Canada provided 64 global scholars with a total funding of 504 million Canadian dollars to support them to transfer their research work to Canadian universities and promote projects in the fields of healthcare and artificial intelligence. Canada's Minister of Industry Melanie Joly will announce the first batch of selected research chairs at an event in Vancouver on Thursday. While Canada is actively attracting top research talents, the US is cutting federal funding for research while tightening immigration policies. The Trump administration has also clashed with many top universities. These factors have prompted some scholars to start looking for other opportunities. The Carney administration plans to allocate 1.7 billion Canadian dollars over the next 12 years to recruit more than 1,000 researchers. The largest amount of funding was $1 billion to attract up to 100 of the world's top research chairs to work at universities across Canada. Newly selected research chairs include renowned planetary scientist Sara Seager. The University of Toronto has previously announced that she will leave MIT and return to her alma mater. Canada has also attracted Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and materials scientist James LeBeau. Other major economies are also trying to attract top academics interested in leaving the US. The European Union has also launched a €500 million program to attract researchers and scientists from around the world.

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