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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daalbar" data-source="post: 2178557" data-attributes="member: 10746">Hey Y.O.Thought you might like to know that today the Canadian government announced new initiatives to their immigration program -- part of which was geared toward encouraging foreign students to attend university in Canada...The relevant pieces of proposed legislation include 1) allowing foreign students attending Canadian universities to work off-campus -- enabling you to get a job while pursuing your studies (other than serving as an RA or TA or some such for the institution itself) and 2) introducing a post-graduation work program that will enable students to stay on after completing their degrees and work for 1 year on a special work visa if you are in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, but for 2 years if your job is in a "secondary" market.It seems obvious to me that this is an effort to attract much of the international student body that used to consider US schools prior to the restrictions that came in after 9/11. Looks like Canada is aggressively going after this talent pool.This is proposed legislation though, so keep your ears open -- with all the shenanigans that are currently going on with the Gomery inquiry there is no guarantee that the current government will last long enough to actually implement this plan.Oh, and though I am a U of Toronto alum, sounds like you really should investigate Waterloo if you want to go into programming/computer sciences. One other bit of info about that school that may sway your thoughts is that in the recent annual international programming and computer science competition, Waterloo placed 4th in the world behind, I believe, schools from Shanghai, Moscow & St. Petersburg (which are big up an coming regions in the computer science world -- the US schools, who had dominated this competition until the late 90's could do no better this year than 17th). Waterloo has consistenly been near the top worldwide in these areas of concentration and as others have already stated, draws recruiters from all the powerhouse corporations like flies.</blockquote>

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