Jim Stanton

A graduate of Simon Fraser University, Jim brings more than 30 years of first-hand experience as an army officer, broadcaster, trainer, communicator, and public speaker. Jim worked for as number of years as a journalist with the CTV network. He was the Director of Communications and Director of Government Relations for Canada Post before setting up Stanton Associates in 1990. Stanton Associates is a Vancouver-based communications and training company with offices in Canada and the USA. Jim's credentials are well known in the communications and emergency preparedness community. A frequent guest lecturer on communications and the media, Jim recently spoke to the US National Institute for Government Innovation in Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., the World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, and the National Earthquake Conference, Seattle, WA. Jim and his team have assisted in developing proactive communications strategies to deal with floods, plane crashes, Gulf War 1, Y2K, chronic wasting disease, Ebola, collapse of mine shafts, cryptosporidium contaminated water, forest fires, the Kananaskis G8 Summit, Toronto SARS, fires in BC in 2003, 2004, the 2005 crash of MK Airlines cargo plane in Halifax and a potash mine incident in Saskatchewan. Jim is a founding member of the Ontario Association of Emergency Managers, the BC Association of Emergency Managers and has been a director of EPICC since 2003. He recently completed a contract with the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics Winter Games to provide them with their communications strategy. The Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario, Dr Sheela Basrur, asked Jim Stanton to sit on a blue ribbon SARS Panel to examine strategic communications considerations for Ontario's health programs. Dr Basrur said: "I asked Jim Stanton to join our SARS Experts Panel because he is one of the leading minds in crisis communications & media relations in Canada."