Health research/awareness
There are community-based health charities whose mandate includes providing health awareness. In addition, may of these organizations provide research grants and awards for the purpose of scientific research.
Canadian Cancer Society: www.cancer.ca
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada: www.heartandstroke.ca
Mental Health Commission of Canada: www.mentalhealthcommission.ca
Q Let me start off with a hardball question. There are
those who argue that Canada is nuts to see innovation
as its future because it has so many natural resources
that it should just extract and mine and farm and
lumber those as long as it can. Your thoughts?
A I would say they are nuts or, maybe it's better said
as the English put it, they are cracked.
According to Thomson ISI, The University of Toronto
ranks among the top three or four
universities in terms of research activity (both the
quality and the quantity). Only two universities in the
world (Harvard University and the University of Tokyo)
received higher publication scores than the University
of Toronto.
