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  • Send a postcard, Save the Biosphere
  • Send a postcard, Save the Biosphere
  • Publish Date: 19-JUL-2012 01:41 PM
  • The Harper Government has decided to shutter the Biosphere Museum, a Montreal institution that for the past 15 years has focused on major environmental issues, including those related to Canadian ecosystems. (This link will take you to an external website. Please note some employers may restrict access to external Web sites.)
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  • July 10th Death of Evidence Rally on Parliament Hill
  • July 10th Death of Evidence Rally on Parliament Hill
  • Publish Date: 12-JUL-2012 08:06 AM
  • On July 10, 2012, Institute members participated in a rally organized by the broader scientific community to send a message to the federal government that Canadians will not accept the "Death of Evidence" – closure of federal scientific programs and muzzling of scientists.
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  • Report presented to the 90th Annual General Meeting (PDF)
  • Publish Date: 12-FEB-2010 03:33 PM
  • The 2009 Science Advisory Committee is composed of seven members from science-related groups (RE, SP, AV, NRC-RO). The Committee's Chair is Yvon Brodeur and the representative for Quebec is André Bégin. Vice-President Don Burns attends the meetings as the National Executive representative.
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  • Report presented to the 89th Annual General Meeting
  • Publish Date: 15-OCT-2009 09:32 AM
  • Federal science in Canada has been under threat of severe diminution and, in some cases, complete disappearance in the past couple of years, and it has forced PIPSC president, Michèle Demers, and Vice-President Gary Corbett to lead the charge to question and challenge relevant federal authorities.
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  • Public Science Works - Canada's Public Scientists
  • Publish Date: 06-DEC-2007 02:03 PM
  • Scientists, researchers and regulators work for the public in federal government departments, agencies and laboratories. In some very important ways they touch the day-to-day lives of Canadians as they: approve safe food and drugs, develop vaccines, and other medications, issue weather forecasts and storm warnings, and feed the world by developing better grains.
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  • Factsheet: Disturbing Decline in Federal Government Research Staff
  • Publish Date: 17-FEB-2007 02:04 PM
  • The 2007 edition of Science Statistics provides the numbers of research and development (R & D) personnel employed in all sectors in Canada and other OECD countries. The report deals with people employed as researchers (scientists and engineers), technicians and equivalent staff, and support staff, employed in the fields of scientific research and experimental development, natural science and engineering, and social sciences and humanities.
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  • Science Advisory Committee dialogues with Dr. Arthur Carty
  • Publish Date: 01-MAY-2006 01:17 PM
  • The Institute's Science Advisory Committee (SAC), invited the National Science Advisor to thePrime Minister, Dr. Arthur Carty, to meet with them on the evening of June 17, 2005 to discussfunding for public sector science, the integration agenda and other relevant and related science topics.
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Canadians Call Upon the Government of Canada to Reinstate Funding for Slashed Experimental Lakes Area Program
Publish Date: 11-OCT-2012 08:46 AM
 
Save our Ocean Science (SOS) at St. Andrews Biological Station
Publish Date: 27-JUL-2012 08:53 AM
 
Send a postcard, Save the Biosphere
Publish Date: 19-JUL-2012 01:41 PM
 
July 10th Death of Evidence Rally on Parliament Hill
Publish Date: 12-JUL-2012 08:06 AM
 
Coverage of the 3rd Canadian Science Policy Conference 2011 and PIPSC Science Advisory Committee (SAC)
Publish Date: 01-MAR-2012 02:30 PM
 

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