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		<title>Are the conservatives really so bad for science?</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/are-the-conservatives-so-bad-for-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an election! Historic and crazy. The Harper Conservatives got their majority, the NDP demolished the BQ to become not only the voice of Quebec but also the nation&#8217;s official opposition, and the once-mighty Liberal Party of Canada risks obsolescence. Oh, and the Green Party won its first ever seat by defeating an incumbent cabinet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2222&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Odds and sods</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/odds-and-sods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few things floating around my election-addled brain: Great work by my Québec counterparts from Agence Science-Presse and their colleagues on their effort Je Vote Pour la Science (JVPLS) on web,  print and radio. They&#8217;ve compiled a list of nine questions from readers/listeners dealing with three main areas of science: Energy and Environment, Consumer Safety/Health, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2214&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research policy in party election platforms</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/research-in-the-election-platforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A summary of research policy highlights from the party platforms, along with a few editorial comments: Conservative Party of Canada The Conservative plan (pdf here) is slightly more detailed than the others, as they&#8217;ve rolled their recently tabled budget into their platform. The platform document includes a subsection devoted to R&#38;D, in which they trumpet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2203&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairy Dust Funding and the Election</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/fairy-dust-funding-and-the-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. All signs point to the House of Commons finding the government in contempt of Parliament today, with a non-confidence vote launching a spring election. So what can we expect? Widespread pandering for votes, especially among seniors and ethnic communities, is already happening and is likely to intensify. Other, more segmented groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2200&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-budget analysis</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/post-budget-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the 2011 federal budget was released yesterday. And how did research fare? Well, like so many other sectors it was sort of &#8220;more of the same&#8221;. Nothing to send one to the heavens or the barricades. Just sort of&#8230; meh. So, what was there? Well, there was an annual increase in tricouncil funding, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2197&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Federal Budget Highlights for Research Funding</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/2011-federal-budget-highlights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the relevant research bits from today&#8217;s budget. Analysis to follow. $80M over three years for IRAP $60M over three years to promote more students in digital economy disciplines $37M/y for three federal research granting councils ($15M CIHR, $15M NSERC, $7M SSHRC) $10M/y for Indirect Costs Program $53.5M over five years for 10 new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2192&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$50-Million for Perimeter in Tuesday&#8217;s Budget</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/50-million-for-perimeter-in-tuesdays-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science-and-so-on, announced yesterday that Tuesday&#8217;s federal budget will include $50-million in new funding for Waterloo&#8217;s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. While details are scarce, it is assumed this will extend the $50-million in funding Perimeter received in the 2007 budget, which is set to expire next year. While this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2187&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Submissions to R&amp;D Review Panel Available</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/submissions-to-rd-review-panel-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just&#8230; wow. Earlier this year, the R&#38;D Review Panel issued a call for submissions from interested parties regarding government support for business- and industry-related R&#38;D. Today the submission papers have been made public. What a treasure trove of special pleading. There are more than 250 submissions from industry, academia and government. I sympathize with Tom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2182&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A call to the CIHR community</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/call-to-the-cihr-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the federal budget expected to be tabled in two weeks, concerns about research funding are mounting. Despite the government&#8217;s repeated claim that it has offered unprecedented support for R&#38;D in this country, calls for deficit-cutting raise the spectre of the slashed research budgets of the Chretien/Martin era. While the government has invested significantly in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2169&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PEARL and BERD</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/pearl-and-berd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of things on my mind today: The Globe and Mail published an editorial today raising concerns about the likely closure of PEARL (Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory), Canada&#8217;s northernmost research station. Located in Eureka, NU, PEARL houses atmospheric research instruments and researchers whose work is at the forefront of efforts to understand arctic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2165&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sputnik Moment</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/2158/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon.  The science wasn’t even there yet.  NASA didn’t exist.  But after investing in better research and education, we didn’t just surpass the Soviets; we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2158&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation vs. Invention</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/innovation-vs-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>concernedresearchers2</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if we&#8217;ve got the whole thing wrong. The fact is: universities don&#8217;t produce innovation. For that matter, neither does industrial R&#38;D. What university and industrial research produces is invention. The Blackberry is not an innovation, it&#8217;s an invention. A new cancer-fighting drug is not an innovation, it&#8217;s an invention. A more durable prosthetic knee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2145&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Globalization of Education</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-globalization-of-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>concernedresearchers2</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail has launched a sophisticated series looking at the globalization of education and Canada&#8217;s ability to compete. Part of its monthly &#8220;Leading Thinkers&#8221; series, this month&#8217;s