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Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is Canada's largest publisher of international scientific journals. It started in 1929 as the NRC Research Press , part of the National Research Council (NRC). In 2010, the organization spun off from NRC and was incorporated as a not-for-profit.
Kim TallBear (born 1968) is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science. [1] Holding the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, TallBear has published on DNA testing, race science and Indigenous identities, as well as on polyamory as a decolonization practice.
The Indspire Research Knowledge Nest is the first Indigenous research program of its kind developed in Canada. With data analysis skills rapidly becoming critical to economic success, the Research Nest is poised to seize this original opportunity to foster Indigenous engagement and leadership in quantitative research and data science roles.
In 2006, Canadian universities spent C$10.890 billion on research and development, representing about 40 percent of all R&D spending in Canada and about .66 percent of Canada's GDP. Below are the names of those university institutions that carry out both natural and social science research, although the emphasis here is on the former.
Expenditures by federal and provincial organizations on scientific research and development accounted for about 10% of all such spending in Canada in 2006. These organizations are active in natural and social science research, engineering research, industrial research and medical research.
Offices across Canada www.canadians.org: 1985 Council of Canadian Academies: evaluate the best available evidence on complex issues where the science may be challenging to understand, contradictory, or difficult to assemble Ottawa, Ontario www.scienceadvice.ca: 2002 Democracy Watch: democratic reform, government accountability and corporate ...
Though it's been around since 1992, it wasn't until October 2021 that President Biden became the first U.S. President to formally recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day, declaring October 10 to be a ...
The National Research Council was established in 1916, [6] under the pressure of World War I, to advise the government on matters of science and industrial research.In 1932, laboratories were built on Sussex Drive in Ottawa and the Medical Research Committee was formed with Dr. Frederick Banting as the inaugural Chair.