The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious effects on the economy of almost every country in the world. Governments have been forced to allocate billions of their budgets to help businesses that have been forced into temporary closure and workers who have lost their jobs....
McMaster HealthLabs, a COVID-19-focused non-profit organization associated with researchers at McMaster University, the Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, the University of Toronto and other universities, has released the interim results of a border...
For many world citizens, accessing Visa or MasterCard credit and/or debit cards or even payment systems, such as PayPal or Stripe may be something very common. Not for Cubans. Prevented from accessing the traditional global financial system due to restrictions from...
The numbers are staggering: while Latin America rises as the current epicenter of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Cuba has successfully managed this disease. Eight months after confirming its first case and without ever ordering total confinement, the Caribbean country...
The global coronavirus pandemic is making Canada’s opioid crisis worse. With increased isolation, economic hardship and mental-health stresses, more Canadians have been using opioids and dying alone. Western Canada has been hit particularly hard, with the...