By John Hepburn When innovation stops or stalls and graduates from advanced degrees lack opportunities to join industry and drive economic growth, prospects for those businesses and Canadians’ quality of life are at risk. Read more…  

By Food in Canada Staff Vancouver entrepreneur Miayan Yeremi has launched new technology that gives winemakers the unprecedented opportunity to know exactly what’s going on behind the wooden slats of each oak barrel in a wine cellar. Read here…

UOttawa PhD candidate has made a groundbreaking medical-grade smartwatch. The first of it’s kind to continuously measure all five vital signs and provide cardiac monitoring on one device. Now the invention has earned her a prestigious award from a national non-profit. Watch here…

You recycle your beverage containers and cardboard, and even your electronics. But what about your drugs? A St. John’s company is well on its way to making them recyclable, too. Unbound Chemicals was incorporated last year, although it took about three years to get the research and planning underway. “You need a bit of a […]

When the pandemic prevented Mia Bell from leading in-person art sessions for people with disabilities, she decided a podcast would be the perfect platform to showcase local artwork and open up the conversation around the intersection of art and disability. Bell is a masters student in the University of Regina’s Media, Arts and Performance faculty […]

While hundreds of COVID-19 vaccine candidates are being tested in labs around the world, a group of Concordia researchers are standing out by doing much of their work from home. Gilles Peslherbe joins Global’s Laura Casella. Watch here…

The team is using state-of-the-art computer simulations and AI to model potential vaccines that can be tested quickly. Applying reverse vaccinology – a scientific method that uses bioinformatics and genome sequencing to break down the virus’s structural information – they’re able to come up with different options for a cost-effective, universal vaccine. Read more…

“Anyone who tells you they know what our economy will look like coming out of COVID-19 is guessing”… – Eric Bosco Read more…

The economy will depend on more collaboration during and post-pandemic, and the non-profit research organization Mitacs stands to position itself well as a partner between industry, academia and government. The CEO and chief scientific officer, John Hepburn, talks about the challenges and opportunities with BIV publisher and editor-in-chief Kirk LaPointe. Watch here…

Cole Engineering Group, a consulting firm headquartered in Markham, Ont., is contributing to a new research project that aims to detect an anticipated second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic by collecting and testing untreated sewage samples from water pollution control plans in nearby Durham Region. Read more…

The research team includes U of L’s Trushar Patel and Borries Demeler (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), University of Alberta’s Neal Davies (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), and API’s Rakesh Bhat (Director of Laboratory Science). API is an Edmonton-based, non-profit organization that partners with industry and supports researchers and start-ups. These researchers are combining […]

A research team from the university’s Faculty of Science is working on a method for testing untreated sewage samples for the coronavirus. Dr. Andrea Kirkwood, who is part of the research team, says they’ll be collecting dozens of samples from water pollution control plants across Durham. Every week, they’ll check for signs of COVID-19 and […]