Headline October 03, 2017/ ''' CANADA'S CAMEO CROWNS '''

''' CANADA'S CAMEO CROWNS '''

AMAZON'S ALEXA REMINDS you all,.... Yee, the students of the world, to get the Canadian Students out of Confusion and Indecisiveness.

Zilli, to ensure that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is informed, and through him, every citizen of Canada is informed of !WOW!'s highest regards for their great nation.

The World Students Society, belongs to every single Canadian Student in the world. Just as it belongs to every single student in the world : One Share-Piece-Peace. 

See you all. Yee the Canadian students, preparing for Global Elections on !WOW!, sometimes next year, held under the auspices of the great students of America.  

Just three Tuesdays ago, Amazon introduced the latest model in its expanding family of Echo products, the Echo show, which has a seven-inch touch screen and a video camera-

That let people place video or voice calls to each other over a Wi-Fi connection.

In a move that could have broader impact, Amazon also said that it would release free software  update this week that brings voice-calling features to existing Echo devices.

The changes, which thrust Amazon into the crowded landscape of Internet communications tool like  Microsoft's Skype, Apple's FaceTime and Google's Hangouts, underline the company's ambitions for the Echo.

In a way, the new communications functions turn the speaker into something like a traditional landline telephone, which many people have given up in favor of smartphones.

Rather than pulling a phone out of their pockets, people will be able to simply command their  Echoes to call someone.

The goal is to make the Echo, and Alexa, even more of a fixture inside people's home's. 

BE that it may, but the Tech talent has begun its mass exodus to Canada as *experts in hit fields seek alternative as U.S. puts new focus on immigration.

Amir Moravej, an Iranian computer engineer in Montreal. quietly worked last year on building software  to help people navigate the Canadian immigration system. 

He saw as a way for others to avoid the same immigration travails he suffered a few years earlier.

Then came the presidential election. ''Trump accelerated everything,'' said Mr. Moravej, 33, the chief executive of  a software  start-up  named Botler AI.

With immigration taking a center stage in American politics and elsewhere, Botler AI began putting more resources into building a chatbot  tailored to one of Canada's immigration programs.

One beautiful Wednesday, the start-up announced that Yoshhua Bengio a research pioneer in artificial intelligence and director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, is  joining the fledgling company as a strategy adviser.

Mr. Bengio's is adding his intellectual firepower to ease the way for what could become a migration  of high-tech-talent.

Canada stands benefit from the American political climate and the Trump administration's efforts to sharply restrict travel into the United States from six predominantly Muslim  nations.

Ever since Mr. Trumps election, applications to Canada for student and temporary visas surged.

''If we look back 10 years from now, I'd be surprised if the  Trump effect didn't show up in the data,'' said Joshua Gans, a professor of the  Rotman School of Management at the  University of Toronto.

Immigration is a linchpin of Canada's economic policy. One-fifth of the country's population of  36 million is foreign born. 

Canada has dozens of provincial and federal programs,  but a priority is placed on a highly skilled workers and entrepreneurs, often with points assigned for specialized expertise, education and language proficiency.

Ross Intelligence, an A.I. start-up founded in  Toronto , moved to the San Francisco Bay Area two years ago for the business and funding opportunities in the tech world's hotbed.

But last month, Ross, whose software can read through thousands of legal documents and rank relevant cases for lawyers, opened an office in Toronto.

Five members of his team, including senior engineers and two co-founders, are moving from San Francisco to Canada. The group includes two Canadians, a Brazilian, a Belgian and an American.  

The Toronto-outpost, said Jimoh Ovbiagele, a co-founder and chief technology officer of Ross, ''allows us to really recruit from the global talent pool.''

Mr. Ovbiagele, one of the Canadians who is relocating to Toronto, said Ross had received dozens of inquiries from international students concerned about the immigration risk of working in America.

Ross, he said, recently hired engineers who were international students and graduates from Princeton, Cooper University and the University of Toronto. 

Another technologist making the move to Canada from Silicon Valley is Maxime Chavalier-Boisvert, 31, returned to Montreal a few weeks ago after working for Apple for 13 months.

There were other considerations, she said, but ''the election of Trump did play a role'' in convincing her that she would prefer to live in Canada.

So when opportunity to work at Bengio's A.I. Institute in Montreal became available recently, Ms. Chevalier-Boisvert did not hesitate.

Her new salary is about a third of her income at Apple.

Then again,  Ms. Chevalier-Boisvert observed, her rent for two-bedroom apartment in Montreal is less than a third of the monthly rent she paid for a one-bed room apartment in Sunnyvale, Calif. And Montreal, she added is a cosmopolitan city.

''Living in Montreal is pretty good,'' Ms. Chevalier-Boisvert said.

Back in Botler AI, a lot of work remains   -including landing funding and figuring out a business plan.

But the addition of Mr Bengio is a sign that start-up needs to be taken seriously.

Mr. Bengio, in an interview, said he was joining the start-up partly because Botler AI's technology fits neatly with research underway at his A.I. Institute. 

What's more, he added, that company's work around immigration could 'help a lot of people'.

With respectful dedication to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Parents, Students, Professors of Teachers of Canada, and then the same for the entire world.

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