Why Canada is becoming a start-up mecca rivaling Silicon Valley - Wed, Nov 20 2019

Roberto Machado Noa | Getty Images Ten years ago, when Toronto entrepreneur Brendan Frey wanted to start his company, he says, 'conditions weren't right.' But by 2015, he found, the local environment had become a lot more hospitable to start-ups.

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