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Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Seoul-born Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, a professor at Brown University known for her work on fake news, is moving to Canada. So is Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a Harvard chemistry professor working on quantum computing and artificial intelligence. They are among 24 top academic minds around the world wooed to Canada by an aggressive recruitment effort offering ultra-attractive sinecures, seven-year funding arrangements -- and, Chun and Aspuru-Guzik said in separate interviews with Axios, a different political environment from the U.S. The "Canada 150 Research Chairs Program" is spending $117 million on seven-year grants of either $350,000 a year or $1 million a year. It's part of a campaign by numerous countries to attract scholars unhappy with Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and other political trends, sweetened with unusually generous research conditions.
Indeed, who could have predicted there would be a worse president than Bush Jr?
Impractically speaking, resources are infinite. The problem is merely getting them. The only thing that isn't infinite is nitpicky anonymous cowards.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Some of us like not referencing our driver's licenses to remember which gender we are.
Looking at who you voted for in the last election, your opinions don't really mean shit.
Trump, Making (the rest of North) America Great Again
But, if you are a true believer in democracy . . . it should be right of UK voters to decide to kick out foreigners . . . correct . . . ?
The UK is a parliamentary democracy. If the UK population voted for an absolutely racist/xenophobic government at a General Election, that would be completely different from a marginal majority in a stupid fucking Referendum that no one took seriously until it was too late.
Voting in such a government would probably start an actual Civil War, but that is another issue.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I would never leave Canada to live in the US. And given how shitty our weather is, that speaks volumes...
All leftist politicians have very forward-thinking 5 and 10 year plans, conveniently past the next election. They are like the guy daily wearing a sign that the world will end tomorrow...always tomorrow.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Funny how dubya didn't get that reaction.
People were talking about moving to Canada under W too. I'm not sure how many actually followed through on it. The thing is, most of us thought W would go down as the worst President in modern history. But then the GOP said, "Hold my beer".
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
Phht. You really are spoiling the anti-Trump virtue-signaling of this "news" post.
-Styopa