Now Toronto: The Livelihood Project job-hunting app for newcomers earns a Mitacs Social Entrepreneur Award

Finding meaningful work in Toronto, let alone any job, can be difficult even with the right qualifications and connections. Strip all that away, remove the easy benefit of speaking English, and the job hunt becomes close to impossible. Enter the Livelihood Project. Co-founded by Parin Kothari and Arash Samimi, the initiative began in 2015 with […]

Toronto, ON – This week, leading Canadian academics convened at Congress 2017 to discuss why social sciences and humanities (SSH) perspectives are essential to Canadian policy-making. As part of the conference, a panel discussion featuring Mitacs’ Canadian Science Policy fellows and a representative from Natural Resources Canada discussed the need for diverse perspectives, including those […]

Various tech centres in Canada are often referred to as Silicon Valley North. Just like California, northern regions like Halifax, Waterloo, Vancouver and more offer concentrations of spinoffs, startups, and the talent and venture capital that support them. But as we grapple with innovation policies in Canada – and often seem to try to replicate […]

Montreal, QC – Robotics whiz and Polytechnique Montréal postdoctoral fellow David St‑Onge is the recipient of the 5,000th Mitacs internship in Quebec, thanks to an innovative research project involving software for piloting a fleet of drones designed to aid in humanitarian relief efforts. Throughout his career, the robotics and structural engineer has developed various technologies as […]

Montreal, QC — Today the Government of Quebec announced an investment of $50 million over five years to support 2,750 research internships per year through Mitacs’ programs. The funding is part of the Quebec Research and Innovation Strategy. Mitacs connects businesses and not-for-profit organizations with local experts in the academic community to address research challenges. […]

Ottawa, ON — Today at Mitacs’ Policy Hackathon, policy professionals, academic researchers, and participants of the Canadian Science Policy Fellowship, collaborated to explore ideas and solutions to the challenge of gathering and using scientific evidence in government policy making. Similar to a technology hackathon, a PoliHack (policy hackathon) is an exercise in collaborative policy development and […]

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and Campus France expanded a partnership agreement to support bilateral industrial research internships for graduate students in Canada and France through Mitacs’ Globalink program. Starting in September 2017, the three-year agreement will provide up to 40 students from each country the opportunity to participate in 16- to 24-week industrial research internships with […]

Vancouver, BC — Eleven business and entrepreneurship leaders from across Canada are contributing their expertise to determine the five winners of the 2017 Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards. The awards will celebrate researchers-turned-entrepreneurs whose work starting or building a business demonstrates exemplary leadership and innovation. Twenty-five thousand dollars in cash prizes will be awarded to help the […]

As much as plastic recycling is becoming more widely adopted and accessible, things aren’t moving quite fast enough for Bernard Morin. As president of Thermopak Ltd., a packaging company based in Shippagan, Morin is on a personal mission to keep empty plastic milk jugs out of landfills with help from Mitacs researcher and electrical engineering […]

St. John’s, NL — A group of international graduate students from around the world are bringing their research expertise to a local mining project between Memorial University’s Drilling Technology Lab and Anaconda Mining. Working under the supervision of Professor Stephen Butt, the students, from countries, including Ghana, Ukraine, and Venezuela, are taking part in research […]

Moncton, NB — Bernard Morin is on a mission to keep empty plastic milk jugs out of landfills across the province of New Brunswick. With help from Mitacs researcher Rahma Zayoud, an electrical engineering PhD student at Université de Moncton, he has found a smart way to do it. As president of Thermopak Ltd., a regional packaging […]

Update: 04/27/2017— Toronto, ON — The Government of Ontario announced a $15 million investment over three years for more than 3,000 internships and fellowships through Mitacs. This funding is part of the province’s Career Kick-Start Strategy and leverages a new federal investment. Career Kick-Start will create more opportunities for high school and postsecondary students, along […]