Promotional Video: Alex Kovalenko

Kovalenko Dept: In the promotional video, information-technology recruitment workers in their 20s, similar in age and exuberance to Kovalenko s Montreal staff, are dancing around their U.S. office in sunglasses. One Kovasys employee suggests the team of 10 to 12 the staff varies in size depending on the company s workload should make a similar video this winter of them playing in the snow outside their St. Laurent Blvd. office, according to Montreal Gazette. An electoral promise by the Parti Qu b cois to bolster the use of French at firms with 11 to 50 employees has shaken members of Montreal s tech industry which, like other sectors, is already reeling over a separate proposal to raise the provincial rate on capital-gains taxes to 75 per cent the highest in Canada and mONTREAL Before their morning office meeting on a recent workday, Alex Kovalenko and his employees at Kovasys Inc. took a rare five-minute break to giggle at a YouTube video. Kovalenko laughs, even though the 31-year-old tech entrepreneur isn t completely sure how the IT recruitment and headhunting firm he co-founded in 2005 will look this winter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.