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 upstream, through systems, sport science, and technology. In ...
10 Mars 31min
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 Christian Weedbrook to meet Aurora, a networked quantum computer bu...
24 Feb 22min
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 Ottawa, John Stackhouse speaks with RBC’s Lisa Ashton to unpa...
11 Feb 28min
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 joined by Gerald Butts, Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor at Eu...
27 Jan 23min
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 Partner at Just Climate, to pressure-test what’s scaling—an...
13 Jan 23min
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 Data Centre boom? In this bonus episode of Disruptors, recorde...
30 Dec 202524min
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 datacentres, agtech and northern connectivity that can stand up in a...
16 Dec 202528min
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 centres demand thousands of megawatts of new load, Alberta is ...
9 Dec 202526min
