Toronto Secures Spot in Amazon’s HQ Playoffs: What It Means for the City 🌆

Why Toronto Made ‘the Playoffs’ for Amazon’s Headquarters<br />Mr. Tory said that when he was recently in New York, he found a great deal of interest among American executives in Canada’s relatively new immigration program<br />that gives visas to certain skilled workers within two weeks.<br />Toronto, John Tory said, had only “made the playoffs.”<br />But regardless of the outcome, the announcement that the city remains a contender showed how much progress Toronto,<br />and the surrounding region, have made in establishing themselves as a major technology center.<br />The University of Waterloo has long been recognized as one of North America’s top technology schools,<br />and the University of Toronto is a major center for research in artificial intelligence.<br />General Motors is adding about 1,000 software engineers to the area who will, among other things, develop systems for self-driving cars,<br />and Thomson Reuters has made Toronto a technology hub, a move that could create 1,500 jobs.<br />In sharp contrast to President Trump’s efforts to limit the entry of people from some predominately Muslim countries into the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly emphasized<br />that Canada is open to people of all religions and backgrounds.<br />Those towns are already home to a major Google engineering operation, a major<br />artificial intelligence research center and a quantum computing institute.