2015 Federal Election

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You can tell the writ is about to drop when Ottawa starts tossing vast amounts of briberymoney around the region. Three cases in point... 

UW to build massive computer server farm 

The University of Waterloo will use its share of a $30-million federal grant to install 11,000 servers in a former BlackBerry building as part of a huge increase in the computational power of a national computer research network.

Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid announced Thursday that UW, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University will share equally in $30 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

Federal funds launch new program to help university grads find jobs 

University graduates unable to find work could benefit from a new program at The Working Centre in Kitchener.

It's designed to match recent arts graduates who haven't been able to find a job in their chosen field of study with work in Waterloo Region's tech sector.

Now, there may not seem to be much common ground between the arts and technology fields at first glance.

But the program intends to support students in finding a six-month paid internship in such occupations as technical writer, marketing analyst and communications in the science, technology, engineering and math sectors.

"No tech industry can survive without appropriate support from non-tech people," Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth said Wednesday in announcing a $210,675 federal investment in the project.

Ottawa, Queen’s Park to announce Toyota investments 

The federal government will announce a multimillion dollar investment in Toyota’s Ontario manufacturing plants Friday, an announcement that was moved up ahead of the expected election call this weekend.

Conservative MP Gary Goodyear, the federal minister of state who oversees economic development initiatives in southern Ontario, will make the announcement Friday.