The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment

This is a brief chronology of the current Conservative Canadian government’s long campaign to undermine evidence-based scientific, environmental and technical decision-making. It is a government that is beholden to big business, particularly big oil, and that makes every attempt to shape public policy to that end. It is a government that fundamentally doesn’t believe in science. It is a government that is more interested in keeping its corporate masters happy than in protecting the environment.
As is occasionally my habit, I have pulled together a chronology of sorts. It is a chronology of all the various cuts, insults, muzzlings and cancellations that I’ve been able to dig up. Each of them represents a single shot in the Canadian Conservative war on science. It should be noted that not every item in this chronology, if taken in isolation, is necessarily the end of the world. It’s the accumulated evidence that is so damning.
Most of the items come from various links I’ve saved over the years as well as various other media articles I’ve dug up over the last week or so. This series at The Huffington Post has been particularly useful as has this article at the Wastershed Sentinal.

The Canadian War on Science:

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Judge's striking of Florida law another victory for the Constitution, the American people

With her ruling Tuesday that Florida's law requiring applicants for welfare to undergo mandatory drug tests violates the Fourth Amendment provisions against unreasonable searches, Judge Mary Scriven did more than strike a symbolic blow for poor Americans who have been collateral damage in the budget battles between Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
Certainly, preventing Florida from enforcing a draconian law that has proven to be more expensive that it's worth and has failed legal challenges before will benefit the poor. And certainly, Scriven's ruling does little to bridge the divide in Congress that makes both sides look bad because they're incredibly tone deaf.
However, Scriven's ruling does amplify the appeals court decision in February of last year that simply being poor and applying for Temporary Assitance for Needy Families does not raise someone to the level of suspicion required to undergo drug testing.