Ontario matches CFI's $28.8 million investment in SNOLAB

The Ontario government is providing $28.8 million in operations and maintenance support to SNOLAB, matching an equal award made earlier this year by the Canada Foundation for Innovation through its Major Science Initiatives fund. The provincial funds will be used to employ 96 people at SNOLAB, an outgrowth of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a two KM-deep facility used to conduct subatomic and astroparticle physics experiments. The funding is over five years as the impact of neutrino and dark matter physics spreads to sectors such as genomics, nuclear and particle physics, astronomy and mining innovation.