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(04-27-2018, 07:10 AM)rangersfan Wrote: Waterloo software company Netsweeper is in the negative limelight today.

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/857...g-the-web/

I think Citizen Lab is overreaching a bit on this. For example:

Quote:Citizens of foreign countries victimized by governments that used Canadian technology should be able to sue the Canadian tech companies in Canadian courts, says the report.

As Netsweeper hasn't broken any laws, Canadian or otherwise, I don't see how they could be sued. 

Whether there should be export controls for this kind of technology (as opposed to encryption, which is the main controlled export) is a whole different discussion.
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While I'm dismayed to see this technology in use, and doubly so to see it be developed here, I don't see how a legal case could be brought against it.
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$2.7M from the Province to support expansions at four local manufacturers:

Leoni Elocab, a manufacturer of special cables and cable assemblies in Kitchener, will receive $1.5 million for an expansion of its facility and the purchase of new equipment. A government news release said the company is investing $10.5 million in the project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. It's expected to create 19 jobs alongside 79 existing positions. ....

Kitchener's Trillium Metal Stampings will receive $475,252 for an expansion and purchase of new equipment. The project, expected to be completed by July, 2021 should create 14 jobs. The business, which manufactures metal stampings and weld and mechanical assemblies and already employs 53 people, is investing nearly $4.3 million in the project.

New World Friction, which makes car and light truck brake pads, will receive $456,100 from the government for an equipment upgrade that's expected to create 40 new jobs. The Cambridge firm employs 103 people; the company is investing more than $3 million in the project, which should be complete by the end of 2021....

... National Pasta will receive $280,500 toward an equipment upgrade that's expected to be complete by the end of 2021. The manufacturer of pastas, sauces and other foods is investing more than $3.5 million in the project. The company employs 15 people, and the upgrade is expected to add 10 more positions.

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/858...l-funding/
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(04-27-2018, 12:59 PM)KevinL Wrote: While I'm dismayed to see this technology in use, and doubly so to see it be developed here, I don't see how a legal case could be brought against it.

This is not a new issue.

For years and years we produced asbestos here, and shipped it over seas for uses and in conditions which would be illegal here.

Reaching slightly more, we import tons of goods and products manufactured under conditions which are illegal here.

Whether it's legal, is really up to us, for either of these examples we could choose to make it illegal (and I think we might have even done so eventually for asbestos).

The philosophical ethical questions are very interesting here I think.
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Waterloo Region named hub for autonomous vehicle research

Waterloo Region is one of six Ontario communities selected to be hubs for research into autonomous vehicles.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/waterloo-re...-1.3915712
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Toyota to upgrade Cambridge, Woodstock plants in $1.4B deal

The federal and Ontario governments will pitch in a combined $220 million toward a $1.4-billion upgrade at two To...

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/toyota-to-u...-1.3915935
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(05-04-2018, 08:04 PM)Elmira Guy Wrote: Waterloo Region named hub for autonomous vehicle research

Waterloo Region is one of six Ontario communities selected to be hubs for research into autonomous vehicles.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/waterloo-re...-1.3915712

I think these stop being hubs when there are six of them in the province.
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(05-04-2018, 08:48 PM)jamincan Wrote:
(05-04-2018, 08:04 PM)Elmira Guy Wrote: Waterloo Region named hub for autonomous vehicle research

Waterloo Region is one of six Ontario communities selected to be hubs for research into autonomous vehicles.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/waterloo-re...-1.3915712

I think these stop being hubs when there are six of them in the province.

Hublets?
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(05-04-2018, 09:16 PM)panamaniac Wrote:
(05-04-2018, 08:48 PM)jamincan Wrote: I think these stop being hubs when there are six of them in the province.

Hublets?

Cubs!
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(05-04-2018, 08:48 PM)jamincan Wrote: I think these stop being hubs when there are six of them in the province.

Clearly these are six-wheeled autonomous vehicles, so they need six hubs. I'm waiting for the province to announce who gets the twelve tires.
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Innovative Steam has went into receivership.


https://www.therecord.com/news-story/861...huts-down/

From the vague details available and the piece at the end of the article seems to indicate that the things started trending downward after the company was purchased in 2015.

Hopefully the employees can find work elsewhere quickly.
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Big tech campus planned for Kitchener’s Huron Business Park

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/870...ness-park/

Quote:A new campus geared toward technology firms is expected to take shape in the Huron Business Park, on the last remaining city-owned industrial property.

The last substantial parcel of land in the south Kitchener business park — a large one, at about 15 hectares (nearly 38 acres) — is being acquired by developer and builder Gateman-Milloy from the City of Kitchener in a deal that's expected to close in the fall.
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Maybe I'm just spacially challenged, but isn't 500,000 to 600,000 sq ft of office space awfully sparse for a 38 acre site?
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Hmm.

38 acres is 1,655,280 square feet, or 153,781 square metres
600,000 square feet is 55,741 square metres
each 28 square metres of office requires 1 parking space
55,741 square metres of office requires 1,990 parking spaces
Parking spaces are required to be at least 2.6m by 5.5m or 14.3 square metres
1,990 parking spaces is 28,457 square metres
Probably have to double that to account for parking aisles, so 56,914 square metres of parking

We are up to 112,655 square metres so far out of 153,781.
The rest is likely landscaping and stormwater management. It's also likely that the estimate is gross leasable space, which means the building footprint would be 10-20% larger.

Yes, it's sparse. It's also required by zoning.

Source of some zoning details: https://app2.kitchener.ca/appdocs/Zoneby...oading.pdf
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(06-29-2018, 10:43 AM)Markster Wrote: Hmm.

38 acres is 1,655,280 square feet, or 153,781 square metres
Easier conversion:

15 hectares is 150,000 square metres. Smile  A hectare is 100m x 100m: converting from hectares to square metres or square kilometres is super easy, unlike acres to square feet or square miles. (A hectare is technically not an SI unit, but an older metric one, consisting of 100 ares, which in turn are 10m x 10m.)

Anyway … it sounds like this would be light industrial space for tech companies, with multiple buildings and roads in between. Not sure how many floors, how many roads, how much office but the range of floor space is probably within range but not high density.
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