Category: Advocacy
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CAN President Charles Bourque participation in the Canadian Science Policy Conference as panelist
Professor Charles Bourque will participate in the session: Roles & Responsibilities of Academic Science Societies in informing Policy: Lessons & Observations from Around the World – November 17th at 8:30 via […]
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CAN Hill week is taking place November 2-6, 2020, virtually
We are very excited to be organizing the first ever CAN Hill week, which will take place November 2 -6 2020, virtually. Our objective is to advocate for more funding […]
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CAN publishes an article in MacLean’s and Chatelaine magazine
The article was published in MacLean’s in October 2020, in a special section on “Understanding Neurological Conditions”, and re-published in the December 2020 edition of Chatelaine, in a special section […]
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CAN Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finances
We have made the following recommendations Recommendation 1: That the government of Canada provide a one-time 25% increase in investment in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural […]
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COVID impact survey results
Thank you to all our members and colleagues who responsed to our survey on the impact of COVID-19 on researchers and laboratories in Canada. The full results of the survey […]
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CAN publishes in a Toronto Star insert on Brain Health
CAN President Katalin Toth was featured in a campaign on Brain Health which was published in The Star on March 13, 2020. Read the article on thestar.com: Brain health is a […]
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CAN participation in SfN’s Hill Day
CAN participation in SfN’s Hill Day CAN was invited by SfN to participate once again in SfN’s Hill Day, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on March 5, 2020. CAN […]
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CAN January 2020 Report on advocacy
CAN-ACN Annual Advocacy report – January 2020 Presented to SfN’s Government and Public Affairs committee by Jaideep Bains, CAN past president and GPA member. The Canadian Association for Neuroscience has […]
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CAN Parliament Hill Day – March 31st, 2020 – Call for participants
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is planning a day on Parliament Hill to advocate for increased federal funding for scientific research, through increased investments in the three main granting councils […]
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Science was not an Election 2019 issue – but it should be a priority for the next Government
By Tarik Möröy and Katalin Tóth — published in National Newswatch — Oct 25 2019 During Election 2019, the issue of poorly funded scientific research in Canada was not addressed […]