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G8|20 equals KMb 100|30 : How the security spending in Toronto could fund KMb work in all Canadian Universities and Colleges for the next 30 years.

by Peter Levesque June 19, 2010

I was in Toronto this week for meetings with clients and to attend the Ontario KTECOP presentations at the University of Toronto Faculty Club. College Street and neighboring avenues were picked clean of newspaper boxes, garbage cans, bicycles or anything else that could become a “weapon of mass protest” – WMP.  Hordes of young police [...]

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Networks of Centres of Excellence funding knowledge mobilization

by Peter Levesque June 6, 2010

During the Knowledge Commons meeting on Wednesday at Congress2010 in Montreal, the representative from the Networks of Centres of Excellence announced a new initiative. Launching Summer 2010, the knowledge mobilization program will award funding for 4 years with a possible 3-year extension, up to $400k per year.  The postcard that was handed out states: working [...]

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Did SSHRC goof on health research funding?

by Peter Levesque June 1, 2010

The 2010 tropical storm season has produced a giant sinkhole in Guatemala. Did the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada create an equally large sinkhole that has swallowed up the funding available for SSH scholars who research issues in health that are not biomedical bench science issues? There is a negative sounding buzz coming [...]

Tagged as: congress10, funding, kmb, research, sshrc

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