枫下茶话 / 工商经济 / 呜啦啦，Toronto参选Amazon妃子的报告粗来啦~~~ We grow talent. We attract talent. We retain talent.
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For the past two decades,
Toronto and Canada have
been at the forefront of AI,
and that’s the expertise
we’re bringing to Uber.
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The number of K-12 graduates has increased
significantly in Ontario over the last several years.
We have raised our high school graduation rate from
68% in 2003 to 86.5% in 2016, translating into an
additional 217,000 graduates.
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The Technology and Learning Fund creates new
opportunities for students to learn coding and other
computer skills through extracurricular coding clubs
and programs like FIRST Robotics Canada,
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which is a
robotics competition for elementary and high school
students that saw approximately 65,000 Ontario
students participate.
Ontario is committed to
sustaining its leadership
in AI by increasing the
number of Master’s students
graduating in applied
artificial intelligence
disciplines to 1,000 over the
next five years
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Thomson Reuters has opened a new “Toronto
Technology Centre” to house their cognitive computing
activities. The decision was driven by the Region’s
technology strengths in data visualization and artificial
intelligence
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The Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, led by
Chief Scientific Advisor and “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey
Hinton, is establishing Toronto Region as a global
epicentre for R&D in A
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移民北美第一啊，房屋需求怎么也得第一把，哈哈 . "We attract talent. Thirty-nine percent of the Toronto Region—and 51% of Toronto proper—are born outside of Canada. We welcome more new immigrants each year than New York, LA, and Chicago combined. "
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Downtown21 represents an ongoing endeavor in
which virtually the entire community can become
involved. Downtown Mississauga is a proven and
successful market with over 30,000 residents and
20,000 jobs within walking distance of the major
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“One year ago,
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we celebrated the opening
of Amazon’s fulfillment centre in Brampton
– the largest in Canada,” says Mayor Linda
Jeffrey. “Our youth, diversity and quality of life
continue to make Brampton a great place for
business to invest. And the City has invested
too, committing up to $150 million to a new
STEM-focused university and innovation hub in
Brampton
York Region is a natural fit for Amazon in the Toronto
Region. Home to 1.2 million residents,
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York Region has
the highest concentration of technology companies in
the country and is already a top Canadian headquarter
location for global companies such as IBM, AMD,
Huawei, Honda, Toshiba, J&J, BMW, Allstate and
Adidas.
In the case of the Toronto Region, lower costs does not equate with lower quality. The
Toronto Region offers the highest quality for the lowest cost, when compared to other
prominent cities in the U.S.
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The federal and provincial
governments have been
working hand in glove over
the last decade to implement
policies that ensure that the
cost of doing business in the
Toronto Region is 22-30% less
than in the U.S.
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Operating costs in the Toronto Region are on average
26% lower than those associated with comparable global
tech markets across North America. This number accounts
for costs associated with labour,
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property, and utilities,
and is based on an office facility of 500,000 square feet
with 5,054 employees across 33 job titles that align with
Amazon’s stipulated needs.
“It was amazing how cost effective it was to have our staff in Canada
as opposed to the US, because health care was covered,” says
Verkindt. “But in our US factories, we were racking up health care
bills.”
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“When starting my company,
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I wasn’t afraid of the housing market
crashing, that my access to capital might choke, or that the
government would get distracted,” says Verkindt. “The stability
offered here is one of our biggest assets and worth everything to us
