Sidewalk Labs: Waterfront Toronto and Test Bed

sidewalk labs: Tuesday's announcement, headlined by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will see Google Canada move its headquarters to anchor the development in the city's port lands area, according to CTV. This will create a test bed for new technologies in Quayside, Trudeau said. Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, won a competition to partner with Waterfront Toronto to develop the project - named Sidewalk Toronto - as part of the Quayside neighbourhood. Technologies that will help us build smarter, greener, more inclusive cities which we hope to see scale across Toronto's eastern waterfront and eventually in other parts of Canada and around the world. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, touted both Toronto's multicultural population and Canada's immigration policy as part of the reasoning for choosing the country's most populous city for a US 50-million investment. Few specifics of the development were available, but Sidewalk said the area will be a hub for urban innovation built from the internet up that will tap into Toronto's tech sector to ultimately improve the quality of city life. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.