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???? (Pisuktie): The Walker : a participatory documentary research-creation

This research is to create a short experimental film which will facilitate intergenerational conversations between Black-Inuit youth and elders. As a creative expression and telling unknown stories, it aims to strengthen Inuit youth mental health, positive Black-Inuit identity and leadership based on learning what has come before. The outcome of this project, namely the film will become an intervention in larger academic areas such as critical race-feminism, Indigenous studies, to counter archival studies to aim for a re-reading of urban Inuit modern migration and endo-colonial settlement history and archive.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Igloliorte

Student:

Partner:

Southern Quebec Inuit Association;Mezari Atelier & Boutique

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Designing a Great Slave Lake Fishery by Northerners for Resilient Futures in the NWT

The 20-year research program that the Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) is building to understand the sustainability of the Great Slave Lake requires articulating the perspectives and priorities of the Indigenous Nations that live around and depend on the lake. Under ARF’s research program umbrella, this BSI internship will be part of the Mitacs-funded project “Designing a Great Slave Lake Fishery by Northerners for Resilient Futures in the NWT”. The general objective of this project is to gather Indigenous and other northern residents’ perspectives on how they envision the future of the lake fisheries. The intern will support our project with logistics, networking, communications and contributing to understanding research capacity needs in the communities associated with the project. The intern will be in charge of contacting research participants and scheduling meetings and appointments. The intern will facilitate the logistics of those meetings. In terms of communications, the intern will generate a database of media content related to the general themes of the project and support the creation of short communications for Indigenous nations, other stakeholders involved in the project and the general public. The intern will also help consult people and organizations involved in the fishery about their needs regarding skills, resources and networks associated with conducting research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

C. Julián Idrobo

Student:

Partner:

Arctic Research Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Aurora College

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

CiviPress: Developing Deployment Infrastructure for a Secure CiviCRM / WordPress SaaS Offering

CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management system used by over 11,000 non-profit organizations around the world. Although about 170 host more than 250k records, about a quarter are used by small non-profits with between 2,500 and 10,000 contacts. These organizations maintain sensitive personal information including donation information, event attendance, volunteering data, and case records. As small and medium sized enterprises they are often targets of cybercriminals. This project will aim to develop a highly secure software as a service offering for non-profits including Transparent Date Encryption of data at rest, and automated deployment of new instances of CiviCRM/WordPress.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Baochun Li

Student:

Partner:

JMA Consulting

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Création d’une I.A. d’extraction de textes complexes issus de publica-tions scientifiques

Les moteurs de recherche dits “métier” sont des systèmes qui appliquent des méthodes de pertinence pour découvrir, décrire, organiser et analyser du contenu et des données précises et relatives à un métier ou une science en particulier. Ils permettent à des informations préexistantes ou nouvellement synthétisées d’être délivrées de manière proactive ou interactive, dans leur contexte, aux scientifiques, aux clients et à d’autres personnes au moment opportun. Ces derniers représentent une évolution des technologies de recherche et du langage naturel (NLP). Pour ce faire, ils se connectent à des sources et des types de contenus (tels que des documents dans des plateformes de services de contenu afin de construire un index de données extraites qui peuvent être interrogées.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Caporossi

Student:

Partner:

MayFair Village

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Study of potential technologies for Net-Zero Housing

With the escalating global warming and its detrimental effect on the environment, there is an urgent need to reduce fossil fuel burning to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings are one of the large energy consumers and their contribution to the global greenhouse gas emissions needs to be reduced. Net Zero Energy Homes generate the energy that they consume. Equally important consideration is the Net Zero Water where the water consumption is equal to water production. For sustainable housing, it is very crucial to achieve Net Zero consumption in both Energy and Water. The proposed projects are focused on studying potential technologies for Net Zero Housing that would contribute to achieve Net Zero consumption in both energy and water. One project is focused on thermal energy storage technologies that are very crucial to integrate solar energy for heating applications. The second project is focused on exploring off-grid water systems and the utilization of renewable energies in these water systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kamran Siddiqui

Student:

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Laurentian Bank – Financial inclusion and banking products

Founded in Montreal in 1846, Laurentian Bank helps families, businesses and communities thrive. Today, we have over 2,800 employees working together as One Team, to provide a broad range of financial services and advice-based solutions for customers across Canada and the United States. We drive results by placing our customers first, making the better choice, acting courageously, and believing everyone belongs. The goal of this project is to identify ways that the Bank can improve the inclusivity of our products and services for underbanked and underserved communities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Avner Levin

Student:

Partner:

Laurentian Bank

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

KASTx Ventures – Laila Laratta

KASTx Ventures works with world-leading start-up biotechnology companies with a shared vision to have a positive and sustainable impact globally, focusing on the areas of health, technology, and environmental sustainability. We provide the people and resources needed to turn disruptive ideas into reality to make the world a better place. Our project focuses on optimizing the systems and processes used in the management of operational activities, funding applications, and corporate documentation. We need information to be easily accessible and manageable to reduce production time and increase speed of delivery, which is important for operating our firm and our portfolio companies. Critical benefits include improved information management and integration and faster throughput and reporting through automation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

