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The Loyalist College have announced a three-year pilot project which will provide financial support for students entering Skilled Trades programs. The new W. Garfield Weston Fellowship Program will offer tuition and bursary incentives to help students train for and succeed in this growing labour market. READ MORE
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Weston Family Parks Challenge – February 26, 2013
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation will commit up to $5 million in aggregate over the next three years to fund an innovative new park initiatives across the City of Toronto. Toronto Park People will work with communities to generate a broad range of ideas to creatively fund, sustain and engage Toronto’s communities with their city parks and nature. READ MORE
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The W. Garfield Weston Foundation supports Downtown Toronto’s Riverdale Farm - February 18, 2013
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation is pleased to announce support of Riverdale Farm with a $25,000 donation. The donation will help the newly formed Riverdale Farm Stewardship Group achieve long-term stability. READ MORE
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The W. Garfield Weston Foundation and the University of Toronto today announced the creation of a prestigious doctoral travel award. The W. Garfield Weston Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program will provide 16 recipients each year—across the humanities and the social, physical and life sciences—a grant of $50,000 to further their research and broaden their skills and networks in a global setting. READ MORE
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada today announced a three‐year grant from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation that will help fund WCS Canada’s continued conservation efforts in two of Canada’s most pristine, yet imminently threatened, northern regions — Ontario’s Far North and Northern British Columbia/Southern Yukon. These funds will help extend WCS Canada’s work into Canada’s Western Arctic, partnering with WCS’s
Beringia program based in Fairbanks, Alaska. READ MORE
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- World’s first “Hearts and Minds” clinic for adults with genetic syndrome – December 11, 2012
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, opened The Dalglish Family Hearts & Minds Clinic – the world’s first comprehensive, interdisciplinary clinic devoted to adults with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and their families. READ MORE
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Nine out of every ten bites of food around the world today begin with seed. From Newfoundland to British Columbia, Canadians coast-to-coast will soon benefit from a program to build a more secure and diverse ‘made-in-Canada’ seed supply. Thanks to a generous grant from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security will promote local and diverse seed. READ MORE
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- Grand Opening of The Salvation Army Barbara Mitchell Family Resource Centre – July 27, 2012
The Salvation Army today announced the grand opening of The Salvation Army Barbara Mitchell Family Resource Centre in Winnipeg, one of two centres supported by a lead gift of $3 million from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation. For additional information, please click HERE to see the March press release.
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The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has made a landmark donation of $4 million to establish the first multidisciplinary clinic in the world devoted to adults with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS). READ MORE
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The Fraser Institute, with the support of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, today announced the creation of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education, which will assist in the improvement of K-12 education across Canada. READ MORE
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The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has made a three-year commitment to the City of Lethbridge which will provide students with the opportunity to spend full days out on fieldtrips into Lethbridge parks as well as the Waterton Park Front, where the Foundation has helped to conserve over 30,000 acres. READ MORE
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The Fort York Foundation announced today that The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has made a lead gift of $1 million to the rehabilitation of Garrison Common, which is part of the ongoing revitalization of Fort York National Historic Site. READ MORE
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Canadian Participation in Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in the United Kingdom – June 1, 2012
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation will be joining with the Canadian Canoe Museum in celebrating the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant by sending Canada One, a replica of a voyageur canoe, to participate in the flotilla, honouring the voyageur men and women who were instrumental in opening up our great country. READ MORE
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Evolutionary Spinal Board Earns Nova Scotia Students the 2012 Weston Youth Innovation Award – May 17, 2012
Ontario Science Centre announces winners of national prize, named in recognition of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation’s $15 million lead gift to the Centre’s Agents of Change initiative. READ MORE
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Weston Family Environmental Leaders of Tomorrow Program Develops Next Generation of Eco Leaders with Program Expansion Across Northern Ontario – May 10, 2012
Over the next three years, more than 4,500 students from urban communities across Ontario will be provided the field trip of a lifetime, thanks to support from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation. READ MORE
