Category Archives: democracy
Update on withdrawn CIHR trials policy
In an only somewhat-overdue update (thanks to conference season interrupting my regular blogging activities – I do write on the road, but need to get sleep & give a read over before I can push “publish” on a post) the … Continue reading
Details: TCPS-2 vs the CIHR trials policy of 2010
Thanks to a few days’ time and some help from people with more experience reading science policy, I now feel that I can expand on my previous post about the TCPS-2 “superseding” the Dec 2010 CIHR trials policy. First of … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, democracy, ethics, funding, government, Health, OA
Follow-up: CIHR trials transparency policy
Here is the official word from the CIHR on the clinical trials transparency policy that was so transparent that no one could see it: According to Dr. Ian Graham, Vice-President, Knowledge Translation, the new Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for … Continue reading
Filed under democracy, digitization, ethics, funding, government, Health, OA
Cached Copy: Policy on registration and results disclosure of controlled and uncontrolled trials funded by CIHR
For the record. -Greyson This is Google’s cache of http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/42831.html. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 17 Mar 2011 22:31:42 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Policy on registration and results … Continue reading
Filed under democracy, digitization, ethics, funding, government, Health, OA
Which is preferable: Invasive or Intrusive? (aka the Future of Canadian Census)
Back in July, when the kerfuffle over the long form census was fresh, I accused the Harper government of being disengenuous in their claims that changing the long-form census from mandatory to voluntary was due to privacy concerns over the … Continue reading
Filed under democracy, ethics, government, government information, inclusion/exclusion, privacy
The metered Internet threat to innovation & access to information
Remember the early days of mass public access to the world wide web? Back when AOL was king, noisy dial-up modems were par for the course and having any graphics on a webpage was super-fancy? Remember in 1993 or so, … Continue reading
Wanted: Catchy Census PSAs
Believe it or not, Rafe Mair brought it home for me in his recent Tyee article. He boils down his response to: I must say, without intending to hedge, that my opposition takes the form of simple questions. Why do … Continue reading
Filed under democracy, government, government information
BCLA Letter Regarding G20 & Intellectual Freedom
I am really proud of the British Columbia Library Association for writing and publishing such an eloquent letter about the “unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties that took place at the June 2010 meeting of the G20 in Toronto.” While some … Continue reading
Filed under democracy, government, Intellectual freedom, The Profession
Was the copyright e-consultation bad for democracy?
According to Michael Geist, Steven Harper’s office has called for a new “Canadian DMCA Bill Within Six Weeks.” Geist has been “Covering the Return of the Canadian DMCA” lately, giving us all a heads-up that new legislation is coming down … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, democracy, government
