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Attack of the green monster: DATA.BASE partner takes on algae threat
05 December 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
A local company now partnered with Communitech’s DATA.BASE program has joined the fight against algae blooms that sap waterways of oxygen and threaten other forms of aquatic life.The Centre for Community… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: A hub for grownups and startups alike
28 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Small to Mid Size, View from the ‘Loo
Communitech Hub has about 120 startups residents, is the centre of a network. There is some large companies, like Intuit, a $25-billion player in financial software headquartered in California, and non-tech… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: HackerNest builds tech communities, one beer at a time
21 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
HackerNest, the volunteer-run, non-profit organization, has meetups that enable the spontaneous relationship-building that underpins great startup communities. Read more
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View from the 'Loo: It's that time of year again
17 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, View from the ‘Loo
The Waterloo Region tech community has much to celebrate since we launched Techtoberfest a year ago. Since it’s a startup festival, it’s as much about the work as it is the partying, as the list of keynotes… Read more
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Participation: Essential fuel for new-age cities
15 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Smart cities need people like Anna Beard. She blogged a civil, measured critique of Day 1, noting that for all that was said about their importance, millennials (the under-34 cohort) seemed under-represented… Read more
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Weather challenges could be opportunities for smart cities
10 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Flood-control and power-grid investments are expensive, but Hoornweg, who is also Ontario’s chief safety and risk officer, said Toronto and its neighbours in the Greater Golden Horseshoe already have measures… Read more
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CityAge conference explores the big ideas that make city living attractive
09 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Municipal governments planning attractive urban centres would do well to satisfy Generation Y and they should also build urban features appreciated by women, who will make up two-thirds of the white-collar… Read more
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CityAge conference Oct. 9-10 looks at challenges, opportunities of urbanization
03 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
We are trying to integrate planning and transportation infrastructure. Economic development is intimately related to planning issues and infrastructure issues. The real premise underlying CityAge is that… Read more
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Where there’s light: P & P Optica broadens uses of spectrometry
24 September 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
P&P Optica is in the spectrometry business, developing better devices for reading the light signatures that compounds and elements give off. The heart of P&P’s success lies inside those discs: A thin layer… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Kevin Newman starts up, again
19 September 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Startups, View from the ‘Loo
As one of Canada’s most familiar and accomplished network news anchors, Kevin Newman has been around – and been moving around – long enough to see trends come and go, programs launch and die, experiments… Read more