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Canada upside down  

This is the story of the Harper government's attack on the world's most respected foundations, organizations which only a short time ago, the government regarded not only as friends, but key strategic partners in improving the quality of life in this country.  It started with an attack on science when the Canadian government made it clear it preferred its scientists the way the Victorians preferred their children:

 

“Be seen and not heard, and speak when you are spoken to.”

 

In Dark Age Ahead, the foreboding work that closed her career and life, the Canadian urban criticism giant Jane Jacobs pointed to decay in the critical and effective practice of science as one harbinger of cultural collapse in modern civilization.

Science under fire 

Jacobs had reason for concern, because science in Canada is under the strongest attack in living memory.

In a move that stunned the global scientific community, in March 2010 the Canadian government forbade government scientists from discussing their findings in public without permission. This development brought a storm of censure from the global scientific community, from internationally acclaimed academic journal Nature, the World Federation of Science Journalists, the Canadian Science Writers Association and leading Canadian academics.    

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