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By Nathan Caddell After graduating from UBC Okanagan with a bachelor’s degree in business management and a minor in psychology, Candice Loring spent some time working in finance in West Kelowna before she went back to school. Well, kinda. Loring switched career paths to work out of her alma mater, in business development for national research […]

By Matthew Halliday It’s no wonder that Canadian industry is keen to find its way onto the country’s university campuses. For decades, Canada’s postsecondary institutions have accounted for a rapidly growing share of the country’s R&D activity – roughly 41 percent of the national total in 2019, according to Statistics Canada, worth nearly $15 billion. Read […]

By Sarita Patel A local West Kelowna woman is out to change the narrative of Indigenous research in Canada. Candice Loring, 36, a member of the Gitwangak band from the Gitxsan nation, is the first Indigenous person to be hired by Mitacs — a national innovation organization that fosters growth by solving business challenges with research solutions […]

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TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2021/CNW/ – Scotiabank today announced the launch of the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund in collaboration with Mitacs, a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates research and training programs in partnership with academia, private industry and government. Over the next three years, the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund will aim to increase the […]

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By Jonathan Guignard The Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina has announced John G. Hampton as its executive director and CEO, the first Indigenous person to fill that role in a public art gallery in Canada. Read more…

The University of Guelph and Mitacs have signed a MOU to establish around 100 internships in the next five years for students in UoGuelph’s master of cybersecurity and threat intelligence (MCTI) program. Read more…

By Stephanie Tsicos WINNIPEG — It’s been one year since a plane carrying dozens of Canadians was shot down in Iran shortly after take off. Read more…

Scholarship established in honour of colleague Forough Khadem Winnipeg, MB — Today marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic death of 176 people aboard Flight PS752 — among them many Canadian-Iranian researchers returning from Tehran, including renowned scientist Forough Khadem, PhD, a Mitacs employee, colleague, and friend to many. Forough came to Canada from Iran originally to […]

Candice Loring is on a mission. The 36-year-old member of the Gitwangak band from the Gitxsan nation is out to change the narrative of Indigenous research in Canada. “Historically, research was done ‘on’ Indigenous people, not ‘for’ or ‘with’ Indigenous people,” explained Loring, Director of Business Development and Indigenous Community Engagement for Mitacs — a national innovation […]