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Website: www.jim-stanton.com

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 Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., the World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, and the National Earthquake Conference, Seattle, WA.

He is currently under contract with the city of Vancouver as they prepare for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics Winter Games.

Jim writes a blog for www.govtech.com on the role of the New Media 2.0 in communications today.

The late 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."

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