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COVID-19 continues to have significant impacts on Canada’s economy, health care systems and more. We are only beginning to understand how Canada’s food system will be affected. It is vital that our sector take stock of what has happened so far in order to reorient vital research priorities. AIC’s webinar provided the opportunity to begin […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s Gender Equality Mainstreaming Digest! Click HERE for the full version. Opportunities and Upcoming Events: Many events are being cancelled or re-scheduled at the last minute due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please check each organization’s website or its social media site for up to date information. Conference of Canadian […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s Gender Equality Mainstreaming Digest! Click HERE for the full version. Opportunities and Upcoming Events: Many events are being cancelled or re-scheduled at the last minute due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please check each organization’s website or its social media site for up to date information. Webinar: Connecting STEM […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s Gender Equality Mainstreaming Digest! Click HERE for the full version. Opportunities and Upcoming Events: International Women’s Day The theme for International Women’s Day (8 March 2020) is, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. The theme is aligned with UN Women’s new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality, which marks […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s Gender Equality Mainstreaming Digest! Click HERE for the full version. Opportunities and Upcoming Events: Nominations for Influential Women in Canadian Agriculture After February 10 We created IWCA to help identify and promote women across the diverse agriculture industry. Women are actively farming, providing animal health and nutrition services […]
For immediate release January 22, 2020, Ottawa – The Agri-food Innovation Council (AIC) is delighted to announce that Dr. Wilf Keller will be joining the organization as it’s Vice President of Outreach. In this role, he will be responsible for interacting with the various stakeholders in the agri-food industry on behalf of AIC. Dr. Keller […]
For immediate release January 16, 2020, Ottawa – The Agri-food Innovation Council (AIC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Reno Pontarollo was elected as the new Chair of the Agri-Food Innovation Council and that Dr. Julianne Curran, was also elected as AIC’s new Vice Chair. Dr. Pontarollo is the President and CEO of Genome Prairie. He was born and […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s Gender Equality Mainstreaming Digest! Click HERE for the full version. Opportunities and Upcoming Events: Call for Abstracts: Envisioning the Future of Extension A mix of presenters and participants is sought, to enable sharing of both: (1) innovative approaches in the context of the future of extension that have […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s Gender Equality Mainstreaming Digest! Click HERE for the full version. Opportunities and Upcoming Events: FIT Workshop on developing testing frameworks Fund for Innovation and Transformation is hosting an online workshop on developing testing frameworks on Thursday December 5th. The workshop will be in French at 10:30 am CST […]
November 8, 2019 Standing onstage in an ornate conference room at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in downtown Saskatoon, former Saskatchewan premier Dr. Grant Devine pitched the agri-food industry on a new idea: a wheat tube. More specifically, a hypothetical hyperloop Devine says could fire shipments of wheat from Moose Jaw to Langley, B.C. at hundreds of kilometres […]