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Home to Cirque du Soleil, the National Circus School, TOHU and more, Montreal is at the heart of Quebec’s billion-dollar contemporary circus industry. And for the first two weeks of July, industry members, artists and fans will converge on the city for the annual Montréal complètement cirque festival. Amid this flurry of excitement, Concordia University’s […]

Saskatoon, SK – Mitacs and International Minerals Innovation Institute (IMII) announce a partnership to fund student internships to advance research and development into innovations in the minerals industry. Mitacs and IMII will support Saskatchewan’s major minerals companies by leveraging funding, connections, and academic research expertise. The partnership will help advance innovations that matter to mining […]

Saint John, NB — The University of New Brunswick’s Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence (MAMCE) welcomes a $1.12 million contribution from Mitacs and Lockheed Martin. Funding support from Mitacs and Lockheed Martin will help lay the foundation for innovation and entrepreneurship in marine additive manufacturing research in New Brunswick. By leveraging $504,000 from Lockheed […]

Ephraim Nowak is hard at work preparing to mass produce his company’s latest development, SkyVU. “It’s a novel cockpit video recorder for small aircraft that are currently not required to use a black box recorder,” said Nowak, CEO of Percept Systems Nowak, a six-year veteran of the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue Team, says the […]

A Mitacs researcher and geotechnical specialist working with Brandon University is helping to change the face of rural roads in the area. Cypher Environmental has been producing an environmentally-friendly soil stabilizer called EarthZyme for a decade now, Riley Cram, the Mitacs researcher and specialist, has found a way to make it more widely applicable, including […]

Fredericton company has developed a natural food preservative from an unlikely source — extract of mushroom. Chiber, a product developed by Chinova Bioworks, will offer food and beverage companies an alternative to artificial preservatives such as sodium sorbate and sodium benzoate. These types of preservatives are created synthetically by modifying salt. Studies have found that sodium […]

HALIFAX – A Halifax entrepreneur is poised to dramatically improve the treatment of sleep apnea, and other breathing conditions, with the launch of a first-of-its-kind respiratory monitoring device that provides a safer, more comfortable solution for patients. The ground-breaking product has earned Hamed Hanafi (pictured), 33, a prestigious award from Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that […]

TRAIL – Austin Engineering Ltd. and its research partners are taking their findings on how dams respond during earthquakes to an international audience this week when they present at The International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). The Trail engineering firm, Selkirk College, FortisBC, and the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) have again worked successfully […]

“As the country’s first graduate blockchain learning path, the initiative is transformative to the blockchain sector.” The University of British Columbia (UBC) is launching a blockchain and distributed ledger technology training program for graduate students.The training program, which UBC called the first of its kind in Canada, will concentrate on four sectors: health and wellness, […]

FREDERICTON – The creators of an award-winning natural food preservative say it will revolutionize the food industry when it hits the market in October. Chiber, produced by Fredericton based Chinova Bioworks,  is an alternative to artificial preservatives used in the food and beverage market. Created by Chinova Bioworks scientist Tanzina Huq, Chiber is based on a […]

“Our partnership collaboration with Element AI represents the next step in our AI transformation at HSBC.”-Andre Cronje Element AI is partnering with HSBC to help the bank develop the capability to analyze data that comes from clients of its Global Banking and Markets (GBM) division. The partnership comes as the third of Element AI’s customer deals that have […]

At the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron, a national research facility of USask, Situm has been studying how the protective coatings of rebars—the steel reinforcing bars used to strengthen concrete —withstand rusting (corrosion). He did his research with the potash mining industry especially in mind. Salt from potash mining seeps through the porous concrete and […]