Ultimately, the goal of this project is to develop an innovative mobile training platform that provides residents and surgeons-in-training introductory exposure to laparoscopy (MIS – minimally-invasive surgery) with improved interactive endoscopic media and Augmented Reality capabilities, than existing mobile applications. As a result, we hope to bridge the gap that exists in training and skillstransfer […]

CARM&A Health is a health-related startup that is in its early stages of development. Part of building the company’s foundation requires careful business planning that is rooted in market research. The Mitacs intern will conduct this essential research and compile findings into a business plan and pitch deck. These will then help to inform CARM&A’s […]

Saskatoon Society for the Protection of Children Inc. (SSPC), a not-for-profit organization, focuses on providing services to children and families that will allow for the safety of children and the healthy development of families. Previously, the organization was working on a professional rebranding, including a name change. Therefore, this project would include supporting SSPC to […]

Key Assets has been in operation in the province since 2009 and is affiliated with an international network operated by the Martin James Foundation which provides services to children, youth and families. In this province they offer an array of services from individual and family therapy to residential support for children in care. Currently, with […]

At this point we are in need of an update to our business plan in order to expand our options to find financial support within the current economic climate. We need to expand our list of government support options, explore multiple markets to widen our net of potential investors, to explore multiple international markets, explore […]

Three out of five Canadians with dementia wander, raising concern as to how it can be managed. Strategies, such as GPS, offer options for finding missing persons with dementia and may be a preferred strategy by police. As part of the Finding Your Way® Program with the Alzheimer Society on Ontario, a series of education […]

Middle-distance running events require a high blend of endurance alongside speed and power characteristics, to produce a fast rate of energy production in large capacities. Oxygen delivery is one of the limitations to enhancing the rate of energy production, which in part is determined by the ability of the muscle to extract oxygen delivered in […]

COVID is assumed to benefit the reusable marketplace. As homeowners are stuck in their homes there is a resurgence of renovation activity which would benefit the Good4U store. In addition, when money is tight there are now even more purchasers in the marketplace looking for bargains to save money. As mentioned previously, instead of profits […]

COVID is assumed to benefit the reusable marketplace. As homeowners are stuck in their homes there is a resurgence of renovation activity which would benefit the Good4U store. In addition, when money is tight there are now even more purchasers in the marketplace looking for bargains to save money. As mentioned previously, instead of profits […]

Following a spinal cord injury (SCI), sensory and motor impairments affect the ability to perform daily life tasks independently, such as transferring or grabbing an object. Intuitively to accomplish these tasks, the use of the upper and lower limbs is obvious, but the trunk is equally essential. Trunk control alterations generate deficits in the functional […]

The goal of this research is to leverage the telematics data collected in the context of the usage-based insurance program at Intact for road safety improvement. Specifically, we aim to tackle issues on the identification of risky driver behaviors through the characterization of unsafe events and to identify sites on the road network with high […]

As explained in 3.9, specifically the intern will have to do careful research of the regulatory regimes of all the provinces and territories. Clinicians such as Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, etc. are regulated by provincial regulatory Colleges. This information will tell us how clinicians have to apply to the various regulatory Colleges to […]