- 0September 2023#MitacsImpact: Balance Biogas: powering a greener future through innovative waste transformation
- 0July 2023#MitacsImpact: On a mission to improve road safety by gamifying skills development and behaviour change for drivers, Alberta-based start-up is working with Mitacs interns to build out robust business intelligence dashboards
- 0May 2023Breakthrough approach ‘grows’ colour to produce natural colours for the textile industry, removing environmental hazards traditionally associated with the sector
- 0October 2022Juliette Champeil is reducing the time it takes pharmaceutical companies to get vaccines to market by giving them a safer, easier and quicker way to evaluate their products.
- 0October 2022Pascal McCarthy is helping athletes perform better and stay injury-free by analyzing and improving both the way they move and their mental wellbeing — all using a state-of-the-art AI-based platform he created.
- 0October 2022A Montreal innovator is on a mission to better predict and prevent strokes so fewer families endure the sudden loss of a loved one. Her first-of-its-kind tool uses cutting-edge AI and image analysis technologies to make more accurate stroke predictions
- 0October 2022A first-of-its-kind robot goes where no human should ever have to go: into the murky, muddy sludge of industrial mine tailing ponds and other hazardous terrains that need to be continually monitored.
- 0August 2022Ontario start-up builds and commercializes tools based on classical quantum information theory to ensure the highest level of security and communication over public and private networks, paving the way for the future quantum Internet
- 0March 2022Dr. Seyyedarash Haddadi developed a novel, low-cost compound — made from a graphene oxide-silver combination — that can be used as part of a coating material for masks; this material makes them 99.99 percent effective against transmission of COVID-19.
- 0February 2022Four Indigenous-led interns at the Sanyakola Foundation build a framework to help recover Kwak’wala – one of the world’s endangered Indigenous languages.
- 0October 2021A Montréal chemical engineer and small business owner has developed a disruptive system that converts CO2 emissions into commercial-grade potassium formate — a chemical used as de-icer in airports.
- 0October 2021Small business owner and entrepreneur aims to disrupt the $9 billion rope-access industry with “human-like” robot that improves safety and delivers three to four times faster than traditional methods.