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For decades, the United States benefited from one of the most powerful competitive advantages in science: many of the world’s best researchers wanted to work there. That advantage is not disappearing overnight. The U. S. still has unmatched concentrations of research universities, federal laboratories, private capital and technology companies. But the flow of talent is becoming less one-directional, and Canada is making an unusually aggressive attempt to capitalize on the shift. The latest example comes from the University of Toronto, which has recruited six prominent researchers currently working at U. S. institutions, including MIT, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Ohio State University, Boston University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The six are part of the new Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada program, the centrepiece of Ottawa’s C$1.7 billion Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative. The broader initiative is designed to attract and support more than 1,000 international and expatriate researchers over 12 years, with C$1 billion specifically allocated to research chairs.

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Images released by the Las Vegas Police Department show an Ontario tourist taking a flamingo, allegedly removed from its habitat, back to his hotel room. LAS VEGAS -- A Canadian man was convicted of animal cruelty charges Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its enclosure at an iconic Las Vegas hotel. Prosecutors said it was a malicious prank while a lawyer for the tourist insisted it was drunken foolishness not meant to harm the bird. Prosecutors said tourist Mitchell Fairbarn hurt and frightened the 27-year-old Chilean flamingo when he took it from its habitat at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino and carried the squawking bird to his room March 3. Defence attorney Josh Tomsheck told jurors at trial in a Nevada court that the man deeply regretted the “bad decisions” he made while intoxicated. After about five hours of deliberations, jurors returned convictions on felony and misdemeanor animal cruelty counts against the Ontario, Canada, man. Mitchell Fairbarn, left, appears in court with his attorney Josh Tomsheck, during jury selection for his trial at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Las Vegas.