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  1. Academics Urge Government Climate Action
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    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
  2. Bold Scientists
    Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition.
  3. Brandon University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook
    Similar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical sciences.
  5. Connexions Library: Science Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
  6. 'The Death of Evidence' in Canada: Scientists' Own Words
    Data distorted for 'propaganda' and other complaints against the Harper government made at last week's Ottawa rally

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  7. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  8. Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  9. Growing Numbers and Dwindling Resources
    Resource Type: Book
    The world's population growth strains natural resources especially when consumption levels are high and technology is widely used.
  10. Harper's Seven-Year War on Science
    Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  11. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Poison Spring
    The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Vallianatos and Jenkins, after a 25-year stint at the Environmental Protection Agency, pull back the curtain on the watchdog agency's failure to guard public safety and monitor land use due to steady erosion of its enforcement practices.
  13. Silence of the Labs
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change and ocean habitats to public health will deprive Canadians of crucial information.
  14. A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
    Contrasting Lessons for Activists

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
  15. Unity for the Climate
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  16. The War on Science
    Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Do No Science, Hear No Science, Speak No Science -- that is the Harper agenda. And if this agenda is most evident and most pronounced in environmental science, that's simply because it is the field most likely to uncover evidence that the government's paramount goal -- to free the country's resource extraction industries from oversight in the name of rapid expansion -- is wrongheaded, reckless, and damaging.
  17. What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries?
    Scientists reject Harper government claims vital material is being saved digitally

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections ended up in dumpsters while others such as Winnipeg's historic Freshwater Institute library were scavenged by citizens, scientists and local environmental consultants. Others were burned or went to landfills.

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  1. American Museum of Natural History

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