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In our rapidly evolving global context, Western nations, including Canada, are asking the question “To whom does the future belong?” We watch with wonder, and not a little envy, as emerging economies spread their wings and take off, seemingly overnight. Countries that have struggled with poverty and development are becoming economic miracles, blessed with stratospheric […]

Mitacs announces $10.25 million for undergraduate internships, graduate fellowships   São Paulo, Brazil, April 27, 2012 – Canadian universities and their Brazilian counterparts are announcing 75 new partnerships and scholarship programs worth $6,736,800 (CAD) in university and government funding during the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada’s university presidents’ mission to Brazil, April 25 […]

Mitacs Board Chair Brad Bennett commended the Government of Canada for today’s announcement of $14M in new funding for Mitacs to significantly increase student access to industrial internships. “The Federal Government has sent a clear message that they want to encourage organizations like ours to work more intensively with our business and academic partners to […]

Just prior to the International Indian Film Academy awards being held in Toronto last summer, Indo-Canadian journalist and reporter Faiz Jamil prepared an essay for CBC online focusing on the awareness that contemporary Indians have of Canada — even with us hosting the film awards. Jamil sums it up: “We simply don’t register.” “Not even […]

Just prior to the International Indian Film Academy awards being held in Toronto last summer, Indo-Canadian journalist and reporter Faiz Jamil prepared an essay for CBC online focusing on the awareness that contemporary Indians have of Canada — even with us hosting the film awards. Jamil sums it up: “We simply don’t register.” “Not even […]

Just prior to the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards being held in Toronto last summer, Indo-Canadian journalist and reporter Faiz Jamil prepared an essay for CBC online focusing on the awareness that contemporary Indians have of Canada – even with us hosting the IIFA awards. Jamil sums it up: “We simply don’t register.” “Not […]

Ottawa, Ontario — The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), today announced a Government of Canada contribution of up to $4,227,500 to Mitacs Inc. that will give graduate students and recent graduates of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs real world business skills […]

Vancouver, B.C. – February 29, 2012 – Mitacs is formalizing the important role that Canada’s universities play in its programs by announcing the creation of an Academic Partnership Strategy.  This new strategy will ensure that university objectives are accurately reflected in Mitacs strategies and that they have the opportunity to explore pilot programs and new […]

  The global population explosion of the past century, unprecedented in human history, poses a thorny tangle of interconnected challenges. With the population expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050, meeting human needs will require science-based answers to urgent questions about food, energy, water, disease prevention and many other issues. Increasingly, innovation will hinge upon […]

Page: A5, Section: News   A student under the supervision of a Vancouver Island University professor has gained national attention for his work for a sustainable prawn fishery. The focus of Brett Favaro’s studies, made in concert with VIU fisheries and aquaculture professor Stefanie Duff, is to reduce bycatch found in prawn traps to keep the […]

When Mackenzie Gray talks about the way Paul McCartney used a recursive sequence to make the song “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” seem to last forever, you realize that part of the Beatles’ phenomenal success might have sprung from McCartney’s genius as a mathematician. When Roger Kemp draws on a napkin to illustrate that […]