The Government of Ontario is purchasing nearly one million portable COVID-19 test kits from Spartan Bioscience, a biotech firm led by a University of Toronto alumnus. The portable Spartan Cubes, which drew the attention of the federal government last month, can...
As the COVID-19 crisis rolls on, Canada’s tech ventures face a new challenge: maintaining their dynamic cultures as the novelty of remote working wears thin. Tech ventures prize their collaborative workplaces — the notion that creative spaces encourage smart ideas is...
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...
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...
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...