{"id":475602,"date":"2026-02-15T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475602\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:57:52","slug":"ottawa-commits-6m-to-fund-cross-canada-research-aimed-at-driving-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475602\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa commits $6M to fund cross-Canada research aimed at driving productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">CALGARY \u2014 The federal government has announced a $6 million grant aimed at improving Canada&#8217;s economic productivity through a cross-country research partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is to be spread out over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The partnership includes 30 researchers from six federal bodies, six universities and three non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">It is being directed by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The researchers are to collaborate through working groups, embedded researcher programs and joint conferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Tombe says productivity is at the heart of nearly every economic challenge Canada faces, including affordability, trade competitiveness and the sustainability of public finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;This partnership is about turning world-class research into practical insight for decision-makers on a national scale,&#8221; he said in a news release Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The federal government has announced a $6 million grant aimed at improving Canada&#8217;s economic productivity through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,1179,193040,295,193041,66,251,112709],"class_list":{"0":"post-475602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cross-country","11":"tag-economic-productivity","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-federal-bodies","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-the-federal-government","16":"tag-university-of-calgary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}