Give me your smart, your educated, your startup founders yearning to build companies?
Tech Triangle‘s insight:
Canada is burnishing its reputation as open for business
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Canada’s startup visa program in ‘hyperdrive’ but U.S. is ‘dysfunctional’ (interview)
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University of Waterloo’s unique business program fosters ‘techie’ entrepreneurs – Xinhua | English.news.cn
Renowned for its innovation and hands-on learning,the University of Waterloo has been fostering young and up-and-coming entrepreneurs in a unique business program called VeloCity,which is essentially a student startup incubator r.
Tech Triangle‘s insight:
Renowned for its innovation and hands-on learning, the University of Waterloo has been fostering young and up-and-coming entrepreneurs in a unique business program called VeloCity, which is essentially a student startup incubator.
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Canada needs 250,000 construction workers
Tech Triangle‘s insight:
Canada’s construction industry is suffering from a shortage of workers. A Canadian construction industry association, BuildForce Canada, has estimated that there may be a shortfall of 250,000 workers by 2021. Most of these workers will be required to replace 210,000 workers who will retire during the next eight years.
Buildforce Canada has released a report entitled Construction Looking Forward. The report says that the residential construction sector is actually likely to contract slightly, resulting in 8,000 fewer jobs by 2021. The non-residential construction sector is likely to grow slightly, creating 44,000 extra jobs.
In particular, construction projects linked to resources projects will create jobs. There will be mining projects in Labrador, Newfoundland, Northern Ontario and Saskatchewan. There will also be jobs created in Alberta and British Columbia as oil companies attempt to tap the oil sands, and there will be opportunities in infrastructure projects.
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Canada Targets Foreign Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley with Billboard – Techvibes.com
Canada’s federal government has made the call for the world’s best and brightest entrepreneurs and this week they started advertising
Tech Triangle‘s insight:
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney and the federal government issued a news release on April 1 proclaiming that Canada is open for business.
“Innovation and entrepreneurship are essential drivers of the Canadian economy,” said Kenney. “That is why we are actively recruiting foreign entrepreneurs—those who can build companies here in Canada that will create new jobs, spur economic growth and compete on a global scale—with our new start-up visa.”
Now Canada is advertising on a billboard on the side of Highway 101, which connects San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The billboard is scheduled to be up for four weeks to coincide with the visit of Minister Kenney to San Francisco later this month for TiEcon.
The federal government said that this is the first program of its kind in the world. By fuelling the program with resources, business mentors and most importantly, permanent residency, the Conservatives are hoping to make Canada a first-class choice for the world’s high potential foreign startups.
The program is a pilot program that will run for five years.
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Why it’s okay for startups to pick Waterloo over Silicon Valley | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post
The founders of Vidyard, BufferBox and Thalmic Labs explain why they opted to remain in Canada after graduating Y Combinator.
Tech Triangle‘s insight:
Kitchener-Waterloo area home to North America’s second-largest concentration of technology companies after California.
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UW earns high marks in international rankings
The University of Waterloo has earned high marks in rankings published Tuesday by a U.K. firm.
Tech Triangle‘s insight:
We extremely fortunate to have such strong academic partners contributing to the success and prosperity of the region.
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New clothing producer rises from ashes of Forsyth in Cambridge | Waterloo Region Manufacturing Innovation Network
CAMBRIDGE — When the John Forsyth Shirt Co. closed its Cambridge plant on March 8, throwing 110 people out of work, Rick Droppo knew he couldn’t just walk away from …
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