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Can AI Fix ER Wait Times?
Jun 23, 2026
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Canada’s Tech Growth Challenge
Jun 16, 2026
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Permission To Prompt: AI’s Path From Experimentation to Scale
Jun 2, 2026
28m 14s
The Canadian Unicorn Who Stayed
May 26, 2026
26m 41s
From MLB to Metallica: The Canadian Company redefining live events
May 12, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() 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 will say they value it deeply, but that they are frustrated by wait times. In this episode of Disruptors, John Stackhouse looks at what we need to do to make artificial intelligence move the needle for wait times and quality of care. Mara Lederman, co-founder and COO of Signal 1, explains the pressure inside hospitals: rising demand, constrained supply, long waits, and digital systems that often record care without helping the system move faster. She points to practical AI uses already emerging, including AI agents that call patients before procedures, reduce cancelled appointments and protect scarce clinical capacity. Dr. Amol Verma and Dr. Fahad Razak of Unity Health Toronto take the conversation to the national level. Their work on VITAL – a health data platform – is aimed at connecting more than 160 hospitals across Canada. The promise is larger than one AI tool: better clinical trials, safer AI validation, more Canadian data, stronger governance and a healthcare system that can learn in near-real time. Canada’s healthcare system generates enormous amounts of data every day. Every hospital admission can produce hundreds of thousands – even millions – of data points, from lab tests and imaging to digital vital signs and outcomes. But too much of that data remains trapped inside hospitals, provinces and systems that were not built to learn from one another. The episode asks: if Canada has a public healthcare system, world-class research talent and hospitals generating hundreds of thousands of data points for every admitted patient, can AI finally help make the system work better for patients? | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() 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 harder questions begin: where does the growth capital come from, who becomes the customer, and how can long-term value stay connected to Canada? In this episode of Disruptors, John Stackhouse is joined by Boris Wertz, founder and general partner of Version One Ventures, and Sid Paquette, head of RBCx, for a conversation about Canada's growth capital gap and what it takes to build globally competitive technology companies in Canada. They discuss why Canadian companies need global investors and global markets, why domestic capital still matters, how procurement and corporate customers can help companies scale, and why AI is creating faster cycles and more concentrated outcomes. The conversation also looks ahead to physical AI, biotechnology, quantum and the steps necessary for Canada to be a world leader in the tech space for the next 30 years. | — | ||||||
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Permission To Prompt: AI’s Path From Experimentation to Scale✨ | AI adoptionproductivity+4 | Fabien Curto MilletSonia Sennik | GoogleCreative Destruction Lab | CanadaToronto | AIproductivity gains+7 | — | 28m 14s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() The Canadian Unicorn Who Stayed✨ | entrepreneurshiptechnology+4 | Fred Lalonde | HopperDeep Sky | Canada | Canadian unicornHopper+5 | — | 26m 41s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() From MLB to Metallica: The Canadian Company redefining live events✨ | live eventstechnology+3 | David Ross | Ross VideoMLB+7 | CanadaOttawa | live productiongraphics+3 | — | 35m 21s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Street Smarts: The Waterloo company tackling global gridlock✨ | congestiontraffic management+3 | Kurtis McBride | Miovision | Waterloocities+1 | congestiontraffic data+5 | — | 25m 47s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() AI's power, pitfalls, and potential✨ | AI safetytrustworthy AI+4 | Yoshua BengioJaxson Khan | MilaLawZero+1 | Canada | artificial intelligenceAI trust+5 | — | 34m 27s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() REBOOT: Building Canada: A new generation takes charge.✨ | nation-buildingproductivity+3 | Daniel DebowLucy Hargreaves | Build Canada | CanadaNewfoundland+4 | Canadainfrastructure+4 | — | 30m 09s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Trust at Scale: Lessons from Wikipedia✨ | trustWikipedia+4 | Jimmy Wales | Wikipedia | — | trustWikipedia+5 | — | 28m 35s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Tech Wins Gold: How Canada Can Rebuild Its Olympic Pipeline✨ | Olympicssport science+4 | David ShoemakerJennifer Heil | Canadian Olympic CommitteeRBC Training Ground | Canada | OlympicsCanada+5 | — | 31m 12s | |
