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Book Burnings in Canada
    #19372284 - 01/05/14 10:48 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Back in 2012, when Canada's Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first. But only an insignificant fraction of the archives got scanned, and much of it was simply sent to landfill or burned.

Unsurprisingly, given the Canadian Conservatives' war on the environment, the worst-faring archives were those that related to climate research. The legendary environmental research resources of the St. Andrews Biological Station in St. Andrews, New Brunswick are gone. The Freshwater Institute library in Winnipeg and the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland: gone. Both collections were world-class.

An irreplaceable, 50-volume collection of logs from HMS Challenger's 19th century expedition went to the landfill, taking with them the crucial observations of marine life, fish stocks and fisheries of the age. Update: a copy of these logs survives overseas.

The destruction of these publicly owned collections was undertaken in haste. No records were kept of what was thrown away, what was sold, and what was simply lost. Some of the books were burned.




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so can we start calling this fascism yet?


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #19372298 - 01/05/14 10:52 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

No no, you gotta wait till it personally impedes you. Otherwise it doesn't matter.


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #19372340 - 01/05/14 11:02 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

i thought books mattered...

one of my names is library man, guess my view is skewed


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #19372349 - 01/05/14 11:04 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

That's pretty ugly.


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #19372360 - 01/05/14 11:06 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Heh heh, I was being sarcastic shiva. This is terrible news for the environment, unfortunately most people's eyes glaze over when you start talking about anything that isn't centered around them.


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #19372396 - 01/05/14 11:15 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

i hope that insurrection is one of the flowers that blooms this spring


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #19372413 - 01/05/14 11:22 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm surprised whoever ran these locations allowed government officials to waltz off with the only hard copies of irreplaceable documents.


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: unam sanctum]
    #19372469 - 01/05/14 11:36 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I would rather have the hard copy book than a digitalization version on the google-book iPad.


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Re: Book Burnings in Canada [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #19372488 - 01/05/14 11:40 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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shivas.wisdom said:
so can we start calling this fascism yet?




:feelssadman: i hope this opens some eyes.


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