Stephanie Scanlan learned the shocking shortages of essential chemotherapy drugs this spring. Two of the three drugs normally used to treat her rare bone cancer were too rare. She would have to move on without them. Ms. Scanlan, 56, head of a busy state office in Tallahassee, Florida, had sought the drugs for months as … [Read more…]
To address the housing crisis, Ottawa will release a catalog of pre-approved World War II-era housing by next fall. • Also read – Housing crisis: Ottawa will reissue “house catalogues”. Housing Minister Sean Fraser sees this as “a concrete opportunity to build more housing more quickly” by shortening approval and construction times of all kinds. … [Read more…]
“There used to be five or six companies that applied for a project. “Nowadays there are often only two of us or we are alone,” warns Bruno Del Degan, head of a large consulting engineering firm that is struggling to have enough engineers for our major projects. “For certain hydropower projects, we are even unable … [Read more…]