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 Lalonde is one of the exceptions. He is the founder and CEO of ...
26 Maj 26min
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 Canadian manufacturer into a global live-production infrastr...
12 Maj 35min
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 of Miovision, about how a Waterloo-built company turned int...
28 Apr 25min
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 systems is far from settled. In this episode of Disruptors, Jo...
14 Apr 34min
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 takes charge.” How does Canada actually build faster, smarte...
7 Apr 30min
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 era shaped by AI, misinformation and institutional decline? ...
24 Mars 28min
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
