Budget 2009: A very dark day for big science by Dale Kirby,
Macleans OnCampus, January 29, 2009. News item about an article:
Budget erases funding for key science agency by Carolyn Abraham,
The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2009. Excerpts from the article:
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.
"We got nothing, nothing, and we don't know why," said a stunned Martin Godbout, Genome Canada president and CEO. "We're devastated."
The news spread like a virus through the research community yesterday as the country's top scientists wondered whether the oversight was a mistake. ...
Genome Canada is a pivotal member of the
Cancer Stem Cell Consortium (CSCC).
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See also: Genome Canada head questions lack of funds in budget by Paul Jay and Amina Zafar, CBCNews.ca January 29, 2009.
ReplyDeleteAnother news item: No funds for Genome Canada? Elie Dolgin, The Scientist NewsBlog, January 29, 2009.
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