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As Canadian businesses navigate a complex and uncertain trade environment, Blair Cowan, Executive Vice-President and Head of Commercial Banking, and Scott Brown, Senior Vice-President, Ontario & Prairies, Commercial Banking, share how businesses can evaluate and address emerging risks and shifting trade dynamics.

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The Hon. Lisa Raitt is joined by CIBC’s Amber Batool, a former senior bureaucrat in the UK, to take a look at the impact of the new US administration on Europe, specifically its defense, energy and economic policy and what it all means for the future of NATO.

The Raitt Stuff | EP54The future ain’t what it used to be: Europe in the Trump era
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The Energy Shift

Knock, knock. Who’s there? It’s AI

Darrel Koo, Director of Analytics at Orennia, joins Luisa Fuentes, Managing Director and Head of Natural Resources and Transition, US Corporate Banking, and James Wright, Managing Director and Head, US Corporate Banking, to explore the transformative impact of AI on energy demand and power infrastructure, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in the evolving landscape of data centers and renewable energy.
The Sustainability Agenda

Powering forward: AI-driven approaches to grid management

Josh Wong of ThinkLabs AI joins Tom Heintzman, Vice Chair, Energy Transition and Sustainability, to discuss AI-driven approaches to grid management, including how this is helping to overcome traditional challenges to energy distribution, examples of long term and real time applications, and the impact of this automation on energy transition.
The Energy Shift

Connecting the dots: The critical role of transmission in US power markets

Invenergy’s Meghan Schultz, EVP and CFO, and Shashank Sane, EVP Transmission, join Luisa Fuentes, Managing Director and Head of Natural Resources and Transition, US Corporate Banking, and James Wright, Managing Director and Head, US Corporate Banking to explore the urgent need for advanced transmission infrastructure and HVDC technology to meet US energy demand, while navigating financing and regulatory challenges.

The housing crisis is a planning crisis

Read how the lack of a robust population growth forecast framework is partly responsible for the housing supply shortage.

Housing Shortage

5 million

Estimated Canada-wide construction gap by 2030 in units

Population Growth

1.4 million

Gap between real population in 2023 and previous planning forecasts

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CIBC Economics

Our latest In Focus report examines Canadian women’s position in the labour market relative to other countries.

Is the labour market working for women?
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Our commitment to ambitions

CIBC Ambitions Index 2025

In this first edition of our annual index, read about Canadians’ goals and ambitions, the progress they’ve made, and what’s holding them back.

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