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Twitter: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

September 6, 2017

The other day I turned on Twitter and was confronted with this tweet: "Your next 10 minutes would be far better spent meditating than reading … Read more

Tags current events, dumpster fire, echo chamber, negativity, politics, science communication, science writing, social media, twitter

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

Mount Polley mine disaster: redux

December 14, 2014

Science Borealis is holding a blog carnival to celebrate their first anniversary, with bloggers writing about the most important story in their field for 2014. … Read more

Tags BC, blog carnival, Canadian science, environment, Environmental science, fish, mining, Mount Polley, politics, Quesnel, science borealis, scipolicy, water

Questions about a Parliamentary Science Officer

November 26, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, the European Union’s Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) was axed. It didn’t make headlines in Canada until about a week ago, … Read more

Tags Canadian science, cdnsci, Chief Science Advisor, European Union, Parliamentary science officer, politics, science, science policy, scipolicy

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

What's an environmental scientist to do?

April 25, 2014

Regular blog followers may have noticed that I haven’t written much about environmental issues lately. It’s not that I’ve stopped paying attention to them, but … Read more

Tags cdnpoli, democracy, environment, Environmental science, nature, politics, public outreach, science policy, scipolicy

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

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