Category Archives: government
Update on withdrawn CIHR trials policy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
BMJ article about the CIHR trials policy disappearance
More follow up from these previous posts about the surprise disappearance of the Policy on the registration and results disclosure of controlled and uncontrolled trials funded by CIHR. Thursday, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a News article by Ann … Continue reading
Filed under ethics, funding, government, Health, privatization
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
Evaluation, assessment, research & impact
Around the same time I noticed that a number of academic libraries were posting for new (or newish) “assessment librarians,” I went to a cool lecture by Dr. Eliza Dresang about a project teaming LIS researchers with children’s librarians to … Continue reading
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
Online consultation on metered internet: Need we say more?
Now that the NDP, the Liberals, Green Party and Conservative Party(including the PM’s office and Minister of Industry) have all suddenly come out against the CRTC’s usage-based billing ruling, the CRTC has announced that they will be reconsidering and are … Continue reading
Filed under government, Internet, technology
A Day in my Life, with Census Data
To follow up on my last post about census data, and a great conversation with some local librarians a couple of weeks ago, I decided to try to brainstorm the ways census data impacts my daily life. I’m not talking … Continue reading
Filed under government, government information
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
