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12th September 2013 Ottawa, Canada

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by Corin Robertson

Deputy High Commissioner to Canada

TIFF-erific: the UK takes TIFF 2013 by storm

I was in Toronto earlier this week for the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s a time of year when Toronto truly shines – there’s a buzz in the air, and the streets are littered with dark-windowed SUVs ferrying their precious cargo (or, as they are known in the trade “the Talent”) from premiere to press conference and back again…

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9th August 2013 Montreal, Canada

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by Mario Rivero-Huguet

Honouring the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: Ancestral Knowledge

The health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities is closely linked to connection with the environment – connecting people with place – and from the strength of culture that grows from this connectivity. For millennia, Indigenous communities read continuously and cumulatively signs of ecological wellness, and for example the health of an animal is considered in […]

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30th July 2013 Ottawa, Canada

by Saira Meese-Tamuri

Canadian High Performance Computing and Big Data Capabilities

National infrastructure for supercomputing-powered research High performance computing (HPC) has become an indispensable and enabling technology across all research fields. Some fields have a long history with computing such as computer science, astrophysics, weather (climate modeling) and engineering. In Canada, researchers are managing and analyzing immensely large and complex data sets from sources such as […]

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