Annex Business Media: Podcasts

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 savings for tissue manufacturers.

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 to get his perspective on why consumers are making the move to smart homes and what smart technology he believes every home owner shoulder have.

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 impacts of COVID-19 on police training and what the future might hold in terms of eLearning and more CPC partnerships.

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 debates around energy are fact-based, because we want to ensure that the decisions that we are taking are well-informed decisions going forward,” Robert says. In this episode of Direct & Current, Robert joins Anthony Capkun to not only talk about CanREA’s vision and goals, but to dig deeper and answer questions like: Is there a distinction between renewable energies and green energies? (Yes, in fact) What was the rationale for adding energy storage to CanREA’s equation? What, exactly, does our energy future look like? “It’s not our intention as an association to attack any other forms of generation... we will compare

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 partner as key priorities he’s identified for the evolving Edmonton department.

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 (CSA), the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Canada, and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). These certification programs play a critical role in combatting the narrative that forestry is not sustainable by raising public awareness, working with communities and key stakeholders, and more. To get a better understanding of the different issues these certification programs cover, how the certification landscape has changed over the years, and what forestry companies need to do to become certified today, we spoke with Jason Metnick, SFI’s senior vice-president of customer affairs, and Francois Dufresne, president of

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 Houston. Jeremy has been with ICIS since 2013, specializing in petrochemical markets in North and South America, and has more than 20 years experience in the news and publishing industry.

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 based out of Houston. Jeremy has been with ICIS since 2013, specializing in petrochemical markets in North and South America, and has more than 20 years experience in the news and publishing industry.

The second episode of Pulp & Paper Canada: The Podcast features an interview with Pete Augustine, president of Fabio Perini North America and board chair of TAPPI, the Technical Association for the Pulp and Paper Industry. Augustine shares how TAPPI has been helping its members navigate the pandemic, and explores the spike in consumer tissue demand and subsequent drop in away-from-home. He also discusses how the tissue industry was able to turn on a dime when faced with crisis – and where improvements still need to be made.

In part four of our series, market expert Jeremy Pafford gives an overview of the North American PVC market, including pricing trends and new capacity coming online, that will determine supply, demand, and pricing for PVC during this unprecedented pandemic. BIO: Jeremy is the head of North America, market development for petrochemical market analyst ICIS, which is based out of Houston. Jeremy has been with ICIS since 2013, specializing in petrochemical markets in North and South America, and has more than 20 years experience in the news and publishing industry.

In part two, James speaks about the importance of reliability when managing machinery and equipment. He also speaks to how companies can improve their maintenance, why some companies have a hard time achieving reliability, do’s and don’t’s of reliability, how reliability goes beyond maintenance, and how analytical methods are important for reliability.

In this episode of Direct & Current, Anthony Capkun interviews Michelle Branigan, CEO of Electricity Human Resources Canada, to learn more about EHRC’s research project, “Leadershift: Pathways to Gender Equity”. And some of the findings—in this day and age—are confounding. For example, almost 1 in every 5 men (18%) in this report believes it is easier for women to succeed in their workplace than it is for them, while 3 of every 4 women (75%) believe they have a harder time. “I do think that some of the findings in the Leadershift report will be a big surprise to those reading it,” admits Michelle Branigan, EHRC’s CEO, “But I do think it’s going to be a little bit of a wake-up call for some leaders in the sector.” CLICK PLAY and let’s untangle those pathways to gender equity.

Silvia Fraser's guest for this episode of Security Women is Lina Tsakiris. Lina, a security professional with more than two decades of experience, currently works with one of Canada's major financial institutions. Silvia and Lina discuss the different types of insider threat, how recognize a potential threat before any damage is done and how to deal effectively with the consequences.

The professionalization of policing has been a hot topic recently and so for our latest episode of Blue Line, The Podcast, we tackle education in policing and its relationship to resilience as well lifelong learning for leaders in law enforcement. Dr. Lauren D. Eisler, the dean of the faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Brantford Campus of Wilfrid Laurier University, joins us for this compelling and lively conversation. You can also stream the show here at annexbusinessmedia.com/podcasts or on our own playlist here: https://soundcloud.com/user-381015363/sets/blue-line-podcast .

Phil Bott, division chief for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and the Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute (FESTI), talks about changes in education, feedback from students, the ongoing need for recruits and the growing importance of technology.

In part three of our series, market expert Zachary Moore gives an overview of the North American polystyrene (PS) market, including pricing trends and new capacity coming online, that will determine supply, demand, and pricing for PS during this unprecedented pandemic.

The latest episode of The CFI Podcast focuses on a very timely subject: wildfire research, response and prevention. Canada’s wildfire season is well underway now, with conditions right to result in severe wildfires across the country. And as we head into the hot summer months, it is bound to become worse. So, we spoke with Michael Benson, manager of wildfire operations for FPInnovations, to learn more about Canada’s wildfire preparedness and response levels in recent years, the forest industry’s research and response efforts, the impact of good forest management practices, and more. “By and large Canada really is in a fortunate position in terms of capacity, experience and expertise in the wildfire response field. However, even high reliability organizations have room for improvement,” Benson said. He called for increased co-operation and communication among the provinces’ different wildfire agencies and between the agencies and forest products companies. Being prepared to answer the call, completing requi