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Wyatt Tessari L'Allié, Executive Director and Founder of Artificial Intelligence Safety & Governance in Canada chats about how to make AI safe. Wyatt discusses how national and global conversations are needed to ensure AI doesn’t evolve into something that will result in significant and existential impacts to humanity. Wyatt discusses the various players, big tech, governments, and citizens and their roles in how to make AI safe.

AIGS White Paper: https://aigs.ca/white-paper.pdf

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Wyatt Tessari L'Allié is the founder and executive director of AI Governance & Safety Canada, a leading civil society voice on the governance of advanced AI. A former engineer, filmmaker and climate advocate, he has spent the last 8 years researching and writing about the risks and opportunities of AI, and is the author of the book "A Path Forward This Century".

Michael Barnard describes why it's more efficient, environmentally beneficial, and follows where things are headed to just electrify everything. Michael walks through how many sectors will electrify, how hydrogen won't have a place in an energy future, and the consequences for countries like Canada.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-barnard-42446

https://cleantechnica.com/author/mikebarnard/

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Michael spends his time projecting scenarios for decarbonization 40-80 years into the future, and assisting executives, Boards and investors to pick wisely today. Whether it's refueling aviation, grid storage, vehicle-to-grid, or hydrogen demand, his work is based on fundamentals of physics, economics and human nature, and informed by the decarbonization requirements and innovations of multiple domains. His leadership positions in North America, Asia and Latin America enhanced his global point of view. He publishes regularly in multiple outlets on innovation, business, technology and policy.

Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe is back for a second episode and we chat about the influence of probiotics and antibiotics on the gut microbiome. Could there be missing microbes contributing to food intolerances? And why researching the microbiomes of honey bees is helping our understanding of their survivability and social behaviors.

Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe obtained her BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of London, and her PhD in Molecular Microbiology through an industrial partnership with Public Health England. Emma started her faculty career at the University of Calgary in 2005, with a Fellow-to-Faculty transition award through CAG/AstraZeneca and CIHR, to study the normal microbes of the human gut. In particular, she was among the few that focused on trying to culture these ‘unculturable’ microbes in order to better understand their biology. To do this, she developed a model gut system - the Robogut - to emulate the conditions of the human gut and allow communities of microbes to grow together, as they do naturally. Emma moved her lab to the University of Guelph in late 2007, and has been a recipient of several Canadian Foundation for Innovation Awards that have allowed her to develop her specialist anaerobic fermentation laboratory further. This has been boosted by the award of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Human Gut Microbiome Function and Host Interactions. Emma's research focuses are very broad, although they are all united under the banner of microbial culture and the microbiome. She has current projects focused on the human gut microbiome, on colorectal cancer, diabetes, xenobiotic metabolism, and 'missing microbes'. More recently Emma has entered the fascinating realm of the insect gut microbiome - specifically the microbes that colonize bees!

From China to Ukraine to Cuba, Professor Gordon Houlden of the University of Alberta’s China Institute shares his insights on these areas as a former member of Canada’s Foreign Service.

https://www.ualberta.ca/china-institute/about/people/director-emeritus.html

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Professor Gordon Houlden is Director Emeritus of the China Institute, Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta.

Professor Houlden joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1976, serving in Ottawa and abroad. Twenty-two of his thirty-two years in the Canadian Foreign Service were spent working on Chinese economic, trade and political affairs for the Government of Canada including five postings in China. He also served at Canadian Embassy in Havana and Warsaw, and at Canada National Defence College. His last assignment before joining the University of Alberta in 2008 was as Director General of the East Asian Bureau of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, responsible for Greater China, Japan, the Koreas and Mongolia.

Under Professor Houlden’s leadership, the China Institute focused on contemporary China studies, with an emphasis on Canada’s trade, investment and bilateral relations with the PRC, and Asian security issues. His third co- edited book on the South China Sea was published in the summer of 2021 by Bristol University Press.

Chet Galaska discusses everything you need to know about diabetes from the perspective of those who have it. It’s not as well understood by the general public as you’d think and this can lead to stigmas being placed on those who have the disease.

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Chet Galaska graduated from the University of Hartford with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After working in several industrial operations, he co-founded and was president of a company that produces stainless steel castings for heavy industry.

He has had type 1 diabetes since 1981 and has managed it well. Because of this he was asked to participate in a long term study by the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard University.

Chet isn’t a health care professional. He is simply a person who understands diabetes and sees the disease from the perspective of those who have it. It became clear to him that messaging about the disease underlies misperceptions that have damaging consequences. This is a huge problem in the world of diabetes that doesn’t get recognized, let alone addressed. He realized that people need to know the facts if we’re to motivate diabetics to do the hard things the disease demands. As a first step, he wrote The Diabetes Book: What Everyone Should Know and spoke to many groups about it. He then developed the Challenge Diabetes Program which was presented in participation with college, medical, civic, business, church and other organizations.

