News   Apr 03, 2020
From the Editor: A Message to Our Readers
 7.4K     3 
News   Apr 02, 2020
Topping Off March 2020: What's Hot on SkyriseEdmonton
 8K     0 
News   Apr 02, 2020
News Roundup for April 2, 2020
 2.6K     0 

Edmonton Companies News & Discussion

MacLac said:
View attachment 454702

500 employees? How many in YEG and where?
Click to expand...

occidentalcapital said:
Alluded to but just Jobber raised $100m in VC
Click to expand...

This CBC article is the first Edmonton media article I have seen of this. If this were a Calgary company that had a raise like this, not only would we be seeing tons of media coverage, but the government would be touting how successful the province is in tech, as was common in numerous announcements in Calgary last year. It makes me sick how little coverage and boosting achievements like this get in Edmonton compared to Calgary. This is massive and it needs to be marketed as that.
 
If it was a company with 1 employee that raised $1 in YYC - there'd be a pic with one "Her Worshipfulness's" minions in an empty office building in DT YYC with some paid peeps in the background to give it a faux "bustling vibe."
 
CaptainBL said:

This CBC article is the first Edmonton media article I have seen of this. If this were a Calgary company that had a raise like this, not only would we be seeing tons of media coverage, but the government would be touting how successful the province is in tech, as was common in numerous announcements in Calgary last year. It makes me sick how little coverage and boosting achievements like this get in Edmonton compared to Calgary. This is massive and it needs to be marketed as that.
Click to expand...

The Edmonton media is too busy reporting on and on and on about the homeless to bother with our successes.
 
The Federal Government has released its Sustainable Jobs Plan CBC reporting this:
"The interim plan, which will guide the government's "just transition" approach from 2023 to 2025, includes the establishment of a new training centre for sustainable jobs and a new government advisory body.”

This training centre MUST be located in Edmonton, the centre of the oil patch and home to the many trades that work in the oil service industry. I hope our Mayor and Edmonton Centre MP and Cabinet Minister is on this and will champion this centre to be located in Edmonton with partners at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and our colleges and Universities in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.

I hope some of you will email the Mayor and your Councillor and the MP for Edmonton Centre: Minister Randy Boissonnault (Randy.Boissonnault@parl.gc.ca) to push for this training centre to be located here in Edmonton.

 
edmontonjournal.com

'Just Transition' will create so many jobs there may not be enough workers to fill them, feds say

The 32-page plan to transition Canada's labour force to a clean energy economy will not result in massive job losses, Liberal government says
edmontonjournal.com edmontonjournal.com

“According to numerous studies, rather than a shortage of jobs, in Canada we are much more likely to see an abundance of sustainable jobs with a shortage of workers required to fill them,” reads the new plan published Friday by the federal government.
 
Gronk! said:
edmonton.taproot.news

Future Fields gets funding to scale fruit-fly-powered biomanufacturing

Edmonton will be the site of the world's first production facility for recombinant protein derived from fruit flies after Future Fields secured US$11.2 million in funding from investors and the federal government.
edmonton.taproot.news edmonton.taproot.news
Click to expand...
Love this and nice that they are in the core with their operations. I thought the area where they were building was going to be mostly residential with commercial, so interesting to see their plant operations going here.
 
You must log in or register to post here.

Back
Top