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Fibernetic's Home Town Right in the Middle of Silicon Valley North KITCHENER, Ontario — Twenty years ago, no one would have believed the Kitchener-Waterloo area would blossom into the most vibrant technology start-up community in Canada – the Silicon Valley of the North. The twin cities of about 400,000 people 70 miles west of Toronto were

Continued from Changing the Course of Canadian Telecom – Part One: “Go get a real job” The Stratford-KW system was generating $17,000 a month, and soon the other systems across Ontario were earning similar revenues. Stix and Schnarr rented a big house with an indoor pool, had some buddies move in, and lived the high life. “We

John Stix & Jody Schnarr It was meant to be a recipe for disaster. Two best friends, barely into their 20's, wading into the world of telecommunications just as deregulation rolled out across Canada in the mid-1990s. Everyone around them warned them off. Don’t go into business with a friend, they said. Go