A federal fish habitat specialist checks the temperature in a Yukon salmon stream. The scientist is now retired, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada is moving away from habitat science.
Credit: Claire Eamer
By Claire Eamer
A lot has been said on this site and others [...]
Greetings fellow CSWA Members;
Effective today, I will be resigning as CSWA President. A number of work opportunities have come up that will require my full attention and would make continuing to contribute as a regular volunteer with the CSWA impossible.
Therefore, I have asked
(Above, a parody from CBC’s Rick Mercer Report entitled “PMO Pest Control: Got Science?“)
A few weeks ago, CSWA members participated in a panel discussion at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting on the muzzling of government scientists, including what journalists perceive as the muzzling of government-funded scientists in Canada (full [...]
In June 2010, the Canadian Association of Journalists posted a letter about the growing “wide-spread threat to the public’s right-to-know” about the government’s activities. That letter is almost a year old, and, sadly, little has changed.
It’s well worth a re-read, especially as science fiction fans and writers convene in Toronto [...]
