The call to end systemic racism has echoed around the world. And it has resonated in Canada’s tech sector. Acknowledging that progress toward racial equality has been too slow, dozens of startup founders and corporate leaders have responded with pledges to step up...
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...
Failure rates of new technology-based companies are shockingly high. It is estimated that 75 per cent of technology start-ups do not generate profits. Other data suggest upwards of 90 per cent of new technology enterprises completely fail. However, some failures of...