Canada Seeks to Stop a 'Brawn Drain'

The nation's colleges are split over plan to offer scholarships to stem athletes' flight to U.S.

In many ways, Mathieu Darche is the ideal Canadian college athlete. The hockey player turned down a full athletics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and enrolled at Montreal's McGill University for its academic excellence, despite receiving no athletics aid there.

In the United States, thousands of students receive athletics

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