[Ottawa] The Canadian Consortium for Research (CCR) is encouraged by the investments in science and research in the 2024 federal budget. For the first time since 2018, the budget announced increased funding for core research funding grants through the federal granting councils, and it provided a major investment to increase graduate student scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships for the first time in almost two decades. This investment will deliver urgently needed support to Canada’s next generation of researchers.