Patricia Pickett

Last month the Ontario government announced it is providing more than 200 students, aged 15 to 29, with first-hand experience running their own summer businesses. Through the Summer Company program, enterprising students receive hands-on business training and mentoring, awards of up to $3,000, as well as other assistance needed to start and grow their business.

Although India and Canada are still the most popular outsourcing destinations in their respective categories, emerging markets have made significant headway during the past year, according to a report released Monday by neoIT, a San Ramon, Calif.-based offshore advisory and management firm.

Whenever Barrie, Ont.-based food service distributor Stewart Foodservice would send out delivery trucks from its central distribution centre, it would have to rely on a

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A recent study suggests that in the next year or two, Saskatchewan IT companies will be ramping up their hiring.

When 27 suburban municipalities merged into the mega-city of Montreal at the beginning of 2002, the city was in dire need of a way to address data access and delivery issues.

More than five decades have passed since the IT industry first took root in the rich research and development (R&D) soil of Ottawa, and Denzil Doyle can be credited with much of the watering that prompted the cluster

Eight Canadian students are participating this year in IBM Canada