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As people physically distance and work from home, cyber criminals have taken advantage of this uncertain time to gain access to corporate and personal systems.

In a recent Twitter takeover, Cat Coode (BASc ’01), founder of Binary Tattoo, a full- service data privacy agency, answered some of your online privacy and security questions and offered some tips on how you can stay safe online.

The economic impact of COVID-19 will be long, difficult and will discriminate, according to experts who participated in a panel hosted by the University of Waterloo.

In the first of a series of “Post-COVID-19-Reboot" panels, the economic impacts of COVID-19 and rebooting the economy were discussed by research experts and business leaders. They believe Canada needs to be prepared for a deep recession followed by a long recovery.

Canadians across the country are facing a difficult and unforeseen financial hurdles that have many worried. In fact, research by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada back in 2018 stated that 48 per cent of Canadians said they had lost sleep because of financial worries — something that has only been exacerbated with layoffs, social-distancing and illness within the last few months.

They say the friends you make in university will be friendships that will last a lifetime — and the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) isn’t letting anything (not even COVID-19) come between that.

Integrated within the Accounting and Financial Management (AFM), Math/CPA and Biotech/CPA programs is an experiential learning initiative called “2YEx” (the two-year experience). The goal of 2YEx is to inspire engaged learners that support each other while honing their collaboration and teamwork skills.

In response to COVID-19, many in our community strive to adjust to the new reality of being at home. Entire offices and departments are now working from home and students have transitioned to online learning by using remote learning programs — all while staying connected with friends and families through video call sessions. We are all more digitally connected than ever before.

In our recent webinar series, Waterloo alumni share their passions and expertise to support others during this strange time.

An online library built by hundreds of graduate students at the University of Waterloo is helping teach underprivileged children in Pakistan who have been shut out of their schools by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The curated collection of links to educational resources — the centrepiece of an engineering course for master’s students in management sciences and at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business — has been under construction for more than three years.

Recent public health data shows that people over the age of 60 make up 93 per cent of deaths in Canada related to COVID-19. Half of the COVID-19 deaths have happened in retirement and nursing homes, which continue to be hit the hardest by COVID-19 cases. Many in our community may feel like there’s nothing that can be done to help our parents and grandparents deal with the pandemic.