The report by CBRE Group says Toronto added 82,100 technology-related jobs between 2012 and 2017 to beat out the San Francisco Bay Area for the spot by about 4,270 jobs.
82,000 jobs over 5 years, ok. Let's look at some other accounts of Bay Area tech jobs, for example https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/02/10/tech-job-growth-slow... :
Tech’s annual job growth throttled back to 3.5 percent, or 26,700 new jobs, in 2016. That’s much slower than the 6 percent annual gain of 42,300 jobs in 2015, or the 6.4 percent gain in 2014.
That describes around 110,000 jobs growth in just three years.
These numbers just don't match. The first one is based on a survey by a real estate group, the second one is based on official statistics from the California government. What's the reality here? I can't say, but I do know that you can't trust hypey news articles that don't bother to dig around for the most accurate data sources. My guess is that this survey operated by a real estate group is just bad data.