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Ottawa Recruiting Tech Vibe Tech Talent event on April 21st attracts hundreds
April 22, 2010
Source: Communitech Team Blog
Waterloo IT companies to hold job fair in Ottawa
April 14, 2010
Source: ITWorldCanada.com
Stethoscopes at the symphony - KWS
October 27, 2009
Source: Macleans.ca
December 8, 2009
Source: Fox News
E-Records competition at the University of Waterloo
November 14, 2009
Source: CTV Southwestern Ontario
University students pitch eHealth ideas at local competition
November 14, 2009
Source: The Record
Stealing talent from Uncle Sam - Canada - Macleans.ca
November 10, 2009
Source: Macleans.ca
America's best friend and oldest trading partnerâ??that's Canada. Happy member of the world's largest free trading zone? Sure. But when it comes to the global competition for talent, well, friendship only goes so far. When immigration managers at Canada's consulate in Los Angeles were asked last year to provide a snapshot of the immigration situation in their region, their tone sounded downright predatory. "Significant numbers of high quality economic class immigrants are being gleaned from this territory," they wrote in a report obtained by Maclean's. Most of the workers have been educated at U.S. universities, the document went on, obtaining degrees in valued ?elds like biomedical research or software engineering. With such talent in short supply in Canada, the pencil pushers in L.A. boasted, "this office regularly engages in promotion and recruitment efforts to exploit this talent." Read more about article posted on MacLean's website.
