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Science in the post-Harper era

October 24, 2015

Canada’s 42nd election is a week behind us, and much has changed in Canada’s political landscape. The country heaved a collective sigh of relief following … Read more

Tags Canada, Canadian election, cdnpoli, cdnsci, CFBS, CFES, elexn42, Harper, policy, politics, science, science policy, scientific societies, scipolicy, Trudeau

Water woes in water-rich Canada

July 15, 2015

Yesterday I had an editorial post up at Science Borealis, Canada’s science blog aggregator. It was one of those posts that you write at the … Read more

Tags Canada, data, drought, fisheries, hydropower, water, water management, water policy, watersheds, wildfire, WWF Canada

Editorial post at Science Borealis

July 19, 2014

Fear not, dear readers, I haven’t forgotten my blog but have been busy elsewhere – namely over at Science Borealis where we’re making plans to … Read more

Tags Canada, cdnpoli, cdnsci, Northern Gateway, pipelines, politics, science

Science policy advocate interview

February 13, 2014

John Dupuis, over at Confessions of a Science Librarian, has been running email interviews with our iPolitics science policy series group. The most interesting questions, … Read more

Tags Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian science, cdnpoli, cdnsci, interview, politics, science, science policy, scipolicy

I want my Canada back

February 6, 2014

*Note: this post was re-printed on rabble.ca, which “features some of the best new and emerging progressive voices in Canada”. *Edited 6 Feb 8pm to … Read more

Tags Canada, cdnenv, cdnpoli, cdnsci, Conservatives, democracy, elections, environment, First Nations, Harper, politics, science

The continuing saga of the environment in Canada

November 10, 2013

My last post was about Canadian Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, and her office’s rebuttal to an opinion piece in which I concluded she’s not the … Read more

Tags biodiversity, Canada, Council of Canadian Academies, DFO, environment, Environment Canada, greenhouse gases, ocean sciences, Pacific Salmon Foundation, run-of-river, salmonids, species at risk

Canadian science communication takes off

July 25, 2013

The topics I follow most closely on Twitter are #cdnpoli, #cdnsci, and #scicomm. A lot of news from the first two has been pretty negative … Read more

Tags Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian science, cancomm, scicomm, science borealis, science communication, science policy, scienceonline

Guest post at CSWA

March 14, 2013

Health issues have unfortunately kept me from updating this blog as often as I’d like over the last while. However, today I have a guest … Read more

Tags blog network, Canada, cancomm, scicomm, science, science communication

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