Toronto moved into that position, he reported, because of investments by global technology giants including Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which all have offices in the city. During the pandemic, he found, a rapidly rising number of people were working from home for Meta, formerly Facebook. Days after Cade’s article appeared, Meta announced that it, too, was formally joining the rush to Toronto and would open an engineering center with 2,500 people.
Cade also met Tristan Jung, a Korea-born computer scientist who grew up in Toronto. After working for six years at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, Mr. Jung opened an engineering hub in Toronto that, at that time, had hired more than 100 people.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/world/canada/tech-turmoil-complicates-canadas-policing-of-the-online-world.html