Economic Development News

Durham Region’s innovation community set to energize Collision Conference with Project Arrow

Whitby, Ontario – The Region of Durham’s Economic Development and Tourism division (Invest Durham), along with partners, will be returning to one of the largest and fastest growing technology conferences in North America—Collision Conference—from June 26 to 29 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto. Project Arrow, the first all-Canadian, zero emission connected vehicle will be the centrepiece of Durham’s pavilion.

Invest Durham in partnership with Durham Region’s eight area municipalities, Durham...

Durham Region is Home to the Apple Capital of Canada

Clarington has a microclimate for growing apples due to the warm lake effect from Lake Ontario. This makes Newcastle and the surrounding area the optimal location for growing high quality apples. If you have ever been to Newcastle, you know orchards dominate the beautiful countryside. Between this and being a clear leader in apple production, Newcastle, Ontario has been named the Apple Capital of Canada.

All About Apples

Durham Region produces 13 per cent of Ontario’s apples with 2,100 acres in production—and

Meet the founders of Durham Region’s leading agri-tech companies

By Jennifer Foden Durham Region has a strong centuries-old agricultural industry. However, these three agri-tech companies—focusing on everything from robotics to vertical farming—are innovating it.

Korechi Innovations Inc.

Although Sougata Pahari’s business has always been about developing robotic platforms, it has pivoted several times to get where it is today. Sougata, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Korechi Innovations Inc., started his company in 2016 with the idea to build a...

Discovering Durham’s Film Locations

Will McGuirk

On a familiarization tour hosted by Film Durham for film industry professionals, we asked local arts and culture specialist Will McGuirk to attend and share with us what he learned on this daylong tour of Durham’s film industry.

Private, public, farmland and factory, historic and state-of-the-art; when it comes to film locations Durham Region has it all covered.

Parkwood National Historic Site, the family home of General Motors Canada founder Colonel ‘Sam’ McLaughlin, is featured in a...

From Durham Region to nationwide: Taltis Foods is in full Growth Mode

By: Will McGuirk

An emigrant leaves much behind but not the taste for one’s own culinary culture. For Gilles Tchianga, founder of Taltis Foods in Ajax and Oshawa, it was the homesickness for dishes of his native country, Cameroon, that led him to open his own manufacturing company offering unique authentic African cuisine.

“I left my home country, Cameroon, many years ago after I completed my high school diploma,” says Tchianga, “to pursue my university studies at the University of Milan. I later...