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TYPE A SPECIAL - APRIL 9, 2012

2012-03-26T17:58:48Z

Tune in to CBC Radio One on Monday, April 9 for a one-hour special from the Type A team!

WEB EXTRAS: Extended Interviews w/ our A-List

2012-03-26T16:59:27Z

Here are longer versions of some of our discussions with risk-taking entrepreneurs.

Anthony Lacavera studied computer engineering at the University of Toronto, got his pilot's license, produced a Tennessee Williams' play in New York and London, started a charitable foundation, helped to build the new Art Gallery of Ontario, was named a "Top 40 Under 40", launched a new company to the top of multiple business rankings and forever changed the landscape of Canadian telecommunications. Now, he is the founder and CEO of WIND Mobile.

Here is his conversation with Rod Love:

Clive Beddoe immigrated to Canada in 1970 and less than three decades later, changed the country irrevocably when he started a new, national airline with two other local entrepreneurs. They started in Calgary, with three second-hand planes and a lot of gumption. Now, Westjet is the second largest carrier in the country with ninety aircrafts flying to seventy-one destinations across North and Central America. After many years of accolaides, Clive will be inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame this Spring in Toronto.

Here is his conversation with Rod Love:

Rita Tsang started a family business in 1976, never imagining that it would become the billion-dollar game-changer it did. As foreign students in Toronto, Rita and her sister recognized the need for affordable, easy-to-book trips to Asia from Canada. With Rita's future husband, they started Tour East Holidays. Family tragedy struck, the internet age dawned and global threats of terrorism changed everything. Still, Rita grew her company to one of the largest travel agencies in North America while managing to give back to organizations like the Royal Ontario Museum (where she sits on the board) and the Markham Music Festival (to which she donates a grand prize).

Here is her full conversation with Karin Klassen:

Episode Ten: A-List of Risk-Takers

2012-03-26T14:49:37Z

They took big risks and we were all rewarded.

Clive Beddoe: Founding shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of WestJet

Rita Tsang: Founder and CEO of Tour East Group

Tony Lacavera: Founder and CEO of WIND Mobile and Globalive.

Kathleen Pedro: Co-founder and owner of Brazen Hussy Inc.

Richard Anderson: Former director and Chief Executive of First Calgary Petroleum

Coming up on the next (and final) episode of Type A, an A-list of Canadian risk takers.

We've invited entrepreneurs who have taken different paths to success to share their stories and insights. From travel to telecommuncations to the energy industry, hear from people who have beaten back the naysayers. Join Type A hosts Karin Klassen and Rod Love for the finale of this ten-part series on the economy.

Monday, March 26 at 2pm and Friday, March 30 at 8pm, a half hour later in Newfoundland and parts of Labrador.

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE:

WEB EXTRA: Roy Romanow on Future Health Care Costs

2012-03-23T22:08:15Z

One area of concern with an aging population is health care. It's the single largest expense for provincial and territorial governments. Forty-four per cent of all government spending on health care was for seniors.

Roy Romanow believes our health care system is sustainable as the populations ages.That's if we focus more money on seniors' care... and less money on acute care.

Roy Romanow was the Premier of Saskatchewan from 1991 to 2001. In 2002, he was asked by then Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, to head a Royal Commission on the future of health care in Canada. We reached Roy Romanow in our Saskatoon studio.

Here is his extended conversation with Rod Love:

WEB EXTRA: Joe Wasylyk on Seniorpreneurs

2012-03-22T18:27:49Z

According to TD Economist Francis Fong, an increasing number of seniors are choosing to delay retirement and remain in the workforce.

Joe Wasylyk is a serial - and senior - entrepreneur who believes his project can help seniors better enjoy their life, and escape financial hardships in their later years. He is also the author of Encore! Encore!: Seniors (50 Plus) as Entrepreneurs: Their Time Has Come. We caught up with Joe in Edmonton.

Here is the full interview:

The View From Me: Living Happily Ever After

2012-03-21T13:52:57Z

As a person of a certain age, I have started to worry, daily, about what my life will look like when I retire. I've read the books, done the math, listened to the rhetoric and become a believer: As a Boomer, whatever I have done to prepare, it isn't enough. I will be a drag on the people I love the most. I will be living on a shoestring with 18 roomates drinking wine that comes from a box.

