This is what I call a "soft" story.  
This is "soft":
"...jumps of 25 per cent or more in admissions of students from abroad"
So is this:
University of Alberta, the percentage of international students ...increased by 27 per cent from last year. ...an increase of approximately 82 per cent in applications from graduate students from abroad."

What we need to form any kind of opinion on this (if nothing more than to determine whether it's even news at all) is some "Hard Data".  Nothing here.  27% increase of what NUMBER?  10?  15?  82% increase in how MANY graduate students?  8? 12? (Just one school, remember.)  

So, take a look: we have one commenter already beating his-her breast and tearing his-her hair: "And the displacement of Canadian students continues..." I suspect universities and colleges lose more potential students to COST than to seat limitations. "private Asian high schools on UBC campuses..." Knee-jerk, knee-jerk.