Annex Business Media: Podcasts

Laura King with NFPA Canada shares details of this year’s NFPA fire prevention theme: Serve up Fire Safety in the Kitchen. King talks about the core messages and timeliness of the campaign, alongside the resources that are available now to start building your fire prevention week campaigns. Fire prevention week started in 19245 in Canada and remains a critical public education tool.

As restaurants in some provinces slowly begin to reopen and others make plans to reopen, we thought it would be a good time to check in with funding expert Bonny Koabel for an update on COVID-19 financial compensation measures meant to help small businesses adversely affected by the shutdowns. In this podcast we learn about: - New developments in the Canadian Emergency Rental Assistance program. -...

Security Women host Silvia Fraser speaks to three fellow security professionals about the course of COVID-19, moving towards recovery and the lessons that can be applied to the next emergency. Silvia's guests for this first episode of Security Women are: Marti Katsiaras, global manager, public safety and physical security, ADP; Suzanna Alsayed, emergency management specialist; and Nicole McNeil, h...

Massage Therapists are struggling through an unprecedented event in their lifetime – a pandemic. This pandemic necessitates physical distancing and suspension of practice to slow the spread of the virus. As COVID19 cases decline, provincial governments are slowly re-opening the economy. Massage therapists have many questions as how to return to practice effectively and safely. In this episode we s...

The debut episode of Machine Language features an interview with Shelley Fellows, chair of Automate Canada, and Mike Bilton, chair of the Canadian Association of Mold Makers. The sister associations have been working together to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on the mold, tool and die, and industrial automation sectors through weekly surveys of their members. Fellows and Bilton discuss some of the...

In the latest episode of The CFI Podcast, we spoke with Kevin Edgson, president and CEO of EACOM Timber Corporation, board chair of the Forest Products Association of Canada and a member of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s board of directors, about the challenge of attracting younger people to the industry. One reason why fewer young workers have been entering the industry is the outdated per...

MP Irek Kusmierczyk discusses changes to the national summer jobs program as a result of COVID-19.

How would you rate your media relations as your service continues to manage the impacts of COVID-19? What about the bigger branding picture? Or internal mental health campaigns? For another special bonus episodes, Blue Line, The Podcast welcomes Roxanne Beaubien to the mic. She is an award-winning strategist and former journalist with more than 20 years of policing communications experience at the...

In the first episode of What's Next, the podcast that takes a closer look at COVID-19 recovery measures, Canadian Security magazine editor Neil Sutton talks to Luciano Cedrone, Senior Account Executive with Logixx Security. Luciano has more than 20 years of experience in professional security management, including Wal-Mart Canada, Cadillac Fairview and Brookfield Properties. He discusses COVID-19...

Richard McMullen, partner, security solutions, at Ottawa-based integration firm FCi, embarked on his career in the alarm and security business in the 80s, when computer-systems were just getting started. In a discussion with SP&T News group publisher Paul Grossinger, McMullen talks about the many technical and policy changes that have occurred in the security business in the last 30 years, his con...

There’s no shortage of both information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, so how do we separate the good from bad? The legitimate from the bogus? How do we keep safe our construction sites, and the employees work in them? We can all use the best advice possible during this crisis, so went straight to someone “in the know”— Tom Mackay, who recently joined the Electrical Contractors A...

We spoke with Darren Kalyniuk, president of the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association and superintendent at Winnipeg’s St. Boniface Golf Club, about the necessary changes golf courses must make to allow golf to be played safely amid the current COVID-19 pandemic. Also addressed was the CGSA’s role in helping to formulate these new guidelines.

Emma Ashurst of CCOHS unveils organizational strategies on protecting employees’ psychological safety during a pandemic.

Welcome to the third episode of the Wild West Show. In this instalment, we welcome the show the vice president of sales and product management at Blackline Safety, Sean Stinson, who talks about the challenges facing essential businesses, what steps the industry is going to need to re-open, and how technologies like tracing can help accomplish that safely. If you would like to be a guest on an upco...

In the May episode of Blue Line, The Podcast, we take a look at panic buying and the calls those on the frontline may have to attend that involve such incidents. Elaine Birchall, a hoarding behaviour and intervention specialist, is our guest this month. She is the founder of the Canadian National Hoarding Coalition and also spent time as a counsellor with the Nepean Police Victim Crisis Unit (long...

Hoarding presents a unique challenge and fire risk in the community for the fire service. Elaine Birchall, a hoarding behaviour and intervention specialist for over 18 years, talks to Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy about best practices for how to proceed when encountering a hoarding situation on a call. Birchall covers what defines hoarding and how to recognize it, misconceptions around hoarding and how t...

On April 16 Blue Line hosted its very first virtual roundtable, where we invited five police leaders to turn on their webcams for a joint discussion via video. We thought it was a good time to check in with various agencies in an array of locations, as we continue to manage and strive to slow the outbreak of COVID-19. Specifically, after watching social media the last month or so, we wanted to dis...

Andre Pelland, senior compliance and quality assurance manager at Pure Safety Group in Houston, Texas, discusses the history and evolution of CSA standards.

Women account for 70 percent of the world’s seafood workers. However, many of them work in entry level, low-paying jobs and very few are leadership roles. Is the industry paying enough attention to diversity in the aquaculture industry? Is gender diversity playing a factor into the design of RAS facilities? What resources exist for women in aquaculture for skills development and training that will...

Right now, the world is dealing with an unprecedented situation – the COVID-19 pandemic. Forestry has been declared an essential service across Canada, which means workers need to follow appropriate health and safety guidelines and employers need to stay up-to-date as the situation rapidly evolves. But there is a lot of information out there to sort through and it can be difficult to know what bes...

Welcome to the second instalment of the Wild West Show. In this episode, we welcome the CEO of Tundra Process Solutions Limited, Iggy Domagalski, who shares a behind-the-scenes look at how this Alberta company and its employees are operating in the “new normal” of COVID-19. If you would like to be a guest on an upcoming Wild West Show podcast, send an email to dhorne@ippt.ca, and put in the subjec...

For this special bonus episode, Blue Line, The Podcast connects with Toronto Police Service (TPS) Deputy Chief of Police Shawna Coxon to hear more about how TPS is handling the COVID-19 outbreak as well as all the details on her cybercrime journey and her commitment to analytics excellence in policing.

These are tough times for small businesses. Here we look at the most recent COVID-19 financial compensation measures put in place by the Canadian government to bring relief to those adversely affected by the shutdowns. Owners and operators of pizzerias, restaurants or bakery/cafés and other businesses, tune in for examples of how the relief funding would work for a small shop and details on how to...

Shawn discusses how to get employees to buy into a safety culture, how important it is to change habits, things that need to be done to make a company as safe as possible, as well as going over success stories.

This is the Wild West Show, where we look at anything and everything that is affecting the western provinces, its people, and the economy. In this episode, we look at the oil and gas sector, and how it is coping with the latest challenge, COVID-19, with special guest Marlon Ellerby, the president of EnergyAuctions. If you would like to be a guest on an upcoming Wild West Show podcast, send an emai...