Budget erases funding for key science agency
January 29, 2009 - 7:22pm
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
January 29, 2009 at 3:21 AM EST
MEDICAL REPORTER
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The only agency that regularly finances large-scale science in Canada was shut out of Tuesday's federal budget, putting at risk thousands of jobs and some of the most promising medical research, and forcing the country to pull out of key international projects.
For the first time in nine years, Genome Canada, a non-profit non-governmental funding organization, was not mentioned in the federal budget and saw its annual cash injection from Ottawa - $140-million last year - disappear.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090129.wbudgetscience29/BNStory/budget2009/home
There is another little gem from budget 2009:
"Scholarships granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council will be focussed on business-related degrees."
That's horrible duncan.