Ottawa Spends $8.1M on Foreign STEM Interns While Canadian Students Are Shut Out
Canada talks endlessly about a STEM shortage. Students leave. Labs sit idle. Money flows abroad. Perhaps the conversation should start at home;
By Guest Column By Jie Xing —— Bio and Archives--March 6, 2026
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It’s 2 a.m. in a Mississauga basement. A biomedical engineering student at the University of Toronto recently told me she had applied to more than forty labs across Ontario in one summer cycle. She submitted references, sat through virtual interviews, and offered unpaid work just to build her academic resume.
No offer arrived. Not even a rejection from most labs. Her frustration mirrors that of dozens of peers across the GTA. The research season closed with nothing to show for months of effort, leaving her academic trajectory stalled and her prospects dimmed.
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