London businesses grappling with the impact of COVID-19 are getting support from an unexpected resource: top local business students. Eric Bosco, Chief Business Development and Partnerships Officer at Mitacs, joins Devon Peacock on the Morning Show to discuss. Listen here…

Windsor Business Students Step in to Help Local Organizations Impacted by COVID-19 Interview – John Hepburn, CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs Read more…

By Cameron Thomson The Vancouver-based international research organization Mitacs has come up with a way to give employment to business and business students. Read more…

Reporter Tyler Orton hosts John Hepburn is the CEO and scientific director of Mitacs, a non-profit dedicated to solving business challenges across Canada. He joins BIV Today to discuss a new initiative pairing up business students with companies hit hard by the pandemic. Watch here…  

By Christy Somos Getting Indigenous students into the corporate world and “bridging the gap” between academia and businesses is paramount, says Candice Loring of non-profit organization Mitacs. Read more…

By Nathan Caddell After graduating from UBC Okanagan with a bachelor’s degree in business management and a minor in psychology, Candice Loring spent some time working in finance in West Kelowna before she went back to school. Well, kinda. Loring switched career paths to work out of her alma mater, in business development for national research […]

By Matthew Halliday It’s no wonder that Canadian industry is keen to find its way onto the country’s university campuses. For decades, Canada’s postsecondary institutions have accounted for a rapidly growing share of the country’s R&D activity – roughly 41 percent of the national total in 2019, according to Statistics Canada, worth nearly $15 billion. Read […]

By Sarita Patel A local West Kelowna woman is out to change the narrative of Indigenous research in Canada. Candice Loring, 36, a member of the Gitwangak band from the Gitxsan nation, is the first Indigenous person to be hired by Mitacs — a national innovation organization that fosters growth by solving business challenges with research solutions […]

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By Jonathan Guignard The Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina has announced John G. Hampton as its executive director and CEO, the first Indigenous person to fill that role in a public art gallery in Canada. Read more…