Over the past year, the Canadian Space Agency has been battered by government budget cuts, buffeted by a critical review, and now even its president is ejecting right out of the place.
This week, the federal agency announced former Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean is suddenly leaving the helm at the end of this month to pursue a new career in quantum physics.
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james_nicoll- January 18th, 11:16
2013-01-18 04:55 pm (UTC)
2013-01-19 01:29 pm (UTC)
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/quan
2013-01-18 05:08 pm (UTC)
2013-01-18 05:39 pm (UTC)
2013-01-18 10:39 pm (UTC)
Plenty of points to it for those of us not in the oil industry or certain sectors of Organized Religion to defend and support.
2013-01-19 03:27 am (UTC)
(Anonymous)
2013-01-19 07:00 pm (UTC)
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakin
Clearly they don't need research in the effects of water pollution in the tarsands, which is motivation enough. And the fiscal responsibility is everything we'd expect from neocons.
2013-01-19 01:14 pm (UTC)
Edited at 2013-01-19 01:34 pm (UTC)
MacLean report was buried
(Anonymous)
2013-01-23 02:59 pm (UTC)