kool, I've been trying to mention Canada's growing tech sector as a shining light on the economy and Toronto's rise to the #3 tech market in North America.
Montréal and Vancouver should be lauded with Ottawa as well, and then burgeoning sectors in Calgary and Edmonton among other Canadian Metros.
Some forumers have shot it down by essentially saying
Canada is just a branch town for American tech companies and that
we only have a tech sector because we exploit immigration since America during Trump's admin made it harder for skilled workers to immigrate to Silicon Valley.
That's downplaying the quality of graduates that Waterloo, Toronto, McGill, UBC, Simon Fraser, U Alberta, Calgary, UdeM, Queen's, Western, McMaster etc that Canadian universities are pumping out.
"Talent is Toronto's little secret"
"The reasons for leaving Toronto are falling away one by one"
Meanwhile, one of the
godfathers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton that was lured to Google for $44M USD has come back to Toronto to help grow the AI ecosystem in Canada with The Vector Institute.
Worthwhile short read, despite clickbait title
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ai-destination
And MaRS (Medical and Research Sciences) has grown into a large incubator of it's own in downtown Toronto, assisting over 1400+ science and tech companies.
Video outdated from October 2018 but I enjoy the walkthrough
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Toronto-Waterloo corridor will never be Silicon Valley but if it can maintain the 3rd largest status in North America, a lot of innovation will happen here in the next couple of decades.
I foresee it, I don't know why other Canadians cannot.
Canadians are self deprecating to a fault