Annex Business Media: Podcasts

The wellness co-ordinator officer with the Greater Sudbury Police Service (GSPS), Const. James Jefferson, joins us for this episode of Blue Line, The Podcast. He’s a 12-year police service veteran and specializes in mental health, peer-to-peer support, member outreach, physical fitness and nutrition. After being involved in a die by police suicide scenario, Jefferson endured the fallout of PTSD. H...

Red Deer Chief of Emergency Service Ken McMullen earned the 2020 Career 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 McMullen was recognized for his efforts in the field of fire education throughout Alberta and his work to reduce the stigma associated with mental health advoca...

Paula Allen of Morneau Shepell unveils strategies on how to deal with employees’ mental health concerns through the COVID-19 pandemic.

This episode of Machine Language features an interview with Michelle Chrétien, director of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies at Sheridan College, which connects SMEs with manufacturing partners and students to advance industry projects. She discusses innovation in automation, how post-secondary institutions can play a valuable role in ideating, testing and developing ne...

In this episode of The CFI Podcast, in celebration of National Forest Week, we spoke with Kate Lindsay, vice-president of sustainability and environmental partnership at the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), about how much progress the industry has made changing public misconceptions about forestry’s sustainability, FPAC’s work advancing the industry’s position on environmental issues,...

This episode of Pulp & Paper Canada: The Podcast features an interview with Dr. Orlando Rojas, professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), director of the UBC Pulp and Paper Centre, scientific director of the UBC BioProducts Institute and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Forest Bioproducts. We discuss how Canada’s emerging bioeconomy is primed for expansion, how bio-based systems...

Welcome to Canadian. Folding pizza boxes is an essential part of the pizza operation. James Timothy is our reigning Great Pizza Box Fold-Off champion. James won the last two Great Canadian Pizza Box Fold-Offs at the Canadian Pizza Summit. In October 2019, Timothy folded 10 large boxes in 42.55 seconds, besting his time the previous year of one minute, 3.7 seconds. Think you’re a fast folder? Check...

For the latest episode of Blue Line, The Podcast, we zoom in on police families and hear from Dilnaz Garda, the president of Toronto Beyond the Blue (TBTB). She shares more on the Heroes In Life Memorial and the importance in honouring those officers who have died because of the line of duty in a separate monument or wall. We also cover building mental resilience in today’s climate, when we are fa...

Shanyn Silinski, program manager for Search and Rescue for Autism (SARA), talks with host and Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy about understanding autism and the vulnerabilities in this population so first responders can be better equipped during response, search and rescue. The SARA project offers training to actual scenarios that break down misconceptions, educate on wandering and bolting and discuss sens...

RAS engineering and design specialist Marc Sorensen takes us through the history and evolution of RAS in aquaculture. Co-host Brian Vinci also provides his insights on the beginnings of RAS technology. In this episode, we get into the technical details of the why, the how, as well as the current and emerging challenges involved in designing and operating a recirculating aquaculture system. Guest:...

Welcome to the second episode of Pump Up The Volume. Artificial Intelligence is finding its way into every aspect of the industrial process, and that is especially true for intelligent controllers. While many are familiar with traditional PID controllers, in this episode we’re going to explore the work being done with intelligent, fuzzy logic controllers, with Mariano Arriaga, the general manager...

This episode of Machine Language features an interview with Sundeep Ravande, CEO of Innovapptive Inc. Ravande discusses how the proliferation of technologies such as the cloud, wearables, AI and machine learning will result in “the connected worker.” We explore the business challenges of communication in factories, how the COVID-19 era has affected standard operating procedures – and what can be d...

For forest product companies across Canada, the health of the trees and associated ecosystems is paramount. Understanding as much as possible about the trees and the surrounding environment is key to sustainably managing our forests. To do so, more and more companies are using LiDAR (Light Detection or Ranging). But what exactly is LiDAR and how does it work? What are its applications and benefits...

Doc speaks about the importance of scheduling and planning of maintenance. He shares stories about what he has seen, how IIoT is changing how scheduling is done, and how companies can improve their scheduling and planning. COVID-19, do's and don'ts, tips and techniques, and why companies neglect planning and scheduling are also covered.

This episode of Pulp & Paper Canada: The Podcast features an interview with Frédéric Parent, researcher for the paper and consumer products group at FPInnovations. Parent discusses the issues that can arise during tissue converting to affect overall efficiency. He also covers the methods that the research firm has developed to reduce variability on the converting line – which can lead to cost savi...

Marc Saltzman has reported on the high-tech industry since 1996 as a freelance journalist, author, lecturer, consultant, and radio and TV personality. His specialties lie in consumer electronics, computers, Internet trends and social media, business tech, interactive entertainment, and future trends. In its inaugural episode, Smart Homes Canada associate editor Alanna Fairey spoke to Marc recently...

Alan Quilley of Safety Results discusses the impact the pandemic has had on the OH&S profession.

For this episode of Blue Line, The Podcast, we welcome Assistant Commissioner Serge Côté, the executive director of the Canadian Police College (CPC), and Supt. Doug Ross, director of the School of Police Sciences with CPC to the mic and to our virtual studio. We discuss the CPC’s modernization efforts as well as the bigger picture of the professionalization of policing. We also tap into the impac...

The Canadian Solar Industries Association and Canadian Wind Energy Association amalgamated this year to become the Canadian Renewable Energy Association—a new national voice for the wind, solar and energy storage industries. Leading this new association is Robert Hornung, who served as president of CanWEA for 17 years. “I would say we have a keen interest in ensuring that our discussions and debat...

Troy Winters of CUPE discusses workers’ concerns when it comes to returning to the office during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We’re getting to know Joe Zatylny, the new fire chief in Edmonton, and his vision for the department in Fire Fighting in Canada’s latest podcast. Zatylny shares his background and what it was like becoming fire chief of a large urban department during the pandemic with host Tom DeSorcy, the fire chief in Hope, B.C. Zatylny discusses mental health, diversity, inclusion and being a modern municipal...

This episode of Machine Language features an interview with Jonathan Gross, managing director of Pemeco Consulting. We discuss how the pandemic is necessitating digital transformation projects, what short-term changes manufacturers can make as they work on developing long-term digitalization plans that incorporate automation, software, and supply chain needs, and how to pay for it all.

As Canada turns its attention towards a green economic recovery from COVID-19, forestry will have an important role to play. But there are still a lot of public misconceptions about the industry’s sustainability. Yet Canada leads the world in sustainable forest management, with an estimated 164 million hectares of forests certified under one of three programs: the Canadian Standards Association (C...

In our sixth and final podcast of this series, market expert Jeremy Pafford gives an overview of the North American PET market, including pricing trends and new capacity coming online, that will determine supply, demand, and pricing for PET during this unprecedented pandemic. BIO: Jeremy is the head of North America, market development for petrochemical market analyst ICIS, which is based out of H...

In part five of our series, market expert Jeremy Pafford gives an overview of the North American engineering resin market, including pricing trends and new capacity coming online, that will determine supply, demand, and pricing for engineering resins during this unprecedented pandemic. BIO: Jeremy is the head of North America, market development for petrochemical market analyst ICIS, which is base...