From Mad Scientists to Maddening Science Perceptions
An eerie evolution It’s Halloween, a time when we welcome horror and stories that provoke fear into our lives. Oddly we celebrate stories of chainsaw …
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In Hindsight, 2021 Has Been a Decent Year
As I sat in front of my laptop to write the year’s final blog, I was reminded of the many challenges, obstacles and problems the …
mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines: Translating What They Are
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The Social Costs of Environmental Activist (eNGO) Fear Campaigns
Human health now affected due to deliberate misinformation For over 20 years now, activist environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) like Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Friends of the …
The Significance of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Charpentier & Doudna’s science refutes eNGO propaganda The year is coming to an end, and 2020 has popped a balloon filled with myths, untruths and …
The EU’s Gene Editing Regulatory Dilemma
Scientists, grad students and fiscal research investments are all fleeing Europe As consumers, we all want to be reassured that the products we purchase are …
Evidence and its Importance for Policy Making
The ability of bias to affect assessment outcomes In the process of gathering information, data or evidence to facilitate policy development processes, the parameters placed …
Communicating Empirically-based Science is Important for Society, Not Misinformation
The costs of misinformation adversely affects everyone Science is not like ice cream. With ice cream, we all have our favourite flavours or brands of …
Genome Editing: Is Data Knowledge?
The challenging dilemma between genomic sequencing and traditional knowledge Historically, to develop a new plant variety, there needed to be two distinct varieties to be …
New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Registration
After years of varietal development, the most promising varieties are selected to begin the process of registering them for commercial use. Under Canadian legislation, the Seeds Act and Seeds Regulations govern the testing, inspection, quality, and sale of all seeds. This legislation ensures that all seeds, whether imported or developed domestically, are proven to be safe for production and consumption before they reach the fields of Canadian farmers. In this final blog of the #LabtoField series, we explore how newly developed crop varieties become registered seed for use in Canada.