Fatima Syed

Reporter

Fatima Syed was a reporter at The Logic. She was previously a reporter with National Observer, where she established the outlet’s Queen’s Park bureau with an emphasis on coverage of environmental and energy policy. She previously worked at the Toronto Star and at The Walrus, and is a National Magazine Award nominee. She contributed chapters to two anthologies published by Coach House Books, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity and House Divided.

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Articles by Fatima Syed

Briefing

Uber and Lyft drivers are now employees under California law

https://thelogic.co/briefing/uber-and-lyft-drivers-are-now-employees-under-california-law/

By Fatima Syed | Jun 11, 2020

COVID-19 roundup: New Liberal pandemic bill kicked to the CERB

https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-new-liberal-pandemic-bill-kicked-to-the-cerb/

By Murad Hemmadi, Fatima Syed, Zane Schwartz and Catherine McIntyre | Jun 10, 2020

The Liberal government’s latest COVID-19 emergency legislation failed to win enough support to move forward on Wednesday, as some opposition parties objected to its changes to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit

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Ontario Centres of Excellence, Paramount founder in bid to save OneEleven

https://thelogic.co/briefing/ontario-centres-of-excellence-paramount-founder-in-bid-to-save-oneeleven/

By Fatima Syed | Jun 10, 2020

COVID-19 roundup: ‘To go to sleep without the threat of eviction is a relief’

https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-to-go-to-sleep-without-the-threat-of-eviction-is-a-relief/

By Fatima Syed, Zane Schwartz, Catherine McIntyre and Murad Hemmadi | Jun 9, 2020

Ontario’s commercial eviction ban—and commercial rent measures in other provinces—comes as landlords have seemingly refused to apply to the federal rent-relief program, the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Program

Briefing

IBM will no longer develop facial recognition technology because it’s used for racial profiling

https://thelogic.co/briefing/ibm-will-no-longer-develop-facial-recognition-technology-because-its-used-for-racial-profiling/

By Fatima Syed | Jun 9, 2020

Briefing

SoftBank is cutting 15 per cent of its staff from Vision Fund

https://thelogic.co/briefing/softbank-is-cutting-15-per-cent-of-its-staff-from-vision-fund/

By Fatima Syed | Jun 9, 2020

‘We were forced into survival mode’: How Canadian startups are planning to succeed in a post-COVID-19 world

https://thelogic.co/news/we-were-forced-into-survival-mode-how-canadian-startups-are-planning-to-succeed-in-a-post-covid-19-world/

By Fatima Syed | Jun 9, 2020

Many founders are trying to figure out where they fit in an economy that has changed for the foreseeable future

COVID-19 roundup: Not everybody can WFH

https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-not-everybody-can-wfh/

By Fatima Syed, Murad Hemmadi, Zane Schwartz and Catherine McIntyre | Jun 8, 2020

The pandemic-driven shift to working from home will probably widen earnings inequality in Canada at least in the short term, according to a new Statistics Canada study