]]> This is not a good feeling. In the first place, I would like to live it up, and do all the things I've put off, like planting finicky Hellebores, or taking a slow food tour of Tuscany. I've earned it, having managed all the big responsibilities in life. Secondly, I resent the finger pointing and barrage of blame aimed at the direction of my generation, especially when at this stage, there is not a lot of time left to do much about it (and since I have successfully managed all the big responsibilities in life). I contributed, dammit.

Like most people, I wasn't thinking about "the end" when I was 20. I bought a house, had a family, paid off student loans and went to Disneyland.

Thankfully, now voices have started to come out of the woodwork saying: "Whoa - don't buy the spin, you are just fine", and I am drawn to them like beacons of light. We have these voices on this episode. Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page defied Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on the ability of the OAS program to accommodate "us" without drastic cutbacks. Actuary and retirement expert Malcom Hamilton says - it's not like we didn't know it was coming. We prepared, we planned, we're ok. Take a deep breath.

Here's a Boomer reference: These contrarian voices are the speck of dust speaking out against the overwhelming noise that claims otherwise in Dr. Suess's Horton Hear's a Who.

I don't blame the banking and investment industry for trying to sell me; that I expect and can reasonably and rationally counter. But I don't expect my government to take advantage of a faux, fabricated crisis, if that's indeed what it proves to be. I expect them to be a voice of reason, not fear mongering. Someone isn't telling the truth; either we're ready for the boom, or we're not. I guess time will tell.

To quote Dr. Seuss: Whether you like it or not, "We are here, we are here, we are heeeeeeere!" And this is not a generation that is likely to drift quietly into the night.

Karin Klassen

These views do not reflect those of the CBC.

WEB EXTRA: Carol Baird-Krul on Retirement

2012-03-20T21:12:35Z

Here is an extended interview with Carol Baird-Krul, co-author of Transition to Retirement: The Uncharted Course.

You can read more about this book on the CBC Books website (click here).

WEB EXTRA: Kevin Page on Chile

2012-03-20T21:02:43Z

When we spoke to Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, he'd just returned from a short trip to Chile. There, he gave a presentation on "Best Practices in Budgeting" at the OECD High-Level Parliamentary Seminar in Santiago. We asked him what he saw there, and what Canada could learn from the Chileans. Here's his answer:

Episode Nine: Retirement

2012-03-16T20:23:24Z

Monday, March 19 and Friday, March 23
The first wave of Baby Boomers has just hit retirement age. Some believe this is a game changer for the Canadian economy. Type A explores the implications of this demographic shift - from the work force to government benefits to health care spending. And as hosts Rod Love and Karin Klassen discover, it's not as bad as some would lead Canadians to believe.

Listen to Part One by clicking here: and Listen to Part Two by clicking here: Guests include TD Economist Francis Fong, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, actuary Malcolm Hamilton and the 12th Premier of Saskatchewan, Roy Romanow.

And we ran a LIVE WEB CHAT during the show. Check out the replay below!

&lt;a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=bc505f6a57" &gt;Type A Live Chat about Retirement&lt;/a&gt;

BACKTALK 6: Audience Reaction to Jobs

2012-03-15T21:39:02Z

In this webisode, Karin and Rod open the mailbox and respond to some of your tweets, website comments and Facebook posts about our two episodes on jobs. Here's what you had to say about them:

ROD'S BLOG: Where are the new jobs going to be?

2012-03-14T00:38:15Z

Where are the new jobs going to be? Maybe the best way to answer that question is to ask another question: Where are the jobs NOT going to be?

For example, as former TD Chief Economist Don Drummond recently warned the people of Ontario, the new jobs will not be found on the shop floors of the automotive industry, or the steel industry. There will still be jobs there, but not NEW jobs, because that industry will not grow enough to produce new employment.

The people in Atlantic Canada, whose ancestors worked in the fishery for 400 years, know that the jobs won't be there, either. The centuries of over-fishing has destroyed the eco-system, and while there will still be fish on our tables, no young Nova Scotian or Newfoundlander looks to the fishery for the future.

