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In 2011, CLUMEQ and RQCHP merged into Calcul Québec, which is now one of the six remaining regional consortia part of Compute Canada. The Canadian Academies of Science was established in 2004, as the result of an initiative by the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Canadian Institute of Academic Medicine.
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.
the diffusion of technology in Canada; scientific research in Canada; innovation, invention and industrial research in Canada; In 2019, Canada spent approximately CA$40.3 billion on domestic research and development, of which over $7 billion was provided by the federal and provincial governments. [1]
NSERC's Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering was first awarded in 1991 to Raymond Lemieux, a chemist working at University of Alberta. [6] Mathematician James Arthur from the University of Toronto was the 1999 recipient, [7] the last year before the award was renamed in honour of Gerhard Herzberg, the winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [2]
Canadienne cattle – the only breed of dairy cattle developed in Canada; Cymric cat – The Cymric is a muscular, compact, medium-to-large cat that weighs between 3.2 to 5.9 kg (7 to 13 lb), and Canada claims to have developed the long-haired variant; Canadian Arcott – a breed of domestic sheep native to Canada
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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.
The University of Guelph (abbreviated U of G) is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College (1874), the MacDonald Institute (1903), and the Ontario Veterinary College (1922), and has since grown to an institution of almost 30,000 students (including those at the Humber campus, Ridgetown ...