Politics and its Discontents

Those who follow the depredations of the Harper regime will know of the terrible attacks that science and research have undergone these pa...

H/t Project Democracy

Yesterday, I posted a video of recently retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada biologist Steve Campana speaking about the sad state of moral...

This is sad beyond words. A recently retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada biologist says the muzzling of federal government scientists is w...

H/t Marry Ellen Davis

Continuing the series I started the other day, here is another excerpt from Science Under Attack , a chapter in Elizabeth May's memoi...

In my morning post , I reprinted the following letter from The Toronto Star: With Stephen Harper’s Conservatives intent to push science bac...

H/t The Toronto Star Well, it is good to know that Star letter-writers have lost none of their edge over the holiday season. Responding t...

H/t Vicki Denyer

Last evening, I was watching the 6o'c lock news, distracted and perturbed by the howling winds (up to 100 kms. per hour) buffeti...

Another acerbic commentary from Canada's conscience.

As I noted recently , we are currently receiving a free three-month subscription to the Globe, one that we will not be renewing. My last p...

It is to be hoped that the closer we move to next year's election, more and more Canadians will be wagging their fingers at Stephen Har...

I hope none of us forgets this , just one small part of the Harper programme to promote ignorance, stifle informed discussion, and ravage...

Knowledge is power, and withholding knowledge is crippling. So states scientist Sarah Otto, in an op-ed piece in today's Star . Sad...

It seems like the silence over the disappearing Environment Canada committee discussed in my previous post may have had its precedent set...

Tuesday's post discussed the apparent disappearance of a committee made up of representatives from Environment Canada, the Alberta go...

Given Stephen Harper's most recent demonstrated indifference to climate change, I report the following with no surprise, only a degr...

Rather typical , wouldn't you say? UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is hosting a major climate summit in New York on September 23, “to...

This morning, in my print edition of The Toronto Star, I saw the following headline: Canadian scientists to be placed in isolation . Whil...