Editorials

  • Municipalities can look to research labs for cost-effective solutions to infrastructure renewal
    June 2, 2014
    In 2004, when the parking garage at the Place du Portage government complex in Gatineau needed repairs, Public Works and Government Services Canada incorporated cutting-edge technology into the...
  • Innovation can help to close the ‘infrastructure gap’
    May 27, 2014
    Summer in the city seems to be set to one pervasive soundtrack: the grinding, jack-hammering, ear-splitting noise of construction. The warm months are a cold country’s chance to rebuild — roads...
  • Our home and innovative land
    February 24, 2014
    You’ve heard this story before: a great idea emerges from a research lab, is developed into something that can be commercialized, and a spin-off company is launched. This familiar pathway in which...
  • To attract top foreign students, let’s focus on the product, not the pitch
    January 28, 2014
    The response to the government’s announcement that it would aim to double the number of international students in Canada emphasizes the quantity: a goal of nearly half-a-million students from abroad...
  • The right fit
    November 19, 2013
    Nearly two years ago, Marie-Claude Héroux and Grégoire Dorval, the founders of Champignons Advitam Inc. in Saint-Ours, Que., were looking for a way to expand the product line of their mushroom...

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