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Engagement is one of the hallmarks of great conversation. This will be the core of a twelve-part, bi-weekly video streaming series for Toronto Star. Howard Green, author of three bestselling business books and part of the founding team at BNN (now BNN Bloomberg) will host. Known for his in-depth, probing, human interviews of business leaders and policy makers, Green will bring his decades of experience to bear, giving viewers unusual insight into influencers and power brokers -- and the key ...
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Disney heiress, filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney
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Howard Green Speaks to Disney heiress, filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney on the treatment of workers at her family’s legacy theme park and a reckoning around income and wealth inequality.By Toronto Star
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Governor of the Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem
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Connexion host Howard Green speaks with Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, who recalls 1970s inflation as he and the Bank of Canada fight the inflation of today.By Toronto Star
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Howard Green speaks with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade Organization’s first female director, and they discuss supply chains, why globalization is not dead and what keeps her up at nightBy Toronto Star
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Suncor Energy’s chief climate officer Martha Hall Findlay discusses the climate targets and how Canada’s oil and gas sector plans to meet them
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Howard Green speaks with Martha Hall Findlay, Suncor Engery’s chief climate officer.By Toronto Star
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Howard Green speaks with Knix founder Joanna Griffiths
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Joanna Griffiths, founder and CEO of Knix intimate apparel, shares the trials and tribulations of building a business that half the population can’t get their head around.By Toronto Star
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Vector Institute chair Ed Clark discusses an AI world
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More and more, artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into our lives. AI is your Google search. It can scan for tumours, discover new drugs, optimize heating and cooling...eliminate jobs. Toronto is the largest AI hub outside of China and Silicon Valley, according to Forbes magazine. That, in part, is due to the Vector Institu…
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Automotive designer Henrik Fisker speaks with Connexion host Howard Green
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Howard Green speaks with Danish-American automotive designer and entrepreneur Henrik Fisker about lessons learned from going bankrupt and the new Fisker electric Ocean SUV.By Toronto Star
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Q&A with Constantine Karayannopoulos, CEO of NEO Performance Materials
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Connexion host Howard Green speaks with the CEO of rare earths company NEO Performance Materials about the recent surge in demand for electric vehicle production.By Toronto Star
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Tim Gitzel, president and CEO of Cameco Corporation, on the rewards and risks of nuclear energy
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Howard Green speaks with Tim Gitzel, CEO of Saskatchewan-based uranium company Cameco Corporation, about nuclear power and climate change.By Toronto Star
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From immigrant to change agent: Rania Llewellyn, the first female CEO of a major Canadian bank
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Howard Green, host of Connexion, talks with Rania Llewellyn about her journey from shy kid in the Middle East to first female CEO of a major Canadian bank. Born in Kuwait, Llewellyn became head at Quebec-based Laurentian Bank in 2020, without many local social connections or speaking French. She accomplished this feat in the middle of a pandemic an…
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LifeWorks CEO Stephen Liptrap on post-pandemic mental health implications
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In the Toronto Star’s new podcast, Connexion, LifeWorks CEO Stephen Liptrap talks to Howard Green about how mental health in the workplace has slid since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. With COVID not over and the arrival of a new variant, it’s a good time to take the temperature of mental health in the workplace with the CEO of LifeWorks, a h…
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EllisDon CEO Geoff Smith: ‘Unapologetic corporate socialist’
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Howard Green interviews EllisDon CEO Geoff Smith, who talks about his odyssey from mama’s boy to digital maverick in the construction business started by his father and uncle in 1951. Smith tells Green how being ‘an unapologetic corporate socialist’ is the right and moral way to run a massive construction company.…
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Engagement is one of the hallmarks of great conversation. This will be the core of a twelve-part, bi-weekly podcast series for Toronto Star. Howard Green, author of three bestselling business books and part of the founding team at BNN (now BNN Bloomberg) will host. Known for his in-depth, probing, human interviews of business leaders and policy mak…
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