05/04/12

2012 Federal Budget Follow-up

Posted By: Khalid Eidoo

The table below illustrates the effect of the proposed changes in the 2012 Federal Budget to the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program for companies operating in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. In order to simplify the comparision, the table below assumes that the Ontario Research and Development Tax

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30/03/12

Harper Government Reduces SR&ED

Posted By: Khalid Eidoo

With its first budget as a majority government, the Harper Government has taken several measures to reduce the benefit of the SR&ED program with its 2012 federal budget.
The program has been modified in four major ways:

(1) The proxy overhead, used to account for overhead expenditures is being reduced from 65%

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12/03/12

2012 Provincial Budget Updates (BC & Alberta)

Posted By: Khalid Eidoo

Alberta, British Columbia and Nunavut have already tabled their 2012 budgets. The below commentary touches on changes the Alberta and BC budgets have introduced to their SR&ED and Interactive Digital Media (IDMTC) programs.

In its 2012 budget, Alberta has further enhanced the SR&ED program by adding $25M to it in

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10/02/12

We're Hiring - Sales Representative/Account Manager

Posted By: Khalid Eidoo

Job Summary

As a Sales Executive for MCN, you will be responsible for finding and generating new business for MCN. You will leverage existing relationships and our qualified leads database to sign new customers. We are looking for experienced, professional people, who are able to work independently.

Qualifications

- A Bachelors degree or

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06/12/11

Junk the Jenkins Report

Posted By: Khalid Eidoo

On October 17th 2011 the Independent Panel on Federal Support to Research and Development released its long-awaited report titled “Innovation Canada: A Call for Action”.

The Panel has identified the gaps in Canada’s innovation system:
• the strategic use of public sector procurement to foster innovation,
• the enhanced use of large-scale research

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