The new Canada’s Food Guide has created controversies about milk and alternatives consumption by removing it as a stand-alone food group. Recent evidence shows an inverse relationship between consumption of dairy products and risk of osteoporosis. However, evidence on the association between milk and dairy consumption and the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have provided […]

This Project is a partnership between 1JustCity and WestEnd Commons. 1JustCity is an organization committed to strengthening and sustaining social justice work throughout Winnipeg by backing member organizations and community partners. WestEnd Commons also known as St. Matthews Non-Profit Housing Inc. (SMNPH) is a unique newly renovated church building with 26 residential units upstairs and […]

Youth Employment Services (YES) is an organization that delivers inclusive, low-barrier employment and training services to Manitoba youth between the ages of 16 to 29.YES provides one-on-one appointments for resume and cover letter writing, job searching, practicing interview skills, and more, in addition to offering free training and certification opportunities. YES is also heavily involved […]

Compiling data research by surveying clients to aid the development of their Manitoba Harvest Voices Report. Provide Garden supplies and garden boxes to clients.

Market approval of generic products requires that such products are shown to have equivalent safety and efficacy as the innovator product currently on the market. In general, generic topical dermatological products require comparative clinical trials in patients which require a large number of patients, are expensive and lengthy. This has led to a shortage of […]

The Ophthalmology department of CHUM receives almost 400 patients per day, each of which needs to go through different tests and consultations. Scheduling those appointments is a complicated task as it involves multiple shared resources, precedent constraints between tests, and uncertainty in tests’ durations, cancellations, emergency patients, etc. The current manual scheduling at the department […]

Every year in the United States alone, over 30 million surgical incisions are performed, and another 7 million wounds are causes by trauma. Most of those wounds will heal on their own, but nonetheless always lead to scarring no matter what kind of material is used to close the wound. There are a range of […]

The City of Toronto wishes to assemble a comprehensive set of available historical neighbourhood-scale Census data. While a wealth of historical Canadian Census data exist in the public domain, it is largely inaccessible to users who lack specialized training and skills due fragmentation of data holdings and their storage in different formats. Making use of […]

Heart transplantation depends on being able to move a donor heart from the location of harvest to the hospital where it will be implanted, and having the heart work once it is implanted. The time between excision and implantation is called the ischemic time. The safe ischemic time is about 4 to 6 hrs; hearts […]

Grenfell Ministries is a peer-led, Unitarian Universalist faith-based non-for-profit that addresses the needs of people pushed to the margins of our society. A pioneering harm-reduction organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, Grenfell is built and led entirely by people who have experienced substance use disorder and associated struggles with poverty, homelessness, incarceration, and mental health challenges. […]

The objective of the internship would be to forecast staffing and optimize staffing. Having the right number and type of staff, and making sure they have the optimal mix of skills and training would prevent over expenditure on human resources, and also make sure that services run smoothly as the scale of operations increases

The abundance of electronic health record (EHR) data has accelerated the adoption of data-driven methods to automate various tasks ranging from patient care to resource management in hospitals around the world. The use of specific types of data such as X-ray images, doctor’s note and others have been used individually to implement machine learning models […]