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Canada’s booming technology industry has been acknowledged by a U.S. real estate firm which has for the first time placed Toronto and Vancouver among its top cities in North America for job growth in the sector.

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The two cities made it on a list CBRE calls its Tech Thirty, an analysis of the top 30 technology centres in North America that shows how tech workers have kept office markets humming.

“If you look at the tech job growth rate (in Canada) it is well above overall employment. The point is that tech employment is growing substantially faster than overall employment. It’s tech, all tech now,” said Ross Moore, director of research for CBRE’s operations in Canada. “We’ve got our fingers crossed.”

Moore said Toronto had the fifth most tech jobs of any city on the Tech 30 list while Vancouver came in at 20.