Westland Insurance has grown into one of Canada’s largest independently owned insurance distribution businesses. Our head office is located in Surrey, British Columbia, and we have over 190 locations across Canada. This internship project will involve identifying the best local and national practices around customer experience and relationships, financial analysis, employee learning management and technical […]

It is widely accepted in Canada that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the engine of the national economy responsible for 98% of businesses and employing more than 10 million individuals. To continue growing and supporting the national economy, SMEs can internationalize to seek increased profits and gain a competitive edge. One industry that can […]

The way people spend their money—their consumer behaviour—can be categorized in terms of materialism or minimalism. More specifically, materialist individuals tend to accumulate material goods, seek new acquisitions often overbuying, and cling to useless objects. In turn, minimalists purchase only essential items, reuse what is still functional, and discard the superfluous. Although materialism is often […]

Après de nombreuses années de guerre, l’Ukraine est quotidiennement confrontée à la nécessité de restaurer rapidement le réseau ferroviaire après les bombardements et de rétablir la communication avec les territoires dé-occupés afin d’augmenter la croissance économique et d’améliorer la communication régionale. L’objectif principal de ce projet de recherche à Mitacs Globalink est d’optimiser la prise […]

Web page classification is the process of assigning a web page to one or more predefined categories and it is one of the essential techniques of web mining. Web page classification identifies what type of web page we are extracting data from and can help search engines to effectively deal with and rank web pages […]

Ce projet porte sur l’évaluation de la performance de gestionnaires de fonds de placement. Plus spécifiquement, dans ce projet on cherche à développer des outils qui permettront à la compagnie de déterminer, à partir de données sur ses rendements passés et sur le rendement d’indices de marché appropriés, si un gestionnaire d’actif a été significativement […]

The landscape of the insurance industry has undergone rapid transformation in recent decades. A driving force behind this transformation is the exponential growth of data volumes, necessitating effective processing to unlock their full potential. This surge has led to the development of advanced processing technologies, much like how AI is harnessed to transform the insurance […]

Dans un marché très compétitif comme celui de l’assurance, estimer la durée de l’association potentielle entre un nouveau client et la compagnie est un enjeu majeur. Ceci permet à l’entreprise de cibler de futurs clients potentiels qui seront plus susceptibles d’augmenter sa rentabilité en répartissant les coûts dus à l’émission du contrat sur une plus […]

We are an independent financial advisory family-owned firm based in Edmonton. We have two financial advisors, a CFP, certified financial planner, and a CHS, certified health insurance specialist. We also have three support admin staff; two at our West Edmonton office and one remote. Are focus is providing advice to certain health professionals with income […]

In the emerging sector of fintech, a novel concept known as a home equity investment is gaining traction, offering homeowners a way to access their property’s value without selling it. This financial instrument involves an investor providing a cash infusion to homeowners in exchange for a 20% ownership stake in their home. Homeowners then have […]

Fairness has gained unprecedented support in a world of daily emerging scientific inquisition and discovery, aiming to tackle algorithmic bias effectively. Extensive efforts have been devoted to defining and embodying what is bias (discrimination) and developing tools that enable machine learning practitioners to detect and mitigate bias during algorithm design. However, mysteries are yet to […]