The Vancouver Business Thread

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Looks like a major university out of Boston.

I thought Mr. Wang has until 2025 until this particular restriction is enacted, no? I haven't been keeping up.

Northeastern University has a campus n Vancouver? Who knew.

One would have thought Mr. Wang would just go to the main campus in Boston, if he was a successful investment banker in New York. But then of course, you don't get Canadian citizenship.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Looks like a major university out of Boston.

I thought Mr. Wang has until 2025 until this particular restriction is enacted, no? I haven't been keeping up.

Sounds like it's January 2025?

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Looks like a major university out of Boston.

I thought Mr. Wang has until 2025 until this particular restriction is enacted, no? I haven't been keeping up.

LOL, just checked and according to our own now Councillor Meiszner Northeastern University Vancouver is, of course, located in a Westbank building (at least a former one). Deloitte Summit. Who says Class A office doesn't get blue chip tenants in Vancouver!

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by whatnext

LOL, just checked and according to our own now Councillor Meiszner Northeastern University Vancouver is, of course, located in a Westbank building (at least a former one). Deloitte Summit. Who says Class A office doesn't get blue chip tenants in Vancouver!

What's your problem with Northeastern University? They seem to be a credible private university with a large main campus, and satellite smaller centres around the US, and in Toronto, London and now Vancouver. They don't appear to be in the same category as the Diploma in Marketing colleges that have been identified as the reason for the high number of overseas students in the past couple of years.

The article said Mr Wang chose Vancouver because he hoped to settle here. As a master's degree from Northeast is apparently a respected qualification, and given our demographics it seems like a reasonable choice. It's likely he wasn't aware of Vancouver's sinophobes, but fortunately there aren't too many of them.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Changing City

What's your problem with Northeastern University? They seem to be a credible private university with a large main campus, and satellite smaller centres around the US, and in Toronto, London and now Vancouver. They don't appear to be in the same category as the Diploma in Marketing colleges that have been identified as the reason for the high number of overseas students in the past couple of years.

The article said Mr Wang chose Vancouver because he hoped to settle here. As a master's degree from Northeast is apparently a respected qualification, and given our demographics it seems like a reasonable choice. It's likely he wasn't aware of Vancouver's sinophobes, but fortunately there aren't too many of them.

LOL, a predictable response. Yes, Northeastern has a long and storied history at their main campus in Boston. In Vancouver they date back all the way to.... the opening of Deloitte Summit.

So yes, they're a notch above Happy Golden Maple College but it is clear they set up here to take advantage of the abuses your beloved NDP are targetting with the new rules for the provincial nominee program.

It would be fascinating to know how much of our office space is taken up with all these colleges and "universities".

[kja384]

Originally Posted by whatnext

LOL, just checked and according to our own now Councillor Meiszner Northeastern University Vancouver is, of course, located in a Westbank building (at least a former one). Deloitte Summit. Who says Class A office doesn't get blue chip tenants in Vancouver!

Yea this Northeastern University may be well established in the US, but it definitely just exists as an immigration loophole in Canada. Guarantee that next to nobody has ever heard of it, it's only a few years old though.

The whole post secondary institutes snapping up office space is not unique to Vancouver though.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/gta-offi...oung-1.1995174

niversity Canada West is the true diploma mill in the lower mainland. Private university with like 30k students that are opening a campus for 2.2k more.

[FarmerHaight]

Originally Posted by whatnext

One would have thought Mr. Wang would just go to the main campus in Boston, if he was a successful investment banker in New York. But then of course, you don't get Canadian citizenship.

Zongwang Wang was in asset management in NYC, not investment banking. They are worlds apart in terms of prestige.

Originally Posted by whatnext

Yes, Northeastern has a long and storied history at their main campus in Boston.

Originally Posted by kja384

Yea this Northeastern University may be well established in the US, but it definitely just exists as an immigration loophole in Canada.

It's incredibly common for American universities to have multiple global campuses. Do you think the Texas A&M campus in Doha is just there to help international students jump through Qatari immigration loopholes too?

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by kja384

Yea this Northeastern University may be well established in the US, but it definitely just exists as an immigration loophole in Canada. Guarantee that next to nobody has ever heard of it, it's only a few years old though.

The whole post secondary institutes snapping up office space is not unique to Vancouver though.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/gta-offi...oung-1.1995174

niversity Canada West is the true diploma mill in the lower mainland. Private university with like 30k students that are opening a campus for 2.2k more.

Yes, UCW was second only to Ontario's infamous Conestoga College in the number of international student permits it had last year.

[IMG]college by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]
Credit: CBC

No wonder UCW had to lease more space in B6 in addition to their space in Westbank-built Vancouver House.