Annex Business Media: Podcasts

Melissa Furukawa is a building scientist, certifier and consultant with Peel Passive House Consulting in Toronto. She has focused her career on improving the energy performance and environmental footprint of both new and existing buildings across Canada, through the implementation of the rigorous Passive House standard. Furukawa recently sat down with Canadian Consulting Engineer editor Peter Saun...

An interview with Jonathan Uretsky, VP of Operations and Production

Craft producers continue to gain traction in the Canadian cannabis industry as Health Canada ramps up licensing for microcultivators. In this episode, Jonathan Wilson, chief operating officer at Crystal Cure, and Chad Hason, VP of sales and marketing at Stigma Grow, talk about the opportunities and challenges for craft cannabis production, and the potential for this sector to become a significant...

The fire service is on a seemingly never-ending call. How are the volunteers doing? How will volunteer departments emerge and help heal their communities? Chris Harrow, director of fire services for the Town of Minto and Township of Wellington North in Ontario, talks about these questions and more, including recruitment, retention, and the strain of missing social connections in the volunteer fire...

This episode of Machine Language features an interview with Dana Parmenter, vice-president, industrial at CSA Group, which recently opened a dedicated lab in Toronto for manufacturers to get personal protective equipment (PPE) tested and certified by CSA for sale in Canada. Parmenter discusses why Canada needed its own PPE testing facility, the process for manufacturers to certify their PPE and th...

Guest Martha Myers, from MaRTHA Myers Consulting, speaks to the importance of networking and education within the maintenance world. Topics covered include: virtual events including PEMAC's Maintrain conference and their importance; the Maintenance Management Professional Program and who would benefit from taking it; reliability culture; root cause analysis; and much more.

RAS Talk hosts Mari-Len De Guzman and Brian Vinci talk about the year that was and the year ahead. From COVID-19 and RAS milestones to trends in sustainable food production systems and technologies, this podcast episode provides a rundown on the most important developments in 2020 and what to look forward to in 2021.

In the fourth and final episode of the series, Kavita Sabharwal-Chomiuk, editor of PrintAction, spoke with C17 Media’s president, Chris Pereira, to discuss how the company got involved with its community and used innovation to retool its Esko cutting table to produce and donate critical PPE to local hospitals.

In this first episode of Grow Opportunity’s new podcast series, host Mari-Len De Guzman talks to Jake Ward, head grower at Nova Scotia-based licensed producer Aqualitas. Ward talks about his company’s journey toward sustainable production, through its innovate aquaponics system, and offers some real-world insights on growing quality cannabis in the most sustainable manner. It’s an engaging convers...

Karen Fry has spent over 20 years in the fire service as a firefighter, deputy chief, fire chief in Nanaimo and now the new chief for Vancouver Fire Rescue Services. She is also the 1st vice president for the Fire Chiefs’ Association of British Columbia and a recent recipient of Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal. Fry shares the story of her career, the changing nature of women in the fire serv...

In the third episode of the series, Kavita Sabharwal-Chomiuk, editor of PrintAction, spoke with SinaLite’s Vice President, Brian Meshkati, and president, Mike Meshkati, to discuss how the company launched its Bounceback Resource Center and Apparel Resource Center with the aim to support print service providers during COVID-19, when many print shops have been struggling.

In the second episode of the series, Kavita Sabharwal-Chomiuk, editor of PrintAction, spoke with Rich Pauptit, president of Flash Reproductions Ltd. to discuss how the company displayed community involvement during the pandemic through its in-house production of PPE. The company also launched a GoFundMe campaign to help fund face shields that it distributed to hospitals and long-term care homes.

In the inaugural episode of the Champions of Print podcast series, Kavita Sabharwal-Chomiuk, editor of PrintAction, spoke with Jay Mandarino, president and CEO of CJ Graphics Inc. to discuss how the company displayed innovation and community involvement during the pandemic through donations of money and PPE, including social distancing guards, office dividers and more, across Canada.

Tony Anscombe is the Chief Security Evangelist at ESET, a global leader in IT security software with Canadian offices in Toronto and Montreal. While Turkey dinners via Zoom and virtual holiday parties allow us to keep in touch with loved ones and maintain traditions, expanding our online footprint can also put us at risk from cyberattackers looking to crash the party. The holiday season is also th...

Adam Grant, the new fire chief for Markham Fire and Emergency Services, talks about serving the most diverse community in Ontario, the challenges for leadership in 2021 and what shifts in approach are here to stay and Canada moves through COVID-19 and beyond.

Randy Schroeder, fire chief of the Town of Mayerthorpe Fire Department in Alberta, earned the 2020 Volunteer Fire Chief of the Year at the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and the Fire Underwriters Survey of Canada Fire Rescue Canada’s 2020 Celebration of Excellence. Chief Schroeder, who also serves as President of the Alberta Fire Chiefs Association and as fire chief for Lac Ste. Anne County o...

In this third instalment of Pump Up the Volume, we welcome to the show George Filtsos, president of EcoGrid Technologies, and we’re looking at making the impossible possible: reducing your carbon footprint while remaining competitive.

Succession planning is critical to the future of Canada’s logging industry, but many loggers don’t have a succession plan. In fact, according to the results of CFI’s 2020 Contractor Survey, 36 per cent do not have a plan for their company after they retire. To get a better understanding of the challenges loggers face when it comes to succession planning, the importance of having such a plan, and t...

This episode of Pulp & Paper Canada: The Podcast features an interview with Janis Simpkins, senior vice-president of the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA). We discuss the economic opportunities Simpkins sees for forest products companies to improve their competitiveness, the AFPA’s environment goals for the next few years, and the association’s mandate to expand its working relationship w...

Wagish Yajaman at WSPS shares best practices in respirator safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

This episode of Machine Language features an interview with Francois Simard, co-founder of Omnirobotic, a Quebec-based start-up that has developed technology to give vision to industrial robots using artificial intelligence. We discuss the use of AI in the robotics space, and how companies looking to automate for high-mix, low-volume custom manufacturing processes will benefit from this made-in-Ca...

In the latest episode of The CFI Podcast, CFI editor Ellen Cools spoke with Andrew Stiffman, senior business development manager at Kalesnikoff Mass Timber & Lumber, about the company’s entrance into mass timber, the benefits of mass timber, the future of this relatively new field, and more. “It’s been really overwhelmingly positive, it’s been great,” Andrew said about the industry’s reaction to K...

Welcome to another instalment of the Wild West Show. In this episode, Dennis McConaghy, retired TC Energy executive and author on energy-climate policy in Canada, explains why another four more years of Donald Trump will be better than Biden for the Canadian economy. If you would like to be a guest on an upcoming podcast, send an email to dhorne@ippt.ca, and put in the subject line “Wild West Show...

Scott speaks about how TMMC plants are using robots, from autonomous to automated, and how maintenance is done on them. He discusses how the maintenance process is done at TMMC, and what technologies are utilized. How TMMC is environmentally friendly, and initiatives it has put into place are also highlighted.

In this RAS Talk episode hosts Mari-Len De Guzman and Brian Vinci talk about the various aspects of investing in RAS. It’s an engaging discussion about investors’ perspectives in RAS technology and land-based aquaculture, the risks and the opportunities as well as their outlook on the sector. Guests: Maggie Fried, Head of the Oceans and Aquaculture Investor Consortium, CREO Syndicate Frank van Roe...