For the second year in a row, Canada has refused visas to dozens of researchers - most of them from Africa - who were hoping to attend an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in Vancouver. The hassles have caused at least one other AI conference to choose a different country for their next event.

What happened?
The Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS), which brings together thousands of experts and researchers from all over the world, will be held in Vancouver next month.

Last week, NeurIPS began hearing that several attendees had had their visas denied.
It was the second year in a row the conference has had visa troubles. In 2018, when the conference was held in Montreal, more than 100 attendees were denied visas.

The issue prompted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to defend Canada's immigration system during the G7.

Continue reading https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50426774

leofab:
Entitlement mentality

panafrican:

Read the article.Threy targeted Africans

leofab:
your kinsmen are constituting nuisance in their country..

panafrican:

Always looking for reasons to despise Africans.
No one wants to settle in that failing stagnant and bitterly cold country called Canada.
The conference has been moved.
It is warmer and more pleasant in here.
Bye.

leofab:
so why are you pained ? After you all ruined your country you went to start emigrating enmass to another man’s country... you can’t have your cake and have it..