Six members of the badminton team live or train in Markham. The team prepares for the Games in the Markham Pan Am Centre until July 10.
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SmartCentres Unveils ArtWalk, at SmartVMC in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, with Massive Art Murals, Free Drive-in Movies and a Food Truck Market, All Summer Long
“Art and culture are synonymous with great communities. They contribute emotionally to an area’s identity, bonding people to spaces and to each other,” says Mitchell Goldhar, Executive Chairman, SmartCentres. “ArtWalk murals, free movies and food trucks are all accessible, immersive and engaging outdoor events.
KINGlory Announces Markham as its Corporate Headquarters
Kinglory brings a major technological overhaul to the existing blockchains in the data, network, consensus, incentive, and application layers. Kinglory utilizes state-of-the-art technological innovations to eliminate performance, security, accessibility, scalability, and energy consumption issues present in networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
‘We Had a Great Response’: King Township’s Pop-Up Patio Program Moves Into Second Year
Four restaurants in Schomberg (King Township) will have pop-up patios this summer thanks to a program launched by the Township of King.
York Region Headquartered Magna Earns Six 2020 General Motors Supplier of the Year Awards, Two Straight Years
For the second year in a row, Magna received six Supplier of the Year awards from General Motors, the most ever for a supplier in a single year according to the automaker.
Success Story: Mona’s Hair Salon
Based in Aurora, Mona’s Hair Salon specializes in hair services such as cutting, styling, colouring and even threading. Watch and learn how the York Small Business Enterprise Centre, part of York Region Economic Development, helped her grow her business.
TO Live Selects Richmond Hill Headquartered Facedrive’s TraceSCAN as a Contact Tracing Solution for Staff Members
TraceSCAN will provide TO Live with a complete record of all interactions among traced interactions and identify those at high risk.
Markham Headquartered Redline Communications Partners with Hytec to Offer its Industrial LTE (iLTE) in Japan
“Redline iLTE was designed for industrial purposes and provides Hytec with a unique, turnkey approach to private LTE solutions complete with rapid deployment and ease of management capabilities,” states Reno Moccia, Redline Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Vaughan Headquartered Drone Delivery Canada Announces Multiple Agreements for Project at Edmonton International Airport
All operations will be conducted in accordance with appropriate Canadian regulations. Flights will be remotely monitored by DDC from its Operations Control Centre located in Vaughan, Ontario.
Markham Headquartered Enghouse Systems Acquires Momindum SAS
Momindum’s next-gen Enterprise platform allows users to manage, broadcast and augment videos with any type of media. These include in-video hyperlinks, documents, subtitles, chapters and interactive elements such as quizzes and calls to action.
Virtual 2021 Seneca HELIX Summer Institute Open for Applications
Are you ready to innovate? Seneca College is holding its fifth annual HELIX Summer Institute, a highly-interactive and intense six-day virtual experience where you will think creatively, work strategically and collaborate with peers and real key stakeholders. Together, you will…
York University’s YSpace Releases 2020-2021 Annual Report
It was a year unlike any other for Innovation York, the innovation office for York University with a mandate to facilitate and maximize the commercial, economic, and social impacts of research and innovation. Their 2020-2021 Annual Report has just been released and it outlines impressive successes, including supporting new ventures, launching new programs and more.
New Innovation Space Set To Open For Businesses In Vaughan
The City of Vaughan has partnered with Vaughan Public Libraries (VPL) and ventureLAB to establish a new innovation space in Vaughan, strengthening the City as a place where entrepreneurs and small businesses can flourish and grow.
York Region Continues to Grow Upwards – There are Over 48 Construction Cranes Across the Region, 2nd Only to Toronto in the GTA
UrbanToronto holds within it an amazing, up-to-date, photographic catalogue of construction sites, crowdsourced through the efforts of our many contributing members… so the first question was, could we find all 208 cranes that RLB counted in reasonably current photos of cranes posted to our Buildings threads, covering construction sites in Toronto and across the Greater Toronto Area?
Mackenzie Health Partners with CenTrak in Hospital of the Future
Mackenzie Health’s system automates data collection with bed-level accuracy, using multiple technologies and thousands of sensors embedded in asset tags, employee badges and other devices.