edition features video interviews with (among others) UBC president Stephen Toope, Yuen Pau Woo of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and Governor General (and former [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2140&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two interesting perspectives on the innovation economy</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/two-interesting-perspectives-on-the-innovation-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, two thought-provoking articles about how to build an innovation economy. First, a Canadian perspective. Glen Hodgson, Senior VP and Chief Economist at the Conference Board of Canada, has written an article arguing that Canada is at a &#8220;tipping point&#8221; in our struggles with innovation. He argues. as others have, that Canadian industry&#8217;s lack of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2135&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;D Review Panel seeking submissions</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/rd-review-panel-seeking-submissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blue-ribbon panel appointed to review federal R&#38;D support has released a consultation paper (.pdf here) and has launched an appeal for submissions from stakeholders. The panel has been charged with evaluating the roughly $7-billion the federal government spends each year on innovation-targeted R&#38;D. This excludes research in federal labs and basic research performed at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2132&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Roundup</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/thursday-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My method of blogging has changed considerably in the almost two years I&#8217;ve been doing this. Where I once used this blog to point out interesting and valuable articles or thoughts posted elsewhere on the web, I found myself doing so less and less often, instead using the blog to flesh out my own thoughts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2128&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NSERC also suffering from declining success rates</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/nserc-also-suffering-from-declining-success-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I discussed the historically low success rates for CIHR operating grants. Turns out this problem may be more widespread. Over at his blog Piece of Mind, professor and blogger Nassif Ghoussoub has outlined how NSERC Discovery Grant success rates have also declined significantly each of the last three years. Nassif identifies three major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2125&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIHR Operating Grants Raise Protest</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/cihr-researchers-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without much fanfare, nearly 1,800 people have signed a petition protesting the historically low success rates in the individual CIHR Operating Grants competition. From the petition: The percentage of successful applicants is about 15 % of the grants submitted. This means that very good grants are no longer fundable and that there is no guarantee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2120&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well, there&#8217;s your problem&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why can&#8217;t we create innovative companies? What happens to all that basic research funding, proof-of-principle financing, and industrial research support? It doesn&#8217;t work, says the government. We aren&#8217;t getting the return we expect on our investment, they say. And it&#8217;s the fault of business, which doesn&#8217;t appreciate our collective largesse in funding innovative activities, we&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2112&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation &#8211; time to pull</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/innovation-time_to_pull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about innovation lately. I&#8217;ve been talking to researchers about commercialization, talking to entrepreneurs about challenges they face in growing their companies, and have been reading a lot about what Canada must do to improve innovation. Everyone&#8217;s got ideas about how to do it better. Unfortunately, not many of the ideas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2106&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government Announces R&amp;D Review</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/government-announces-rd-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was generally positive about Budget 2009 and its support for Canadian R&#38;D, I was skeptical (cynical, actually &#8211; it&#8217;s in my nature) about an abstract promise to perform a &#8220;comprehensive review of all federal support for R&#38;D&#8221;. It promised to do so &#8220;in close consultation with business leaders from all sectors&#8221; and sought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2100&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North American cooperation to fund innovation</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/north-american-cooperation-to-fund-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story I like. The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) has announced $10-million in funding to facilitate &#8220;collaborative and cross-disciplinary research with a focus on the mathematical sciences and their vast array of applications&#8230;&#8221;. BIRS is an innovative think-tank that brings mathematicians from all over together to discuss theoretical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2096&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly science policy roundup</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/weekly-science-policy-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, your weekly science policy roundup, in no particular order: Canada has two universities in the THE list of the world&#8217;s top 50 schools for Engineering, released today: UofT comes in at a very respectable 13th and UBC at 38th. Conspicuously absent from the list are McGill and University of Waterloo, which were ranked 29th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2088&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s universities ranked (again)</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/canadas-universities-ranked-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in two weeks, Canada&#8217;s universities have been ranked against their global peers. And for the second time in two week, the results are decidedly mixed. These rankings come courtesy of Times Higher Education (THE), a UK publication that, until this year, collaborated with QS, the publisher of last week&#8217;s list, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2082&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Roundup</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/weekly-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail reports that a Statistics Canada study confirms that a voluntary survey will introduce significant errors when compared with a mandatory survey. The study models a voluntary survey by tabulating 1996 long-form surveys submitted early &#8211; presumably before the long arm of the law reached out and forced scofflaws to submit them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2072&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The year ahead in Canadian science policy</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/the-year-ahead-in-canadian-science-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the