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Melissa Tremblay received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — Indigenous for her involvement with the Successful Families Program, which provides supportive housing for teen parents and their children in Edmonton. “The goal is to work with teen families to build on their strengths and empower them towards independence and to reach their goals, whatever […]

Stereotypes about teen parents prevent them from finding secure housing and isolate them from the community supports they need to thrive, a new Edmonton study suggests.  But a unique, made-in-Edmonton housing program for pregnant teens, teen moms and their children is proving that a little extra support — including counselling and parenting classes — can […]

Ottawa, ON Six researchers, a leading professor, a spin-off company, and a humanitarian-response company are receiving recognition for their game-changing achievements in Canadian research. Their innovations include developing a less costly and more environmentally friendly way to produce cannabinoids, launching a leading-edge breast imaging device that provides high-resolution images at a lower radiation dose, advancing […]

HALIFAX, N.S. — Boring is best when it comes to cigarette packaging, a Halifax researcher has concluded. Mohammed Al-Hamdani worked with 50 smokers using eye-tracking technology and tests that measured the motivation to smoke. He found that plain cigarette packaging not only increases attention to health warnings for all smokers, it also deters some smokers’ desire […]

The annual cost of buddy, which the Ontario Maple Syrup Producer’s Association (OMSPA) estimates can reach into the millions, is a lot of liquid gold for small producers who are forced to sell buddy product at highly reduced rates. This summer, Eloy Jose Torres Garcia, a senior Fanshawe College undergraduate and Mitacs intern, led a […]

A field test would help producers, but research was required. Eloy Jose Torres Garcia, a senior Fanshawe College undergraduate and Mitacs intern, led a team of researchers at Fanshawe and Agriculture Agri-Food Canada with the mission to solve this age-old problem. “Buddy wastes time, fuel, and money,” says Eloy Jose, a Colombian microbiologist and biotech […]

“The walleye species is the number one sport fish in the northern U.S. and Canada,” says John Grace owner of the Old Post Lodge, noting that the livelihood of fishing lodges — which are big business in Northern Ontario — depends on maintaining a healthy walleye population. “If we weren’t stocking the walleye and continually […]

Mitacs is pleased to announce a new agreement with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which has now officially launched as the UK-Canada Globalink Doctoral Exchange. In collaboration with the Mitacs Globalink program as the platform, the integration of Mitacs programs with the research excellence of UKRI ensures that, to date, this will become the largest […]

Ottawa, ON and Victoria, BC  This Fall 2019, 17 researchers begin year-long placements in the federal government and two provincial governments, harnessing their research expertise for the development of policy-based decisions on key issues across Canada. With robust expertise ranging from environmental protection to mental health, the 2019-2020 cohort of the Mitacs Canadian Science Policy […]

Vancouver, BC Mitacs will partner with the Vector Institute for artificial intelligence to rapidly connect machine learning students to employers in Canada. Given the exceptional and urgent demand for machine learning talent, students and postdoctoral fellows in the field will have their internship funding requests accelerated. This will shorten the review period and allow students […]

A Fanshawe College undergraduate student is researching ways to stop a mysterious and “horrible” flavour maple syrup producers refer to as “buddy” – which tastes and smells like a burnt Tootsie Roll – from making its way into late-season maple syrup. While the phenomenon usually occurs toward the end of the maple sugar season, if […]

Turns out London researchers have a solution and a London-based company is key to it. Researchers at Western University have discovered adding a thin layer of carbon to rechargeable batteries can boost their life by up to 50 per cent, and the physicist working at 3M Canada’s London facility developed that coating. “The performance right […]