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The Navigator: where business and research meet
October 20, 2017
The navigator plots a secure and sure and steady path through shoals and stormy seas or, if your ship is intergalactic, through meteor showers and passing comets. Today, although we work effectively...
Taking advantage of the CFI Research Facilities Navigator
October 29, 2016
The CFI believes that supporting partnerships between researchers, institutions and the private and public sectors will increase the return on CFI investments by fostering dynamic interaction between...
New look, new features for the Navigator
October 17, 2017
Today, the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Research Facilities Navigator reveals an exciting new suite of features that makes it easier for researchers, industry and other partner organizations to...
A vital resource for navigating the modern world of research and innovation
May 15, 2018
Ancient explorers crossed the seas, using the stars to navigate, making their way through lands unknown to them, guided solely by the planets above. They sought paths to meaning, prosperity, better...
Making headway on head injuries
April 6, 2016
As a young neuropsychologist, Alain Ptito was troubled by the sizeable number of his patients who suffered symptoms of traumatic brain injury after scans pronounced them recovered from their...
Pulp and paper industry saves millions in energy costs
March 25, 2015
Researchers at The University of British Columbia (UBC) have helped engineer a new pulp screening technology that is up to 50 percent more energy efficient and is saving Canada’s pulp and paper...
Perspectives of philosophers and computer scientists key to navigating ethics of new technologies, says keynote speaker at our annual public meeting
December 4, 2018
OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Antoine Petit, President and CEO of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France spoke about the future of artificial intelligence and the importance of global...
Canada selects 9 projects to lead in international research
June 20, 2002
Ottawa, June 20, 2002… Allan Rock, Minister of Industry, today joined Dr. David W. Strangway, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), to announce the names of nine large-...
Microbes on a mission
November 21, 2014
It’s invisible to most of us, but one of the most prevalent organic groundwater contaminants on Earth is something called trichloroethylene (TCE), a toxic chlorinated solvent that was in wide...
Mining for opportunities
August 12, 2013
When mining giant Vale called upon Robert Pelton at McMaster University to develop an economically feasible way to extract nickel from lower-grade ore in the Thompson, Man., nickel belt, it attracted...

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