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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 44:06 Shane Parrish Her father had run a station on the Underground Railroad, hiding men and women fleeing north and helping them on towards Canada, and her mother gave herself over to the Temperance Cause, advocating for complete abstinence from alcohol.
How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
- ▶ 16:40 Dr. Giulia Enders We have one toilet where it goes into the water, which is, I think, the American and Canadian type that you know of as well.
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 48:40 Mario Harik We lived here in Canada for a while.
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 1:41:08 Shane Parrish I'm from Canada.
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 6:46 Shane Parrish He was learning how to grow a business at the feet of someone who'd done it on a world-class scale from a small town in a tiny Canadian province.
- ▶ 7:50 Shane Parrish The Americans processed them into frozen French fries, packaged them, and shipped them right back into Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:18 Shane Parrish The grants didn't create the entrepreneur, but they did let him do it in his small town, and because he stayed home, Florenceville got a plant, local farmers got year-round buyer, and thousands of people in a town the rest of Canada had…
- ▶ 14:10 Shane Parrish None of their employees had worked in a plant like this before because no plant like this had ever existed in Canada.
- ▶ 16:33 Shane Parrish He was in it to dominate, not just Canada, but the world.
- ▶ 19:05 Shane Parrish Five alive in Canada before Coca-Cola could.
- ▶ 20:29 Shane Parrish In an instant, every shipment from Canada became far more expensive for British buyers.
- ▶ 25:39 Shane Parrish By the early 19 eighties, McCain Foods was no longer a scrappy Canadian startup.
- ▶ 32:33 Shane Parrish He saw that Canada had no frozen fry producer and built one.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 1:21:16 Connor Teskey We made a very small cold storage business, uh, investment in Canada early in my time in, in private equity.
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 36:17 Shane Parrish How would you advise the United States or Canada to set one up, knowing what you know now?
- ▶ 46:03 Nicolai Tangen For instance, I mean, you're Canadian, right?
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 1:09:08 Shane Parrish I will say if you're, you're going to go socialist, I much prefer the New York path of like, you go from capitalism to extreme socialism, because I feel like the system will reject that versus Canada, which is like a slow march into kind…
- ▶ 1:32:54 Michael Ovitz I don't even know if you have Thanksgiving in Canada.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 23:29 Morgan Housel And as housing becomes more unaffordable all over the Western world, it's like this in the UK, it's like this in Canada, it's like this in Australia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:23 Shane Parrish I've seen reports, at least in Canada, that 30% of the price of a new home is basically government fees.
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
- ▶ 0:00 Shane Parrish This is a special episode of The Knowledge Project featuring our guest Pierre Polyev, leader of the Conservative Party in Canada.
- ▶ 3:45 Pierre Poilievre And in Canada, it's never been ethnicity. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:55 Shane Parrish If we're Canada first, what's our responsibility to the rest of the world? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Pierre Poilievre So people would arrive here and they'd be saying, they'd be encouraged to sure, keep their, you know, their foods and their customs and traditions, but also they'd be told about Canada. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:34 Shane Parrish Speaking of amazing, it's really easy to get trapped in what's wrong with Canada, but what do you think's going right, and how can we build on that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Pierre Poilievre We've always been able to afford to have kids in Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Shane Parrish What do you see as the major factors facing Canada's lagging economic prospects? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:01 Shane Parrish What should Canada's strategy be concerning our relationship with the United States? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:49 Pierre Poilievre You know, he, Carney dodges his taxes in Canada by putting his, putting them in the Caribbean. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:01 Shane Parrish Extremely difficult choices that might cause them to not be reelected, but are in the best interest of Canada long-term. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:29 Shane Parrish The government of Canada has provided over 3.4 billion in subsidies, tax breaks, and grants to support the operations of the Canadian media industry since 2017. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:35 Pierre Poilievre There's actually not a lot of criminals in Canada that we, we, we, we, we get a sense that.
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 1:04:27 Harley Finkelstein Financially, my, my life changed and, and, and I don't take it for granted, but I kind of wish they knew what Lindsay and my first department looked like to not in Ottawa, Canada and how gross it was.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 6:24 Rory Sutherland Martin, your fellow Canadian and my own personal Spengali says, any idiot can cut costs, ok?
