Not a long post from me today, but just a link to an article in the Globe and Mail that explains what RIM’s misfortunes could mean for the city of Kitchener-Waterloo. I doubt that they will become the next Nortel, but hopefully they won’t.
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
The Importance of a Technology “Anchor”
June 20, 2011308 seats
May 1, 2011Saw this link from a friend on facebook (!)– ThreeHundredEight.com Basically a blog that keeps track of all the polling nationally, as well as in each riding. I’m not sure how accurate this is, but seems inline with what many expect to happen–another Conservative minority government. What is interesting is a rise in the NDP numbers. [...]
Canada’s Election – Ottawa West-Nepean
April 27, 2011I’m back on the old blog page (first time since my second son was born) and need to talk about the upcoming election. Although this election was heralded as the “same ole same ole” this one is shaping up to be a doozy. Less than one week away and there seems to be more interest [...]
Canadian Housing Bubble(?)
March 15, 2010One of the biggest economic questions we have in this country right now is whether there is housing bubble or not. House prices are on the rise again, as we seem to be “out” of this most recent recession. Is this a good thing? One thing that I have noted is that the home prices [...]
After the protest, what’s next for concerned citizens?
January 27, 2010I enjoyed reading the coverage of the No Prorogue rallys around the country. Opposition parties are acting on the public outrage and attempting to draft some legislation to slow down our proroguing Prime Minister (and future PMs). The question now is, how does the public continue to show support for this initiative? How do we [...]
Dismantling of Nortel almost complete
January 8, 2010It seems as if more of Nortel has been sold off over the holidays. It is truly sad to see a Canadian technology giant just disappear. There is always hope that the engineering know how will stay in Ottawa, but I am personally seeing signs of engineers leaving the city. And large businesses usually employ many [...]
Just because it made me laugh…
January 7, 2010I guess it seems like I’m going to town on Stephen Harper, but gotta love this blog post from Scott Feschuk of MacLeans.
PROROGUE, AGAIN??
January 7, 2010A little bit late on this (getting back from a very busy holiday season), but WTH is going on? I can’t believe Harper is going to prorogue again. I know it’s a pretty cool word, but come on! Does he really think the public is just going to take this one? Nothing like more vacation [...]
HST protest and the new digital age
November 25, 2009Yesterday I received an email from a co-worker that originated from the Ontario realtors association. The email proclaimed all the bad things the HST would bring for those who wanted to buy a house. It was obviously a biased email–BTW, I am still researching the HST, and don’t have a final answer on what I [...]
Interesting article about Ottawa and tech.
July 4, 2009Unfortunately I do not think that Ottawa has been the tech hub of Canada for a while (probably since the 2000, 2001 meltdown). The sheer size and diversity of Toronto has meant that many high tech companies are there, but since they are a smaller proportion of the entire job count it is not seen as a [...]
