The financial system that surrounds housing affordability is complex. It includes renters and owners, developers, investors, financiers and policy makers. It is influenced by market forces, economic policies, and individual beliefs and behaviours. The Financialization of Housing Lab, led by Social Innovation Canada (CSI Institute) in partnership with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and […]

Ayrshire is an investment management firm focused principally on real estate investing in Alberta. We own retail, office and residential properties in multiple markets. Recently we have seen a shift in investment demand associated with new acquisition and developments of multifamily apartment housing in Western Canada. Recently Ayrshire received federal funding through CHMC Rental Construction […]

SIA is enlisting the support of a Mitacs intern to develop a Social Innovation Consulting Group (SICG) – a new initiative within the SIA umbrella. SIA is looking to expand its programs to include longer-term consulting engagements in partnership with a post-secondary institution in Canada. While the Social Innovation Fellowship currently offers 8-week projects, there […]

Medidas Digital was incorporated in 2019 to create TrypScore, a technology built to change human behaviour with regards to driving a vehicle. Vehicle collisions are responsible for 1.35 million fatalities and approximately 50 million serious injuries across the globe every year. We wanted to create a modern user engagement tool that could incentivize better driving […]

Ontario, Canada has an extreme lack of affordable housing. This study intends to encourage holistic planning by understanding the community benefits of affordable housing projects. The goal of the project is to create an assessment framework which can be used by municipalities and housing organizations to value the benefits of affordable housing projects. These benefits […]

This project aims to tackle the challenge of finding different ways Viva could optimize its existing work processes to generate maximum results, as well as innovating in the marketing domain. This requires the intern to observe technical insights such as user interaction and behaviour, as well as traffic across various virtual platforms. This understanding would […]

L’objectif du projet est de valider qu’une approche d’accompagnement collaborative permet de maximiser le potentiel d’impact social de startups en action climatique. Afin d’y arriver, le stage propose de développer et de mettre en pratique une méthodologie flexible afin de mesurer et d’évaluer les effets de cette approche d’accompagnement sur les parties-prenantes, sur l’écosystème et […]

Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. These issues include changes and instability in personality and mood, depression and anxiety, withdrawal from events and activities, etc. Computational approaches, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), in the early detection of mental disorders are promising. Even though machine learning […]

Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. In Canada, one in five people are dealing with a mental health disorder. The result of this is high emotional costs to those individuals and their social networks, and high economic costs to the country’s healthcare system. Refresh Wellness intends to offer a […]

Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. In Canada, one in five people are dealing with a mental health disorder. The result of this is high emotional costs to those individuals and their social networks, and high economic costs to the country’s healthcare system. Refresh Wellness intends to offer a […]

Quel rôle le droit doit-il jouer en contexte de crise ? C’est la question centrale posée par les observateurs qui se sont penchés sur les tensions entre la gestion de la récente crise du COVID et les normes généralement appliquées dans le cours ordinaire des choses. Leur étonnement de voir que le droit normalement appliqué […]

Les agents conversationnels (chatbot) sont de plus en plus populaires. On n’a qu’à penser à Google Assistant, Alexa ou Siri. Ces agents utilisent l’apprentissage profond afin de classifier les phrases des utilisateurs et d’en extraire les informations pertinentes. Les modèles derrière ses technologies sont d’habitude entraînés sur des corpus (des bases de données contenant du […]