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Second Annual Winner of Canadian Lifetime Achievement Award in Northern Research Announced by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation – April 25, 2012
Dr. Louis Fortier awarded $50,000 prize for Lifetime Achievement at International Polar Year Conference. READ MORE
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The W. Garfield Weston Foundation is making a major contribution to support the future of the world’s food supply with the establishment of The Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation. READ MORE
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The Salvation Army Barbara Mitchell Family Resource Centres in Winnipeg and Calgary To Promote Dignity For All READ MORE
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- The W. Garfield Weston Foundation Supports Major Growth Of Alternative Land Use Services(ALUS) - March 20, 2012
With the Foundation's gift of $1.46 million, Delta Waterfowl will create two centres of operations, or hubs, to support the national expansion of the ALUS program. READ MORE
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Donation of $3.915 million to the Canadian Women's Foundation to empower Canada's girls - December 6, 2011
The Canadian Women’s Foundation, Canada’s foundation dedicated to empowering women and girls, is thrilled to announce a $3.915 million donation over the next four years from Nancy Baron through The W. Garfield Weston Foundation. READ MORE
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- Additional $2.8 million for education and research in Northern Research - October 27, 2011
The Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies is pleased to announce the extension and expansion of the W. Garfield Weston Awards for Northern Research and the creation of the W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellowship in Northern Research. READ MORE
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AGO’s Highly Anticipated Weston Family Learning Centre Shines a Spotlight on Arts Enrichment - September 27, 2011
The catalyst for the 35,000 sq. ft. light-filled space dedicated to hands-on and online exploration was the generosity of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, which committed $12 million in 2008 – the largest single gift in support of art education in the Gallery's 111-year history.
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First Winner of Canadian Lifetime Achievement Award in Northern Research Announced by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation - August 24, 2011
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC), and The Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) named Dr. Serge Payette as the inaugural recipient of the Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research. READ MORE
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Canadians believe the Arctic should be the priority region of protection in Canada says survey
- April 14, 2011
Sponsored by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, the national survey finds that 90 per cent of Canadians believe Canada has a special role to play at the international level as the protector of the Arctic. READ MORE
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Earth Rangers Gives Canadian Families a Chance to Experience a Wildlife Eco-Adventure of a Lifetime
- April 13, 2011
The contest, sponsored by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, will award four families of four across Canada
the opportunity of a lifetime. READ MORE
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$1.5 Million Gift to Alternative Land Use Services by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation - March 8, 2011
The donation will strengthen the ecological renewal and regrowth of unusable farm land in Norfolk County, Ontario. READ MORE
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Canadians have a long-distance romance with the Arctic and polar bears - February 24, 2011
Polar bears (37 per cent) edge out climate change (29 per cent) as the first thing Canadians think of when asked about the Arctic. READ MORE
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- 875 Acres of Carolinian Canada Habitat Protected - February 15, 2011
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has funded the permanent preservation of more than 875 acres (354 hectares) of Carolinian Canada land in Norfolk County through a new $6.1 million donation to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. READ MORE
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Northern Researchers to be recognized with $50,000 annual Prize - December 7, 2010
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation today announced the creation of a $50,000 annual prize for lifetime achievement in northern science. The Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research is the largest of its kind in recognizing a leading northern researcher in natural science.
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Wildlife Gets A Lift From The W. Garfield Weston Foundation - November 23, 2010
The Wildlife Conservation Society Canada announced today it has received a two-year grant that will help fund vital conservation efforts.
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Weston Family Learning Centre Construction Under Way at the Art Gallery of Ontario - August 10, 2010
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Matthew Teitelbaum, CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Geordie C. Dalglish, Chairman of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, celebrated the unveiling of the design and construction progress of the Gallery’s new Weston Family Learning Centre.
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3,400 Acres of Carolinian Canada Protected - May 27, 2010
Part of $100 Million donated by the Foundation to organizations across Canada, protecting more than 100,000 acres. READ MORE
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