I wonder if AB Gov scientists would consider listing someone outside as the lead author to avoid this in the future?

Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stalled-coal-mine-pollution-study/

#AcademicFreedom #OpenAccess #Muzzling #ABLeg

Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal

An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show

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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has been paying out millions to scammers. Oops. Now they are trying to stop employees from whistleblowing and talking to the media.

#muzzling #Canada #CRA #media #whistleblower From @cbc_top_stories https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cra-whistleblowers-bogus-refunds-1.7381266

CRA launched 'witch hunt' against whistleblowers who exposed millions in bogus refunds, sources say | CBC News

The Canada Revenue Agency is on a “witch hunt” to find whistleblowers who may have spoken to the media and exposed how it has been repeatedly duped into paying out millions in bogus refunds to scammers, according to sources.

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$20M deal bars Burnaby from speaking badly about Trans Mountain

After years of fighting and court battles, the City of Burnaby has signed a $20.1-million deal with Trans Mountain Corporation that prohibits the …

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Ecologists and climate scientists gagged and grief stricken

"The culture of suppression on ecologists and climate scientists is happening at the same time as the threats they are warning of amplify." 

"The suppression and carefully calibrated communication of science, is driven by a fear of losing funding from private industry — which includes the fossil fuel industry — or annoying government." 

“The want us to give them politically supportive information, not science.” “Scientists are too scared to speak out, speak truth to power, and worse yet, they get conditioned to self-censor,” Euan Ritchie

“I see my colleagues in the agency now and morale is really rock bottom. Total control, no trust. Science is a dirty word."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/odyssey-climate-scientists-suppress-truth-or-risk-funds-careers/102968970
#Australia #FossilFuels #climate #biodiversity #Ecosystems #collapse #science #muzzling #TheRightToKnow #WorkplaceCulture #governance

Gagged and grief-stricken, but not without hope

The beauty and wonder of the natural world is what keeps scientists like Dana Bergstrom fighting to protect it. She's one of many who say speaking out comes at a cost  but not speaking up can take an even greater personal toll.

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Congrats India on hosting a successful G20 and even setting a record, for the first g20 annual meeting where no press conference was allowed.
#g20 #india #censorship #muzzling #authoritarian #tyranny
A bullhorn and crowd wouldn't have worked quite as well: Muzzling Zephyr will backfire – Daily Montanan

By muzzling Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Speaker of the Montana House has amplified her message, writes columnist Darrell Ehrlick.

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This even works without differences in race as nationalist #exclusion and #muzzling of critics: I have been born and raised as a foreigner in #Switzerland. At an age of 45, some boneheads still tell me that I'm free to go back if I don't like the way things are in Switzerland. This is such an enraging nonsense. From #attachment comes #commitment comes #criticism to make things better. Sadly chauvinist knuckledraggers will never get this. Their jingoism leaves them blind. #SendThemBack