Organization: Canadian Construction Association

The Short Report, November 27, 2019: African researchers denied entry; open science gets easier; Big Oil moves into the cloud

Canada refused visas to dozens of African researchers seeking to attend the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS) in Vancouver next month. The visas were commonly denied on suspicions that the participants would not leave Canada once the conference was over. The issue is recurring: last year, more than 100 attendees were denied visas to the…

Construction industry forms research & innovation institute

The Canadian Construction Association is establishing a new research institute to stimulate more industrial R&D in a sector that has traditionally spent little of its revenue on developing and commercializing new products and processes. Canadian Construction Innovations (CCI) has struck a steering committee that will be holding roundtable discussions across the country in August to…