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Trump Victory Causes Spike in Interest in Canadian Universities

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Immediately following the election of Donald Trump, the Immigration Canada website crashed because it was overloaded by traffic from the United States. Some Americans thought to escape to Canada by studying here. The day after the election, the University of Toronto saw ten times US traffic to its site than the day before.

Furthermore, Google searches in the US for “colleges Canada” and “university Canada” on the day after the election were over 200% higher than any day in the past five years.

Read complete coverage in The Globe and Mail.