A total of 32,115 tech workers came to Canada in the period from April 2022 – March 2023, a new report by The Technology Councils of North America (TECNA) and Canada’s Tech Network (CTN) found. The study shows that Canada has been an attractive destination for tech talent due largely in part to a more immigration-friendly […]
Ontario’s creative tech sector is booming, with talent demand on the rise despite economic headwinds, new findings from a ICTC (The Information and Communications Technology Council) survey revealed. The creative tech sector brings together elements of computer science, design, art, entertainment, and social sciences, and has particularly seen notable growth in areas like video games, […]
In a recent Financial Post interview, economist Marc Desormeaux of Desjardins Group said Canada is going into a recession. Deloitte Canada and RBC are two other entities among many that have drawn the same conclusion about Canada’s economic outlook. The question for IT leaders is not so much whether there will be a downturn – […]
Human resource software has become hot. Late last year Salesforce.com bought Toronto’s Rypple, SAP bought SuccessFactors and earlier this year Oracle bought Taleo. On Monday, IBM said it will buy Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications for US$1.3 billion. As this story from Computerworld U.S. details, one goal is to integrate Kenexa’s suite […]
TORONTO — It wasn’t through an obscure astronomical phenomenon that Nitin Kawale had more than one shadow at yesterday’s Cisco Plus conference. The president of Cisco Systems Canada Co. is part of an executive development program that has him “being shadowed” by three high-potential employees. Alistair Butler, a British ex-pat who is a 12-year Cisco […]
In his 39 years with Hewlett-Packard Canada, John Cross has seen the IT industry go through a lot of changes. “I was around in 1968 when we brought the first computer into HP Canada. At the time, it was a major event to think that we were actually going to enter that whole realm. Up […]
Hackers succeed 99 per cent of the time when they use human weakness as a tool for breaking into corporate systems, a security expert said Monday. Former hacker-turned-security consultant Kevin Mitnick told listeners at a recent Webcast over Radiodaddy.com that the human element is one of the greatest vulnerabilities of companies today. Kevin Mitnick discusses […]
The federal government on Thursday announced an investment of $4.5 million for a series of projects from the Software Human Resource Council (SHRC), all funded under the Sector Council Program. Seven programs will share this round of funding, including: Canadian IT Awareness Web site ($313,113); Connecting the Community ($386,000); the Development of HR Strategy for […]