- ▶ 14:33 Rory Sutherland What's the Canadian equivalent?
- ▶ 21:35 Rory Sutherland Or you turn up late, and someone like, assuming you're not a psycho because you're Canadian, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:08 Rory Sutherland For example, in Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:26 Shane Parrish And so, but they, not only do they deliver cable to a large portion of Canada, but they own a lot of infrastructure that people aren't aware of.
- ▶ 1:06:43 Rory Sutherland The gender thing isn't quite the flashpoint in the UK or Canada as it is in the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:38 Rory Sutherland Do you, do you have a sticker on it that says, I bought this before Elon went mad, or anything like that, so that Canadians don't key your car?
- ▶ 1:19:05 Rory Sutherland Do you have them in Canada?
- ▶ 1:20:25 Shane Parrish We see the same thing in Canada with sort of our, our politics, right?
- ▶ 1:33:52 Rory Sutherland And that's, I mean, you're Canadian, right?
- ▶ 1:40:58 Rory Sutherland Is this true in Canada as well?
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 23:55 Ron Shaich Traveling into the West Coast, the East Coast, went up to Vancouver in Canada, Mike Lasky and Tara Breads, amazing bread he was doing up there, and we're trying to find out who are the best people, um, that were meeting customer needs, and…
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 51:03 Anthony Scilipoti Bought value, BioVail, and BioVail was a Canadian company that was run by Eugene Malnick, and we wrote a sell report on, on that company in, in the early 2000, and, and the company ended up being a figment of its former self, but it had… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:50 Anthony Scilipoti I operate in Canada.
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 18:55 Shane Parrish The number of people speaking out in Canada on the election, because he started having an opinion, having a voice, and that, that sort of made it safe for other people to have an opinion, have a voice, and that might go counter to the norm.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 18:07 Shane Parrish Bee pollination in Canada is worth over two billion annually.
- ▶ 22:44 Shane Parrish When John Bragg started picking blueberries in the 19 fifties, Canada processed about forty million pounds annually. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:26 Shane Parrish The liberal government is in charge, and they've just swept to power in the country. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:38 Shane Parrish It would make Eastlink the fifth largest cable company in Canada, and it would give them virtually all of Nova Scotia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:33 Shane Parrish John Bragg has three companies on Canada's best managed list.
- ▶ 53:25 Shane Parrish Donald Sobey, who built one of Canada's greatest retail empires, called John Bragg one of the very best managers he's ever seen. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:14 Shane Parrish John Bragg is one of the legends of Canada in terms of building.
The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson
- ▶ 28:26 Dr. Sue Johnson Um, did you know that I'm a naive conservative Canadian? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06:58 Dr. Sue Johnson I'd like the Prime Minister of Canada, hope he's listening, to 3 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 1:14:30 Ryan Petersen You can just, or Canada, or most of Western Europe, so you can just, they set up this shell company in whatever country, it could be China, it could be anywhere.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 2:46 Harley Finkelstein Canada had, had this amazing program where they let 40,000 Hungarian immigrants come to Canada in the revolution. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:49 Harley Finkelstein Financially, my, my life changed, and, and, and I don't take it for granted, but I kind of wish they knew what Lindsay and my first apartment looked like in, in Ottawa, Canada, and how gross it was.
- ▶ 1:39:35 Harley Finkelstein Um, he was, um, a Moroccan immigrant to Canada.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:41 Shane Parrish 80 years later, that newspaper still hangs in his office, not as a reminder of the war's end, but as proof the principle that would make him Canada's fourth richest person.
- ▶ 3:49 Shane Parrish And this is how one of Canada's richest people got their start.
- ▶ 19:10 Shane Parrish It could be anywhere in Canada except Vancouver, where his ailing father lived.
- ▶ 22:25 Shane Parrish He built one of Canada's largest fleets with over 4000 vehicles.
- ▶ 24:27 Shane Parrish Hotline show pioneering call-in radio in Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:49 Shane Parrish Credibility with Canada's financial establishment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Shane Parrish International for dreams bigger than Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Shane Parrish Patterson presented it to the finance minister, and in 1971, Canadian tax laws changed. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:19 Shane Parrish He wasn't abandoning acquisitions entirely, just doing them differently, saying, wait, we've probably had more experience with it than anybody in Canada.