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| 2/24/26 | ![]() Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Quantum Era's Encryption Challenge✨ | quantum computingencryption+3 | Christian WeedbrookDr. Stephanie Simmons | AuroraXanadu+1 | — | quantum computingencryption+5 | — | 22m 13s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() The $15m Cliff: Keeping Canadian Agri-Food Startups Scaling at Home✨ | agri-foodfinancing+3 | Lisa AshtonDarren Anderson+1 | RBCEmmertech+2 | — | agri-foodstartups+5 | — | 28m 30s | |
| 1/27/26 | ![]() Risk as Signal: A Canadian Playbook✨ | economyrisk management+3 | Gerald Butts | Eurasia GroupRBC | Canada | risk outlookinvestment+5 | — | 23m 39s | |
| 1/13/26 | ![]() Climate-Led Investing: What’s Next✨ | climate changeinvestment strategies+3 | Clara Barby | Just ClimateRBC+1 | — | climate-led investingRBC+5 | — | 23m 32s | |
| 12/30/25 | ![]() Alberta’s Next Energy Mix✨ | energynuclear power+4 | Danielle Smith | SMR ForumCanadian Association of Small Modular Reactors | EdmontonAlberta | small modular reactorsnuclear energy+3 | — | 24m 12s | |
| 12/16/25 | ![]() Building Canada: A new generation takes charge✨ | infrastructurenation-building+4 | Daniel DebowLucy Hargreaves | Build Canada | Canada | Canadainfrastructure+5 | — | 28m 51s | |
| 12/9/25 | ![]() 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 adding a fourth leg to the stool — velocity — turning it into an energy quadlema. At the edge of Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton, the Keephills and Sundance power sites are being reimagined from coal-era workhorses into “AI-ready” power hubs. TransAlta is converting units to natural gas, opening up land for data centres and using existing transmission and cooling infrastructure to shorten the path from project to power. In this episode of Disruptors: The Canada Project, John Stackhouse speaks with Premier Danielle Smith and John Kousinioris, President & CEO of TransAlta, about how Alberta is experimenting with a new “bring your own power” model for hyperscalers — and how the recent Canada–Alberta energy MOU aims to unlock thousands of megawatts of AI computing capacity. Alberta is positioning itself as a testing ground for how countries can build domestic compute on their own grids — instead of just exporting raw energy — while navigating an energy quadlema of reliability, affordability, sustainability and speed to power. | — | ||||||
| 12/2/25 | ![]() The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer | The world is investing billions in data centres and compute. Canada’s edge isn’t bigger boxes—it’s Trust: rules enforced at home, private information secured under Canadian jurisdiction, and a clear path for enterprise data handling in the age of AI. That’s how “Canadian trust” becomes a competitive advantage. This week on Disruptors: The Canada Project, John Stackhouse takes us to Waterloo to map how policy as code, Canadian residency, and lineage + audit turn trust into a speed advantage. Guests: Tom Jenkins & Shannon Bell (OpenText), with Janice Stein (Munk School). Build it here—export it with confidence. | — | ||||||
| 11/25/25 | ![]() Beyond the Battery: Inside Quebec’s Mine-to-Refine Transformation | As the world electrifies—from cars and buses to datacentres and defence—demand for battery materials is exploding. Today, China refines more than 90% of the world’s graphite into the material used in virtually all EV battery anodes—that level of concentration is a strategic vulnerability Canada, and its allies, can’t ignore. But Canada is starting to respond. The federal Major Projects Office has just referred Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Phase-2 Matawinie Mine as a “Major Project of National Interest”—a move aimed at helping Quebec and Canada shift from exporting ore to building a full mine-to-refine graphite value chain at home, and with it, an entirely new strand of economic and industrial capacity. In this episode of Disruptors: The Canada Project, host John Stackhouse takes listeners into that story. With former Quebec premier Jean Charest and Eric Desaulniers, founder & CEO of NMG, he lifts the hood on what it means for a critical-minerals project to be treated as a “major project” in Canada—and what this could mean for Canada’s role as a trusted critical-minerals supplier to its G7 allies. | — | ||||||
