Growing Opportunities Farm Community Cooperative is a non-profit community service cooperative. The organization’s objectives are to alleviate poverty, provide nutritious fresh produce to people in need, provide employment for people with barriers and challenges, build community resilience, and mitigate climate change. Growing Opportunities provides inclusive skills training, work experience and employment for people with barriers […]

Brain cancers represent one of the most aggressive tumors that are especially challenging to treat through drugs, partially due to the inherent protection by the blood-brain barrier. Therefore, developing drugs that have specific chemical properties that allow them to cross the blood-brain-barrier, while simultaneously retaining their drug-like features is a heavily sought-after approach in treating […]

Development and oversight of an integrated water and waste management system including rainwater harvesting, grey water reuse for toilet flushing and irrigation, vertical and horizontal flow constructed wetland for septic treatment paired with outdoor composting toilets for seasonal use, and permaculture landscaping for passive rainwater retention. Upon completion, ongoing testing and monitoring procedures will be […]

Crop losses and the economic impact caused by canola insect pests is substantial, depending on outbreak conditions. With the predicted de-registration of two key insecticides, canola producers are potential subject to greater economic losses. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), also known as predatory nematodes, are commercially available biocontrol agents for the management of insect pests. Advancement in […]

Au lac Saint-Pierre, la culture de soya et du maïs dans le littoral a contribué à détériorer la qualité de l’eau et à mettre en péril les populations de perchaude. L’implantation de bandes riveraines et de bandes herbacées le long de fossés agricoles fait partie des solutions avancées pour rendre l’agriculture plus compatible avec la […]

Industrial-scale production of protein from black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) has emerged as an efficient and sustainable alternative to wild harvesting or large animal farming. The principal waste product, called frass, has plant growth-enhancing properties exceeding those explained from primary nutrient (e.g., N,P,K) profiles, but how does frass confer these growth enhancing properties upon plants? […]

This proposal describes a multidisciplinary approach to optimize the separation of peptides from an enzyme digest of filleting waste (frames) recovered from farm-raised Atlantic salmon. Our work has demonstrated that a particular salmon peptide fraction has the ability to reverse the effects of type 2 diabetes in rodent feeding trials and model system (tissue culture) […]

Climate change predictions make it highly likely that Pacific salmon will be exposed to future water temperature extremes. Given the importance of cold water to maintain Pacific salmon, the availability of discrete cold-water patches in rivers/streams that can act as thermal refugia may become increasingly critical to protect salmon. Such refugia can be provided by […]

L’objectif d’Habitat est de faciliter la mise en application de solutions concrètes et innovantes issues de la recherche, et ce, aussi bien dans les milieux naturels, que dans les milieux agricoles ou urbanisés. Depuis sa fondation en 2017, Habitat n’a cessé de croître et s’implique maintenant dans une gamme élargie de projets de caractérisation écologique […]

Acoustic Bait Technologies (ABT) is a start-up company located in Morristown, Nova Scotia. They are developing an alternative bait system for the lobster fishery, with the goal of helping the industry switch to more sustainable bait use. They are pursuing the use of recorded acoustic lobster sounds to modify the behaviour of lobsters to attract […]

Roads and traffic subdivide wildlife habitats and increase the mortality of wild animals that try to cross due to collisions with vehicles. Wildlife crossing structures are costly, but an alternative may exist in structures that are already present under roads such as water culverts. It is unknown how often wildlife use such structures in the […]

L’usage excessif des plastiques à l’échelle mondiale engendre de grands défis liés au control de la pollution, particulièrement dans les océans, mais aussi au niveau de l’empreinte carbonique de leur production. Dans le contexte de crise sanitaire actuel due à la COVID-19, les équipements de protection personnel sont nécessaires et leurs utilisation, obligatoire, a augmenté […]