Alacrity Canada is taking steps to help and support portfolio companies and business partners to adjust and revise their strategies, considering the challenges caused by COVID-19. With the rapidly changing priorities in the World, carbon emissions and the fight against climate change becoming an important issue for all major companies and governments. BC and Canada […]

The Land Trust Alliance of BC represents 36 land trusts across BC. Several factors have complicated our work since March 2020. First, our ability to message and communicate the need to conserve private land as individual members and as a collective. Focus has moved towards health care, social services and other pressing causes. Yet the […]

INEO is a technology company providing services to retailers, including liquor retailers who have been deemed essential services in the pandemic. As a group, retailers were struggling for sometime with a changing consumer landscape and have now been getting crushed by the pandemic. INEO’s technology gives retailers access to data which until now only online […]

This project investigates the vegetation of the Canadian Rockies, focusing on roots and other belowground characteristics which significantly influence ecosystem structure and function. The project will compare vegetation change over time and space using historical and recent photos from the Mountain Legacy Project. The findings will provide increased understanding of spatial and temporal variation of […]

How has your company been affected by the COVID??19 pandemic? Describe how an internship student is important to your future success and business strategy. Badinotti developed a Covid-19 Protocol early on for distribution to all employees. We have implemented many measures at our workplaces to combat Covid-19 and we have managed this global crisis well. […]

The applicant will join an active alcohol policy research team at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) who are engaged in looking at interactions between changes to alcohol policy during COVID-19 lockdowns and implications of these for alcohol consumption and related harms. The applicant will be given training in the use of an […]

Maternally inherited bacteria are commonly found in insects. Many of these have been found to provide beneficial traits to their hosts. One particular bacterial-mediated trait which is being found to be increasingly common within insects, is protection against natural enemies. For instance, the maternally inherited bacteria of fruit flies, Spiroplasma, can protect against nematodes and […]

Revela is a 1.5 year old startup; we are building a tool to improve the process of preparing, cleaning, and performing ongoing health validation in high-volume streaming data. We are at the stage of needing to refine the marketing direction of our technology in order to develop it into a saleable product.

As a non-profit organization that supports local, independent businesses, Think Local First has pivoted its work to align with the needs of our member businesses during the pandemic. One of the programs we created sells gift certificates on behalf of local businesses in Greater Victoria and has grown to include businesses throughout BC. Creating the […]

COVID-19 pandemic and safe distancing protocols set by government officials mean in-person witnessing and execution of various legal and “personal planning” documents (Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Agreements) have been challenged, which directly reduced our revenue. A direct result of the state of emergency declaration (Emergency Program Act) for all of British Columbia, are two […]

Many children with ASD experience significant difficulties with attention and executive function. This research will investigate the effects of a direct attention and executive function training intervention in children ages 6 to 12 with ASD (high functioning). Research has shown that it is possible to improve attention and executive functioning in children with various neuropathologies. […]

This project seeks to develop a fluid solver that is capable of simulating the interaction between low viscosity fluids and solid objects, such as pouring down water from a water pitcher onto the ground. Fluid effects such as splashing water are widely used in video game and film industry. As a visual effect solution provider, […]