The Team Ten Eight Podcast

On this episode, Christian recaps and provides some additional background into the top three most listened to episodes of 2022.  Follow the Team Ten Eight Podcast on Facebook , Instagram and LinkedIn !

Phil Gurski has spent almost 40 years working in the intelligence field with organizations like the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Canada's top secret listening post, the Communications Security Establishment.   He is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting and a Distinguished Fellow in National Security at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development I...

Dr. Matthew Kane is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran and former military intelligence officer who served in several overseas counter intelligence operations.  He holds a Ph. D. in Psychology from Walden University, a master’s degree from American Military University in Psychology, a BA in Military Strategic Studies from the University of New Brunswick and is the President and CEO of Prodigy Intelli...

Lieutenant (ret’d) Ron Boughton is a Cold War veteran who spent 37 years with the Royal Canadian Navy.  Much of that time was spent conducting electronic warfare operations off Canada’s Pacific coast. Or, as he likes to say, chasing Russian spy ships.  On this episode Ron talks about what it was like as a young man sailing with his father, the very real threats Canada faced during the Cold War and...

Chance Burles is Canadian Armed Forces veteran and former Combat Engineer who spent 8 months in Afghanistan as a member of the Edmonton based 1 Combat Engineer Regiment. On this episode, we learn about the role of the Combat Engineer and how they are prepared for combat. We talk about Chance's first encounter with an improvised explosive device, or IED and what it's like being in a gun f...

Deputy Director (ret'd) Randie Scott spent 35 years with Correctional Services Canada and in 2008-2009, deployed with a team of correctional officers to Afghanistan. They were assigned to the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team at Camp Nathan Smith (CNS) where they begin training and mentoring their Aghan counterparts. It was during this deployment that Randie befriended Afghan police cap...

Master Corporal (ret'd) John Dowe is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran. In 1993, as a member of the Airborne Regiment, he deployed to Somalia and witnessed what would eventually become known as the “ Somalia Affair ”. An incident so tragic, that it led to a national public inquiry, the resignation of the Minister of Defense and the disbanding of this elite special forces unit.  After transition...

Captain Steve Farina is a veteran British Columbia firefighter, an executive board member of the International Association of Firefighters Local 1782 and Vice President of the BC Professional Fire Fighter Association (BCPFFA) which represents over 4,000 professional firefighters across the province. He is also actively engaged in firefighter and first responder mental health initiatives through hi...

Sergeant (ret’d) Laurie White spent 23 years as a British Columbia based member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She’s been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Medal of Valour from the International Association of Women Police.  On November 27, 1998, she heard the radio call that no police officer ever wants to hear, “10-33”. That’s the radio code...

Sergeant Kerry Williams, a 21 year member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,  is among a select few Canadian police officers who have rotated through the Canadian Police Mission in Ukraine.  On this episode, Kerry shares her personal experience and perspective as we discuss why Canada is engaged in the mission, how novel some Canadian concepts - like scenario based training and community polici...

Matt Johnston is a full-time firefighter who’s attended over 3500 calls in Metro Vancouver ranging from medical response to hazardous materials and fires. He is also an experienced mental health clinician who offers a unique, in-depth understanding of paramilitary mindsets within stoic workplace cultures, and is the Chief Executive Officer of First Responder Health , a service that recently partne...

In November of 2021 the province of British Columbia was hammered with two unprecedented weather events. These “atmospheric rivers” resulted in severe flooding, landslides and catastrophic damage to critical rail and highway infrastructure that effectively sealed off Metro Vancouver from the rest of Canada.  This episode features Constable Erich Schmidt, an off duty police officer who was pressed...

In November of 2021 the province of British Columbia was hammered with two unprecedented weather events. These “atmospheric rivers”  resulted in severe flooding, landslides and catastrophic damage to critical rail and highway infrastructure that effectively sealed off Metro Vancouver from the rest of Canada.  If you’ve listened to this show for any length of time you know we’re about honouring the...

This episode deals with post traumatic stress disorder and the impact PTSD can have on families. There may be content that is triggering for some. Brett is a veteran police officer in Ontario, Canada who has spent the majority of his career on patrol. One call in particular, followed by a series of similar calls would threaten everything he understood about himself and change his life and that of...

Weeks away from death. That's how Joe Roberts describes his life at it's lowest point.   On this episode, Joe shares his journey from a youth growing up in suburban Ontario to a drug addicted young man committing crimes in Vancouver's downtown east side to his remarkable turnaround which, he says,  never would have happened were it not for a dangerous encounter and the intervention...

T.C. Randall (not his real name by the way) is the author of the recently published book, The View from the Wrong Side of the Day and is a registered nurse who spent 14 years working in a British Columbia emergency room.  After responding to patient, after patient, after patient and dealing with everything from major physical trauma and severe medical distress to death, it all came to head one day...

David Langlands is a decorated 37-year officer of the Canada Border Services Agency who has been awarded the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals as well as the Peace Officer Exemplary Service Medal and bar; and has been recognized for a number of significant drug interdictions over his career. He’s worked at land, sea, air and even mail points of entry and you  might even recognize him from...

Devon Pinchak is a 33 year advanced life support paramedic with the British Columbia Ambulance Service and a volunteer medic with Technical Evacuation Advanced AeroMedical , a not for profit society comprised of advanced care and primary care paramedics, emergency physicians, nurses, technical rescue specialists and other mountain professionals dedicated to providing leading edge pre-hospital care...

From 2001 to 2014 Canada was engaged in it’s longest war ever as it joined an international coalition to destroy the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban regime that sheltered it in Afghanistan. All told, more than 40,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces served in the 12-year campaign that claimed the lives of 158 Canadian soldiers and 7 civilians. What you may not know though, is that t...

Assistant Warden Peter Lang has spent more than 20 years working with federal inmates as a correctional officer, parole officer and manager. He discusses why he chose corrections as a career, what it means to see an inmate succeed and how he grappled with a family tragedy that no parent should have to endure.  Follow the Team Ten Eight Podcast on Facebook , Instagram and LinkedIn !

Inspector Ben Maure is a 32 year member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with experience working a range of duties from uniform patrol to national security investigations.  Ben shares his perspective on what he describes as the nobility of police work, the opportunities that can be provided by a career in law enforcement and his new book about police in peace building and peace keeping mission...

Constable Joe Cecchini is a 13 year member of the Calgary Police Service. He’s spent 11 years as a patrol officer and now specializes in emergency mental health with the Police and Crisis Team (PACT), a partnership between health care providers and police officers who respond to situations involving people who are suffering from a mental health, addictions, or psycho-social crisis. On this episode...

AJ is a registered nurse and manager of clinical operations and peri-operative services for the Interior Health Authority in Cranbrook, British Columbia. With over 25 years of health care experience, she shares her experience working in a major trauma center, the impact one patient can have on the people who work tirelessly to save them and discusses some of the differences between nursing in urba...

A Canadian Armed Forces veteran and decorated member of the Vancouver Police Department, Shawn shares some of his experiences as a domestic violence investigations specialist, his battle with post traumatic stress disorder and what drove him to establish the Police and Peace Officer Memorial Ribbon Society and create the official national symbol of mourning for law enforcement officers who made th...

Before an injury forced his retirement, Constable Bryan Maurer served 14 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.   After joining the RCMP and completing his training, Bryan was assigned to policing duties in Surrey, British Columbia, one of Canada’s fastest growing cities, and worked as a general duty patrol officer in one of that city’s toughest neighborhoods before going on to qualify for...