CFI Calgary Movie Night “Silence of The Labs” + Special Guest

The CBC documentary “Silence of the Labs” investigates the changing landscape of public funding for scientific research and its relationship to public policy. Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change and ocean habitats to public health will deprive Canadians of crucial information. This is a must see documentary that raises important issues about public-interest science and the state of our democracy.

In the past five years the federal government has dismissed more than 2,000 scientists, and hundreds of programs and world-renowned research facilities have lost their funding. Programs that monitored things such as smoke stack emissions, food inspections, oil spills, water quality and climate change have been drastically cut or shut down.

Following the documentary we will be joined by Dr. Randy Tyson, a Canadian Scientist who will enlighten us with his experiences with the federal government’s cutbacks to Canadian Science programs.