| 11/18/25 | ![]() Powering the North: How the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link Will Build A Stronger Canada | Across Nunavut’s Kivalliq region, communities and mine sites still rely on imported diesel for electricity and satellite links for basic connectivity. It’s expensive, carbon-intensive, and leaves a strategically vital part of Canada dependent on infrastructure we don’t fully control. In this episode of Disruptors: The Canada Project with John Stackhouse, we travel to Nunavut to explore the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link (KHFL) — a 1,200-kilometre, Inuit-led project that would connect Manitoba’s renewable grid and Canada-based broadband backbone to five Kivalliq communities and future mining projects. Led by Nukik Corporation under 100% Inuit ownership, KHFL is designed to deliver clean power, high-speed terrestrial connectivity, and Nunavut’s first physical infrastructure link to southern Canada. Joining us are Premier P.J. Akeeagok and Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin, who unpack how this corridor could cut diesel use, reduce dependence on satellite networks, strengthen Arctic sovereignty, and create a new model for community-driven infrastructure in the North. | — | ||||||
| 11/11/25 | ![]() Feeding the Future: How Saskatchewan is Seeding Canada's Ag-Tech Revolution | Saskatchewan, long known for feeding the world, is now leading a revolution in ag-tech. With automation, machine learning, and AI-powered quality control, the province is redefining how food moves from field to port. Agriculture is more than Canada’s heritage - it’s our future advantage. In this episode of Disruptors: The Canada Project, John Stackhouse speaks with Kyle Folk, founder and CEO of Ground Truth Ag, whose technology automates grain grading — a process that once took hours, now done in minutes. He’s joined by Murad Al-Katib, CEO of AGT Food and Ingredients. It’s a story about turning information into prosperity, and about how Saskatchewan’s innovators are helping Canada feed a growing world while building a more resilient, sovereign economy. | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | ![]() Link to the World: How Manitoba Is Rebuilding a Northern Trade Route | At the edge of Hudson Bay, the Port of Churchill is being revitalized — reconnecting the Prairies to global markets and strengthening Canada’s northern gateway to the world. In this episode of Disruptors: The Canada Project, John Stackhouse speaks with Premier Wab Kinew, Chris Avery of Arctic Gateway Group, and Grant Barkman of Decision Works about how Indigenous ownership, modern rail infrastructure, and drone-powered innovation are reconnecting the Prairies to global markets. As climate shifts open new Arctic passages and global trade routes are redefined, Manitoba is positioning itself as a northern link between the Prairies and the world — redefining how Canada moves goods, builds partnerships, and prepares for the future. | — | ||||||
| 10/28/25 | ![]() 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 global trade accelerating and supply chains under pressure, Roberts Bank Terminal 2 represents a generational investment in Canada’s competitiveness. In this episode, Peter Xotta, CEO of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Devan Fitch, the project’s Program Director, and Tamara Vrooman, CEO of Vancouver International Airport, join John Stackhouse to discuss how this long-planned expansion will bring new automation, capacity, and environmental innovation to Canada’s Pacific Gateway. Together, they explore how smart infrastructure and strong partnerships can secure Canada’s trade future — sustainably and sovereignty. | — | ||||||
| 10/21/25 | ![]() How Atlantic Canada is powering Canada’s place in space | For over two centuries, Atlantic Canada has been the launch point for Canada’s ventures into the unknown — from the Grand Banks to global trade routes. Today, that pioneering spirit is looking skyward. In this episode, Stephen Matier of Maritime Launch Services and Rahul Goel of NordSpace join host John Stackhouse to explore how Canada is closing that gap. Together with Chris Hadfield, they unpack what sovereign access to space means for national security, climate resilience, and technological leadership — and how Nova Scotia and Newfoundland’s emerging space sectors are helping bring Canada into the new space age. Because if Canada can’t launch its own ideas, it can’t lead its own future. | — | ||||||
| 10/14/25 | ![]() Defending the Deep: Securing Canada’s Underwater Sovereignty | Canada’s future security doesn’t just lie in the skies or across its borders — it lies beneath the waves. Newfoundland and Labrador, long defined by its connection to the North Atlantic, is emerging as the front line in Canada’s underwater defence and surveillance revolution. In this episode, Kraken Robotics’ David Shea reveals how cutting-edge sonar and subsea intelligence are giving Canada new eyes and ears in the ocean depths — technology once reserved for superpowers, now developed and deployed from St. John’s. And General Rick Hillier, former Chief of Defence Staff, joins host John Stackhouse to explore why control of our underwater domain is critical to national sovereignty, Arctic readiness, and alliance security in an age of rising global tension. | — | ||||||
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