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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For any other employer, it would have been an unprecedented move: on the first day of conciliation, on the first day of bargaining, before any negotiations had even been taken place, they called for a No Board. But this is typical behaviour from Julia Dumanian and Canadian Hearing Services (CHS). “Since taking over as CEO in 2015, there’s a deep feeling among workers that she’s tried to weaken our ability to advocate for ourselves while reducing the services we provide...

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Track Capital, LP, (together with its affiliates, “Deep Track” or “we”) is one of the largest shareholders of Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) (“Dynavax”, “DVAX” or the “Company”), with ownership of approximately 14.34% of the Company’s outstanding shares. Today Deep Track commented on the Company’s disclosure that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) has rejected a settlement proposal in connection with its nomination of four highly qualif...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emulate, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation in vitro models, today welcomed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) newly announced plan to reduce reliance on animal testing in preclinical safety studies. The FDA’s strategic roadmap outlines how New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), including Organ-Chips, advanced computational modeling, and other in vitro assays, will help streamline drug development, lower costs, and improve patient safety. The FDA’s roadm...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Attorney and traffic safety expert Amy Witherite warns that experimental driverless trucks will reach speeds up to 75 miles per hour as they undergo further testing on routes from Dallas – Houston, Fort Worth to El Paso and Phoenix to El Paso. According to the Aurora Driverless Safety Report, the company’s driverless vehicles will cruise at 65 miles per hour. Still, they can reach speeds up to 75 miles per hour when merging with or overtaking other vehicles. Currently,...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tikvah Management LLC (together with its affiliates, “Tikvah” or “we”), which owns approximately 1.5% of the outstanding common shares of Quanterix Corp. (“Quanterix” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: QTRX), today issued a statement calling on the Company to explain its most recent purchase agreement for up to $30 million in convertible notes from Akoya Biosciences, Inc. (“Akoya”) (Nasdaq: AKYA). Tikvah’s statement follows: “This announcement concerns us for several r...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schrödinger, Inc. (Nasdaq: SDGR) strongly supports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) plan to reduce, refine or potentially replace current animal testing requirements with new approaches designed to improve drug safety and accelerate the evaluation process, while reducing animal experimentation. The FDA’s roadmap encourages a number of computational approaches to predict drug properties. Schrödinger’s widely used computational platform enables highly accur...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The announcement by Doug Ford’s Conservatives of the expansion of “strong mayor powers” to an additional 169 municipalities is further undermining the fundamentals of democracy in our communities and enables personal political agendas to “trump” democratic process. “This expansion is disguised as a way to speed up housing and infrastructure projects, but make no mistake, this is the Conservatives' and Doug Ford’s way of ensuring that mayors can ram through his politica...

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland and Labrador--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2025 Provincial Budget took some modest steps to reinvest in public housing, our libraries, schools and universities, but it fell short on fixing the real problem facing public sector workers: every year we are expected to do our work for less pay. “It’s a horrible situation. This Government rewards public sector workers with a pay cut every year they continue to work,” said CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador president Sherry Hillier. “Wor...

PETERBOROUGH, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following a city council demand for $120,000 in budget cuts, the Peterborough Public Library management has informed workers they will be laying off three of the library’s four full-time unionized librarians. “What management is talking about is getting rid of three highly trained people each with more than 15 years of service at the library,” said Patricia Scoffield, president of CUPE 1833. “These aren’t people or positions that are easily replaced, and...

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Canadian Union of Public Employees is demanding urgent action to end Israeli military attacks on Palestinian first responders and health care workers in Gaza, and to stop the ongoing genocide. CUPE represents 190,000 health care workers, including over 9,000 paramedics and first responders across Canada. CUPE National President Mark Hancock has written to foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly about the dire situation in Gaza. There are hundreds of documente...