Why It’s Not Enough To Be Right About Climate Change
A couple weeks back, I found myself enmeshed briefly in a local debate here in...
Loss of Librarians Devastating to Science and Knowledge in Canada
It has been a difficult few years for the curators of knowledge in Canada. While...
DFO Library Closures Anger Scientific Community
Walter M. Miller Jr.’s classic sci-fi book "A Canticle for Leibowitz" tells the story of...
Environment Canada Letter to Federal Scientists Acknowledges 22 per cent of Interviews Denied in 2013
An open letter to Environment Canada staff from Deputy Minister Bob Hamilton and Associate Deputy...
The Big Chill: “Scientists Can’t Do the Job They Were Hired to Do”
A new survey of federal researchers and scientists reveals the startling degree to which they...
Failure to Monitor Ocean Pollution Risks Health of First Nations
A decade ago a group of First Nations communities on Vancouver Island approached Health Canada...
“A System in Crisis”: Information Commissioner on Canada’s Freedom of Information
Suzanne Legault, Canada’s Information Commissioner, says federal officials are suppressing freedom of information in Canada....
In the Soviet Era as in Canada: Science Suffers Under Authoritarian Rule
This is a guest post by Richard Kool, Associate Professor in the School of Environment...
David Schindler: Unmuzzle Government Scientists
This is a guest post by David Schindler, Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology emeritus at the University...
