Spartan Bioscience: Ottawa’s superhero of DNA testing

 By now you’ve probably already heard of COVID-19 but you may have missed a March 31st announcement about a $73 million investment by the federal government in an Ottawa company called Spartan Bioscience. History may record that date as a major turning point in the global fight against the pandemic.

Using the Emergencies Act to ramp up testing and track COVID-19

 By Colleen M. Flood, Teresa Scassa The Prime Minister is called upon almost daily to explain why the federal government has not invoked the Emergency Act. Canadians perceive the COVID-19 pandemic to be an emergency and rightly so. The problem is that the Act can only be employed when an