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- Population is close to a half-million people
- The cost of an average house is $146,495
- Businesses in Canada's Technology Triangle have local access to:
-50,000 post-secondary students per year at four leading institutions
-10,000 university or college graduates per year
-10,000 cooperative education students per year
- Home to international companies such as: Toyota, Automation Tooling Systems, Rockwell Automation, Budd Canada, Babcock and Wilcox
- Over 400 high tech companies in the Region such as: Research in Motion, Northern Digital, Virtek Vision, Descartes, Open Text
- We export to 98 countries and account for 21% of Ontario's exports to California
- 80% of our workers live within a 30 minute drive to work
- The Region has access to 130 million customers within a day's drive
- Approximately 28% of our labour force is employed in the manufacturing sector
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