National Research Council keeps its president

Iain Stewart has been reappointed as president of the National Research Council, this time for a five-year term.
Stewart is finishing his original two-year term this summer. His reappointment was announced Wednesday by federal ministers Navdeep Bains (Innovation, Science and Economic Development) and Kirsty Duncan (Science).
He inherits a growing budget which stands at $1.1 billion since this spring’s federal budget. Stewart has a mandate to expand and “deepen” research, a