Toronto Star – Decoding Canada’s ‘skills crisis’: What’s the solution?

Ottawa has been running a series of TV ads for its Canada Job Grant that makes fixing the country’s unemployment problem look easy. An actor dressed as a construction worker says he’s been looking for a job for weeks but doesn’t have the right skills for the work available. How can he get more training, […]

Ottawa, ON – May 29, 2013 – Innovation is the key to Canada’s economic prosperity as agreed by panelists at a Mitacs forum in Ottawa yesterday. They also identified that one vital piece of the puzzle is missing: skilled R&D managers. “Business innovation is a driver of growth, productivity and competitiveness and it is easy […]

  Toronto, ON – Thursday, May 2, 2013 – Mitacs thanks the Government of Ontario for a new $10 million investment to develop the next generation of skilled research and development managers. This new funding will allow exceptional PhDs in Ontario to lead and manage an industry research project, promoting commercialization and economic benefit, while […]

HAMILTON, ON April 30, 2013 — A comprehensive report released today offers new insights into worries of graduate students and how universities can better help them find meaningful work. The report, entitled Beyond Labs and Libraries: Career Pathways for Doctoral Students, comes at a time when more and more students are pursuing graduate studies—generating potentially […]

Two young Nova Scotia researchers are getting help from businesses to turn their smart ideas into better health care and better products. Olga Hrytsenko and Marek Lipczak, both completing post-doctoral fellowships at Dalhousie University, are the first Nova Scotia recipients of the Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship program. Mitacs brings business and top researchers together to […]

  Vancouver, BC – March 21, 2013 – Mitacs commends the Government of Canada for new investments in skills training including $13M over two years for Mitacs Globalink, an international internship program. This new funding will enable an expansion of Mitacs Globalink and provide international research internships in countries around the world to Canadian undergraduate […]

OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 20, 2013) – The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), today announced the appointment of new members to the Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC). “Science, Technology and Innovation Council members are highly accomplished and respected Canadians,” said Minister Paradis. […]

Waterloo, Ontario – The Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) and Mitacs, a national non-profit research organization, have announced a Memorandum of Understanding to open strategic partnership opportunities between Ontario’s innovative water companies and local, highly-trained university graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. This agreement builds on the programs available through Mitacs, which connect high-calibre researchers with […]

Vancouver, B.C. – March 5, 2013 – Mitacs congratulates Dr. Suzanne Fortier, current President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, for being selected as the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University in Montreal. “In appointing Dr. Fortier, McGill is ensured a tireless advocate for research and innovation, not to mention undergraduate and […]

Just one of four PhD graduates becomes a professor, which begs the question of how to capitalize on the talents of those not headed for academia. One answer, many believe, is internships at the master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral level. Such programs give young scholars an early taste of working in industry and help Canadian companies […]

Research carried out by kinesiologist Heather Wright of the University of Ottaw apromises to shed light on the impact of extreme heat on older miners. Commissioned by Vale and funded in part through the Mitacs –Accelerate research internship program, the study may influence guidelines dictating a miner’s exposure to extreme heat, the frequen­cy and number of breaks they […]

In the fall of 2010, Ben Moore paced the halls of Victoria General Hospital as an worry-ridden dad whose newborn daughter was suffering complications. He lived outside of the neonatal intensive care unit for two months, and noticed – as a telecommunications engineer and a guy who owned a smartphone – that communication between patients, […]