The federal government is phasing out a 30-year-old funding program known for connecting teams of scientists across Canada and encouraging them to work together in key areas of biomedical and environmental research, The Globe and Mail has learned.

On Thursday, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan is expected to reveal that the government will eventually discontinue supporting the entities that are collectively known in Canada’s research landscape as Networks of Centres of Excellence. The category includes some high-profile Canadian science organizations, such as the clinically oriented Stem Cell Network as well as ArcticNet, which provides access for researchers to work aboard the Canadian research icebreaker, Amundsen.

Read more here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-to-discontinue-networks-of-centres-of-excellence-funding/

Instead they will be launching a new research fund to push beyond the frontiers of Canadian science:

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/media-advisory---government-of-canada-to-announce-new-research-fund-seeking-bold-ideas-to-shape-health-environment-economy-and-communities-701991232.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/social-sciences-humanities-research/news/2018/12/government-of-canada-launches-new-research-fund-to-push-beyond-the-frontiers-of-canadian-science.html