[HN Gopher] Women and immigrants poised to lead Newfoundland and...
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Women and immigrants poised to lead Newfoundland and Labrador's
tech industry
Author : luu
Score : 12 points
Date : 2023-07-02 22:13 UTC (47 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theglobeandmail.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theglobeandmail.com)
| JimtheCoder wrote:
| Article is a year old.
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| How are they doing?
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| Crickets?
| cft wrote:
| I wonder why people from Newfoundland don't go to India?
| walrus01 wrote:
| lack of availability of cod fish and screech
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| but much more seriously, consistent really warm weather might
| be too much for newfoundlanders until they take many months to
| acclimatize to it.
| walrus01 wrote:
| First reaction as a Canadian: ... Newfoundland and Labrador has a
| tech industry??!?!
| rubayeet wrote:
| You beat me to this comment!
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| Skepticism aside, I would like to see other cities and
| provinces playing larger roles in Canada's economic future. I
| myself immigrated to Atlantic Canada, but it was frustrating
| finding a fulfilling opportunity in the local tech scene (this
| was before remote work was seen as mainstream), and eventually
| moved to a bigger province / city.
| mitthrowaway2 wrote:
| Agreed. IMO, the government should strategically move public
| offices to smaller towns, to both encourage those towns to
| grow while freeing up space in bigger cities for private
| enterprise. Historically, many small towns have grown into
| cities this way.
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