Thomson Reuters Planning Huge Expansion in Canada

Initiative will more than double current Canadian employee total.

Here’s a press release headline you don’t see every day. And had the #TrumpTapes not leaked Friday, a lot more people would likely be talking about it. The headline reads: “New Thomson Reuters Toronto Technology Centre to Create 1,500 Jobs in Canada.”

The 1,500 number is long-term. Short-term, the job-creation is still staggering: 400 jobs over the next two years. New York Times Ottawa-based correspondent Ian Austen notes in his report that the Thomson Reuters expansion is part of a burgeoning business trend:

The announcement comes after a decision by General Motors in June to create as many as 1,000 technology positions in Canada, mostly in the Toronto area.

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