Whether it is small family farms in Saskatchewan, automakers in Windsor, shipbuilders in Levis, Quebec, or loggers in environmentally-fragile woodlands in central British Columbia, the jobs that powered a century of growth in Canada are rapidly disappearing in our collective national rear-view mirror.

Farewell to all that.
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First, natural resources.

A world that hungers for oil, gas, coal, potash, uranium, iron ore, nickel, and all other matter of what lies in the ground, looks to Canada as a safe, stable, reliable, and savvy supplier of their needs.

The search and identifcation of environmentally sustainable ways to get those products to market will take legions of engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, analysts and hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development to give to the world what they want.

The second area is simply information - data.

The so-called 'information age' is upon us, and the new jobs will be found by those who can make sense of the tsunami of data that washes over us every second; how to capture it, catagorize it, explain it, help us understand where it is coming from, where it is taking us, and enable us to make sense of what is important over what is just noise.

Think of when radio exploded in the 1930s and people had to sift through this new media universe to determine which channels were important, and which were just distractions.

The young Canadians who can take their ideas and turn them into a form of commerce that helps society understand how to take information coming at them from a fire hose and turn it into a more manageable kitchen tap, will be the entrepreneurs, the job creators (and the millionaires) of tomorrow.

Is it scary?

Kinda.

Change is always a challenge.

There will always be charter members of the Friends of the Status Quo who never learn the lesson of history: a legion of armies can never defeat an idea, even when its time has come.

And in the future, it is ideas that are on the march, not armies.

WEB EXTRA: Todd Hirsch on Canada's Economic Decline

2012-03-13T20:50:43Z

Here is our extended interview with Calgary economist and author Todd Hirsch about his new book: The Boiling Frog Dilemma: Saving Canada from Economic Decline. For more on this, check out the great CBC Books feature by clicking here!

WEB EXTRAS: Three Innovators and an Inside Agent

2012-03-13T18:30:11Z

Many people we spoke to this week had fascinating insights into Canada's "knowledge economy" but did not make it to air because of time restrictions. Among them, innovators who are fighting to bring new research into the marketplace - the vanguard of the so-called "knowledge economy" and "creative class."

Here are a few of their stories, and thoughts on how Canada can create the jobs of the future. Included in this piece is Anatoly Dobrovinsky of Gossipz in Toronto, Capt. Tony Patterson of VMT Technologies in St. John's and John Rivenell of Sage Data Solutions in Ottawa. Here are the innovators:

Geoff Dubrow has the inside scoop on job-hunting in the knowledge economy. We asked him to deliver our "bottom line" segment, but his warm-up interview was so interesting, we had to post the whole thing. Not originally intended for broadcast, here is Dubrow with tips on finding, getting and maybe even creating your dream job. Asking questions is Associate Producer Jessica deMello. Here's your bottom line behind-the-scenes:

Episode Eight: What are the jobs of the future?

2012-03-08T22:48:32Z

This week on Type A, we look at life in a post-resource economy. Canada is blessed with natural resources that will likely drive the economy for the next few decades. But what about after? Some argue we need to start making the shift to a new economy driven by ideas ASAP! And more importantly, how to get those ideas to market to create wealth and the jobs of the future!

Guests include economist and author Todd Hirsch, social media consultant Giles Crouch, physicist Marie D'iorio, Canada Research Chair on the challenges of a knowledge economy Diane Gabrielle Tremblay and founder of Real Life U Geoff Dubrow.

Monday, March 12 at 2:00 pm and Friday, March 16 at 8:00 pm.
Air times are half an hour later in Newfoundland and parts of Labrador.

Listen to the full show here:

WEB EXTRAS: Author and Mayors

2012-03-07T23:09:14Z

We had some great long-form interviews this week that just could not fit into our one-hour timeslot. Here are two that we think are particularly interesting.

Gordon Pitts is the author of Stampede!: The Rise of the West and Canada's New Power Elite and a business reporter for The Globe and Mail. Here is Karin's full interview with him:

Billy Joe MacLean is Mayor of Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. He talks to Rod about the declining population there and how locals feel about "Fort McMoney" and other resource-booming towns in the West. Here is their full conversation:

Naheed Nenshi, the Mayor of Calgary Alberta, has this advice for people moving to his city for work: