Zane Schwartz was a reporter at The Logic. Previously at the National Post and Maclean’s, he was the 2017 Michelle Lang Fellow in Journalism, building a searchable database of five million political donations. He won a Data Journalism Award from the Global Editors Network in 2018 for the project. In both 2017 and 2018 he won the Goff Penny Award, given to the best young newspaper journalist in Canada. In 2019, he won the Project of the Year award from the National Newspaper Awards and was named the Best Young Journalist by the Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
On the first day of what’s expected to be a difficult earnings season for Canadian financial institutions, Scotiabank reported a 41 per cent year-over-year profit drop to $1.13 billion in its fiscal second quarter, while the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board posted a 3.1 per cent return for its fiscal year, its worst performance since the last recession
Ottawa should set up an “innovation corps” for co-op students whose placements have been cancelled by U.S. firms, Council of Canadian Innovators chair Jim Balsillie told a parliamentary committee on Monday afternoon
“We are working with a number of different partners on potential apps for contact tracing,” Trudeau said Friday, adding that the government is waiting for a June update from Apple and Google, after which the government “will be able to recommend strongly to Canadians a particular app that will help us manage the spread of COVID-19.”
Companies staffed by contractors rather than employees will soon qualify for Ottawa’s COVID-19 small-business loan program, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday
