Annex Business Media: Podcasts

Canadian Manufacturing Talks sits down with Daphna Smuckler of BDO to discuss ways that small to medium businesses and manufacturers can strengthen their supply chains.

This episode of Blue Line, The Podcast features Superintendent Treena MacSween of the Hamilton Police Service. Earlier this year, MacSween became the fourth woman and the first person of colour to achieve the rank of superintendent in Hamilton. She joins Blue Line editor Brittani Schroeder to discuss her path from recruit to superintendent, the challenges she has faced and still faces in her chosen profession, and her mission of gender diversity and attracting more women to law enforcement.

Woodstock, Ont.’s Trevor Warner has been selected by Sports Turf Canada as the country’s sports turf manager of the year for 2021. Hear what he has to say about sports turf management and being selected for the honour.

Welcome to Ground Water Canada: The Podcast. Thanks for joining us – from your office, truck or in the field – wherever you may be, we’re glad you’ve tuned in. This is the second of three podcast episodes exploring the footprint left during drilling for domestic water wells or dewatering wells, developments in sustainability and single-use plastics legislation and a discussion of what the groundwater industry can do to reduce its impact on the environment. We are joined by Mike Hare, sales and marketing manager for Canadian Pipe & Pump Supply Inc. This episode is brought to you by Canadian Pipe & Pump Supply Inc. – “We manufacture and supply a full complement of drilling, environmental and geotechnical products that make it easy for our customers to one-stop shop at our four locations in Ontario. We enhance our products with technical support and service tailored to your needs.” Today editor Colleen Cross and CanPipe’s Mike Hare talk with Jo-Anne St. Goddard, executive director of the Circular Innovati

We are in an era of increase of IoT devices and the introduction of industrial IoT devices into manufacturing environments. How do you secure this equipment when mixed with legacy equipment that has been running for 10, 20 or more years in production? William Noto, Global Director of Operational Technology Product Marketing at Fortinet, discusses concerns impacting manufacturing organizations when introducing IoT devices to the environment; risks that arise when modern technology is mixed with legacy technology and much more.

This month’s edition of Fire Fighting in Canada: The Podcast features the winners of this year’s Fire Chief of the Year awards presented by the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and Fire Underwriter's Survey. The two winners, Career fire chief Bill Boyes and volunteer Fire Chief Arnold Lazare, joined host Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy for a conversation about the future of firefighting. DeSorcy captured their reactions to being the recipients of the Career and Volunteer Fire Chief of the Year awards, and Boyes and Lazare talk about the challenges of the pandemic from the perspectives of a volunteer station an urban one.

Bakers Journal editor Naomi Szeben speaks with Registered Dietitian Jane Dummer to discuss ways your bakery can add nutrition without compromising flavour or decadence.

Bakers Journal editor Naomi Szeben speaks Agatha Podgorski, of the Culinary Tourism Alliance. Learn how to make your bakery a tourist destination, even if you never thought of your operation as a travel-worthy event. Find how you can either take part in The Butter Tart Trail, participate in one of many festivals, or just put your bakery on a foodie map.

Laura King, the NFPA’s public education representative for Canada, joins host Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy for a conversation about this year’s Fire Prevention Week. Running Oct. 3-9, this year’s Fire Prevention Week is called Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety and focuses on teaching the public about what the sounds made by smoke and carbon monoxide alarms means. King and DeSorcy talk about the importance of public education, NFPA’s calls-to-action and goals, as well as how the organization is working towards making Fire Prevention Week more accessible through virtual events and translations.

Manufacturing standards play an important role in the overall safety of overhead cranes. Tom Kovacs and Sebastien Cote of Hoisting Ltd. explore aspects of engineering in the design of overhead cranes, and also detail safety features customers should look for when purchasing new equipment of this nature.

This episode Pulp & Paper Canada: The Podcast features an interview with Rebecca Barnard, forestry certification manager for Sappi North America, on how forest management and certification can impact pulp and paper operations.

