“You can imagine the amount of frustration when you go to a foreign country and people there speak a language that you don’t understand.” Thanks to a partnership between the University of Regina and the Regina Public Library (RPL), Arabic-speaking refugees and recent immigrants now have another way to improve their English skills. A pilot project […]

U of S biomedical engineering student Samantha Steinke is working with veterinary assistant professor Dr. Julia Montgomery and the Saskatoon-based firm RMD Engineering Inc. to develop and test a lift and harness to better support horses while injured limbs heal. Samantha Steinke knows what it’s like to lose a horse to injury. Hers had to […]

They’re known as a “magic mineral” because of their many applications and a University of Northern British Columbia graduate student may have found a new one. Lon Kerr’s work involves modifying natural zeolites to make anti-bacterial agents.He’s taken a sample from the International Zeolite’s Bromley Creek Quarry in British Columbia, washed it with deionized water, […]

Mitacs supports University of Saskatchewan research project with RMD Engineering developing unique harness to help save injured horses.

  A small team of computer scientists from l’Université de Moncton is partnering with a Newfoundland software company to develop a knowledge-sharing platform for major companies using artificial intelligence.    The platform, launched by totaliQ, aims to create a software that companies like Cahill Group – one of Canada’s largest construction companies that has agreed […]

Deep in the heart of Ontario’s Tornado Alley, London scientists are using the world’s largest tornado simulator to get a better grip on the damage left by a devastating cluster of twisters that struck the national capital region last fall. The project is breaking new ground for the researchers at Western University since it’s the […]

Small strips of paper could soon be playing a large role in airport security. University of Alberta and Mitacs researcher Christina Gonzalez has devised a method to instantly detect small quantities of chemicals used in explosive devices by deploying specialized, disposable strips of paper. Mitacs is a national non-profit organization that connects post-secondary researchers with […]

A newly founded St. John’s-based information technology company has found a major provincial and national inter-disciplinary construction company to become an early adopter for its intelligent knowledge sharing solution. totaliQ, founded in 2018, announced that it has begun an implementation project for the Cahill Group. “Knowledge sharing and process improvements are crucial to be progressive […]

Edmonton postdoc partners with company to develop innovative test strips for explosives.   

Christina Gonzalez can detect explosives with a single strip of paper. Gonzalez, an Edmonton-based researcher, has developed a disposable test strip capable of instantly detecting explosive materials including traces of TNT. While the paper strip may look like plain card stock there is more than meets the eye. “Essentially, we have a stock piece of paper […]

Edmonton postdoc develops innovative explosive detecting test strips.

From: Alejandro Adem To:  Canadians Concerned About Skills Development Date: February 20, 2019 Re: Future Skills, Future Work We hear a lot about technological innovation and the disruption it brings. This usually includes ominous predictions of new technologies replacing workers in many jobs. But we hear much less about how Canada’s most indispensable resource—its people—can rise to the […]