[stevenameyer]

While Waterloo has been a talent poaching ground for Microsoft and RIM for a while, and more recently for Google, Facebook and the likes. The thing i think that really gets overlooked is the startup community in the area.

With an incubator residence on campus (http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/)

Another new incubator in the region (http://hyperdrive.communitech.ca/#applyNow)

An organization dedicated to helping startups in the are (https://www.communitech.ca/)

The recent successes of companies like BufferBox and Kik, have showed that startups can succeed and thrive in the area.

[kymchiho]

Great links, it's a solid place to kickstart an idea.