{"id":341162,"date":"2025-12-12T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341162\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:43:09","slug":"international-researchers-lured-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341162\/","title":{"rendered":"International researchers lured to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0December 12, 2025 at 3:38PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0December 12, 2025 at 3:37PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This year, academics and scientists in the U.S. have been on shaky ground as the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/article\/scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-or-grants-in-us-cuts-foreign-universities-want-to-hire-them\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cut billions of dollars<\/a> in U.S. federal funding to scientific research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, Canada is trying to capitalize on that shifting environment, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/innovation-science-economic-development\/news\/2025\/12\/government-of-canada-launches-new-initiative-to-recruit-world-leading-researchers.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/innovation-science-economic-development\/news\/2025\/12\/government-of-canada-launches-new-initiative-to-recruit-world-leading-researchers.html\">federal funding allotted<\/a> for leading global researchers, along with immigration reform to make the transition easier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In total, Ottawa\u2019s invested $1.7 billion towards recruitment efforts to attract top international research talent, who have traditionally chosen the U.S. for its abundance of funding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Industry Minister Melanie Joly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/article\/canadian-universities-aim-to-attract-top-global-scholars-with-funding-boost\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/article\/canadian-universities-aim-to-attract-top-global-scholars-with-funding-boost\/\">confirmed to reporters<\/a> that the federal government was serious about attracting top talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCertain countries are turning their backs on academic freedom and cutting research and weakening science,\u201d she said at a press briefing in Montreal. \u201cWe are not doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Are you an international academic who\u2019s being tapped to come and work in Canada? Are you considering moving to Canada because the work where you\u2019re currently based is being jeopardized?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CTVNews.ca wants to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Share your story by emailing us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/2025\/12\/12\/are-you-an-international-academic-being-tapped-to-come-work-in-canada-we-want-to-hear-from-you\/mailto:dotcom@bellmedia.ca?subject=International%20researchers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/2025\/12\/12\/are-you-an-international-academic-being-tapped-to-come-work-in-canada-we-want-to-hear-from-you\/mailto:dotcom@bellmedia.ca?subject=International%20researchers\">dotcom@bellmedia.ca<\/a> with your name, general location and phone number in case we want to follow up. Your comments may be used in a CTVNews.ca story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from The Associated Press and Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0December 12, 2025 at 3:38PM EST Published:\u00a0December 12, 2025 at 3:37PM EST This year, academics and scientists in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-341162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}