{"podcast":{"title":"Disruptors","slug":"disruptors-897695","podcast_index_feed_id":897695,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/aWlX_ddg","website_url":"https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/rbc-disruptors/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/f17078a4-4277-4c0a-8a65-e1d7050657be/db9eec98-9a9c-4ed1-b314-0770531af60f/3000x3000/image002.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Royal Bank of Canada","episode_count":228,"summary":"Disruptors, now in its 10th season, has become your front-row seat to Canada’s innovation story—200+ episodes exploring the people, ideas, and technologies reshaping Canada’s future. Each episode, hosted by John Stackhouse, SVP, Office of the CEO at Royal Bank of Canada—and former Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail—cuts through the hype and focuses on what you need to know. This season, we’re leaning into urgency: the global economy is shifting, geopolitics are noisy, and Canada needs to respond. You’ll hear from founders, investors, scientists, operators, and policy leaders at the forefront. Listen for a clearer understanding of the tech and innovation shaping Canada and the world—and practical insights to help you make sense of what’s coming next.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disruptors-897695"},"episode":{"title":"Beyond the Battery: Inside Quebec’s Mine-to-Refine Transformation","slug":"beyond-the-battery-inside-quebec-s-mine-to-refine-transformation","published_at":"2025-11-25T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disruptors-897695/beyond-the-battery-inside-quebec-s-mine-to-refine-transformation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disruptors-897695","url":"https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/rbc-disruptors/","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/1313/p.podderapp.com/4376325916/pscrb.fm/rss/p/afp-933978-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/3de6e51a-73da-4b83-96b0-d93c1141855f/episodes/feedbcee-4fa5-4235-8497-34cb79b69003/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=3de6e51a-73da-4b83-96b0-d93c1141855f&awEpisodeId=feedbcee-4fa5-4235-8497-34cb79b69003&feed=aWlX_ddg","summary":"As the world electrifies—from cars and buses to datacentres and defence—demand for battery materials is exploding. Today, China refines more than 90% of the world’s graphite into the material used in virtually all EV battery anodes—that level of concentration is a strategic vulnerability Canada, and its allies, can’t ignore. But Canada is starting to respond. The federal Major Projects Office has just referred Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Phase-2 Matawinie Mine as a “Major Project of National Interest”—a move aimed at helping Quebec and Canada shift from exporting ore to building a full mine-to-refine graphite value chain at home, and with it, an entirely new strand of economic and industrial capacity. In this episode of Disruptors: The Canada Project, host John Stackhouse takes listeners into that story. With former Quebec premier Jean Charest and Eric Desaulniers, founder & CEO of NMG, he lifts the hood on what it means for a critical-minerals project to be treated as a “major project” in Canada—and what this could mean for Canada’s role as a trusted critical-minerals supplier to its G7 allies.","meta_description":"As the world electrifies—from cars and buses to datacentres and defence—demand for battery materials is exploding. Today, China refines more than 90% of t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1759,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disruptors-897695/episodes/beyond-the-battery-inside-quebec-s-mine-to-refine-transformation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disruptors-897695/beyond-the-battery-inside-quebec-s-mine-to-refine-transformation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}