heat and humidity remains at mid-summer levels here in Ottawa, my summer&#8217;s over and I&#8217;m back in the blogging saddle, ready to tackle exciting science policy developments in the year ahead. Here, boldly (and gimmickly)  are my three predictions for the coming year: 1. The Harper government will continue its love-hate relationship with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2064&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where the truth lies&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/where-the-truth-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most of you, I have for years spent dreary summer vacations at the beach, reading bodice-ripping page turners and discussing just how early is too early for cocktail hour. This summer, however, I have been at my desk reviewing first-year elementary statistics and the reliability 0f voluntary survey data. What a refreshing change! Honestly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2055&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public has a right to influence research policy</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/public-has-a-right-to-influence-research-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly discovered treatments offering miracle-like cures have long held an understandable attraction for desperate patients and those who love them. Whether peddled dishonestly by snake-oil salesmen of years past, or trumpeted with the best of intentions on today&#8217;s blogs and news sites, there has always been a hopeful audience of patients desperate for treatments for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2048&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research policy odds and sods</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/research-policy-odds-and-sods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of interesting bits related to science policy have been sitting in my to-do box for a week or two. Here&#8217;s the highlights: 1. I recently posted an argument in favor of liberal arts education as a key element in addressing our &#8220;innovation gap&#8221;. Thankfully, liberal arts programs are not under siege nor are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2045&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation isn&#8217;t just about science funding</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/innovation-isnt-just-about-science-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improving Canadian innovation is a major justification for the government&#8217;s recent investment in the Canada Excellence Research Chairs. According to Industry Minister Tony Clement, $200 million over the next ten years for world-leading scientists demonstrates a &#8220;commitment to ensuring Canada’s future economic growth by investing in innovation&#8221;. But does world-class scientific research lead to increased [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2038&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CERCs: Innovative Research, Stale Criticism</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/cerc-announcements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 18:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s poor innovation record in science and technology is well-documented and much maligned. Less well-publicized is our abysmal track record of innovation in complaint and criticism. This week, the government announced the inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERCs). This program involves providing $200-million to an elite group of recruits who are performing world-class, cutting-edge research. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2026&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manning as champion of science</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/manning-as-champion-of-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of articles this weekend highlighted former Reform Party leader Preston Manning&#8217;s emergence as a voice of support for better science policy in this country. Having seen him speak on  the subject at the fall&#8217;s Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC), I can confirm that he is an eloquent and ardent supporter of science and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2021&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-docs are not students, also not really employees</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/post-docs-are-not-students-also-not-really-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post-doctoral fellows are employees, not students, according to the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA). But they&#8217;re a special kind of employee &#8211; the kind that pays taxes but doesn&#8217;t receive any employee benefits. The Black Hole blog has a feature article outlining the CRA&#8217;s response to a formal request for clarification made by the Canadian Association [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2018&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Roundup</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/recent-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all, It&#8217;s been a long time. Life got in the way of blogging, but things have sorted themselves and I&#8217;m back in the science policy saddle. Lots has piled up while I was away. Today I&#8217;m going to list highlights from the last couple of weeks of science and research policy, and then next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2014&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whither the NRC?</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/whither-the-nrc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Government announced John McDougall&#8217;s appointment as the new President of the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. His appointment provides an opportunity to point something out: The NRC is a mess. And the mess of the NRC neatly encapsulates much that&#8217;s wrong with Canadian science policy. No direction, no cohesion, multiple conflicting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2006&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Canada is bush-league at innovation</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/canada-bush-league-at-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what it looks like when a country is serious about innovation. UBC Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman has been recruited to advise US President Barack Obama on science policy and science education. Prof. Wieman, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 for work on Bose-Einstein condensates, has been nominated for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=2002&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-budget roundup</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/post-budget-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things here at the Researcher Forum have been quiet since the budget (I&#8217;ve been busy and away&#8230;). A few weeks have passed, the dust has cleared, and I figured I&#8217;d take stock &#8211; a survey of internet opinion &#8211; and decide whether the research community has come to any sort of consensus on Budget 2010. