New Brunswick's latest numbers are out and they show more naloxone is being used, and being dispensed to the public, than ever before. The department of Public Health released its quarterly report,…
bradMay 26, 2021
The Wellness Hub is a show dedicated to uncovering the future of healthy living. Each week we aim to bring content that supports listeners’ personal health journeys through insightful conversations between our…
bradMarch 24, 2021
UpMeals, the leading white-label, prepared-meal solution, launched its first SmartVending machine at a residential property– Devonshire Properties’ Larch Tower (Beach Towers) location in Vancouver, B.C. The newly installed machine will give the 1,000+ residents…
bradMarch 9, 2021
A harm reduction group in southeastern New Brunswick has introduced a vending machine, or an “interactive dispensing service,” allowing people to access meth pipes, hygiene products, naloxone and sanitizer. Those are some…
bradDecember 11, 2020
This video from ANKORS produced by Watershed Productions features the harm reduction vending machine invented by Brad Pommen, Founder and Owner of Smart1 Technologies. Funded by Community Action Initiative, this video was…
bradApril 21, 2020
Brad Pommen believes vending machines can offer more than candy and chips. Pommen, the president of Nelson’s SMRT1 Technologies, introduced a machine last week that carries a mix of paid and free…
bradMarch 17, 2020
Over the last five years Canada has been a high-tech job creation machine. Year after year, the Toronto area alone has generated more technology jobs than San Francisco, Seattle or any other U.S.…
bradMarch 4, 2019
It’s never a good thing when the media attaches the word “apocalypse” onto your root word. Apocalypses tend to be events from which there is no recovery and when the term “retail…
bradJune 1, 2018
SMRT1 Technologies and its Healthcare partner demonstrated to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC); the success of using SMRT1 Vending Systems for Harm Reduction. Nelson, BC / July 28th 2021…
bradJuly 28, 2021
