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Google Canada commits $2.5-million grant to NPower Canada to help 5,000 job-seekers develop tech skills
This grant enables NPower to integrate Google Career Certificates in its programs. NPower Canada, a national employment initiative that offers professional skills training,…
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Impact of Canada’s H-1B visa talent grab may go well beyond 10,000 applicants
Taking aim at “broken” US visa program was “best marketing Canada has ever done”: lawyer. Seattle-based Canadian immigration lawyer Pavan Dhillon had an “incredibly…
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Visier acquires assets of skills intelligence startup Boostrs
Visier’s foray into M&A comes one year after it raised $154 million from Goldman Sachs. Vancouver workforce analytics startup Visier has acquired the assets…
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Tilr secures $1.3 million grant from Ontario through Skills Development Fund
Tlir is one of over 200 companies financed in the second SDF round. Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Tilr has received a $1.3 million…