Re: Cdn brain drain confirmed - in National Article - Jul 21 (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Thomas Lunde
Report States: In Toronto yesterday, Allan Rock, the Health Minister, unveiled a $147-million program to discourage top Canadian medic researchers from moving to the U.S., where American researchers receive an average of $260,000 for their projects compared to $70,000 in Canada. Thomas: I

Re: Cdn brain drain confirmed - in National Article - Jul 21 (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Ed Weick
I believe the Association of Canadian Universities (or whatever the proper title is) did a study recently which indicated that the notion of a brain drain is greatly overblown, and is in fact largely a ploy by business to support calls for tax cuts. While I'm not to sure of my ground here

Re: Cdn brain drain confirmed - in National Article - Jul 21 (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Michael Spencer
Ed Weick said about the brain drain issue: The fact that "The Swiss report, [is] based on a survey of 4,160 leading business executives" makes me just a little suspicious of the possibility of self-serving motives. Yeh. I'd like to see a breakdown by occupation. I wonder how the figures