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Experimental Lakes Area: science, an endangered species?
Since 1968, the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) has generated unique, whole-ecosystem science to protect freshwater in Canada and other countries. In May 2012 the government of Canada announced that the...
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Drones: coming home to roost?
Remote-controlled drones are used for aerial surveillance and assassination of designated enemies. Until recently most of the targets have been at a safe remove, over there where other people live....
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Mental health: who can you trust?
Bruce Levine works as a psychologist in Cincinnati, Ohio. By the time he got his PhD, he told me, he felt so alienated from the profession’s dominant goals and practices that he hesitated to tell...
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Science is objective: true or false?
After teaching plant agriculture for 32 years at Guelph University, Associate Professor Ann Clark ‘retired’ in 2010 to a farm in eastern Ontario. It would be her refuge and her lab. Clark designed the...
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Awe
Human responses to a spider’s web: 1. Awe. 2. Eeew. Call the exterminator! 3. Make metaphors. O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, 1808....
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The war on science
“History tells us that the suppression of knowledge is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.” - from an eloquent open letter to Yukon Member of Parliament Ryan Leef from Linda Leon, an artist, writer...
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Just say no.
This “synthetic biology” scheme is patently nuts. In fact it’s criminally insane. Once released, these Frankenseeds, a very dangerous gimmick, can never be recalled. Governments claim to be helpless...
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The Cloud-Shroud
As it goes in the US, so it goes in the northern colony, Canada. Details have leaked about vast federal trawling of metadata from our phones and computers, in collusion with the giant corporations...
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Free Dr Tarek Loubani & John Greyson: Open letter to Daryl Kramp, Member of...
As residents of Prince Edward-Hastings riding, we call on you to exercise your influence and responsibility in the following matter of urgent concern to all of us. As of October 3, Canadian citizens Dr...
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Good news: Suicide Seeds Are Dead… in Brazil… for the moment…
In a great bit of news for World Food Day, a key Brazilian congressional committee today withdrew the consideration of legislation that would have allowed the sale and use of Terminator Technology,...
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Leaked documents: Internet freedom in jeopardy
If the Trans Pacific Partnership goes through in its current form, you may no longer be able to receive this message. WikiLeaks has released documents detailing the TPP’s Internet censorship plan,...
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PS on the TPP
Following up this morning’s post on internet freedom vs the “Trans-Pacific Partnership”, some sharp insights today from Dan Gillmor and others in The Guardian UK: Thanks to Wikileaks, We See Just How...
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Canadian government spies on tar sands opponents
Shocking, but not surprising: Photo: vtdigger.org Through Access to Information searches, investigative journalist Matthew Millar reveals in the Vancouver Observer that the National Energy Board, a...
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The undead
The Harper regime’s online spying law is back. In 2012, you may have joined a national campaign to block their highly invasive online spying legislation, Bill C-30. The government claimed it would...
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The Nazis burned books. Under the current regime in Canada…
…they are dumped in landfill. Canada’s Science Library Closures Mirror Bush’s Playbook. Details here. More detail in The Tyee’s follow-up story, here. This is the next step in an escalating...
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Monarch butterfly in ‘grave danger’
In late summer 2013, we saw only three or four of these beautiful butterflies in our eastern Ontario garden, a stunning loss that many other people have confirmed. Here’s why. It’s a sad, infuriating...
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The future of science in Canada: your input is requested
The federal government is asking Canadians to share our thoughts on how to shape the future of science policy in this country. Photo: pencanada.ca Frankly, given the current regime’s dismal record on...
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What are we waiting for?
As Atlantic gales batter the south of England, and historic rains swamp other parts of it, a scan of mainstream British print media reveals that less than 1 in 10 of the stories about the floods...
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“Is the Internet good or bad? Yes.”
So says Turkish social media analyst Zeynep Tufekci in the online magazine Matter. Photo: Nurphoto “It’s time to rethink our nightmares about surveillance.” Writing from Istanbul’s huge Gezi Park...
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Climate Threshold: 2036?
Marshall Islands, going under. Photo: Agence-France Press Unafraid to make his findings public, US climate scientist Michael E. Mann has become a favourite target of climate change deniers. For...
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