{"id":4344,"date":"2015-09-29T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:27:31","slug":"the-role-of-science-in-canadian-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-role-of-science-in-canadian-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of science in Canadian policy<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Science Integrity Project, which aims to make evidence-based decision-making a high priority for government at all levels, has released four principles for \u00a0improving policy decisions using the best available evidence. The principles were developed through the collective wisdom of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoology.ubc.ca\/~otto\/SIP2015\/background.html\" target=\"_blank\">75 leaders<\/a><\/span> \u2014 in science, indigenous knowledge, public policy, civil society, and governance.<\/p>\n<p>The project has also developed a backgrounder on the science-policy relationship in Canada as well as several examples of the principles in action in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceintegrity.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> by the\u00a0<em>Science Integrity Project<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>September 28<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science Integrity Project, which aims to make evidence-based decision-making a high priority for government at all levels, has released four principles for \u00a0improving policy decisions using the best available evidence. The principles were developed through the collective wisdom of 75 leaders \u2014 in science, indigenous knowledge, public policy, civil society, and governance. The project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[869,1445,476,2459],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-canada-en","tag-conservation","tag-public-health","tag-public-polity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-184","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}