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      <![CDATA[Thanks Jayson as well!
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:41:19 -0400</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[JaysonHilchieNSBI]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Thank you Colin for clarifying. Yes, HB Studios is the largest video game company in Atlantic Canada.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Colin Chisholm]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The quote from NSBI was incorrect - HB Studios is the largest video game studio in Atlantic Canada and one of the largest independent studios in the country.<br>
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts.<br>
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-Colin Chisholm
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Orkut]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The intent might have been to speak in terms of firms with majority ownership in Canada (I think even BioWare is now a quasi-independent subordinate of EA), but even so, it's not hard to imagine a domestic firm with more than 120 employees and two offices (particularly in a mecca like Montreal or Vancouver).<br>
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Either way, someone's being a bit careless.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[A Pack Of Mentats]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'm assuming they mean Canadian-centered VG studios - both Ubisoft and EA's Canadian studios are branches. Even then surely companies like Bioware are much larger, though.
        
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      <![CDATA[Quoth this article:<br>
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"The primary company here is HB Studios," says Jayson Hilchie from NSBI. "It still stands as the largest video game studio in all of Canada, between the two studios about 120" people.<br>
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Now, I'm no labour market analyst, but Ubisoft Montreal and EA in Vancouver immediately come to mind as two operations that are waaaaaay bigger than HB Studios in terms of employees, revenue, and sheer size of the workplace.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Thomas Gillis]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Or Teamspace/theREDspace in Bedford who was exporter of the year for NS and is a 80 strong tech company
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:08:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Michael Cusden]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Not to mention tech companies that make business tools such as <a href="http://simplycast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SimplyCast.com</a> (who are in Dartmouth).
        
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