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First, I have the BEST friends *loffs on all of you*.
I also am no longer flooding scarily and to the point of fainting and writhing in coils.
Morale and general health: v. much improved.
HOWEVER.
WHERAS the ReformaTories have apparently NOT ONLY LOST THE PLOT BUT DECLARED THEIR INTENT TO PLOUGH IT UP AND SOW IT WITH SALT, I bring to your attention the following:
For more than thirty years, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has been promoting and supporting university-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. SSHRC funding has been used to complete ground breaking research in countless areas in Canada and around the world.
The Federal Budget presented on January 27th contains a sentence that has the potential to halt this kind of research: “Scholarships granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will be focused on business-related degrees”.
Link leads to a petition. Please feel free to repost wherever seems called for.
Conservatives of any stripe showing up to defend this proposed measure to me are strongly advised to ask themselves the following question first: "In the matter of a) the present state of b) Social Sciences and Humanities c) Graduate Studies d) in Canada, *DO I KNOW MY SHIT REALLY REALLY WELL*?"
I also am no longer flooding scarily and to the point of fainting and writhing in coils.
Morale and general health: v. much improved.
HOWEVER.
WHERAS the ReformaTories have apparently NOT ONLY LOST THE PLOT BUT DECLARED THEIR INTENT TO PLOUGH IT UP AND SOW IT WITH SALT, I bring to your attention the following:
For more than thirty years, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has been promoting and supporting university-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. SSHRC funding has been used to complete ground breaking research in countless areas in Canada and around the world.
The Federal Budget presented on January 27th contains a sentence that has the potential to halt this kind of research: “Scholarships granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will be focused on business-related degrees”.
Link leads to a petition. Please feel free to repost wherever seems called for.
Conservatives of any stripe showing up to defend this proposed measure to me are strongly advised to ask themselves the following question first: "In the matter of a) the present state of b) Social Sciences and Humanities c) Graduate Studies d) in Canada, *DO I KNOW MY SHIT REALLY REALLY WELL*?"
