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There are many reasons why your tech business can be successful in York Region, but what is most important to us is connecting your business and personal needs with a community where you and your employees are happy to live and work.
York Region’s ICT sector core capabilities focus on enterprise networking and software, cloud computing, electronics design and manufacturing.
# of ICT employer business establishments per 1,000 residents | Statistics Canada, CBC | 12/2017
# of ICT employer business establishments
| 1 | City of Toronto | 6,407 |
| 2 | YORK REGION | 4,382 |
| 3 | Greater Vancouver | 3,757 |
| 4 | Peel Region | 3,716 |
| 5 | Montreal | 3,462 |
| 6 | Ottawa | 3,070 |
| 7 | Calgary | 2,823 |
| 8 | Halton Region | 1,550 |
| 9 | Edmonton | 1,454 |
| 10 | Durham | 770 |
| Statistics Canada, CBC | 12/2017 | ||
ICT Technical Occupations % of Labour Force (Ages 25-64) | Statistics Canada 2016 Census (NOC* 0213; 2133; 2147; 217; 2241; 2242; 2253; 228)
Most of the Region’s 60,000+ tech jobs are located in these megazones.
Amaya, AMD, Enghouse, IBM, Huawei Canada, and Rogers.
Includes enterprise and scale-up companies from York Region.
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**PART THREE OF A THREE PART SERIES**
So what’s the bottom line considering the above? That a ‘cluster of clusters’ tech sector in a metro area of over 6.5 million residents, 250,000 business establishments, and 16,000 tech companies really warrants unraveling.
Richmond Hill, Dec. 7, 2018 /CNW/ — Olympus, a global technology leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures, among other core businesses, announced today that Olympus Canada has been named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for the third year running.
Full Article: newswire.ca
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Nonetheless, Canadian media coverage and public discussion in the context of Toronto’s Amazon HQ2 bid was focused almost exclusively on the downtown core as the natural and only reasonable location for Amazon’s HQ2 in the GTA. Public discussion on any of GTA’s other qualified urban growth sites noted above was barely existent and still is despite Amazon’s non-downtown-core choices.
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Are we short-selling ourselves as it relates to potential locations where we collectively think major technology or head office investments should occur within the Greater Toronto Area?
YORK LINK BLOG SERIES
**PART ONE OF A THREE PART SERIES**
Are we short-selling ourselves as it relates to potential locations where we collectively think major technology or head office investments should occur within the Greater Toronto Area?
MISSISSAUGA & RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Nov. 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mtrex Network Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contract with iSIGN Media Corp., for cellular modems and the companion worldwide data plans.
Full Article: globenewswire.com
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