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I’m nearing the end of my PhD/postdoc … What the hell am I supposed to do now?

Originally published on the GE.blog.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Unicorns, like job security, used to exist (actually, it’s an Elasmotherium)

The term ‘job security’ seems a fanciful idea to budding biologists — you may as well be studying unicorns (and no, narwhal don’t count …)! Now, you’re a fully fledged adult, your thoughts are likely filled with adult questions like ‘where…

Stand.Earth’s Misguided Report on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project

Contributed by Robert Lyman©2019

Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant, former public servant and diplomat. His full bio is here. 

Stand.earth recently published a report that allegedly offers the Canadian public information about what the construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project Will Look Like and its social and ecological impacts. Entitled, Seven Construction Hotspots:…

How foreign governments, eNGOs are playing politics over a handful of GM wheat kernels

ByStuart Smyth

In mid-June 2018, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported that a few GM wheat plants had been detected in southern Alberta, amounting to no more than a handful of seeds. Using Canada’s science-based risk assessment system, the CFIA clearly stated, “[t]here is also no evidence that this wheat has entered the food or animal feed system, nor is it present anywhere else in…