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Old February 10, 2010, 11:37 AM
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AMD in an interesting announcement today is slated to receive over the next Five years 56.4 million dollars from the Canadian Government. Under Ontario's 'Next Generation Job Fund' AMD Canada will receive this grant to push forward in their Markham facility to facilitate and engineer AMD's next generation Fusion. In turn as part of AMD's commit... [ Read full article ]
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Old February 10, 2010, 11:39 AM
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Wonder if they'll be hiring soon then. How far is markham again?
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Wondering if they'll be doing some summer hiring for co-op, may have to hit them up to see if they want to hire me.
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Old February 10, 2010, 11:49 AM
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Wondering if they'll be doing some summer hiring for co-op, may have to hit them up to see if they want to hire me.
Im already hired as co-op lol :P
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Funny.

AMD buys ATI

AMD fires a bunch of ATI's Canadian employees and moves their jobs to Austin

AMD gets a grant to hire more employees


Am I the only one who thinks the Ontario government had the wool pulled over their eyes?

And for the record, AMD Canada = ATI.
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Old February 10, 2010, 12:33 PM
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Funny.

AMD buys ATI

AMD fires a bunch of ATI's Canadian employees and moves their jobs to Austin

AMD gets a grant to hire more employees


Am I the only one who thinks the Ontario government had the wool pulled over their eyes?

And for the record, AMD Canada = ATI.
Lol. Fail government of ours...
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Maybe HWC should apply for a grant.....
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Old February 10, 2010, 12:34 PM
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as usual Ontario flips the bill. I think the jobs are great just why is are government paying for it. yes they should at least the money might go to some Canadians and there company's.
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Maybe HWC should apply for a grant.....
Now there's a good idea. Private consultation firm? HWC = HardWare Consultants? hehe.
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as usual Ontario flips the bill. I think the jobs are great just why is are government paying for it
They're using our tax $$$ to help pay Nortel pensions. Some of it any way.
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