In recognition of this work he was presented the Heroes Walking Among Us Award by the Massachusetts Foot and Ankle Society. These are doctors who deal first-hand with the consequences of diabetes ignorance. His purpose is to create an informed and supportive social environment that respects diabetics who fight the beast and encourages those who don’t to take it seriously.

He appears on podcasts to reach as many people as possible.

Canadian Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend Matt Jeneroux chats about the mental health of dads, the life of a travelling MP, and the 2023 Alberta election.

IG: @mattjeneroux

Twitter: @jeneroux

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Matt is the Member of Parliament representing Edmonton Riverbend and currently the Shadow Minister for Supply Chains.

He has been a strong advocate for both compassionate care and mental health supports, even launching a foundation in 2022, Hi Dad Foundation, in support of raising awareness for mental health in young men and dads. This was an extension of his work as founder of Father’s Day on the Hill, an annual event on Parliament Hill.

Matt is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly and the youngest government provincial politician prior to May 2015.

Ever wonder whether our genes can affect the way we digest certain foods or vice versa? This is the field of nutrigenomics and Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy a Professor at the University of Toronto and Founder of Nutrigenomix Inc discusses this exciting field!

Twitter: @elsohemy

IG: @nutrigenomix

https://nutrigenomix.com/

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Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy is a Professor and Associate Chair and held a Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics at the University of Toronto. He is also the founder of Nutrigenomix Inc., and serves as the company’s Chief Science Officer. Dr. El-Sohemy obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. He has published over 200 peer reviewed publications and has given more than 300 invited talks around the world. Dr. El-Sohemy is the recipient of several awards for excellence in research by the American College of Nutrition, the Canadian Society for Nutrition and the American Nutrition Association.

Captain Gary Russell, an Air Canada Pilot with over 25 years of flying experiences chats about the current labour issues within the airline industry, the mystery of MH370, what’s going on airports, the airline’s response to climate change, and the labour/union movement.

Twitter: @garybrussell

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Captain Gary Russell is a Boeing 737 pilot based in Vancouver, and is a former union executive for the Air Canada Pilots Association. Prior to his appointment as the Association’s Chairman, he served two terms as a national board member and has been actively involved in the Association over the past decade, including as a local pilot representative, magazine editor, trustee and Chair of the External Affairs Committee.

Like many pilots in Canada, Captain Russell began his flying career as a flight instructor and later a pilot in Northern Canada and overseas before being hired by Air Canada in 2007.

As Chairman, Captain Russell presided over board meetings and acted as the pilots' principal representative to Air Canada on employment matters, including negotiation and administration of their collective agreement and was the official spokesperson for ACPA.

The Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) currently represents approximately 4,200 commercial pilots, with 600 previously furloughed during the COVID crisis all of whom have now returned to active status. These highly skilled professional pilots fly passengers and cargo across Canada and around the world on Air Canada and Air Canada rouge.

Gary resides on a farm in Comox, BC with his wife, Chantal, and son, Ben.

Shame and guilt are such primitive human emotions, and Lois Hollis discusses how shame guilt and its associate behavior can be so damaging.

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https://youtube.com/user/ShameGuiltSurvival

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Lois Hollis shifts our opinion on the taboo subject, shame guilt. She is a shame guilt educator, counselor, filmmaker, author who coined the word shame guilt. Lois has always been a trailblazer as she helped develop one of the first Kidney

Hemodialysis Units in the USA at Thomas Jefferson University in 1966.

Today Lois not only shows us why shame guilt has led us to believe we are victims

incapable of stellar lives but also HOW to make friends with our inner critic and

kick shame guilt out of our lives.

What are the impacts of deforestation in the Amazon on climate, Indigenous Peoples, and overall quality of the rainforest? How can the Amazon be restored?

Dr. Patricia Pinho, Deputy Science Director of IPAM Amazonia, and an IPCC Author is here to discuss what is happening on the ground of the Amazon. What’s the political situation like in Brazil and are things feeling more optimistic?

Email: [email protected]

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Dr. Patricia Pinho is interested in understanding the ways people's lives are affected by the impacts of climate change and how they respond to these challenges through adaptation. She investigates under what ways some people (of color, indigenous, women, children, elderly, and across geographies) are more vulnerable, addressing inequalities and loss and damage (residual risks) through justice.

Patricia also has experience in researching the relationship on ecosystem services, human wellbeing and livelihoods sustainability with special focus on Amazonia. I’m passionate about the critical role of Amazonia Ecosystem(s) in delivering services for local livelihoods, regional economy, and climate resilience in Brazil, South America, and the world.