Annex Business Media: Podcasts

Bridging the gap between seafood producers and consumers is key to pushing the agenda of sustainability in the aquaculture industry. In this episode, hosts Brian Vinci and Mari-Len De Guzman speak with sustainable seafood advocate Jennifer Bushman about some of the practical and meaningful ways seafood producers can engage their consumers.

Security is a top of mind concern for consumers, especially now with more people staying home. Anne Ferguson, VP of Marketing, Alarm.com, recently sat down with Smart Homes to share her insights on what consumers are looking for when it comes to smart tech, and where she thinks it will move in the future.

Click to listen to an interview with Ainishah Hemraj, Head of Sales at Mosaic Manufacturing, talking about the 3D Printing, Mosaic’s offerings and performance during the pandemic, and the importance of having a diverse workforce in manufacturing.

Stacey Moreau is the director of the Leadership Development Centre at the Canadian Police College. She joins Blue Line editor Brieanna Charlebois for a conversation about the future of leadership development in Canadian policing. The CPC recently conducted a needs analysis of current national training standards focused on modernizing the approach to leadership development. Moreau discusses the fin...

The latest episode of Blue Line, The Podcast features Amy Ramsay, the past president of the International Association of Women Police and the founding president of the Ontario Women in Law Enforcement. She joins Blue Line editor Brieanna Charlebois for a conversation on the importance of education within the Canadian police service. Ramsay, an advocate for increased education standards among law e...

What does US$175 million and a cannabis R&D Centre of Excellence achieve for a Moncton, N.B.-based licensed cannabis producer? The future. Organigram CEO Greg Engel talks to Grow Opportunity about the details of British American Tobacco’s investment in Organigram, what it means for the company’s future product offerings, employment opportunities, and the company’s global expansion. Engel also shar...

Feeds are a critical component of any RAS production environment – it can make or break the health of both fish and systems. This episode provides a variety of perspectives when it comes to fish feeds in closed, containment, land-based aquaculture. Co-hosts Mari-Len De Guzman and Brian Vinci hash out the details of diets made for RAS. Guests: Kim Schøn Ekmann, senior product developer, BioMar Geor...

Click to listen to an interview with Andrew Ellis, Director and Special Advisor to the Board of INKAS, talking about the armoured car manufacturing, the burgeoning EV market, and their outlook for 2021.

A year after the COVID-19 pandemic, we check in with funding expert Bonny Koabel for an update on government financial compensation measures meant to help pizzerias, restaurants, bakery/cafés and other small businesses adversely affected by the shutdowns. In this podcast we learn about: -Extension of Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy -Canada United Small Business Relief Fund -Information for those who...

Jessica Thornton joins the Talent Show to discuss the latest future of work report by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship – Yesterday’s Gone: Exploring the future of Canada’s labour market in a post-COVID world.

Click to listen to an interview with Bruce Nurse, head of Business Development and Alexandre Mongeon, CEO., talking about the EV boating market, their outlook for 2021, and their acquisition of MAC Engineering.

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, we’ve released a special episode of The CFI Podcast, as part of our Women in Forestry series. In this episode, CFI editor Ellen Cools spoke with Carol Walker, a registered professional forester and manager of forestry policy and planning for the City of Toronto. Carol recently wrote a blog post for Women in Wood sharing her experience as one of few wome...

This special episode of Machine Language celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8 by focusing on some of the challenges and opportunities for women in the sector. Jenan Abderrahman, an engineer and part-time robotics teacher, discusses her work in engineering, process control and automation, the challenges she's faced along the way, and the role she currently plays in getting kids and young...

This special International Women’s Day episode of Pulp & Paper Canada: The Podcast features an interview with Pamela Cowan, chair emeritus of TAPPI’s Women in Industry Division, chief marketing and financial officer for Pulmac Systems International and chief strategy officer at FiberWorx. Cowan discusses her work as a supplier in the pulp and paper industry, shares the robust initiatives TAPPI has...

Featuring the tech brains behind the innovative startup ReelData, this episode discusses the various applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to aquaculture, particularly in land-based farming. ReelDate CEO Mathew Zimola and CTO Hossein Salimian are the guests for this high-tech conversation.

The leaders of the Women in Occupational Health and Safety Society (WOHSS) discuss women’s achievements in the world of workplace health and safety, and the movement towards equality.

Women In Construction: The Podcast is sponsored by Deere Construction, and brought to you by Rock to Road, Canadian Consulting Engineer, Crane and Hoist Canada, On-Site, Canadian Contractor, Canadian Rental Service, Glass Canada, and Fenestration Review. Getting more women involved in trades and construction has been a dream in the industry for a long time. The situation may be slowly improving, b...

Host and Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy talks to Sean Tracey, the chair of Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Canada. Tracey is the former and first Canadian regional manager for the NFPA and was the deputy chief for Ottawa Fire Services before his retirement in 2019. Tracey is now championing the case for home fire sprinklers in Canada, and he shares the challenges to home fire sprinkler adoption, the perspec...

An interview with Kunal Phalper, Chief Commercial Officer

This episode of Machine Language features an interview with Mihaela Vlasea, an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo in the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, and Diana Facchini, team leader at the National Research Council in Mississauga, Ont. They discuss a new seven-year research partnership aimed at reducing the cost of metal additive manufacturing for manufacturers, an...

Since summer 2020, lumber prices have been strong, reaching unprecedented levels as demand skyrocketed after the first wave of COVID-19. But what does the North American lumber market look like in 2021? To answer that question, we spoke with Keta Kosman, owner of Madison’s Lumber Reporter, in the latest episode of The CFI Podcast. We also discussed the lumber prices and demand seen in 2020, some o...

Ontario Society of Professional Engineers CEO Sandro Perruzza discusses best practice in air ventilation systems amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ryan Kershaw is the vice president of the Canadian Process Control Association (CPCA), and national sales manager at Mettler-Toledo International. In this episode of Pump Up the Volume, we look at some of the trends in instrumentation and controls, and just what the future holds in the process manufacturing sector.

Dr. Ryan Todd, the CEO and co-founder of headversity, is an advocate for mental health in the workplace. Mental health in blue collar jobs like manufacturing – specifically men’s mental health – presents unique challenges. As a veteran of treating mental illness challenges in the oil and gas sector in Alberta’s oil and gas sector, Dr. Todd shares a number of solutions and treatments for those look...

Moe Mouallem, co-owner of Alimo’s Pizzeria in Slave Lake, Alta., joins us to talk about the pizzeria’s plans for Valentine’s Day. Alimo’s is bundling its pizza with a livestreamed local comedy show to encourage people to connect in a socially distanced way and to support the events industry so hard-hit by the pandemic. It’s one of many ways Alimo’s is tightening its bond with the community. In thi...