20th June 2012 Ottawa, Canada
War fever is racing down the river! Actually, war commemoration fever, as the many ceremonies to mark the War of 1812 begin. I had the pleasure of attending two fascinating events in the last week. The first, at Ottawa’s excellent War Museum, is called: 1812: One War, Four Perspectives. Its curator is Dr Peter MacLeod, […]
19th June 2012 Ottawa, Canada
You may have recently heard about a grass roots startup movement, by entrepreneurs and for entrepreneurs, called Startup Canada (@Startup_Canada). Sister organisation to Startup Britain (@StartupBritain), Startup Canada is an effort that’s been gaining momentum for a little over a year (the first mention of them on this blog would have been in relation to […]
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13th June 2012 Toronto, Canada
Minister Alistair Burt, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, made a quick visit to Canada last week (North America is among his many geographical responsibilities) and spent a day taking in the highlights of Toronto. SIN co-managed a visit to OCE Discovery, Ontario’s headline research-to-commercialisation trade show, and to Toronto Rehab […]
8th June 2012 Toronto, Canada
Before his visit to Toronto, UK Creative Industries KTN deputy director Jeremy Davenport was hanging out in Montréal with Science and Innovation Officer Nicolina Farella. Here’s Nicolina’s take on the visit, republished with permission from the UK CI-KTN blog: “Montreal is a creative city”…Have you heard this claim before? Well, Montreal is recognised worldwide for […]
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31st May 2012 Toronto, Canada
SIN Canada in Toronto recently had the pleasure of a visit by Jeremy Davenport of the UK Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network (CI-KTN). The CI-KTN is part of the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), and represents around 6,000 companies/institutions involved in the creative sector. Jeremy was in Toronto to make connections with the creative types located […]
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31st May 2012 Ottawa, Canada
I haven’t blogged much recently, as we’ve been launching the GREAT campaign across Canada. GREAT as in Britain, and it asks Canadians to take a new look at the Old Country. You’ll be surprised by what you see. All the things you’d expect in the history and tradition departments – and we’re on the verge of […]
14th May 2012 Ottawa, Canada
On Tuesday of last week (May 8, 2012) the Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, and Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade and Investment met in Montreal and signed the Canada/UK Joint Innovation Statement. The ceremony was attended by a small audience, and in case you were following our twitterfeed: [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/UKinCanada/status/199954199398727681″] The signing happened in […]
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27th April 2012 Ottawa, Canada
This week, Montreal is hosting the International Polar Year conference, IPY 2012: From Knowledge to Action. IPY 2012 brings together over 3000 international experts from across a variety of fields, with the ambitious agenda of using the knowledge accumulated by researchers during international polar year activities, and developing concrete actions to move forward. The polar […]
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26th April 2012 Ottawa, Canada
A guest blog in honour of World Intellectual Property Day by the British High Commission’s Trade and Economic Advisor Mark Agnew: April 26 marks World Intellectual Property Day, and a chance to recognize the importance of IP in fostering innovation and growth. Although not particularly a dinner table subject of discussion, intellectual property and the […]
17th April 2012 Ottawa, Canada
Prof. David Clary (his blog), Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) recently visited Ottawa, on the invitation of the Office of the Auditor General(@OAG_BVG) to participate in a Science Forum, looking at how science can be used to better inform policy, in times of austerity. Part of this involved discussions of how science advice to government […]
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