time of unprecedented change. It featur...
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From Ottawa to Orbit: Two Views on Canada’s Big Day
Season 10 of Disruptors asked one question, in a lot of different ways: does Canada have what it takes—the tools, the ambition and the will—...
Own The Stack: Canada's Data Sovereignty Test
There are roughly 11,000 data centres in the world. Canada has about 300. The United States has 5,000 and that number is growing fast. Canad...
Can AI Fix ER Wait Times?
Canada’s national AI strategy puts healthcare on centre stage – and for good reason. If you ask Canadians about the healthcare system, many...
Canada’s Tech Growth Challenge
Canada has helped shape major technology waves, from AI to quantum. But when companies move from promising startup to global contender, the...
Permission To Prompt: AI’s Path From Experimentation to Scale
AI is no longer a future technology. It is already changing how work gets done, how companies make decisions and how economies compete. This...
The Canadian Unicorn Who Stayed
Canada has a scaleup problem. We create entrepreneurs, but too many of them feel they need to leave to build world-class companies. Fred Lal...
From MLB to Metallica: The Canadian Company redefining live events
In this episode, John Stackhouse visits Ross on the outskirts of Ottawa to talk with CEO David Ross about how the company grew from a small...
Street Smarts: The Waterloo company tackling global gridlock
Congestion isn’t just annoying, it's an economic drag. In this episode of Disruptors, John Stackhouse speaks with Kurtis McBride, co-founder...
AI's power, pitfalls, and potential
We’re all using AI more, but how many of us actually trust it? AI is now used by more than a billion people worldwide, but trust in these sy...
REBOOT: Building Canada: A new generation takes charge.
As Disruptors: The Canada Project earns a Webby Award nomination, we’re re-releasing the season finale, “Building Canada: A new generation t...
Trust at Scale: Lessons from Wikipedia
Trust at Scale: Lessons from Wikipedia Wikipedia is one of the internet’s most-used public resources, but what makes people trust it in an e...
Tech Wins Gold: How Canada Can Rebuild Its Olympic Pipeline
Canada’s Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics delivered unforgettable moments — and also a hard signal: podium success is increasingly won up...
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Quantum Era's Encryption Challenge
Quantum computing is accelerating — and putting today’s encryption on a clock. John Stackhouse goes inside Xanadu’s Toronto lab with Christi...
The $15m Cliff: Keeping Canadian Agri-Food Startups Scaling at Home
Canada is exporting too much of its agri-food upside—IP, talent, and value-add—because growth-stage financing doesn’t fit the sector. From O...
Risk as Signal: A Canadian Playbook
Fresh from Davos, John Stackhouse shares field notes on how the world’s economy is reorganizing — and what that means for Canadians. He is j...
Climate-Led Investing: What’s Next
If you’re trying to separate climate ambition from execution, this conversation is for you! John Stackhouse is joined by Clara Barby, Senior...
Alberta’s Next Energy Mix
With industrial power demand rising, can small modular reactors help anchor a cleaner, always‑on system that will support the incoming AI Da...
Building Canada: A new generation takes charge
Canada’s future won’t be decided in PDF strategies — it will be decided by what we actually build: trade corridors, clean power, AI datacent...
Power to Compute: How Alberta Is Powering the AI Age
Energy planners used to talk about a “trilemma”: reliability, affordability and sustainability. As AI reshapes the global economy and data c...