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Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years

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Re: Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years

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Oh thanks for your reply. Here in Québec city consulting companies charge 70-75 for gov contracting, and in insurances companies you can get 80-100 per hour. Yes add your e-mail adress, we can take the discussion further :)

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Hi, sorry for the late reply, that's my other account, I can't see your e-mail on your profile. Thanks.

Re: Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years

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I'm from Toronto. Congrats to Toronto for its accomplishments. It should be realized that their is a great standard of living available outside of major tech centers all across the country(s). The opportunity is different, but the jobs do exist. I'd argue that their is far more opportunity outside of tech centers than within. A tech center addresses the issue of distribution. More specifically, of concentration. Havi…

As a Canadian-U.S. dual citizen who has spent my whole life in Canada, and most of it in Toronto, I honestly can't justify settling down in Ontario. The taxes are high and complicated, the services are subpar (and I don't use most of them), and Canada largely lacks the civil rights stability enjoyed in the U.S. under the Constitution (as currently amended and interpreted), particularly regarding freedom of speech and…

Can you elaborate (with examples) how the freedom of speech (and other liberties) in Canada is in practice "less" than that enjoyed in the US?

Or are you speaking entirely theoretically?

Re: Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years

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post #111

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Doesn't Dan, like, hail from Alberta? I worked for a couple months in Calgary and really liked it.

Who's Dan? I probably seem like I really hate Calgary but I don't... I was talking about the praries at large and Calgary is just one city. I mean they made a knock-off CN Tower out of spite but I won't hold it against them... :P

In my growing-up-in-the-prairie attitude, dislike of prairie life, particularly if there are mountains visible off to the west, may reflect a short attention span and chronic cultural overstimulation.
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