PoliticsStephen Harper, friend of science, kind of Paul Wells explains why Stephen Harper’s science announcement was great optics, lousy policy
On CampusShutout of ’soft’ sciences provokes discontentAs 9,000 scholars descend on Concordia University for Congress, the role of the social sciences and humanities is top of mind
OttawaHey look: Just on the off-chance that luring extraordinary scientists is a GOOD idea...From the print edition, my column on the Canada Excellence Research Chairs, in which I acknowledge only in passing the concerns...
OttawaIf you liked it then you should have put a synchrotron accelerator storage ring on it: university teachers smash the CERC patriarchyThe Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has been one of the most persistent critics of the Harper government’s...
OttawaToday’s a big day in Canadian scienceToday on campuses across Canada, university officials and Conservative politicians will be announcing the first winners of the...
GeneralThe need to competeWe should award our research dollars based on a school’s merit, not its reputation
OttawaUnsure where to fit this on the all-important Starbucks-to-Tims spectrumI return from New Orleans, about which more later, to discover that there has been almost no coverage of the Prime Minister’s...