We have a lot of new faces on our Editorial Team since last we introduced them. Two recruitment drives have led us to a nearly full house* in the editorial department. We now have 21 subject editors covering our 12 science subject categories. These are the people who research and write our regular Monday Borealis […]
Kira Hoffman, General Science co-editor, and Josh Silberg, Policy & Politics co-editor People love dolphins. Flipper and his brethren, with their permanent “smile” and happy-go-lucky reputation, are widely regarded as one of the most intelligent species on the planet. But what makes dolphins so intelligent? Are humans not so special after all? In Conversations with […]
Pascal Lapointe and Josh Silberg, Policy & Politics co-editors Canadian science got a financial boost on Tuesday thanks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first federal budget. Two billion dollars in two years for a low-carbon economy fund. One billion in four years toward green energy iniatives. Ninety-five million more each year for research and universities. […]
Josh Silberg, Policy & Politics co-editor The new Liberal majority government and its ‘sunny ways’ have swept through the Canadian science community since the election. There are two newly minted cabinet ministers with the word science in their title: Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan, and Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Navdeep Bains. Not […]
Pascal Lapointe and Josh Silberg, Policy & Politics co-editors In a Toronto Star opinion piece published on August 12, Katie Gibbs and Alana Westwood of Evidence for Democracy called for a national science debate between federal political leaders. Librarian John Dupuis echoed Evidence for Democracy’s sentiment in a recent blog post, and began brainstorming potential […]
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