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September 30, 2014
It filled five 12-metre shipping containers on its overseas journey to Canada from the Netherlands, where it was built. Fully assembled, it is 25 metres long and more than nine metres wide, weighing...
February 11, 2013
Construction sites are like complex beehives, full of workers, each with an important task to perform and the common goal of finishing the project. Unlike bees, however, construction workers aren’t...
March 12, 2013
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimates that for every $1 invested in brownfield redevelopment, an average of $3.80 is invested in the Canadian economy.
Former industrial, commercial or...
January 27, 2014
Alan Evans of McGill University speaks at Robson Square in downtown Vancouver in 2012 as part of the Dialogues lecture series, organized by the CFI and The University of British Columbia.
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June 17, 2009
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Dr. Diane Nalini de KerckhoveB. Jonathan Michaels
During the day, Diane Nalini de Kerckhove teaches astronomy and oversees the construction of Canada’s first...
July 9, 2009
Please note that the CFI website will be undergoing scheduled maintenance this coming Saturday, July 11, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. The website will still be available during this time, however...
August 9, 2002
The CFI has announced a considerable amount of investments over the last 6 months. With no major competition under way, this is an opportune moment to take stock and to reflect on future directions....
March 1, 2005
With the completion of the human genome sequence and now the mouse genome sequence, scientists discovered that people and mice share about 95 percent of their 30,000 genes in both...
October 27, 2016
At institutions, management and oversight functions may be held by several individuals across various units. For example, project leaders and their scientific teams, and the administrative support...
April 29, 2019
One of the perks of Kyly Whitfield’s job is holding lots of babies — as she does here in February 2019 in Cambodia’s Kampong Thom province — while their mothers provide data.
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