“Ontario, Canada, and the world face three big challenges around social cohesion, environmental stewardship and economic prosperity, and how we get those to connect,” said Ontario’s lieutenant-governor in a visit to the Waterloo region this Monday. Elizabeth Dowdeswell toured a number of innovation hubs, incubators, and businesses to talk about the themes she believes are important to Ontarians. Among these themes were science and technology, which Dowdeswell argued should be concerned with their impact on people’s quality of life in addition to their focus on knowledge for knowledge’s sake. “I think it is really important to have communities thinking about not only what draws people here, but what sustains them, what keeps them here over time,” she said.
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