KASTx Ventures

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Biotechnology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

The CO2 redox flow battery development: Bifunctional heterostructured and sub-stoichiometric Magnéli-phase electrocatalysts for negative and positive electrodes

The world’s stringent need to transition to a low-carbon industrial economy is more pressing than ever and requires an ambitious departure from traditional processes through innovation, development and implementation of different breakthrough technologies within a strict timeline. Agora is tackling two energy challenges simultaneously with its proprietary CO2 Redox Flow Battery (CRB) technology by enabling the transition from traditional emission-intensive power generation systems to low-carbon renewable sources through energy storage and addressing GHG-emission mitigation via converting CO2 during the battery operation to a by-product.
The proposed project will constitute the development and scale-up of integral parts of the CRB unit, i.e. the electrocatalysts for the positive and negative electrodes, to further improve the CRB performance and develop the next generation of metal-free redox flow batteries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elod Lajos Gyenge

Student:

Partner:

Agora Energy Technologies

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

GOTT Energy Strategic Development Project

Rapid growth in the renewable energy sector has presented both unprecedented opportunity and increasing pressure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand. This project with Gott Energy will involve three stages. First, a comprehensive analysis of the company today will be completed using the Lean business philosophy.
This will establish a baseline, which will support the second phase; creation of a strategic development plan to direct the path forwards. This second phase will involve researching consumer interests, demographics and market trends to capitalize on new opportunities and improve their marketing strategy, and creating a roadmap for the coming year.
Lastly, this project involves the execution of said business development plan which requires ongoing validation and continual improvement of processes.
This project will allow Gott Energy to keep pace with high demand, continue to break fiscal records, and provide an even greater volume of alternative energy products and services to customer of all types, on-grid and off-grid, including rural and indigenous communities – significantly advancing the adoption of renewable technology in the Northern BC region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Scott

Student:

Partner:

Gott Energy

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

How Can Unions Improve their Workplace Human Rights Practice?

In Canada, existing human rights laws are “read in” to collective agreements. Violations of those terms can thus be grieved and submitted to binding arbitration.
Some key human rights cases began as union grievances. However, unions often refrain from active engagement in employment equity, diversity training and anti-bullying programs, especially where the interests of different groups of members may clash, For years, many unions, in effect, “contracted out” discrimination cases to human rights tribunals.
Recently, however, the Supreme Court of Canada moved the goalposts, ruling that unions had exclusive jurisdiction over such matters.
After almost half a century, the human rights ball is firmly back into organized labour’s court. All unions must start once again to take bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace seriously, even where such misbehaviour is member-on-member.
What are “best practices” currently by unions in the human rights domain? How do they currently deal with their legal obligation to fairly represent both perpetrators and victims of discrimination? How do they reconcile the vaunted seniority principle with retention of equity-seeking groups? How and why do they participate in and encourage employment equity programs with employers,or demur from doing so ? What lessons can be taken from these experiences?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sonja Novkovic

Student:

Partner:

Equity Watch Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Photovoltaic Production-Developing new Materials and Approaches

Through the Ontario Green Energy Act, solar manufacturing is rapidly growing in Ontario with S2E being involved in several new initiatives including a new lamination facility in London, Ontario. Several fundamental problems need to be addressed in the lamination procedure and materials required for photovoltaic (PV) panel construction. To increase panel efficiencies, this project will examine new materials and the integration of various light absorbing materials into the poly (ethylene vinyl acetate) EVA encapsulants. We will examine new polymer coatings and films with light harvesting properties in which UV radiation from the sun is converted efficiently into more useful higher wavelengths for higher panel efficiencies. Novel EVA films integrated with nanocrystals such as Quantum dots, mesoporous silica nanoparticles for temperature control, and light harvesting nanowires. The lamination process will also be examined for implementing new technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Charpentier

Student:

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Norda Stelo : Analyse des données qualitatives pour la maintenance prédictive sur une flotte d’actifs

Dans un contexte de gestion de la santé des actifs industriels, l’apport de l’humain dans la détection et la prévention des problèmes est essentiel. Bien que les actifs soient de plus en plus surveillés par télémétrie, tout ne peut pas être détecté par ces mesures et une appréciation humaine reste importante. Une partie importante de la collecte de données se fait encore par un outil de formulaire numérique, qui génère des données textuelles de choix de réponse et des données textuelles libres. Souvent, bien qu’un effort soit mis pour simplifier les réponses possibles par des choix fixes, de l’information très importante se retrouve dans des champs de commentaires et de précisions qui permettent de mieux apprécier l’état actuel des actifs évalués.
L’objectif du projet est donc de pouvoir extraire les informations importantes, un contexte et un sentiment des textes libres entrés dans les formulaires dans le but de ne rien manquer et de pouvoir nourrir d’autres besoins d’analyses plus poussés. Ce projet vise à extraire l’information pertinente de ces commentaires afin de mieux l’intégrer aux prédictions des maintenances nécessaires à la bonne gestion d’actifs industriels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Luc Lamontagne

Student:

Partner:

Norda Stelo Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

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