Postmedia News: Ottawa aims to double number of international students

The Harper government will outline plans today to double the number of international students in Canada by targeting China and other fast-growing countries, The Sun has learned. It is the latest step in the federal strategy to make economic development the heart of Canada’s foreign policy. More diplomatic, visa-processing and marketing resources will be shifted […]

The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, today launched a new International Education Strategy designed to maintain and enhance Canada’s global position in higher education. The comprehensive plan sets targets to attract more international researchers and students to Canada, deepen the research links between Canadian and foreign educational institutions and establish a pan-Canadian partnership […]

On Tuesday, January 14th, in Ottawa, the Embassy of France in Canada and Mitacs Inc., a Canadian non-profit research and training organization, signed a letter of intent with a view to working together to promote research exchanges. The goal of this program is to provide opportunities, over the next three years, for 75 French participants […]

Mitacs CEO Arvind Gupta, Minister of Advanced Education Amrik Virk, and Mitacs Accelerate intern Katie Birdsall joined host Bill Good in studio to discuss Mitacs Accelerate and the importance of connecting post-secondary students with industry for skills training.    

With the technology hub in B.C. growing rapidly, students and industry leaders conveyed their skills training needs at a roundtable discussion with the Minister of Advanced Education and the Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services. “B.C. is gaining a competitive digital edge in the global marketplace and post-secondary education and skills training are vital […]

Mitacs, a national research and training network, and Communitech, the Waterloo Region’s hub for the commercialization of innovative technologies, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to extend their partnership to foster innovation and commercialization in southern Ontario. In the first year of the Communitech and Mitacs partnership, over $1.1 million in funding was awarded […]

Mitacs congratulates the Government of Canada and the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), for launching the Southern Ontario Prosperity Initiatives (SOPI), an investment of $530 million over five years, beginning April 1, 2014. This investment will be delivered through four initiatives designed to […]

Nuraleve is proud to announce the product launch of their leading-edge neurotherapy device, the SmartStim Model 1000. Nuraleve has designed, manufactured, and tested this device in Ontario. The device is being marketed for the reduction of smoking cravings. Randomized, double-blind controlled clinical trials show a significant reduction in cravings. Additionally, Health Canada has now approved […]

An up-and-coming Waterloo researcher has been presented with a prestigious award recognizing his outstanding achievement of accelerating the time-consuming and tedious process of measuring fatty acid and cholesterol content in food and tissue samples, a necessary step required to comply with mandated food labelling regulations in Canada. Adam Metherel, a 32-year-old Kinesiology student at the […]

An up-and-coming Halifax researcher has been presented with a prestigious award recognizing his outstanding innovation of creating a miniature, low-cost, high-resolution ultrasound probe that is helping to advance important clinical research. Andre Bezanson, a 26-year-old PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University, was awarded the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – PhD following a […]

Mitacs, a national research and training network, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Queen’s University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide enhanced industrial research experience to Queen’s graduate students. Under the terms of the MOU, the organizations will offer 125 joint academia-industry Mitacs Accelerate internships over the next […]

Mitacs and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council are pleased to announce a joint initiative to create stronger connections between Canadian companies and social sciences and humanities graduate students. Industry will have increased access to vital skills that will help them succeed in today’s global marketplace including strong analysis and communications skills, the ability […]