Canadian Science Policy Conference

Heather Douglas went to the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa on November 25-27, 2015.  She met our new Science Minister, Kirsty Duncan, and she gave two talks—one in a symposium on evidence-based decision-making, where she argued that the public actually has substantive roles to play (the slides for the talk are available here) and another in a session on science without boundaries, where she talked about how even in international science, borders and locations can matter a great deal.  Heather says, “We had a great discussion in this session, and no one used powerpoint.  Overall, the conference exuded optimism about science policy in Canada going forward.  Now we have to make use of the opportunity and realize the promise that is there.”

Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF), Heather Douglas, Mark Dietrich (Compute Canada), and Bob Crow (UW’s IQC) on science without boundaries