* the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital, affiliated with the University of Toronto
* the Brain Research Centre at the University of British Columbia
* the Canada School of Energy and the Environment at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge
* the Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery, affiliated with the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa
* the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University
* the National Optics Institute in Quebec
* the Life Sciences Research Institute in Halifax, affiliated with Dalhousie University
Backgrounder
Seven Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research
There are seven centres of excellence in Canada that focus on priority areas in research and commercialization that are a key element of the Entrepreneurial Advantage component of Canada's new Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy. This S&T Strategy is a multi-year framework that will create a business environment that encourages the private sector to innovate and will guide the intelligent and strategic investment of public funds.
Through the Strategy, the government will promote world-class excellence, target more resources to priority areas in the national interest, create partnerships and work collaboratively with the provinces, and hold itself accountable for delivering results that matter to Canadians.
Budget 2007 provided $105 million to the seven centres. These centres are also eligible to compete under the new Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research Program ($195 million over the next two years).
The seven centres of excellence are as follows:
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http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/261ce500dfcd7259852564820068dc6d/85256a5d006b972085257375003f0b0b!OpenDocument [Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 16, 2007]
Stumble It!
Unless you want to carry on with government corruption and the sell out of Canada, and much worse if the likes of Harper becomes our next dictator, I encourage everyone to vote for the little guy, preferably an independent.
It's up to us to break out of the cycle of abuse, and we won't get there by re-electing the same old club of habitual abusers over and over again.
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Dave Ruston
-- 54% per cent of R&D in Canada is performed by business, well below the OECD average of 68%.
-- Canada ranks 14th in the OECD: business expenditures on R&D as a percentage of GDP.
-- Canada ranks 16th in the OECD: high-quality patents per million population.
-- Canada ranks 19th in the OECD: investment in machinery and equipment as a percentage of GDP
These centres for commercialization of research are part of the plan to fix that. That's the (official) reason but regardless of the real reason for doing this many people/institutions love this Mobilizing Science & Technology R&D plan (including myself, a science student). Believe me, Harper & the rest of his crew aren't my heroes but right now the Conservatives are the most "ViveleCanada.ca" party there is, and has been since soon after they were elected. The reason I think that is because I follow what the government is doing & not what the CAP is doing. I take it you think I'm some kind of government propagandist just because I don't relate all of my postings to that "secret" NAU plan that "everybody" knows about. I've actually been posting on this site almost as long as Susan Thompson has so I know what this site is about. The truth is I prefer to skip reading someone else's opinion/spin on what the government does and decide for myself.
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
-- 54% per cent of R&D in Canada is performed by business, well below the OECD average of 68%.
-- Canada ranks 14th in the OECD: business expenditures on R&D as a percentage of GDP.
-- Canada ranks 16th in the OECD: high-quality patents per million population.
-- Canada ranks 19th in the OECD: investment in machinery and equipment as a percentage of GDP
These centres for commercialization of research are part of the plan to fix that. That's the (official) reason but regardless of the real reason for doing this many people/institutions love this Mobilizing Science & Technology R&D plan (including myself, a science student). Believe me, Harper & the rest of his crew aren't my heroes but right now the Conservatives are the most "ViveleCanada.ca" party there is, and has been since soon after they were elected. The reason I think that is because I follow what the government is doing & not what the CAP is doing. I take it you think I'm some kind of government propagandist just because I don't relate all of my postings to that "secret" NAU plan that "everybody" knows about. I've actually been posting on this site almost as long as Susan Thompson has so I know what this site is about. The truth is I prefer to skip reading someone else's opinion/spin on what the government does and decide for myself.
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
No I have not, and I'll take your word for it that it's a great plan. But let me guess, this is a plan probably concocted by someone with real smarts long before Harper and his minions took over the throne - am I right?
