. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by smi-enerpro. the solution in energy optimization. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the lengvari series. how many home fires are there in america each year? actually, between 5 and 10 million, and that is truly a sad and tragic total. second question, quick: what is the #1 cause of these fires? if you answered, "well, falling asleep with your cigarette lit", that would have been the correct answer a few years ago; it was the main cause, but now it's something else. picture this scene - i'm sure it may have happened to you: you're in your car, you're in a hurry, you're going to the office or to your job or to school, and suddenly you get a terrifying thought: "i've left the stove on." you do a u-turn, you come back, and maybe it is on. and thank god you came back, because when that stovetop reaches 662 degrees fahrenheit, things begin to ignite, and there goes your home and maybe some human lives with it. actually, t

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by fiera asset management. power of thinking, optimal performance, intelligent innovation. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the lengvari series. our featured company this week, at&t - yes, you heard that right. at&t, or at&t canada in its canadian subsidiary in a previous existence, just before the crisis in '08-'09, wasn't doing well; so much so that the prestigious holder of the worldwide brand decided to sort of walk away from this poor cousin and leave it to its own troubles. and who inherited that? dean prevost, our guest this week, who had previously toiled as a vice president at at&t canada. a brilliant harvard graduate, he's suddenly told, "well, you're the ceo. we're taking the brand away. now make it work". it became allstream, and he did make it work. it was a success. here's how he did it. here's dean prevost. dean prevost, here's what the press has to say about you. i'm just taki

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by smi-enerpro. the solution in energy optimization.s gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the dobson series. entrepreneurship, we like to say on this show, is democracy in the economy, and it's true. while the entrepreneur is building something for himself or herself, for the family, they are also doing good, because they are helping the economy grow, they're creating jobs, they're putting down roots in the community. all those things are worthwhile and worth doing. but occasionally it happens that an entrepreneur does further good - really specifically gets to help people in trouble, and does it selflessly, way beyond what the call of his business might require, someone who is on 24/7 with an ear always cocked even in the middle of the night, in case a call comes through because he is faced with tragedy at close quarters almost every day. the entrepreneur you're about to meet, gary burke, runs a company called burke's restoration, but he doesn't work on upholstery or furnit

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by fiera asset management.timal performance, intelligent innovation. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the fiera series. quick: what is the largest healthcare company in the world? not so easy to answer, huh? no name comes to mind, and yet there is such a company. here's a few hints: its world headquarters are located in san francisco, it's been around for well over a century, and it's doing very well, but even its own employees joke by saying it's the biggest company you've never heard of. and that may be a good sign. people who know the healthcare field say that in many areas the science is getting better, the technology is getting better, and the people, the quality of people, is getting better. the problem is the systems and the organizations. well, mckesson, the world's largest healthcare organization, has been steering a slow and steady and sure course for over a century, doing good work

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by fiera asset management. power of thinking, optimal performance, intelligent innovation. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the lengvari series. our featured company this week, at&t - yes, you heard that right. at&t, or at&t canada in its canadian subsidiary in a previous existence, just before the crisis in '08-'09, wasn't doing well; so much so that the prestigious holder of the worldwide brand decided to sort of walk away from this poor cousin and leave it to its own troubles. and who inherited that? dean prevost, our guest this week, who had previously toiled as a vice president at at&t canada. a brilliant harvard graduate, he's suddenly told, "well, you're the ceo. we're taking the brand away. now make it work". it became allstream, and he did make it work. it was a success. here's how he did it. here's dean prevost. dean prevost, here's what the press has to say about you. i'm just taki

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by fiera asset management. the power of thinking, optimal performance, intelligent innovation. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the fiera series. quick: what is the largest healthcare company in the world? not so easy to answer, huh? no name comes to mind, and yet there is such a company. here's a few hints: its world headquarters are located in san francisco, it's been around for well over a century, and it's doing very well, but even its own employees joke by saying it's the biggest company you've never heard of. and that may be a good sign. people who know the healthcare field say that in many areas the science is getting better, the technology is getting better, and the people, the quality of people, is getting better. the problem is the systems and the organizations. well, mckesson, the world's largest healthcare organization, has been steering a slow and steady and sure course for over

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by smi-enerpro. the solution in energy optimization. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the lengvari series. remember those chilean miners stuck at the bottom of the shaft in the mountain in chile who were finally rescued, each and every one? how could we not remember? the whole world was watching. ironically, in that very same mine, in another shaft, was the equipment designed by the entrepreneur you're about to meet; equipment precisely designed to save the lives of miners in the future when things like this happen. it couldn't apply in that case, but it certainly will in the years to come. his name is walter siggelkow. he's from sudbury, which is sort of the mining capital of canada, certainly, and maybe even of north america, and his mining expertise is shared by almost everybody in that town. and one day, he and his buddies were sitting around a beer, and they thought of doing better with the remote equipment that

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by smi-enerpro. the solution in energy optimization. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the dobson series. entrepreneurship, we like to say on this show, is democracy in the economy, and it's true. while the entrepreneur is building something for himself or herself, for the family, they are also doing good, because they are helping the economy grow, they're creating jobs, they're putting down roots in the community. all those things are worthwhile and worth doing. but occasionally it happens that an entrepreneur does further good - really specifically gets to help people in trouble, and does it selflessly, way beyond what the call of his business might require, someone who is on 24/7 with an ear always cocked, even in the middle of the night, in case a call comes through, because he is faced with tragedy at close quarters almost every day. the entrepreneur you're about to meet, gary burke, runs a company called burke's

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by smi-enerpro. the solution in energy optimization. and by... ...domaine pinnacle ice apple wine. winter's gold. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the lengvari series. how many home fires are there in america each year? actually, between 5 and 10 million, and that is truly a sad and tragic total. second question, quick: what is the #1 cause of these fires? if you answered, "well, falling asleep with your cigarette lit", that would have been the correct answer a few years ago; it was the main cause, but now it's something else. picture this scene - i'm sure it may have happened to you: you're in your car, you're in a hurry, you're going to the office or to your job or to school, and suddenly you get a terrifying thought: "i've left the stove on." you do a u-turn, you come back, and maybe it is on. and thank god you came back, because when that stovetop reaches 662 degrees fahrenheit, things begin to ignite, and there goes your home and maybe some human lives with it. actually, t