{"id":194556,"date":"2018-12-18T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=194556"},"modified":"2018-12-18T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:02:44","slug":"amazon-to-create-600-new-tech-jobs-in-toronto-over-the-next-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/18\/amazon-to-create-600-new-tech-jobs-in-toronto-over-the-next-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to create 600 new tech jobs in Toronto over the next 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_194557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194557\" style=\"width: 1768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48368955_1963440093776945_8856891445378809856_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194557\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48368955_1963440093776945_8856891445378809856_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1768\" height=\"1104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48368955_1963440093776945_8856891445378809856_o.jpg 1768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48368955_1963440093776945_8856891445378809856_o-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48368955_1963440093776945_8856891445378809856_o-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48368955_1963440093776945_8856891445378809856_o-1024x639.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1768px) 100vw, 1768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Doug Ford touted the Amazon announcement as a win for Ontario, and reiterated his position that his government makes things easier for businesses. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FordNationDougFord\/photos\/a.640294379424863\/1963440087110279\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FordNationDougFord\/\">FordNation\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Amazon plans to create 600 new tech jobs in Toronto, the company announced Tuesday as it expanded its footprint in the city&#8217;s downtown core.<\/p>\n<p>The online retail behemoth said the jobs should be filled in the next five years, and noted that 800 so-called \u201cAmazonians\u201d already work in Ontario&#8217;s provincial capital.<\/p>\n<p>The new jobs will be in fields including software development, machine learning and cloud computing, said Tamir Bar-Haim, Amazon&#8217;s head of Canadian advertising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresented here in Toronto, we have teams from a number of different parts of the company,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have customer fulfillment technology, Amazon web services, Alexa, advertising and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto offices are one of Amazon&#8217;s 18 \u201ctech hubs\u201d across North America. The company also has a number of warehouses in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The city was on the short list to host the company&#8217;s highly coveted second headquarters, but eventually lost out to New York City and Arlington, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor John Tory said the expanded Toronto office and the hundreds of new jobs were not a \u201cconsolation prize\u201d for losing HQ2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at this as a wonderful day &#8230; but I know that bigger and better things lie ahead, in terms of more jobs and more people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Doug Ford touted the Amazon announcement as a win for Ontario, and reiterated his position that his government makes things easier for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they have a problem, they don&#8217;t have to go through 50 layers of bureaucrats to get the answer,\u201d Ford said. \u201cThey can either call me on my cellphone or Todd (Smith, minister of government and consumer services) or any of our ministers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Amazon plans to create 600 new tech jobs in Toronto, the company announced Tuesday as it expanded its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":194557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}