Recognition of Canada’s innovative and competitive technology sector keeps pouring in. According to CBRE Group Inc., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, Toronto is North America's third-ranked market for tech talent, coming in just behind the San Francisco Bay Area an…
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Canada's Cool Capital
Check out this great article on Canada’s capital city of Ottawa. Long-time Globe and Mail journalist John Ibbitson helps to dispel the myth of Ottawa as a government town with little personality. As a former long-time resident of this beautiful, multicultural city of over one million people, I …
2018 Investment and Development Looks Strong in British Columbia
Check out Peter Mitham’s article, “Big spending, big impact for B.C. development sector” in today’s Business in Vancouver. The article summarizes much of the public and private sector non-residential development intentions for British Columbia expected in 2018.
Using Statistics Canada d…
Federal Government Invests in British Columbia Technology Sectors to Foster U.S. Investment
Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced $900,000 in funding to the Alacrity Foundation of British Columbia (Alacrity) to drive economic growth and facilitate United States (U.S.) investments for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Western Canada. Specifically, thi…
Cisco Canada chooses Toronto for $150 million investment
Cisco has chosen Toronto as the base for its innovation hub, investing in venture-capital funds, incubators and companies to the tune of $150 million. They employment spin-off is estimated to be 1,700 new jobs in the province of Ontario.
Canadian firms have previously criticized the lack of ventu…
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