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Season 12 Episode 2
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There are many publications claiming to understand why people choose not to become prepared, in order to provide guidance on the nece…
1 year, 10 months ago
Trust in Emergency Management & Hurricane Preparedness
Season 12 Episode 1
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What we have all seen in the southeastern USA over the past week has been heart wrenching, whether here in Canada where I could do li…
1 year, 10 months ago
Season 11 Wrap, Hurricane Helene and Conventions
Season 11 Episode 22
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Season 11 was a breakthrough season for the podcast, rapidly expanding our audience, which sets season 12 up for great success.
There…
1 year, 11 months ago
Canada's Incredible Preparedness Opportunity
Season 11 Episode 21
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On the eve of Canada's largest gathering of the emergency preparedness and climate adaptation voices, we are in a unique position to …
1 year, 11 months ago
Your Preparedness Superpower
Season 11 Episode 20
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While the world is not going to collapse, the 2020s will continue to be quite spicy, with exogenous shocks happing across political, …
1 year, 11 months ago
Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure
Season 11 Episode 19
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We live in a modern, technologically enabled society. The leaps in life-improving scientific achievements in the last few decades alo…
1 year, 11 months ago
How to Build Community Resilience
Season 11 Episode 18
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Resilience is the 21st century emergency management (EM) buzzword, every initiative is grounded in the theory, flavoured for the desi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Relationship Between Preparedness and Recovery
Season 11 Episode 17
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Many of us have reflected after a significant unforeseen event, when we've done what we could in the moment, with the resources at ha…
1 year, 11 months ago
A Culture of Preparedness
Season 11 Episode 16
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To quote Brock Long, a former head of FEMA, "a culture of preparedness in society" is one of the necessary legs of a chair that suppo…
1 year, 11 months ago
We've Lost the Ability to Debate
Season 11 Episode 15
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Today, we've lost the art of intellectual debate, in the pursuit of convincing others they are wrong. In the words of Neil DeGrasse-T…
2 years ago