Petition calls for clampdown on absentee Chinese researchers

Petition calls for federal funds for Cochrane.

©2016 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ 1 An online petition by Evidence for Democracy (E4D), asking the federal government to restore Cochrane Canada’s funding, has about 2200 signatures a month after launching. The petition, which went live Jan. 21, urges Health Minister Dr. Jane Philpott to restore the $2-mil l ion annual funding for Cochrane Canada. That funding, which came from the...

Working for the clampdown.

Following its successful trial in the university system during the past three years, time-management reporting is now to be extended to all citizens of the European Union (EU). The university trial concerned the apportionment of working time between different activities and was required by EU legislation to implement the so-called ‘full-cost model’ to all externally funded research in the acade...

Petition for Writ of Certiorari

Petition for Reconsideration of Action in

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Petition 329

The tension between public health and individual rights raises key questions in the face of public health crises such as tuberculosis (TB) and Ebola: What are the circumstances that warrant the obligatory detention of individuals with an infectious disease as a measure of protecting the general public?1 What are the implications for the protection of privacy while managing and controlling the s...