Canada’s universities are recruiting hundreds of international researchers. They’re not just coming from Trump’s America

Reminder that talent can be found in many countries:

As Canada strengthens efforts to recruit academic talent from abroad, U.S.-based scholars make up the largest cohort selected in the first round of a new federal funding program, with the University of Toronto receiving the biggest share of graduate and post-doctoral researchers.

A detailed breakdown obtained by the Star shows that nearly half of the 659 recipients of the inaugural Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards are citizens of the United States, China, Iran and India.

Health research, including biotechnology, is the leading field of study in this first wave of allocations, which are also heavily concentrated among 10 universities that together received nearly 60 per cent of the awards….

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