by PanamericanWorld | Apr 7, 2020
The Canadian healthcare system has some of the longest wait times in the developed world. It isn’t uncommon for patients to wait hours for emergency care, and months, if not years, for elective surgery. The country has only 2.7 doctors per thousand citizens, compared...
by PanamericanWorld | Apr 1, 2020
Necessity is the mother of invention — unless the world closes your lab and diverts your funding. That’s the conundrum facing the global drug discovery community, as “non-critical research” in thousands of facilities shuts down to flatten the curve of...
by PanamericanWorld | Mar 27, 2020
With the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declaring COVID-19 an international pandemic, nations have doubled down on “flattening the curve” of the crisis by imposing unprecedented controls on citizens to slow the spread of the virus and, therefore, save...
by PanamericanWorld | Mar 13, 2020
Oakville, Ontario, based Shoplogix was founded in 2002 on the premise that better information could lead to improved outcomes in the manufacturing sector. 13 years later, Shoplogix is one of Ontario’s leading Industry 4.0 companies, helping global Fortune 1000...
by PanamericanWorld | Mar 10, 2020
Toronto is an indisputable financial services giant: roughly eight percent of Torontonians work in finance, while jobs in the sector have grown by 25 percent in the last five years. And the city’s fintech community has shown great promise, raising...
by PanamericanWorld | Jan 30, 2020
Canada must prepare for the growing need to retrain workers displaced by disruptive technologies. To do so, governments must have a thorough sense of the effectiveness of current employment retraining programs. High-quality evaluations of employment training programs...