Ottawa launches special call for postpandemic research using UN model; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada supports farmers to mitigate climate change impacts; a five-year cystic fibrosis study at USask uses a One Health research approach, and more.
Organization: Province of British Columbia
B.C. policy on energy-efficient buildings spurs innovative technologies and new jobs
Provincial policy in B.C. is driving higher energy efficiency in new buildings and reducing carbon emissions, while creating a $3.3-billion local market for “green” building products and up to 1,700 new jobs.
BC government helps fund new TRIUMF accelerator
The Province of British Columbia is investing $30.7 million in the Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) at TRIUMF on the campus of the Univ of British Columbia. The $62.9-million project will see the construction of an underground beam tunnel that will house a linear accelerator used to produce medical isotopes that could alleviate the shortage…
ICT mentoring program launched in BC
A new hands-on mentoring program for information and communication technology (ICT) has received nearly $2.9 million to strengthen technology commercialization in British Columbia The Technology Commercialization and Graduate Entrepreneurship Foundation — also known as The Alacrity Foundation — received $2.5 million from the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia through the Western…
Boeing hires BC interns to conduct visual analytics
The federal government, Province of British Columbia and Boeing Canada Operations Ltd are providing $1.5 million over four years to support 100 graduate student internships who will utilize the emerging multi-disciplinary field of visual analytics to help improve aircraft efficiency and reliability. Funded through the MITACS-administered ACCELERATE BC, the students from the Univ of British…