- ▶ 53:40 Shane Parrish Armed with his quality religion and freed from quarterly earnings calls, Pattison embarked on one of Canada's great acquisition sprees. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:00 Shane Parrish Canada's second largest privately held company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:07 Shane Parrish Can you imagine driving across Western Canada, basically the Midwest, in your pickup truck at 90 with a pillow and a blanket in case you can't find a hotel, and being one of the richest people in the country? 2 times in the scene
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 1:22:28 Shane Parrish I don't know what it's like in the States, but in Canada, I was looking at the Senate the other day, and I was just trying to, like, is there anybody under, like, 60 in the Senate kind of thing?
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 54:12 Bret Taylor If I look at, um, uh, what was the bridge in Canada that fell down where it motivated the ring that a lot of engineers read? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:40 Shane Parrish I, I think about this from the lens of Canada, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:46 Bret Taylor All of that should be democratized if we're doing our jobs well, and it means that we're not limiting people's opportunity from, by their means, and I think that's just the, the most, uh, American thing ever, uh, Canadian as well.
- ▶ 1:56:45 Shane Parrish And it's super important because there was a case, at least in Canada, where an AI agent for Air Canada.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 0:28 Shane Parrish This isn't just a Canadian problem, it's happening everywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45 Shane Parrish Many Canadians know you from the headlines that often compare you to Trump to focus on conflicts, but your friends and family describe you as caring husband and father and someone deeply committed to serving Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:08 Pierre Poilievre I mean, I think right now people are more divided than ever in Canada, and, um, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:04 Shane Parrish Has becoming a parent changed what you think is important for the future of Canada?
- ▶ 10:58 Pierre Poilievre The law is still in place, and they do admit they want to increase it on Canadian industry, which I think will be extremely destructive, given that we're already in a trade dispute with our biggest market, where there is no such carbon tax. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:56 Shane Parrish So how do we create economic value as a nation and then translate that into a better life for all Canadians? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 Pierre Poilievre Twenty-one billion dollars for context is 1400 dollars for every Canadian family. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:52 Shane Parrish I have a theory, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong on this, that Canada can't be on par with the US to invest. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:59 Shane Parrish Canada's economy creates less value per worker than America's, and the difference in the last 10 years has grown quite a bit, to a meaningful degree. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:41 Pierre Poilievre The offending country, in this case, it's the U.S. administration, needs to know that there's a cost for its producers in tariffing Canada. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:09 Pierre Poilievre We don't have harmonized trucking regulations across the country, so you're going over the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:39 Pierre Poilievre Look, I think we do need to stand up against Chinese, uh, interference in our country, whether it's foreign political interference, or whether it's unfair trade practices that de-industrialize Canada and make us overly dependent on them. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:27 Shane Parrish Many Canadian media outlets are partially government funded, not only via the Canadian Periodical Fund, but they get subsidies from, for journalist salaries, the government is a large advertiser, um, not to mention regulatory barriers that… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:12 Pierre Poilievre Uh, the University of Ottawa had hired a guy as a professor who had committed a terrorist attack in Paris before he came to Canada.
- ▶ 56:31 Shane Parrish Uh, what's going on with crime in Canada? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:48 Pierre Poilievre And so I think we need to give our younger generation a feeling of hope again, that their, their energies will not only create great things for the country, but give them a chance at a better life. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:23 Shane Parrish Healthcare in Canada is primarily a provincial responsibility, but the federal government provides crucial funding and guidance. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:55 Shane Parrish And what safeguards would you put in place to ensure equal access for Canadians regardless of income? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:06 Shane Parrish Um, but Canadians have been brought up not to talk about our success too, which is. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:23 Shane Parrish Um, many Canadians believe in government action on climate change, and I want to ask a nuanced question on this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:25 Pierre Poilievre I, I spend a lot of time with the people in Canada that are suffering the most, the people who can't afford a home, whose businesses are going under, who can't feed their kids, and sometimes I find, I find that very upsetting, and it comes… 5 times in the scene
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 56:37 Bruce Flatt These are, uh, pension risk transfer means, which happens in the US, Canada, and the UK largely, those three places in the world.
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