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St. Joseph’s Mission Investigation Phase II Results
Press Release Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) would like to acknowledge that the following release could be triggering for some people. A crisis support line at the Indian Residential School…
Government of Canada invests $23 million in pediatric cancer research
Press Release From: Canadian Institutes of Health Research January 18, 2023 Cancer is the leading cause of death from disease in children and adolescents in Canada. Approximately 10,000 children are…
Are local fish safe to consume? Research on contaminants in subsistence fish to impact Indigenous communities
Press Release Wahnapitae First Nation member and Laurentian graduate student, Taylor Nicholls, pursues scholarship in aquaculture Fishing is enjoyed by people from across the globe. It is an exciting sport…
Call for Proposals to Address Gender-Based Violence Through Promising Practices and Community-Based Research
Press Release From: Women and Gender Equality Canada December 9, 2022 Gender-based violence costs women and gender-diverse people their lives. Those most at risk are people living in rural and…
Northern Health and the University of Northern British Columbia renew partnership in learning and research
Press Release December 5, 2022 On December 5th, 2022, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Northern Health (NH) and the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) was renewed for a…
SSHRC: Tri-agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee broadened
Press Release Inaugural year results demonstrate value of pilot In the spring of 2021, the three federal research funding agencies—the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes…
SSHRC announces the 2022 Insight Development Grants recipients
Press Release 2022-10-26 The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has awarded over $35 million to fund 585 research projects from 71 Canadian institutions through the 2022 Insight Development Grants competition.…
BC Government: New research, funding to support complex mental-health, substance-use challenges
Press Release Oct. 14, 2022 VICTORIA – British Columbians living with overlapping brain injury, mental-health and substance-use challenges will benefit from a new research project that will explore these areas…
Province Investing in Ontario-made Research and Innovation
Press Release September 29, 2022 TORONTO – The Ontario government is supporting Ontario-made innovation with an investment of more than $198 million in research projects at colleges, universities and research…
SSHRC-funded research on drinking water advisories in First Nations
Press Release September 13, 2022 As of mid-August, there were upwards of 130 drinking water advisories in Manitoba, nearly 30 of which were boil-water advisories in northern communities. As part…
