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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

The tech job landscape across Canada has continued to grow. In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. The prediction was that Canada would face a shortage of programmers and IT professionals.

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Collision Conference Finds a New Home in Toronto Canada

ReadWriteStart

While I love having conferences close to home, I was really excited to see the news that the Collision Tech Conference , considered to be one of America’s fastest-growing tech conference, is moving to Toronto, Canada in 2019. Canadian Government Sees Economic Potential. Why Toronto?

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SkyCap Financial Introduces Financial Literacy Course: Why Young Entrepreneurs Should Take Note

YoungUpstarts

It’s something the financial community – along with government resources, for that matter – needs to think about as it works to help young business leaders consider their financing options. Among those the Canada Business Network suggests: Government grants and financing.

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[Interview] Bradley Fauteux Talks Social Entrepreneurship And Being An Agent For Environmental Change

YoungUpstarts

Brad Fauteux, who today is an environmental consultant , has worked for years within the system as a leader of government agencies charged with protecting and promoting public lands in Canada. How effectively do you think Canada as a country has supported this concept? Have there been challenges? .

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.

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Public Venture Funding Could Help Build Canada’s Tech Talent

ReadWriteStart

Here’s how public venture funding can help build Canada’s tech talent. Despite such efforts, up to 25% of STEM graduates from the country’s top universities leave Canada to work abroad , taking the investment into their education — and their potential to generate tax dollars — with them.

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].