Canada Facing 'Brain Drain' As Young Tech Talent Leaves For Silicon Valley (theglobeandmail.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Globe and Mail: Canada's best and brightest computer engineering graduates are leaving for jobs in Silicon Valley at alarmingly high rates, fueling a worse "brain drain" than the mass exodus by Canadian doctors two decades ago, according to a new study. The study, led by Zachary Spicer, a senior associate with the Munk School of Global Affairs' Innovation Policy Lab at University of Toronto, found one-in-four recent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates from three of the country's top universities -- University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia and U of T -- were working outside Canada. The numbers were higher for graduates of computer engineering and computer science (30 percent), engineering science (27 percent) and software engineering, where two out three graduates were working outside Canada, mostly in the United States. Nearly 44 percent of those working abroad were employed as software engineers, with Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon listed as top employers.

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Damn right

[50000BTU_barbecue]

If were young again, I would leave Montreal as if it were a medieval plague city.

Sky high taxes, dirty, gray downtown, corruption everywhere, low wages, endless regulations, terrible weather.

Young people! You are free! Enjoy what you can.

Re: Damn right

[alvinrod]

VC is a lovely city for sure, but itâ(TM)s getting to be just as expensive as SV. A lot of property is being bought up by Chinese investors for tax purposes so the costs are out of control and the demand hasnâ(TM)t changed because many of those properties go unused.

But if I were going to live in Canada, it would definitely be somewhere in BC. Lots of beautiful country up there.

Re: Unlikely

[dnaumov]

Wasnâ(TM)t it just weeks ago when a Slashdot article was proclaiming Trump is causing a brain drain with techies fleeing to Canada? And they are all reversing course within weeks?

So, people are moving around ?

[alexhs]

Two weeks ago, we learned that Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada.

Do the stories cancel out ?

Will we get a follow-up story about (for example) how young Canadians come to the Silicon Valley to get credentials, then leave because of the high cost of living / insecurity over employee buses attacks ?

Make up your mind.

[snoig]

So last week all the tech conferences were moving to Canada: https://news.slashdot.org/stor... Two weeks ago all the Engineers were moving to Canada: https://news.slashdot.org/stor... And this week all Canadian tech is moving to Silicon Valley.

Re: Good Schools

[cbiltcliffe]

"Free" healthcare. Sure. "Free." You pay a fee for an ambulance, you pay hospital fees for some things, and the medication you need ends up not being covered by the "all medications for people under 25 are free" program that the lying, idiot Wynne government puts in place.
Then on top of that, you'really paying outrageous taxes for everything, and needed surgeries can take literally years to schedge.
I'd rather pay premiums for a system that works, TYVM.