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Our investments support research that benefits Canadians

In CFI-funded labs and facilities across the country, researchers in all stages of their careers are making discoveries, supporting a robust innovation ecosystem and helping solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. 

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Our Innovation Fund provides the foundation for world-class, impactful research that is made in Canada
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article
Quebec
Unsettling the Canadian hockey story
Collecting the stories of hockey players, builders and fans from Lac Seul First Nation to reveal a different narrative about Indigenous hockey
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Kelsey Leonard posing for a photo in front of a stone wall covered in vines.
podcast
Ontario
Should bodies of water have the same legal status as people?
Researcher Kelsey Leonard, member of the Shinnecock Nation and founder of the Wampum Lab at the University of Waterloo, delves into ocean, water and climate justice.
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video
A promising future, now: 25 years of investing in ideas that change our world
The Canada Foundation for Innovation has supported cutting-edge research in Canada for 25 years. In these videos, researchers reflect on how CFI funding has advanced their work and how future generations will benefit. They tell passionate stories of curiosity, commitment and innovation.
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A fractured view of people in a public space
article
Ontario
How improving accessibility can boost the bottom line
Businesses can open their doors to thousands more customers by offering tools to assist people with language impairments
A stack of logs
article
Ontario
Transforming Northern Ontario’s forest product sector
New applications for forest by-products are helping to reinvent an industry and boost employment in remote regions of Ontario
Green tomatoes on a vine
article
Ontario
Growing Ontario’s billion-dollar greenhouse industry
Genomics research stands to curb losses of high-value crops to disease
Image of Regan Thompson holding a fish with his two arms.
article
Ontario
Scouring the scum to save a lake worth millions
Tackling harmful algae blooms in Lake Nipissing is critical to preserving the local industries that rely on it
Portrait of Frances Chen
article
British Columbia
Does your social life make you happy?
The University of British Columbia’s Frances Chen uses sophisticated research tools to determine how our social lives — online and otherwise — affect how we feel and behave
Portrait of Christopher Mushquash
article
Ontario
Shifting the research relationship
Lakehead University’s Christopher Mushquash’s wide-ranging work on addictions and mental health in Indigenous communities is tied by one common thread: listening to what the community needs and wants
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article
Saskatchewan
Helping video gaming companies level up
University of Saskatchewan computer scientist Regan Mandryk has developed a testing tool to keep Canada’s booming indie video game industry thriving
Pigtailed girl stands in front of chalkboard containing many mathematical
article
Alberta,Manitoba,Ontario
Mathematically speaking
As young people from kindergarten to university settle back into school, mathematics researchers give a few good reasons to love the subject some students dread
Houses on Datça Peninsula in Turkey surrounded with clear blue water and a sandy beach
article
Ontario
Diving off the Datça
How one maritime archaeologist from Brock University explores ancient shipwrecks for evidence of old-world trade systems
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article
Ontario,Alberta,Newfoundland and Labrador
Goodbye two dimensional screens, hello holographics
Two research facilities at the universities of Waterloo and Alberta are crucial to a Newfoundland company’s bid to lead the charge on holographic technologies
A tractor riding over a barren field.
article
Saskatchewan
Cultivating better ergonomics for farmers
University of Saskatchewan researchers are learning why three quarters of Canadian farmers experience lower back pain, and proposing ways to alleviate it
A green seedling in rich brown soil.
article
Nova Scotia
Know thy soil
Dalhousie University agricultural scientist Derek Lynch is giving Canadian farmers a better understanding of the material at the very root of their businesses: soil