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- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release 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.
- 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.
- Brandon University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Connexions Library: Science Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
- '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
- 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.
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- 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
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unity for the Climate
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- 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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