Innovative Projects Realized

Comparaison des mécanismes psychologiques et neurophysiologiques impliqués dans la gestion de la douleur grâce à l’hypnose, la réalité virtuelle et la combinaison des deux techniques.

L’hypnose et la réalité virtuelle sont de plus en plus utilisées en psychologie/médecine dans la gestion de la douleur aigue et chronique. Actuellement, il n’existe que très peu d’études comparant ces deux techniques, séparément ou combinées, évaluant leur efficacité quant à la modulation de la douleur, et permettant de comprendre les processus sous-jacents à ces outils. Notre projet vise à répondre à ces 3 objectifs, dans une première étude, par l’inclusion de 24 volontaires, répartit en 4 conditions : contrôle, hypnose, réalité virtuelle et hypnose en réalité virtuelle, durant une stimulation électrique douloureuse. Les mesures prises seront phénoménologiques (absorption, dissociation, présence, perception du temps) et neurophysiologiques (variabilité cardiaque, conductance de la peau, réflexe nociceptif de flexion, électroencéphalogramme haute densité). Notre hypothèse est que la combinaison des deux techniques devrait augmenter l’absorption et permettre une meilleure réduction de la douleur.

Examining the Teaching of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness for All Students

The purpose of this project is to analyze data collected over a 4-year period as part of a funded Research-Practice Partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a local public school district. The data was collected across two elementary schools to explore the teaching of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA) in mainstream and bilingual elementary classrooms. The analysis of this data provides a strong foundation for Dr. Gail Prasad’s new work to extend this research about language and literacy practices in multilingual school contexts from the United States to develop a contextual understanding of Ontario schools. After analyzing the data, we will write an academic article will be prepared to disseminate findings. This project will build an empirical base demonstrating how multilingual environments, such as classrooms in 21st century schools, may benefit both ‘monolingual’ and ‘bi/multilingual’ – plurilingual children and better prepare them to work and live together in multilingual communities.

Reconstruct the Saskatchewan Construction Legislation Act

The aim of the project is to assess the benefits for Saskatchewan’s construction industry in adopting legislation similar to Manitoba’s Construction Industry Wages Act. The Manitoba legislation has been held up as a model of industrial stability by both employer associations and the building trades in that province. This project seeks to determine what benefits – economic, political and social – could be derived for Saskatchewan from implementing similar wage and labour standards as contained in the Manitoba legislation.

The Manitoba construction industry has seen a significant expansion over the past decade, which many attribute to the stabilizing influence of the Construction Industry Wages Act. During the last decade, the market dynamics led to the plunge in unemployment rates to approximately 7%. This research will provide the Saskatchewan Building Trades with the data and analysis on whether a higher minimum wage and better labour standards for construction workers has a positive spillover effect in the rest of the economy, and whether it helps to attract young workers to the industry and retain current workers. In Saskatchewan in particular, the construction industry often competes for labour with the petroleum industry.

Strategic-Financial Modeling Intern

This internship is a strategic-financial modeling position with various responsibilities including: support different managers in the definition and/or adjustment of existing KPIs, Analyze and understand the data the company generates and will generate after the implementation of two relevant IT software (2021 and 2Q ? 2022), Build a discounted cash flow financial model of the company (per location), Support VP Operations and Project & Procurement Manager in
different projects, as required, Create and validate data sources, transformations, and analysis against reference data to ensure quality, accuracy, and completeness of derived reports. The internship will involve deep financial analysis, along with a good level of analytical data work for the company.

Marketing Coordinator

I will be acting as the Marketing Coordinator at Promont Management which is a property management company. I will get the opportunity to participate in the development of marketing plans and strategy, provide research on rental rates in the area, monitor social media campaigns and day-to-day activities including writing drafts for editorials, tweets, posts, and much more. This will give me the chance to take a look at the property management industry and see if I would like to pursue a career in this field as there is a shortage of managers.