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1994&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budget 2010 &#8211; A Qualified Success</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/budget-2010-a-qualified-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a year makes. Last year&#8217;s cuts to the research granting councils, though relatively small, were magnified by their inclusion in a so-called &#8220;stimulus budget&#8221; full of spending increases in other areas. This year, the opposite is true. Funding increases, though relatively small, are made more significant by the context of spending restraint [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1986&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Research in Speech From the Throne</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/no-research-in-speech-from-the-throne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the government outlined the results of its &#8216;recalibration&#8217; with a speech from the throne (.pdf here). In broad strokes, the government outlined its vision for the recovering economy and signaled its priorities for the coming Parliamentary session. So what are the government&#8217;s plans for research? How will investment in R&#38;D help drive economic recovery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1979&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research Funding at Risk</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/research-funding-at-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the country is focused on the Olympics, and government is prorogued for &#8220;recalibration&#8221;, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is busy shaping the 2010 Federal Budget. Perhaps to soften the blow, senior officials have leaked a broad outline of the spending squeeze outlined in the document, set to be tabled March 4. Speaking generally, officials are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1975&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NSERC sees researchers as out-source labour</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/nserc-sees-researchers-as-out-source-labour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago, NSERC announced two new programs as part of its &#8220;Strategies for Partnership and Innovation&#8221;. Engage grants are designed to cover direct project costs for up to 6 months and a total of $25,000, and Interaction grants are for $5,000 over three-months to help set up qualifying industry-academic partnerships. There are a lot of academics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1972&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Canada Keep Up?</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/can-canada-keep-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has surpassed all countries but the US in research output, and should move into the top position within the next decade, according to a ThomsonReuters analysis. India is also on the move, and will be on par with G8 nations within five years. These population giants are benefiting from strong and growing economies, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1962&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives suggested &#8220;Chief Scientist&#8221; in policy outline</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/conservatives-suggested-chief-scientist-in-policy-outline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Frogheart, Maryse de la Giroday responded to Nature&#8217;s criticism of Canada&#8217;s absent science policy by going to straight to the horses&#8217; mouths and posting an interesting analysis of her results. She checked the webpages of the four main federal parties to determine their science policies. Alas, it turns out Nature was correct; even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1959&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nature editorial slams Canadian science policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Canada needs a bigger vision of where its science is going&#8221;, according to an editorial published today in the British journal Nature. I strongly suggest you read it. It&#8217;s not flattering. The journal acknowledges the strength of Canadian academic research (&#8220;a powerhouse of academic science&#8221;), but laments government policy which does nothing to support or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1952&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green brain drain?</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/green-brain-drain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series by François Cardinal in Montreal&#8217;s La Presse this week suggests that climate researchers are preparing to lead a brain drain from Canadian campuses (here, here, and here). The suggested reason is the decision by the Conservative government to dedicate no new funding to the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospherics Science (CFCAS), the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1946&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ignatieff&#8217;s vision for postsecondary education</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/ignatieffs-vision-for-postsecondary-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With parliament prorogued for a couple of months, Official Leader of the Opposition Michael Ignatieff is on tour, talking to Canadians, trying to improve his Stephane Dion-like popularity ratings. Yesterday, he addressed a group at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Not surprisingly, given his academic background, he expounded at length when asked about his vision for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1942&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; a rough ride ahead</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/2010-a-rough-ride-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I gave a brief look back at 2009 in science policy. Today, I cast my eye ahead, and point to some broad trends I&#8217;ll be watching. Of course, it&#8217;s a mug&#8217;s game to make predictions, but heck &#8211; everyone else is doing it, so why not? Of course there are easy things to predict [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1936&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 &#8211; a look back at science policy</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/a-look-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, everyone. Like so many others, I&#8217;ve emerged from holiday exile and am back at it today, ready to bid farewell to 2009 and engage with what will surely be an eventful 2010. Despite the general quiet of the holiday season, a number of relevant science policy issues are sitting on my desk, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1930&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK slashes funding for physics projects, students</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/uk-slashes-funding-for-physics-projects-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British physics community has been left staggering after yesterday&#8217;s announcement of cuts totalling more than £115-million ($198-million Cdn). The cuts are concentrated among projects in nuclear, space, and particle physics, though the government also announced cuts of 25% to PhD fellowships and student grants. The student cuts are particularly worrisome to University College London [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1926&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science Policy Conference talks online</title>
		<link>http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/science-policy-conference-talks-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks behind the Canadian Science Policy Conference have posted videos on their site of all the talks from the conference held last month in Toronto. There&#8217;s a lot there, and I encourage anyone interested in science policy to check it out &#8211; particularly if you&#8217;re interested in getting a sense of where Canadian science [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7169898&amp;post=1923&amp;subd=dontleavecanadabehind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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