This week, FP Video looks at why the Bank of Canada is in no hurry to save the real estate market, and how high oil prices are impacting the Canadian dollar. Video correspondent Daniel Trainer goes behind the scenes at the Global Energy Show in Calgary and explains how Prairie-grown canola seeds are turned into low-carbon diesel.
How canola becomes diesel
Canola oil isn’t just for frying pans anymore. A growing share of Canada’s most valuable crop is moving through crush plants, refineries and renewable fuel systems, helping produce diesel with a lower carbon intensity while forging a new link between Prairie farms and Canada’s fuel supply.
Bank of Canada not ‘in rush’ to rescue housing markets
Royce Mendes, head of macro strategy for Desjardins Group, talks to Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about the Bank of Canada and how the central bank’s policy is not going to respond to weakness in home prices any time soon.
Canada’s high oil price ‘conundrum’
Karl Schamotta chief market strategist at Corpay, talks about why the Canadian dollar is weaker than you might expect.
Networking and dealmaking at Calgary’s Global Energy Show
Behind the scenes at the Global Energy Show in Calgary, businesses were making connections — and making deals. Canada’s largest energy conference hosted industry executives and political leaders from around the world. Foreign companies and investors are taking another look at Canada, at a time of global instability with disrupted energy supplies. Watch to find out more about this renewed energy in Calgary.