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Waterloo summary
Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the larger
city of Kitchener.
Kitchener and Waterloo are often jointly referred to as Kitchener-Waterloo (K-W), or "the twin cities", although they have separate city governments.
There have been several attempts to amalgamate the two cities (sometimes with the city of Cambridge as well), but none have been successful.
The reported population for the city can vary depending on how temporary residents at Waterloo's two universities are counted. At the time of the 2006
census, Waterloo had a population of 97,475. That number does not include post-secondary students who are temporary residents. The city's total population
at the end of 2006—with over 20,000 non-resident post-secondary students included—was 114,700.
The Intelligent Community Forum named Waterloo the Top Intelligent Community of 2007.
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Waterloo has a service-oriented economy with healthy insurance and high-tech sectors as well as two major universities. The city's largest employers are
Sun Life Financial/Clarica, the University of Waterloo, Manulife Financial, Research In Motion, and Wilfrid Laurier University.
The city is part of Canada's Technology Triangle (CTT), a joint economic development initiative of Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge and the Region of Waterloo
that markets the region internationally. Despite its name, CTT does not focus exclusively on promoting technology industries, but on all aspects of economic
development.
Waterloo has a strong technology sector with hundreds of high-tech firms. The dominant technology company in the city is Research In Motion, makers of the
BlackBerry, which has its headquarters in the city and owns several office buildings near the University of Waterloo's main campus.
Notable Waterloo-based high-tech companies include: Dalsa, Descartes Systems Group, Maplesoft, MKS Inc., Open Text Corporation, Research In Motion (RIM),
and Sandvine.
Many other high-tech companies, with headquarters elsewhere, take advantage of the concentration of high-tech employees in the Waterloo area, and have research
and development centres here. Sybase, Google, Oracle, Adobe, McAfee, NCR Corporation and Agfa are among the large, international technology companies with
development offices in Waterloo.
Before it became known for technology, Waterloo was often called "the Hartford of Canada" because of the many insurance companies based in the area. Manulife,
Sun Life Financial and Economical Insurance have a significant presence in the city.
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Breweries and distilleries had been a significant industry in the Waterloo area until 1993 when a Labatt-owned brewery was shut down. Now the only major brewery
is the Brick Brewing Company. Waterloo was the original home of distiller Seagram (also home town of many descendants of J.P. Seagram), which closed its Waterloo
plant in 1992. Of the remaining Seagram buildings, one became home of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), while others were converted into
condominiums.
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