Experts welcome Rouleau’s call to combat misinformation, say ‘whole-of-society approach’ needed
The current information landscape is a feedback loop where ‘you come for the ideology, and you stay despite the science-free …
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Documents reveal how Alberta oil and gas industry used pandemic to push ‘wish list’
In closed-door meetings with Alberta officials, lobbyists repackaged long-standing requests — on everything from wetland programs to tailings ponds monitoring to …
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Student scientists demand action on federal scholarships
Canadian graduate students in the sciences took to Parliament Hill on Thursday, pressing their case that the funding system which …
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How to make bureaucrats think like scientists
In February 2020, as Canada’s count of COVID-19 cases crept into the double digits, Mona Nemer realized she had a …
Scorecard: Does Budget 2022 offer communities the support they want and need? Social impact leaders weigh in
15 leaders give the budget a score from one to 10, based on how well it supports Canadian communities. With a …
Taking stock of the Naylor report, 5 years on
Some say there’s been too little progress toward supporting Canadian research in fundamental science.
Follow the Money
The relationship between researchers and funders is complicated. Some people think that researchers should be left to their own direction …
Canada’s researchers call for a return to stated science ambitions
The buzz created by a 2017 national science review has faded, prompting calls for a renewed focus on innovation.
Canadian science suffered from COVID. After the election, how do we bring it back better?
Our pre-election science policy panel discusses what we learned from the pandemic.
‘We should be concerned’: some voters say science funding should be top election issue
They say it’s been missing from platforms; ability to solve issues like climate change depends on it.