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Pilot initiative helps Canadian companies recruit up-and-coming talent

Vancouver, BC — Canadian companies will have the opportunity to recruit new talent by connecting with post-secondary students looking to start their careers through a pilot initiative called Mitacs Career Connect. The initiative helps companies gain highly qualified talent to grow their business while providing work experience for recent graduates. Interns must be under 30 years […]

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CBC.ca: An affordable, self-driving wheelchair may soon roll onto the market, thanks to this student

An affordable, self-driving wheelchair is the latest innovation coming out of a summer internship program at the University of Toronto, and it could be rolling out very soon. Xinyi Li, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student from Zhejiang University in China, is in Toronto on a 12-week internship funded by Mitacs Globalink. “The wheelchair is amazing. It […]

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The Canadian Press: Canadian researchers develop technology for self-driving wheelchairs

A team of Canadian researchers and robotics experts say they’ve developed cost-effective technology that would allow power wheelchairs to drive themselves. Toronto-based Cyberworks Robotics and the University of Toronto have applied the same principles at work in self-driving cars, saying using similar types of sensors on motorized wheelchairs can allow the mobility aids to dodge […]

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Mitacs announces year-end highlights for 2016–17

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a national non-profit research and training organization, announced its year-end highlights today for the period ending March 31, 2017. Last year, Mitacs delivered 4,261 research internships with universities and industry, trained close to 4,100 students and postdocs, and facilitated 738 international research collaborations — all representing $71.9 million in funding towards […]

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Edmonton Examiner: Construction planning taken to new dimension

A local initiative between the University of Alberta and Ledcor Group strives to bring construction visualization into a new dimension.   Students in the U of A’s civil and environmental engineering department are in the final stages of developing a new virtual platform aimed at simplifying the planning, monitoring and management of construction projects .   “It’s […]

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Vancouver Sun: Talent for growth, Canada’s window of opportunity

Canada has an opportunity to establish itself among the best performing countries in science and innovation. At a time when the current international situation is creating uncertainty for scientists, researchers and innovators around the world, Canada’s commitment to diversity and inclusiveness is making Canada an especially attractive destination. Recent initiatives such as the federal government’s […]

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