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Ontario government invests $50 M in cancer research
The Ontario government has accepted the recommendations of a working group led by Dr Calvin Stiller and is investing $50 million in cancer research through the new Ontario Cancer Research Network.

After just six months of operation, the structure and direction of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has taken a giant leap forward with the appointment of 13 scientific directors (SDs) to head up its fledgling Institutes.

The eMPOWR Canada campaign to stimulate the pipeline of graduates in strategic communications technologies sectors has beefed up its case for nearly $500 million in new federal funding, with the release of a double survey on industry and university needs.

Canada must develop a national genomics strategy and dramatically increase its investment in the field to ensure a place in the post-human genome world of proteomics, sequencing and functional genomics.

A report commissioned by the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC), IBM Canada Ltd and Microsoft Canada shows that investment in information technology (IT) is having a significant positive impact on Canada’s output growth and labour productivity.

Backers of British Columbia’s emerging fuel cells sector say there is an urgent need for the federal government to act quickly with a targeted national program to fund research and demonstration projects, or risk losing the investments made to date.

British Columbia’s burgeoning biotechnology sector is on the cusp of achieving global stature and Genome BC may be just the catalyst it requires to push it over the top. Armed with a wealth of academic and private sector expertise, the province is ranked as the third largest concentration of biotechnology in Canada and the twentieth in North America.

Saskatchewan’s new $11-million Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) is beginning operations under a cloud following the late-September mass firing of the Saskatchewan Research Council’s (SRC) president/CEO and its 14-member board of directors.

IBM Canada Ltd has made a $150-million investment in its Bromont PQ assembly plant, further enhancing the capacity of the parent firm’s largest microchip assembly facility. The investment is part of a previously announced commitment by IBM to pump $7.