Person: Peter Calamai

Shackled mandate prevents CCA from having greater impact, higher public profile
By Peter Calamai

These are tense times at the Council of Canadian Academies in Ottawa. The Council has spent most of the $30 million endowment it received when established in 2005 by the science-aware Liberal government of Paul Martin.

Shackled mandate prevents CCA from having greater impact, higher public profile
By Peter Calamai

These are tense times at the Council of Canadian Academies in Ottawa. The Council has spent most of the $30 million endowment it received when established in 2005 by the science-aware Liberal government of Paul Martin.

Canada could profit from studying Australia’s approach to innovation
By Peter Calamai

It is possible for a middle-ranked OECD country to craft a rational approach to research and innovation through open and informed consultation among scientists, government officials and the interested public.

Science failing to inspire Canadian youth
By Peter Calamai

A disturbing contradiction mars the involvement of young Canadians with science. Of the 57 countries which participated in the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) only the youth in Finland and Hong Kong outperformed Canada’s young people on scientific questions.

Tragedy of the Media Commons
By Peter Calamai

The lights are going out all over North America. The lights in this case are journalists who specialize in covering science for the commercial mass media.

A science job for the options czar
By Peter Calamai

There is restrained weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Canadian science community nowadays about the perceived diminution of the office of the National Science Advisor.

Tory vision for S&T uninformed by reality
By Peter Calamai

Anyone who has followed Canadian science policy in recent years will recognize the phrase Science and Technology for the New Century. That was the overblown title of the last federal government review of science and technology published 10 years ago.

Where is Canadian funding for polar year?
By Peter Calamai

The first International Polar Year, in 1882-83 was a bit of a trial for Canada. The fourth IPY, in 2007-2008, could wind up as real egg on our face.

Transcending the dialogue of the deaf
By Peter Calamai

Readers of RE$EARCH MONEY don’t need to be lectured about the central place of science and technology in our daily lives. But this year ordinary Canadians have also been reminded of that reality, often in very forceful ways.

Current science policy breeds mediocrity
By Peter Calamai

Political incorrectness is cautiously lifting its head among the brambles of Canadian science policy. In the inner circles a few people are quietly using the word “elite.