Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to Canada
Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to Canada
Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to Canada
Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to Canada
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Good.
Nice. Academics, Engineers and Doctors!
But I thought Canada is broken?
https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2025/12/government-of-canada-launches-new-initiative-to-recruit-world-leading-researchers.html
“Experts say”
Experts say eggs are bad. No wait, they say eggs are good. No they’re bad again. Eggs good. Eggs bad. Good. Bad.
My question being, how much of this interest translate into actual moves? Intent and feelings are not the lone motivators.
and then they realize the cost of living is high, the wages are low and they say “meh, what’s a couple more years of trump”
Tin foil alert. Is it because of all the sudden deaths of many scientists in the USA?
What kid if academia ? If it’s researches and scientists sure we don’t need more social scientists and acedemic grifters
Until they see our taxes.
That interest changes real quick once they see that CoL and taxes
Look at that, yet another r/Canada post that has 20 identical complaining comments within 10 minutes of posting
You mean those academics that werent able to get a tenured position in an american university? Sounds about right
Bring em all in, dump money into research
Oh my, what a confused article.
* The quoted academics are (not kidding) a “fascism researcher” and a “philosophy professor”. Nobody actually useful for innovation, science or the economy.
* The goal is of the program (per the article) is to attract experts in “*health care, clean technology and artificial intelligence*.” Not really the same thing.
* Meanwhile, “academic freedom” is mentioned four times, but Canada has significantly *less* of that, and of freedom-of-speech, than the U.S., where it’s a Constitutional Right. In Canada, there’s an actual phrase for *preventing* freedom of speech, the “Chilling Effect”, especially using “human rights complaints”. As they say, the process *is* the punishment.
Wake me up when it’s physicists and real medical scientists making the move.
They come here and then they cry about the cost of living.
“Columbia University paid the U.S. government a $200 million settlement after the Trump administration accused the university of failing to properly address antisemitism on campus during protest encampments against the Israel-Hamas war.”
The poor repressed academics.
I think the US doesn’t value the low level academics any more. They’ve clued in that they’ve caused way more trouble than they’re worth with their awful ideas on our culture, so they need to go somewhere still accepting to the grift.
A good thing if it’s academics studying useful science, not necessarily great if it’s just more publicly funded academics with pointless research areas.
>“That’s the only reason. Nobody’s coming to Canada for higher wages because you’re not getting higher wages. You’re getting lower retirement, lower salaries, sometimes more teaching. So it’s academic freedom,” Stanley said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
He may regret this decision in a year or two.
Plus, how many in Professor openings can Canada really create?
If you voted for peachfuzz you are not welcomed here.
Canada has many academics and researchers. Let’s look to promote from within before importing more people please.
That’s going to be 50 people out of a population of 40 million.
Impact is massively overstated and they’ll be back in the US as soon as the government changes.
Politically driven lateral moves never hold.
So their acadamics are coming up here, while our skilled workers and young people are going down there. Wonder if that’ll even out
Does this mean we have to properly fund our education system to bring in qualified academics to our universities?
Have they read the job application requirements?
I expect a lot of this new American interest in Canada to die down if the midterms go the way of the democrats
Lol till the find out how much tax we pay.
The number of comments here suggesting that the social sciences is not a worthwhile field is somewhat depressing.
Knowledge is important, and universities are not simply factories to churn out calculators and slide rules in human form.