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A recent MaRS survey of high-growth firms in Canada found nearly two-thirds had seen a jump in job applications from south of the border. tech workers themselves have increasingly been looking north to Canada for opportunities.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau underscored that reputation in his remarks to kick off Hack the North at UWaterloo, the countryвЂ™s biggest student hackathon, where 14 teams were chosen from among 250 to present their innovations after 36 hours of hacking. It had set a goal of 33 per cent female enrolment by 2020, but has already reached 35 per cent, Hamdullahpur said, adding that вЂњwe hope that we are going to go way above it.вЂќДЄnd CanadaвЂ™s reputation for inclusiveness вЂ“ particularly in a time of tightening borders in the United States вЂ“ has helped in efforts to attract immigrant entrepreneurs, the Financial Post reported. On the education front, University of Waterloo President Feridun Hamdullahpur reported that UWaterloo is three years ahead of schedule on its quest to boost female enrolment in STEM disciplines.

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Meanwhile, our M-Theory columnist Melanie Baker pointed to the sad-but-true tale of a pair of female tech entrepreneurs who invented an imaginary male co-founder and noticed an immediate improvement in how their company was treated by software developers and graphic designers.

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In a nod to that fact, Carol Leaman, a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Waterloo-based Axonify вЂ“ whose leadership team is 50 per cent women вЂ“ weighed in with a BetaKit piece listing five strategies for building a more diverse tech company. Her comments come at a time when diversity remains top of mind in the tech industry, which has been buffeted in recent months by controversies involving gender and racial discrimination. MacGregor, whose Waterloo Region software firm helps employers screen for the best candidates, offered a succinct response to hiring managers who say they canвЂ™t find qualified females. Plum CEO Caitlin MacGregor has grown weary of the excuses companies make for not hiring more women.