3 Big York Region Health Tech Announcements: Protecting Olympic Athletes, Canada’s Only ‘Smart Hospital’ Opens for All Services, and Mackenzie Health Achieves Prestigious Digital Recognition!
There have been some big announcements coming from York Region health tech companies and its world-class hospitals recently. Check them out now!
Markham Headquartered Redline Communications Secures Mission Critical Surveillance Project in Saudi Arabia
Redline Communications announced they have been selected to provide a turnkey wireless data solution for a mission-critical surveillance project that will help ensure citywide safety and security in one of Saudi Arabia’s largest cities
Vaughan Headquartered Kontrol Establishes Sales Channel into U.S. Federal Government
Kontrol Technologies Corp., a Canadian public company, is a leader in smart buildings and cities through IoT, Cloud and SaaS technology. Kontrol provides a combination of software, hardware, and service solutions to its customers to improve energy management, air quality and continuous emission monitoring.
Success Story: Goblets and Goblins
Goblets and Goblins is a board game cafe based in Newmarket, offering customers a warm atmosphere to enjoy food, drink and play a variety of board games. Watch and learn how the York Small Business Enterprise Centre helped support and…
‘Best Built Robot in the World’: Richmond Hill Students Rock it at Robotics World Competition
Team 82855G even took home the highly coveted Build Award, crowning them as having created one of the best built robots in the world.
Markham-Based LMN To Double in Company Size by End of 2021
LMN, North America’s B2B SaaS company for the green industry, plans to hire several new employees to its growing team by the end of the year. The addition of these new hires will nearly double the size of LMN’s current team.
Cologix Opens New TOR4 Hyperscale Data Center in Markham
Across Canada, Cologix offers low cost, high bandwidth, direct connectivity to all major cloud providers with speed, scale and increased security to support edge deployments.
Markham Headquartered ventureLAB and Siemens Partner to Broaden Canada’s Hardware Catalyst Initiative
Today’s announcement builds on Canada’s momentum as a leader in the global tech ecosystem. The growing global network of ventureLAB Hardware Catalyst Initiative partners, including recent announcements with Arm, TSMC, and Silicon Catalyst, recognizes the unique opportunity and role for Canada as a valuable player in the global semiconductor supply chain.
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Vaughan Headquartered Danavation Technologies Announces Digital Smart Labels™ Installation at Toys “R” Us
This location will be the first Toys “R” Us store to showcase micro e-paper displays and to demonstrate the tremendous opportunity to expand adoption of Danavation’s Digital Smart LabelsTM across their entire portfolio of more than 80 Canadian locations.
Markham Headquartered IBM, ManpowerGroup, and the Royal Alberta College to Re-Skill & Connect the Workforce with Real Career Opportunities in Canada
“With advances in technology, there is a need to focus on improving the skills of Canadian workers that can help close the skills gap and improve employability,” said Jen Roynon, IBM Canada Corporate Social Responsibility Leader.
Vaughan Headquartered Kontrol Technologies Wins Continuous Emission Monitoring Order in Kuwait
The system will be delivered in Q3 2021 with the assistance of local installation teams. Continuous emission monitoring systems are engineered and built to meet the demanding regulatory needs for the determination of gas emissions, particulate matter concentration, or emission rate using optical based pollutant analyzer measurements.
New Richmond Hill Bloomington GO Station Opens June 28
The new Bloomington Go Station, an extension of the Richmond Hill line, is set to start seeing trains and buses on June 28, the Ontario government says.
Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan Set to Open July 7
New rides this summer include the Mountain Bay Cliffs in Splash Works, where guests can experiences the exhilaration of cliff jumping from a variety of heights into the water below — the ultimate challenge being the highest peak at 7.5 m.
Markham Headquartered Huawei and Ice Wireless via Healing Wings to Provide Internet-connected Mobile Devices to Emergency Shelters in Canada’s North
“Many residents in these communities do not have access to the technology that many of us take for granted,” says Healing Wings President Mireille Dahab. “Equipment such as computers, mobile devices and tablets are needed to help facilitate connections with family and friends and enable access to important information for housing, job search, research and education.”