Átl'ḵa7tsem/Howe Sound is a UNESCO Biosphere Region just north of Vancouver, BC. It is a place where the mountains meet the ocean. Bridget John is the Program Manager of the Átl'ḵa7tsem/Howe Sound Marine Stewardship Initiative. She talks about a living online map, and how it helps the communities build towards a sustainable future.

Jodi Derkach, senior manager of land and resource at Nutrien, talks about how "where" is the key to solving major challenges in Nutrien's potash business. Among other things, mapping helps Jodi's team reach executives and secure the millions of dollars needed to run capital-intensive seismic programs.

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Carla Evans, senior geospatial consultant and director of spatial information management and CAD and IM solutions with Golder Member of WSP's Ontario - Earth & Environment division, talks about the importance of aligning your geospatial strategy with the overall company strategy to best effect change.

Amar Singh, executive vice president of Infrastructure Ontario's (IO's) Commercial Advisory and Strategy practice, talks about the strategy behind increasing Internet access in Ontario's rural and remote communities.

By streamlining processes, using innovative procurement solutions and using geospatial tools like IO's Broadband One Window, IO has successfully helped Internet service providers, the electricity sector and municipalities work together. It's all with the aim of improving broadband service in communities all over the province.

The last funcast podcast of 2022 looks back at 2021 - the 2021 Census of Population to be precise.  Every five years, Statistics Canada invites Canadians to participate in the census to learn more about who we are and where we live.  Andrea Zagar and Carson Smulders are quizzed about several key indicators revealed from the May 2021 census results.  Learn about how your province or territory stacks up: in population, socioeconomics, housing and more.  It's a short form game for long form geo-glory!

Ranchers in BC are working with local officials to pilot an innovative wildfire mitigation project - using cows to graze on lands and lower the volume of forages around communities. Amanda Miller, an ecologist working on the project talked about how it's a win-win situation.

In Halifax, Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan, a physician, is heading up a project to use GIS technology to help physicians across the province make better-informed decisions about their patients' healthcare.

She is mapping out the social determinants, environmental factors and local healthcare services available across the province. Visualizing this data will enable doctors to make better recommendations for healthcare options as well as reducing travel and wait times.

We honour Remembrance Day with Paul Heersink who has been mapping the 20,000 ships that sank during World War II. His dashboard illuminates patterns and stories across the naval theater and through the progress of the entire war. He shared his 8 years journey of mapping the sunken ships on Geographical Thinking.

Tegan Buckingham, Director of Integrated Marketing and Development at Toronto Humane Society uses GIS to better understand who adopts pets and how her organization can serve them better. Tegan joined Geographical Thinking to talk about the spatial analysis done by Toronto Humane society and why it's a critical skill for other non-profits.

About 1 in 7 people in Canada do not have enough food to eat. A third of women heading households with children in this country are food insecure, as are a lot of people who live in northern Canada and climate change is making that worse. On this episode of ‘Geographical Thinking' hear how GIS apps are helping Foodbanks Canada deal with a growing problem.