Digital ‘apprenticeships’ could solve Canada’s tech talent shortage
When corporate leaders in Canada were asked to name threats to business growth in a 2021 KPMG outlook poll, digital skills was identified as the top concern.
Across every sector and size, Canadian businesses are unable to recruit and retain digital technology specialists who can help them keep pace with new and emerging IT solutions.
TORONTO STAR
CRTC Broadband Fund to allocate $20.5 million for mobile wireless and Internet access services in Manitoba, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced last week that ten projects will receive up to C$20.5 million in funding from the Broadband Fund.
IT WORLD CANADA
THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND APPLE’S RIDICULOUSLY THIN NEW LAPTOP COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING
Oooooooooooooooh,” the audience gasped at the image of a manila envelope splayed across the screen before them. It was 2008, and Steve Jobs, the digital messiah himself, was holding court at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, dressed in his signature presentation attire of turtleneck, jeans, and New Balance sneakers.
VANITY FAIR
B.C. company ordered to pay $35K over posts shared by social media influencers
A B.C. lithium mining company that paid for promotional posts to be shared by social media influencers has been fined by the province’s financial markets regulator.
CTV