HR Coordinator Co-op

Binary Stream is an organization with under 100 employees, where they have been carefully managing their spend to be fortunate that they haven’t laid anyone off as of today. In cost effective way, they are lining up resources to capitalize on the opportunities that they know will become available. One of Binary Stream’s biggest challenges to growing and scaling their organization is their ability to attract and recruit top talent in the highly competitive technology labour market of the lower mainland. The HR co?op will assist and support the important work of strengthening Binary Stream’s employer brand, culture and recruitment activities. The intern will undertake many projects such as aiding with and facilitating the human resource processes, being responsible for facilitating all key HR functions and programs, suggesting improvements to HR policies, processes, and practices, acting as the first point of contact for HR?related queries from employees and external partners, maintaining current and former employee records, managing HR documents, updating internal databases, and providing support to HR team members.

Marketing Intern – New Markets

Prenuvo helps people take control of their health through proactive screening, information, and insights to address health issues early and live the best lives for themselves and those around them. With 2 new Prenuvo branded locations in the US in 2021 and expect to open an additional 4?5 partner clinic based imaging locations, the key areas for this role will focus on: researching and investigating approaches to greatly improve market awareness of our services; testing and iteration on approaches to generate interest and awareness prior to opening; and exploring and recommending differences between Prenuvo owned facilities and partner clinics that acquire images for analysis and reporting to the patient and their physicians.

Co-op Marketing Strategy Intern (MBSI)

OneCup AI is an artificial intelligence company specializing in livestock identification and tracking. Their AI, BETSY, can identify cattle based on each animal’s unique appearance and tracks different health metrics such as disease indicators, activity, nutrition, and growth. This summer, I’ll be working on the marketing team to help develop and implement a marketing plan, manage social media accounts, analyze website metrics, create blog posts, manage customer and investor relations, and design UX flows for the BETSY’s interface.

Product Management Intern

As Cymax Group has experienced elevated growth, there are uncertainties in supply chain, logistics, consumer behavior changes, and economic outlook. As part of the company’s strategy to drive sustainable growth in this new industry dynamics, the intern will contribute to ensuring successful execution of key strategic projects and playing an integral role in collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Key strategic projects include ERP and Finance system migration, CRM Implementation, and Project management Process improvements. Key responsibilities include business analysis, requirements gathering, project coordination, and monitoring of key strategic projects

Digital Marketing Intern

Through the MBSI program, we aim to educate students about the employee group benefits industry in Canada. We will provide students with training and help them gain real-world experiences in a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment. The student will receive guidance, mentorship and be able to build a broad set of skills and experiences with us. They will be a part of real world decision-making and help us navigate change in the present economic
reality. We will provide the students with an opportunity to collaborate and build meaningful relationships with employers across Canada.
The Digital Marketing Role requires excellent copywriting skills; you will join our marketing team to educate and share our stories with employers across Canada. Through advertising and promotional campaigns, you will prospect
and walk leads through the sign-up process. You are creative and enjoy working on marketing material like whitepapers, case studies and infographics. You will help manage our social media channels and drive community engagement.

Sponsorship Marketing Advisor

BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is currently looking to re-diversify its revenue mix through the recovery phase post-pandemic, to operate sustainably. The Sponsorship Marketing Advisor internship opportunity will build upon recommendations from the agency, TTG Partnerships, develop a sponsorship business plan, and intersect donor development and major gifts into the strategy. The intern will be interacting with a board committee, the CEO, the agency, and corporate partners of the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

Communications Assistant

The Communications Assistant will work with the training team and the Communications Manager, providing support for a variety of projects as well as helping customers with inquiries on our training offerings and getting them ready and set up for our courses. The intern will assist with executing communications initiatives, social media activities and help increase go2HR’s program awareness through outreach to the media, external stakeholders as well as existing and new customers. The internship will address a critical need for go2HR, as the pandemic has significantly increased the demands on the team.