CIBC Perspectives
CIBC and Vector Institute leaders explore Canada's national AI strategy, the compute gap, and what's needed to keep talent home.
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Explore the latest insights, reports, and timely topics affecting economic growth at home and around the world.
An Inclusive Society
Building the North together: How Canada’s defence strategy can deliver Indigenous opportunity and long-term benefit
Jaimie Lickers, Senior Vice-President of Indigenous Markets, and four guests who represent Indigenous communities across the North, discuss what meaningful engagement between the federal government and Indigenous stakeholders could look like, and how some projects could significantly alter the landscape of the North and the lives of those who live there.
Defence and Resiliency
In this new world, defence strategy is now economic strategy
Next week, investors from around the world will convene in Toronto for the Canada Investment Summit, where innovation will be at the forefront of discussions focused on the investment opportunities this country has to offer. In an op-ed published ahead of the summit, CIBC President and CEO Harry Culham discusses why defence and resiliency are no longer a secondary consideration to investment decisions, and how the bank is prepared to meet this pivotal moment in the work to secure long-term economic prosperity.
Drivers of Growth
Canadian businesses continue to demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and momentum despite ongoing trade uncertainty. As we move into the second half of the year, senior Commercial Banking leaders discuss how clients are finding opportunities, building on their strengths, and positioning for growth, and how we can help them succeed in an evolving landscape.
Drivers of Growth
A growing revolution in Ontario’s greenhouse alley
Between 2016 and 2021, Southwestern Ontario’s greenhouse footprint expanded by more than 40 million square feet. Dan Murtha, Director & Team Leader of Agriculture and Commercial Banking in Southwestern Ontario, tells us what will fuel even more growth over the next decade.
Drivers of Growth
Adopting AI: Driving growth and innovation for SMEs
AI offers transformative potential for SMEs, but determining the right approach can be a complex process. Dave Gillespie, Executive Vice-President of Infrastructure, Architecture and Modernization, offers his insights for developing an AI strategy.
Drivers of Growth
Agricultural evolution: How farmers are transforming the sector for long-term success
Farmers in Canada recognize that modernizing and professionalizing their operations are keys to long-term success. With that in mind, here are five top trends behind the industry’s evolution, with technology, modernization, and scalability driving the sector toward greater economic resilience.
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Latest Podcasts
The Raitt Stuff • EP64
Play podcast: The defence innovation opportunity
The Hon. Lisa Raitt talks to Melanie Nadeau, CEO of COVE, the globally recognized innovation platform helping transform defence-focused ideas into commercial solutions. Together, they explore why innovation in defence matters, how Canadian entrepreneurs can scale breakthrough ideas, and why this is a pivotal moment for Canada’s defence and resiliency sector.
The Raitt Stuff | EP64The defence innovation opportunity
The Sustainability Agenda
Canada Nickel’s big play for low-carbon mine-to-metal growth
Mark Selby of the Canada Nickel Company joins host Tom Heintzman to discuss the Crawford Nickel Project’s strategic importance to Canada’s critical minerals future and its nation-building resource development ambitions. They examine the role of electrifying mining operations, carbon capture through tailings carbonation, and the business case for domestic downstream processing to capture more of the value chain in Canada.
Eyes on the Economy
The truth about capital spending
CIBC Economist, Helen Lao, interviews Chief Economist, Avery Shenfeld, to unpack the truths and the myths surrounding capital spending and investment in Canada.
CIBC Insights
Beneath the surface: Canada’s submarine strategy
CIBC’s Amber Batool and Krista Friesen discuss Canada’s next-generation submarine procurement and the broader strategy behind it. Their conversation examines how this major defence decision reflects shifting national security priorities, a faster approach to procurement and a growing focus on building long-term industrial and economic benefits in Canada.
Canadian housing: Anatomy of a correction
This In Focus report analyzes the housing market correction underway in Canada. Given the importance of the housing market to the economy, the current weakness in activity along with falling prices have clear negative macroeconomic implications.Benchmark Home Price
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Condo prices nationally are 35% below the trendlineLatest Videos
An Inclusive Society
Jaimie Lickers, Senior Vice-President of Indigenous Markets, and four guests who represent Indigenous communities across the North, discuss what meaningful engagement between the federal government and Indigenous stakeholders could look like, and how some projects could significantly alter the landscape of the North and the lives of those who live there.
CIBC Perspectives
CIBC × Vector: Canada’s AI Moment: From 12% adoption to a $298B opportunity — what has to change
CIBC and Vector Institute leaders explore Canada's national AI strategy, the compute gap, and what's needed to keep talent home.
The Economic Brief
Interest rates remain on hold, but could ongoing geopolitical conflict trigger a move this year?
The Bank of Canada kept its overnight rate on hold again this week at 2.25%. Senior Economist Andrew Grantham considers what the Bank might do next as it weighs the effects of a changing policy landscape on economic growth.
The Innovation Economy
The Gradient Ascent Podcast: Part 2 – Why enterprise AI adoption is still so hard
In this second part of the latest episode of The Gradient Ascent Podcast, CIBC’s Paul McKinlay and Daniel Lee continue their discussion with George Babu and Gideon Hayden with a look at impediments to widespread AI adoption among businesses and what may finally move the needle.
CIBC Economics
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With women representing a sizeable share of the workforce, making full use of their potential is vital for Canada’s economy. As Senior Economist Katherine Judge discusses in her latest report, while there has been some improvement, there is still plenty of work ahead in addressing a well-known gap in earnings for mothers in the workforce.
In Focus
Capital spending and investment in Canada: Seven half-truths and myths
Next month, the prime minister will bring together business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders to further his aim of positioning Canada as open and ready for direct foreign investment. Ahead of the Canada Investment Summit, CIBC Chief Economist Avery Shenfeld looks at seven commonly repeated truths, half-truths and outright myths on topics tied to capital spending in this country, and what they mean for investment now and in the future.
In Focus
How bad is it? Productivity and prosperity in Canada versus the US
Our latest In Focus article looks at the degree to which Canada’s lagging performance in growth in real GDP per capita or per hour in recent decades has translated into a gap in economic wellbeing for Canadians versus their American counterparts.
In Focus
Trade diversification: a good idea but not a game changer
The latest In Focus report discusses progress in Canada’s trade diversification efforts and implications for profit volatility, margins, and capital investment.
In Focus
Canadian housing: Anatomy of a correction
This In Focus report analyzes the housing market correction underway in Canada. Given the importance of the housing market to the economy, the current weakness in activity along with falling prices have clear negative macroeconomic implications.
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