No matter who is in power, they all do pretty much the exact same thing, and it is clear that some of those things are good for Canada and its people. However as history has taught us, governments over the decades have been doing a lot of bad things for Canada and its people, and we should no longer fall for the same old smoke and mirror trick that usually amounts to little more than bribing us with our own money just before the next election. After these scum bags assume full control, they become dictators for the next 4 years and do little more than fatten themselves and their buddies up at our expense.
Harper has already shown his true colors as he caters to Bush and his fake "war on terror", which is in reality a war for domination over the worlds energy supplies. There's worse to come if Harper manages to get his "majority" by the slimmest of margins with less than 1/4 of the eligible vote.
If you really do think that Harper and his minions give the slightest thought about doing some good for Canada for reasons that are do not include their own ulterior motives, then I'd have to say that you need to brush up on your Canadian history.
If we're to change the perpetual mess we're in, we have to change who we elect into power, and we have to forcefully demand real change to make the entire political system very hostile towards the never ending line up of liars and thieves who will try and take it over for themselves.
Paul Harris
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"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault:<br />
People say there is no torture in Canada. That’s pure bullshit…Well the article was titled<br />
Regarding Psychological Torture and Physicians Who Facilitate It<br />
Posted September 30, 2007<br />
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Mary Pipher is a courageous whistleblower - heard her on CBC radio last week. My article “A Psychiatric Holocaust” includes information regarding psychologist Donald Hebb’s unethical sensory deprivation, government-funded experiments on students at Montreal’s McGill University in the 1950s. Psychiatrist Ewen Cameron modified Hebb’s experiments to torture many patients (mostly women) with electroshock, psychiatric drugs & psychic driving in his brutal brainwashing experiments (see Phoenix Rising, vol.6 no.1, June 1986)<br />
Don<br />
The interview with Mary Pipher–which I listened to on the radio and seems to be available online–in which she discusses the role being played by the American Psychological Association, of which she is a<br />
member, in legitimizing torture is worth listening to. The interview was played on The Current, CBC Radio One, September 25, 2007, which is also the source of the following:<br />
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Guantanamo Bay - Black Sites<br />
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As both American and Canadian forces continue to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, both nations have felt the heat of the debate over what to do with captured terror suspects.<br />
read full article@ <a href="http://capacanada.wordpress.com/">http://capacanada.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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So before you clap yourself on the back for being a science student and shout how wonderful and positive all this funding money is you may want to investigate what this money will really be used for and why the defense dept. is involved in much of university research plus your own complicity if these type of experiments continue
What on Earth does this have to do with the recent announcement of these research centres?
What on Earth does this have to do with the recent announcement of these research centres?
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
Let me repeat, it is important that our moneys fund research for non harming peaceful purposes,
Most Universities are hotbeds for advanced weapons research with billions being handed out in Gov't subsidies to US companies and these billions along with University research costs come out of our pockets.
Secondly,these advanced weapons systems are of the balistic missle defense syatem that the gov't is pretending we are not involved in or part of.
Third,the basis for all soft torture used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba plus the numerous unknown blacksites come from science/research money from McGill.
ALFRED McCOY interviewed by the renouned Amy Goodman on Democracy Now says Dr. Donald O. Hebb of McGill University, a brilliant psychologist, had a contract from the Canadian Defense Research Board, which was a partner with the C.I.A. in this research, and he found that he could induce a state of psychosis in an individual within 48 hours. It didn't take electroshock, truth serum, beating or pain. All he did was had student volunteers sit in a cubicle with goggles, gloves and headphones, earmuffs, so that they were cut off from their senses, and within 48 hours, denied sensory stimulation, they would suffer, first hallucinations, then ultimately breakdown.
And if you look at many of those photographs what do they show? They show people with bags over their head. If you look at the photographs of the Guantanamo detainees even today, they look exactly like those student volunteers in Dr. Hebb’s original cubicle
c'mon.. wake up little school boy. There is another world outside of the one that has been constructed for you. One where decisions that have been made for you impact others.Seems about time to challenge your high chair of privilege