40 Replies to “Not A Bug, But A Feature”

  3. That’ll change once President Harris gets in.

    (I’m getting to be spooked and so negative lately— reaching for my vitamin D tablets now, sigh!)

    2. That’ll change once President Harris gets in.

      Yup. The Chinese will completely own and run the system then.

      I see that here in my apartment. I estimate that half the tenants now are Chinese and most of them are U of A students. They act like the place is theirs and that they can do whatever they like.

      1. B A….I am not surprised to hear that. The U of A is attractive to Chinese students and faculty, given the China Institute and the Li Ka Shing Institute for Virology….two institutes housed at the U of A.

        1. Former president Indira Samarasekara shamelessly shilled for cash from all and sundry in order to finance her “vision” for the U of A, a university she wasn’t associated with until she was hired.

          Li Ka Shing was one moneybags she approached and she got some donations out of him. He was probably looking for yet another tax dodge and probably had no idea where Edmonton was until she knocked on his door. Now he has his name plastered on some building.

          Then again, she was carrying on with a tradition started by the greatly unlamented Paul Davenport, the most unpopular U of A president in the last 50 years.

          1. Yup, I know all that history about Indira S. The Engineer cum El Presidentee
            And Davenport.
            And the relentless money grabbing by their ilk, along with VPRs and Deans etc.
            It isn’t exclusive to the U of A, but rather endemic to the whole system of universities.
            But you know that.
            Foreign students is the big cash cow, though.

          2. It isn’t exclusive to the U of A, but rather endemic to the whole system of universities.

            That’s one reason I stopped donating to the U of A. I got tired of the incessant whining and pleading for cash, portraying the uni as being close to go under.

            As for shilling for money, Rod Fraser wasn’t much better. He turned my Ph. D. convocation ceremony into a continuous begathon, much like a PBS fund-raising campaign. I sensed that my fellow graduates resented that. After all, it was our special day and he made it all about donations, turning it into something equivalent to a corporation’s annual general meeting.

            Even my parents, who were in attendance, were offended by that.

      2. If one looks at the depletion of natural resources, the pollution, filth and floods in the Mainland as depicted on the one website I usually visit, it’s no wonder they’re fleeing their Country and Communism. Yikes! See what they eat? Live vermin. Makes one want to puke.

        Our Canadian Chinese population that has been here for many decades are saying, “those are not my people!” The ones who come here are fleeing because they somehow have the money. Once they get here they have no intention of blending in.

        The one nurse I spoke to a few days ago could hardly speak English. She literally was skipping words. She passed her course? What mark? Luckily I understood her because of having been used to the ethnic population in Montreal. Most Canadians would say “what?” to her.

        They act coy but they must hate being misunderstood as one would. I felt that way in a Franco environment once, so I know. It is cringeworthy until you learn to think in the language you are trying to master. Takes years.

        Ones from Hong Kong don’t have language issues. They aren’t the ones coming here.

        We must have compassion though. We are, after all, Multi-Culti.

        And yes, it’s all about the moolah, I see you wrote at 4:13 pm, correctly. The USA will change out President before they shut out Communist China, if the Democrats/ Liberals have their way.

        1. Ones from Hong Kong don’t have language issues.

          We had a lot of HK students at the U of A while I was an undergrad in the 1970s. Most of the ones I knew were decent, even devout, people. One difference between them and the ones we get now from the PRC was that the HKers saw themselves as British and were proud of it.

        2. And yes, it’s all about the moolah, I see you wrote at 4:13 pm, correctly.

          Years ago, I could count on a call from my alma mater with some pipsqueak munchkin on the other end of the line grovelling for cash. Maybe the Chinese students are bringing in so much money that I don’t need to be bothered.

  4. That’s 360K+ positions that can be filled with American students. Time to make U.S. universities cater to Americans.

    1. Ah, but do they have the money that all those “scholars” from Asia have? That’s what it’s all about: moolah.

      1. Hmmm! Well, if that’s an issue maybe the loss of foreign students would force them to lower their tuition prices. I’m sure lower tuition prices and subsequent less student debt would be quite tragic from the point of view of domestic students. ^_~

        1. The issue of charging foreign students more for tuition was an on-going issue at the University of Alberta even while I was an undergrad there more than 40 years ago.

          The student rag, The Gateway, too umbrage with that and didn’t hesitate to let everyone know. The Students Union president opened his yap about it in his speech during my B. Sc. convocation ceremony, something which I thought was wholly inappropriate for such an occasion.

          Many years later, while I was still a grad student, I was chatting with a young lady from China and the subject of tuition was brought up. She got around that by taking out landed immigrant status, though, as it turned out, the measure wasn’t temporary. A few months later, she shacked up with her boyfriend, became pregnant, married the bum, and gave birth to a new Canadian citizen soon afterward. Her immigration status was, thereby, assured.

          The last I heard, she’s a tenured professor at a university on the other side of the country.

