The Governor-General’s Innovation Awards are a celebration of Canadian creators who have reshaped lives nationally and abroad. In the ceremony’s second year, awards were handed out for a breakthrough in mental-health-service accessibility, a new approach to treating hearing deficits in the poorest parts of the globe, the development of plastics that are less likely to cause blood clots, technology that identifies disease-resistant cattle in the dairy industry, the removal of allergens from a key medical material and the digital preservation of Indigenous languages