Ontario Power Generation (OPG), in partnership with the Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, has completed its first-ever 44-megawatt solar facility at the former Nanticoke Generating Station site.
In 2016, the Independent Electri…
Today, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize the possession and use of recreational cannabis. Now, Canadians can order and pay for cannabis products online and have them shipped directly to their homes, or they can shop in privately-run or government-owned shops, depending on the…
Canada ties Australia with three of the top ten most liveable cities in the world, according to the 2018 global ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The two countries accounted for 60 percent of the top ten, with Calgary, Alberta ranking fourth, Vancouver, British Columbia ranking sixth…
Parks Canada, the government agency responsible for national parks across Canada, announced this week that three black bear cubs, originally found in a public washroom in April 2017, have been returned to Banff National Park in Alberta. The three orphans, now yearlings, are healthy and free in the b…
Retail giant Amazon continues its Canadian love affair with its recent announcement of a new warehouse and distribution centre in Ottawa, Canada’s national capital. The facility is expected to create an estimated 600 jobs with Amazon and an additional 1500 jobs in the local economy. Unlike the prev…
Travellers now have a direct route between Canada’s largest city and Canada’s “Tournament Capital.” Air Canada is testing the route between Toronto, Ontario and Kamloops, British Columbia this summer to see if passenger traffic is sufficient to establish a permanent route.
The decis…
Online retail giant Amazon continues its love affair with Canada’s west coast, announcing a planned expansion of its Vancouver, British Columbia technology hub. The expansion will bring an estimated 3,000 new e-commerce technology, cloud computing and machine learning jobs to the province.
Check out this article in the Ottawa Business Journal about the new $400 million private-public partnership to develop 5G technology. Five multinational firms with offices in Ottawa are collaborating with the federal government, as well as the governments of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
…Toronto, the capital of Ontario, Canada’s largest city and the fourth largest city in North America is the sole Canadian city to make Amazon’s top 20 cut for its second headquarters. Even USA Today recognizes the advantages Toronto brings to the table. Check out its article, “Will Amazon really…
Last month, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) published its Global Liveability Ranking and Overview. While Melbourne and Vienna captured the top two spots, the Canadian cities of Vancouver (British Columbia), Toronto (Ontario) and Calgary (Alberta) rounded out the top five, illustrating the hig…
KPMG’s Focus on Tax, a study of total business tax costs by country and city, highlights Canada's low tax costs and ranked Toronto, Ontario in the top spot among global cities for tax competitiveness.
Focus on Tax is a supplemental report of KPMG’s biennial survey, Competitive Alternatives, w…
Mercer's quality of life rankings cover 230 destinations based on their Quality of Living Survey, which compares conditions in 440 cities in order to offer companies insight into how to fairly compensate employees when assigning them to international positions.
Vancouver, British Columbia(5) is N…
Doing business in Canada or with Canadian firms need not be stressful or risky according to a recent survey of global business environments.
Canadian companies received a 66% approval rating, up three percentage points over the past four years, making Canadian-headquartered companies the most t…
The 18th edition of the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) indicates that Toronto is second to only New York City in financial centre competitiveness among North American cities. Toronto moved ahead of Chicago, Boston and San Francisco from the previous ranking and also moved into the global “to…
In its seventh annual edition of the Scorecard on Prosperity, the Toronto Region Board of Trade (the Board) measured and assessed the economy and labour attractiveness of the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) against 23 other metropolitan areas around the globe. Canada’s largest city, Toron…
A Wall Street Journal article recently declared Toronto, Ontario as the best place in Canada to build a start-up. The article drew on the results of Startup Genome’s Startup Ecosystem Report from 2013. Toronto is Canada’s largest city and it also ranked 8th in the world.
Investors from the U…
On July 1st, Canada celebrates 146 years as a nation. While this vast land has been inhabited for millenia by indigenous peoples, and early Europeans explored its shores for the last 500 years, Canada became a nation in the global community in 1867.
I have been to Canada Day celebrations with mil…
Ottawa lost its title as Canada’s best large city but hung on to a close second in MoneySense magazine’s 2013 rankings. Ranking sixth overall, Canada’s capital city is clean, safe, highly educated and offers a relatively low cost of living compared to Canada’s other large cities.
With a g…
