A total of 659 doctoral and post-doctoral scholars—a third of them from the United States—have been offered three-year grants to attract them to Canadian universities, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced at the University of Ottawa’s STEM complex. “We welcome your ideas, your ambition, and your drive to push the boundaries of what is possible,” she said. (The Logic)

Talking point: The federal talent-attraction strategy is an attempt to reverse decades of decay in Canada’s appeal to young academics, coinciding with the U.S.’s recent turn against higher education and science. University leaders have said that funding is only part of the problem, aggravated by a cumbersome immigration process. Joly said the government is reforming that, too, creating a new “channel” at the Immigration Department to process applications from researchers drawn by the new funding.