After a $3.3 million grant was awarded to Langara College’s Applied Science for the Canadian Cannabis Industry program, Grow Opportunity was curious to know where the college would be directing its research focus. Editor and podcast host, Catarina Muia, sat down with Kelly Sveinson, Chair of Langara College’s Applied Research Centre, to discover how the Applied Science for the Canadian Cannabis Industry will benefit the Canadian cannabis industry, what the college’s research will be focused on, and where the future of the Canadian cannabis industry is headed.

Jennifer Grigg, whose career in the fire service spans 30 years and has expanded to include being a certified body language coach, joins host Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy for a conversation on developing soft skills through the study of body language, which Grigg used to overcome anxiety. Grigg and DeSorcy talk about body language awareness in interviews, developing follow up questions based on body language, how vocal tone, voice and cadence plays into recognizing stress and why it’s important to pay special attention to the mouth.

COVID-19 has shaken up the way manufacturers do business, including adopting to digitalization. However, there are still some manufacturers who remain hesitant to digitize their operations. Nada Ebeid, business development manager at Montreal-based Genetec, shares her thoughts on digitization in the manufacturing and some advice for manufacturers to slowly make the transition to digital operations.

The role of empathy in the therapeutic relationship: Are massage therapists properly equipped, in their training and informed by evidence, to respond appropriately to patient affect, particularly in advanced care situations?

Click to listen to an interview with Tom Leeson, Sr. Industry Strategist at OpenText, discussing Industry 4.0 adoption across the manufacturing industry, and the hurdles manufacturers are facing as they emerge from the pandemic.

Mark MacDonald, the fire chief for the Township of Cramahe and president of the Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs, talks with Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy about the challenges faced by associations during the pandemic and the ones faced by fire chiefs that they are addressing alongside recruitment, retention and record retirements in the fire service, the beneficial role of technology and anticipating the return to live conferences and trade shows.

Click to listen to an interview with Dr. Cassandra Bowkett and Dr. Christian Levesque, researchers at Ryerson’s Diversity Institute and HEC Montreal, talk about their aerospace manufacturing report, and what it means for the Canadian labour market, and what investments are needed to build a resilient sector.

Welcome to Ground Water Canada: The Podcast. Thanks for joining us – from your office, truck or in the field – wherever you may be, we’re glad you’ve tuned in. This is the first of three podcast episodes exploring the footprint left during drilling for domestic water wells or dewatering wells, developments in sustainability and single-use plastics legislation and a discussion of what the groundwater industry can do to reduce its impact on the environment. We are joined by Mike Hare, sales and marketing manager for Canadian Pipe & Pump Supply Inc. This episode is brought to you by Canadian Pipe & Pump Supply Inc. – “We manufacture and supply a full complement of drilling, environmental and geotechnical products that make it easy for our customers to one-stop shop at our four locations in Ontario. We enhance our products with technical support and service tailored to your needs.” Watch this channel for future episodes where we get some expert insight and reaction from members of the groundwater industry a

NextGen 911 is coming. The CRTC has mandated that all Public Safety Access Points (PSAP), or what the average Canadian citizen thinks of as their 911 Call Centre, be fully transitioned to and using NG 911 technology by March 2024. This will enable the public to engage with PSAPs through calls, as well as text, photo, video, through their medical alert bracelets, vehicle OnStar, the list goes on. It is a gamechanger for the public, emergency service providers and frontline responders, including call takers and dispatchers. This episode of Blue Line, The Podcast features Deputy Chief Anthony Odoardi of the Peel Regional Police. Odoardi is also the chair of the OACP-led NG-911 Inter-Agency Advisory Panel. He joins Blue Line editor Brieanna Charlebois to discuss what NG 911 means for the frontline, how agencies can optimize on the technology and what aren’t police and other emergency service organizations thinking about that they should be to ready themselves for the change and how to capitalize on it when they