MacLac
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Inside the Edmonton facility building quantum’s hidden infrastructure | BetaKit
Zero Point Cryogenics is manufacturing the extreme-cold systems behind quantum computing.
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Glenco
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This is excellent. Just the kind of advanced manufacturing we need.Inside the Edmonton facility building quantum’s hidden infrastructure | BetaKit
Zero Point Cryogenics is manufacturing the extreme-cold systems behind quantum computing.
David A
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Some great ideas here. I just wish more was commercialized, developed and kept here.
northlands
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“We’ve travelled to many of those other quantum ecosystems globally, and they just don’t have the perfect Venn diagram of a university with a world-renowned, low-temperature physics lab, the welders, machinists, and technically skilled individuals that come out of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and other polytechnics,…and the low cost of lease spaces”Inside the Edmonton facility building quantum’s hidden infrastructure | BetaKit
Zero Point Cryogenics is manufacturing the extreme-cold systems behind quantum computing.
Oilers99
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not sure why the call out because two people agree on a view.
policyenthusiast
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High concentration of government employees & trades does result in heavier union influence. Likely a more widely-held perspective than you think, and one I personally agree with.
David A
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High concentration? I would be interested to know the percentage of union members here. In Canada overall I believe it is around 30% of the work force.
bodsbods9090
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policyenthusiast
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https://albertaworker.ca/news/alberta-had-worst-unionization-rate-in-2024/
23.5% in AB, so overall Alberta has fewer unions than the Canadian averages, but public administration (which is overwhelmingly unionized) accounts for ~20-25% of Alberta employment, and almost half of all AB public admin jobs are in Edmonton.
I would also be curious to know the actual number, but it's pretty reasonable to conclude that between the City, transit, fire, police, the legislature, and the feds, there are a lot of union employees. Also the aforementioned article saying a lower unionization rate is "worse" is misleading at best.
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