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Special report

Harper's War on Data

Impacts of destruction of data under Conservative government

8 Articles

Scientists celebrate the end of the Harper muzzle

Five people on the front lines of Stephen Harper's ideological campaign against evidence-based decision making share their thoughts on what Trudeau's win means - and if it is really a new dawn.
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Fram Dinshaw
  • News
  • Politics
November 9th 2015

Feds penny-pinched on science libraries while lavishing funds on religion and oil

Here's how the Harper government spent taxpayer millions while trashing federal libraries to save taxpayer pennies.
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Elizabeth McSheffrey
  • Jenny Uechi
  • News
  • Politics
October 1st 2015

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada defends Lethbridge Research Centre library closing

Responding to recent articles on the closing of the Lethbridge Research Centre library, the federal government says nothing of value was lost in the shut-down
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Charles Mandel
  • News
  • Politics
October 1st 2015

Mulcair says NDP would end muzzling of scientists

Tom Mulcair said if elected the NDP will stop the controversial practice of silencing scientists in the federal government
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Charles Mandel
  • News
  • Politics
September 30th 2015

Exclusive: Inside the Harper government's trashing of a research library

The inside story on how one federal library's journals and documents ended up in a dumpster.
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Charles Mandel
  • News
  • Politics
September 29th 2015
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Probe into Harper's muzzling of scientists not likely out by Oct.19

The results of an investigation by Canada's information commissioner into government censorship of scientists could be explosive. But will they emerge before election day?
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Mychaylo Prystupa
  • News
  • Politics
September 28th 2015
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Harper’s Arctic science station a ‘cloak' for oil and gas push, says climate expert

"You couldn’t call this the ‘High Arctic Oil and Gas Development Centre’ because that of course would provoke national and international outrage.”
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Mychaylo Prystupa
  • News
  • Politics
September 25th 2015

Public service union helped save library's documents from the dumpster

The Stephen Harper government shut down another research centre library, throwing reports, journals and other documents into a dumpster.
Harper's War on Data
By
  • Charles Mandel
  • News
  • Politics
September 22nd 2015

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