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Women and immigrants poised to lead Newfoundland and Labrador’s tech industry
- JimtheCoder 3y agoArticle is a year old. How are they doing? Crickets?
- vGPU 3y agoConsidering my reading of the title was Labrador? Like the dog? Since when are dogs in tech? … I’m going to guess not particularly great.
- cft 3y agoI wonder why people from Newfoundland don't go to India?
- walrus01 3y agolack of availability of cod fish and screech but much more seriously, consistent really warm weather might be too much for newfoundlanders until they take many months to acclimatize to it.
- soligern 3y agoThey probably will go to India and China over the next few decades if they keep up their rates of growth and India doesn’t devolve into some sort of dictatorship by then.
- walrus01 3y agoFirst reaction as a Canadian: ... Newfoundland and Labrador has a tech industry??!?!
- rubayeet 3y agoYou beat me to this comment! Skepticism aside, I would like to see other cities and provinces playing larger roles in Canada’s economic future. I myself immigrated to Atlantic Canada, but it was frustrating finding a fulfilling opportunity in the local tech scene (this was before remote work was seen as mainstream), and eventually moved to a bigger province / city.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoAgreed. IMO, the government should strategically move government offices to smaller towns, to both encourage those towns to grow while freeing up space in bigger cities for private enterprise. Historically, many small towns have grown into cities this way. For example Denver, and of course Ottawa.
- walrus01 3y agoThey kind of already did this, for a long time the firearms registry was in a random town in New Brunswick and a huge IRCC immigration case processing centre was in Vegreville, AB.
- morkalork 3y agoThe entire country can't live in the GTA, it would be better to spread things out a bit more. But who wants to move to places like Saskatchewan?
- walrus01 3y agopeople who like really flat places... or maybe someone who wants to buy a basic $150k house with no mortgage and work remotely.
- nightowl_games 3y agoI live in Saskatchewan AMA. Tech industry will employ you with a high salary for the cost of living. You can afford a house and a family and save for a cabin and boat, which is the cultural touchstone here. Saskatchewan will grow. I'm bullish on our resource sector. Immigrants to Canada are attracted here due to the low cost of a house. Living here and owning property now is a solid real estate bet for the future. World leaders of uranium and potash are based here. Agriculture is strong here. Saskatchewan is not a cosmopolitan urban center. It has deep rural roots everywhere. But I love it here. It is home.
- VWWHFSfQ 3y agoThis reminds me of a famous Bill Gates quote [0]: > Gates described speaking to a segregated audience at a recent business seminar in Saudi Arabia. > On one side of an auditorium sat men. On the other side of a large partition was a "sea of black," Gates said _ women in full-length abayas that cover their faces, as required in Saudi Arabia. > A questioner asked if he thought Saudi Arabia could meet its ambitious goal of becoming one of the world's most competitive economies by 2010, Gates said. > "I said, 'Well, if you're not fully utilizing half the talent in the country, you're not going to get too close to the top,'" Gates said. > How did the audience react? "One side loved it," Gates quipped. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012700951.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/0...