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Why Advancing IDEA Is Good for Canada’s Life Sciences Sector • To enhance Canada’s life sciences sector, embedding inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) is crucial for fostering innovation and attracting talent.

Cell and Gene Therapy — Canada’s Chance To Be a Global Leader in Life Sciences • Canada is well on the way to becoming a global leader in the commercialization, investment, and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.

How McMaster Innovation Park Is Advancing Cell and Gene Therapy • McMaster Innovation Park is fostering an innovation ecosystem for life sciences and biotech researchers, entrepreneurs, and ventures.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Puts Canadians Living with ALS First • Reflections on progress and urgency from a ‘made in Canada’ biotech focused on progressive neurodegenerative diseases.

Celebrating 10 Years of AbbVie Leadership • AbbVie celebrating 10 years of making a remarkable impact.

Improving Canadian Rare Disease Patients' Access to Treatment • Bayshore Specialty Rx is on a mission to help rare disease patients across Canada gain access to the treatments they need.

Novartis Invests in the Montréal Health Innovation District to Foster a New Wave of Healthcare Partnerships • The launch of Novartis’ new Montréal head office heralds a renewed commitment to collaboration and innovation within Canada.

How Ontario Is Leading the Way in the Medical Isotopes Field • Ontario-based Laurentis Energy Partners is an innovative leader and producer of medical isotopes, which are transforming global health care.

Label AI-Generated Content • Artificially intelligent tools are now able to create text, speech, art and video as well as humans can. We need to know who made what.

Having It All • couldn’t afford to stay home from work. Finding childcare for my son in B.C. cost me a lot more than money.

The Hoop Dreamer • Basketball wasn’t Laeticia Amihere’s original Tk game plan, but she was too Tk good not to become a champion

The Need for Speed • This summer, Formula One fans will watch cars scorch around Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in record time. Its new paddock came together just as quickly.

THE END OF HOMEOWNERSHOP • For generations, middle-class Canadians have been sold on the promise of homeownership. The promise was always flawed. Today it’s simply broken.

Betting My Life • A memoir of addiction, desperation and the dangers of sports betting

Access to Immunotherapy for Hard-to-Treat Lymphoma Improving • Now widely available across Canada as a third-line treatment for B-cell lymphomas, CAR T focus now on second-line treatment.

A DEADLY LOVE • Ashley Wadsworth spent years building an online romance with a young Englishman. Months after they met in person, he killed her—and her family learned of his dark past. Why did no one stop him?

RETRO FEVER • The ’70s are back in this Quebec couple’s unique vintage home

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF CANADA’S WEIRDEST FAST-FOOD FRANCHISE • How a failed McDonald’s knock-off became a fast-food success for generations of Lebanese-Canadian immigrants in Alberta

Are Your Employees Flourishing at Work? Here’s How to Help • When employees are supported and empowered in the workplace, they’re much more likely to flourish — both at work and outside it.

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