For a while now, I've been 'tweeting' whenever the government issues a press release announcing that it is spending some money. Since the federal election last October, I have counted 544 such announcements of spending totalling about $35 billion. A reminder/update on this particular Twitter feed/hashtag and an explanation of the new syntax/abbreviations used in this hashtag.
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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Tuesday, April 7
Duelling perspectives on science funding
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DavidAkin
on Tue 07 Apr 2009 10:24 AM EDT
Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, was in Waterloo, Ont. this morning to announce that the federal government had invested $50 million in the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. Meanwhile in Montreal, Liberal Industry Critic Marc Garneau, the former astronaut and academic, issued a release criticizing the government for cutting the budget of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council... more » |
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