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May 15th, 2011
NRCan Wins CAJ Code of Silence Award

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That was the attitude of Natural Resources Canada when they barred an internationally-known Canadian researcher from speaking about his work on the breaking of a prehistoric ice-dam 130 centuries ago until vetted “media lines” could be approved by the minister’s office. Journalists in Canada facing deadlines had to interview British scientists lauding Scott Dallimore’s groundbreaking study published last spring while federal bureaucrats fretted about the wider implications of an unscripted interview about an event that happened centuries before humans planted their first crops or built their first cities. Read More