          1. B A … Ezra Levant used to have a column in the Gateway in the early 90s, when he was in the Law Faculty. Trivia.

          2. Ezra Levant used to have a column in the Gateway in the early 90s, when he was in the Law Faculty. Trivia.

            I remember reading it while I was working on my second master’s degree. My reaction was something like: “Wow! Who is this guy?”

            I reminded him of that when I met him at his book release here in Edmonton last year.

  5. Foreign students in Ontario colleges & universities (sorry; I don’t know about other provinces) are roughly 40% China and 40% India, 20% all other. The China & India percentages are higher in the Greater Toronto Area/GTA and lower elsewhere.
    Blackie McSpendstoomuch will gladly welcome in every Chinese student the U.S. rejects …he admires their basic dictatorship.

    1. One reason we’re being deluged with Chinese students is that we’re largely educating the idiot children of government oligarchs. Many of them failed the entrance exams to their domestic universities, so they go to other countries for their degrees.

      I have the impression that it’s not the education they’re after but the status that a degree can convey in their home country. While it’s no honour to be turned down by one of their own schools, graduating from a foreign institution often more than makes up for it.

  6. The post secondary institutions (aka Big Acadamia) is addicted to the foreign student.
    They are outside of the tuition limits introduced by the government’s they support that limits what they charge for domestic students.
    Now they actively campaign for the international students so they can make payroll.
    Otherwise well, then there would be layoffs, and downsizing some of the schools may actually close up.
    Of course it won’t happen for those ones that offer STEM.
    The others, not so much.

    1. Of course it won’t happen for those ones that offer STEM.

      Yes it will, and yes it should. When I was finishing my Ph. D. in electrical and computer engineering 20 years ago, it appeared that at least a third of the grad students were Chinese. Most of the new faculty that were hired were from you-know-where.

  9. My heart bleeds for the university administrators who will not get new carpeting in their office this month.

    1. Tell me about it.

      While I was teaching at Armpit College, we were constantly told about how strapped for cash the institution was and how we were required to do far more with much less. Yet, it seemed that every year, the offices for the senior administration always got new carpeting.

  10. We can still accept the students from Chicom with one proviso, they must enroll in ethnic studies!
    Seriously, 37K students from Communist China! And I bet all of them are enrolled in STEM or biological sciences. At the best, we are training them to defeat us. Most likely they are indoctrinated spies. This is not hyperbole. I understand that before a student is allowed to come here, he must go through an indoctrination class, wherein he learns that he must serve China in whatever capacity demanded of him.
    The universities admit them because they like the money, but also I suspect that they agree with the Communist philosophy to begin with. Screw them. Forbid anyone from Communist China from coming here, period. I say he is automatically suspect if the Chicom allows him to come. And if the universities burdened with overpaid “professors” teaching ethnic studies or gender philosophy go bankrupt, let them fire all those people and go back to basics, what the universities traditionally taught. And if they can’t, let them cease to exist and we can replace them with new real schools.

  11. I’m sure there are lots of US citizens who would love the opportunity to go to college/university, but have been shut out because universities are catering to non-citizens (including illegals).

    The extra tuition that foreign students pay, allows these universities to indulge in silly projects including diversity, inclusion, higher pay for under performing employees and more employees that really have no useful job.

    1. They haven’t been shut out, they’ve dodged a bullet. They are much better off getting jobs and getting on with their lives.

  12. Makes you wonder why Canadian taxpayers are necessary when the institutions have foreign to support them. Are there no qualified home grown students ? Is that because the education they were given is a fraud ?

  13. Damn straight,why are the taxpayers still carrying these useless institutions?
    They can survive ,yea even flourish on the foreign students..so let them.
    The Universities produce little of value to the tax payers they feast upon and constantly denigrate and mock.
    Their product is poisoning the civil society that permits their very existence.
    Toxic Parasites.
    In fact,if these “Dark Mills of Credentialism” so love their Chinese students,why don’t they move to China?
    We could repurpose those facilities to habitat for the Homeless,who are of more worth to the taxpayer than the indoctrinated “studies” graduates.
    We paid for these properties,time to put them to a “socially responsible” use.

  14. Universities need a good downsizing. I would say two thirds of the degrees are worthless. The arts and humanities can be dumped. So can most bachelor level science degrees. Keep engineering, medical related, agriculture, business and unfortunately law. Shitcan the rest. Separate teaching from research. Move as much teaching as possible online to minimize number of teaching professors. Quit donating to my universities along time ago.

  15. Sorry, not sorry.

    The universities have hitched their ponies to the huge fees they charge international students and will now have to pay the price for their folly. My only fear is that governments will bail them out.

    My former alma mater and former employer SFU in BC charges int. undergraduate students FIVE times what domestic students pay ($14685 per term for a full course load, vs. $2925 for domestics). I suspect other Canadian universities are doing something similar. Time for this particular bubble to burst, I think.

  16. Universities , a place for intelligence to go to die, and knowledge to be buried . It’s also a place were jobs are created for useless, over paid elitists

  18. 34% from Communist China
    0% from the continent of Africa.

    Liberal colleges really are communist loving racists!

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