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     Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:19:02 -0400
     From: Dalla Lana School of Public Health Students' Association  
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  Subject: FW: Conservative Attack on SSHRC

FYI...

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 by the Conservatives on January 27, 2009
contains a 20% funding increase for this program, with a caveat 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?.

These measures are backward and insulting to the thousands of
Canadians that are students and researchers in the social sciences and
humanities.

There is a petition that you can sign here: http://nikiashton.ndp.ca/sshrc

You can also mail/email your MP on this matter. Their
contact info can be found here:
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC


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Public Health Students' Association (PHSA) 2008-2009
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
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