Today

Posted on Twitter .@_AMeta By continuing to measure what's being lost, communicate impacts to CDNs, advance clear alts & be more effective advocates. #cdnsci

Posted on Twitter .@BadAstronomer: "Focusing on corp-profiting sci may have some advs, but not at the cost of taking away basic sci." http://t.co/i5IlGMN8OE

Yesterday

Voted No on Vote #685 That the Ninth Report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status ...

Voted Yes on Vote #684 on Bill S-9 Amend the Criminal Code

Voted Yes on Vote #683 That, in light of $3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report ...

Voted Yes on Vote #682 That the motion be amended by adding the following: “and that in order to avoid losing funds in ...

Posted on Twitter Worried. We could lose 1000s of researchers if US starts attaching green cards to sci tech degrees. http://t.co/B0lShsm9pj #cdnpoli #cdnsci

Posted on Twitter American Assoc for Advancement of Science CEO writes in @TorontoStar on the shortsighted focus away frm basic science http://t.co/kdJg13dNYT

Posted on Twitter Further confirmation CPC just doesn't understand how scientific advancement works. @InklessPW on today's STIC report: http://t.co/N2IpqVaMO6

Posted on Twitter #NDP science policy "match % of GDP invested by public & private sectors in R&D (GERD) as found in other leading countries such US #cdnpoli

This week

Mentioned by Burnaby NewsLeader Pollsters need to figure out what went wrong: MP Stewart Watching the election results come in Tuesday night, Burnaby-Douglas MP Kennedy Stewart was less than impressed with the work of pollsters in the lead-up to voting day. Despite polling results that showed the NDP constantly leading, the BC Liberals ...

Two weeks ago

Voted Yes on Vote #681 on Bill S-213 Respecting a national day of remembrance to honour Canadian veterans of the Korean War

Spoke in the House on Science and Technology Mr. Speaker, we will vote against their budgets every single time they cut basic science, and we will keep doing it. I would like to remind ...

Three weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Petitions Mr. Speaker, I rise to present another petition today, one signed by hundreds of people from across Canada, regarding animal cruelty. Specifically, these constituents want to ...

Spoke in the House on National Defence Mr. Speaker, so to be clear, the government is not to blame for a government decision and quotes government bureaucrats to prove it. The Conservatives are ...

Spoke in the House on Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act Mr. Speaker, I would just like to say first that I will be splitting my time in debate. I will speak to Bill C-54, An Act ...

A month ago

Spoke in the House on Election of Committee Chairs Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight on the motion of the member for Saskatoon—Humboldt on reforming how the ...

Spoke in the House on Petitions Mr. Speaker, I rise to present three petitions, including one that asks the government to immediately prohibit a new oil pipeline from proceeding through Burnaby—Douglas, commonly ...

Spoke in the House on International Investment Mr. Speaker, the China-Canada foreign investment promotion and protection act is a badly negotiated agreement that binds Canadian law to Chinese law for the next 31 ...

Mentioned by Vancouver Sun Most Canadians back call for Commons to accept online petitions - Vancouver Sun A strange-bedfellow coalition of ordinary MPs fighting for greater democratic freedoms in Parliament say their cause is supported by a poll funded by Burnaby NDP MP Kennedy Stewart. The poll suggests an overwhelming majority of Canadians support ...

Spoke at the Industry committee on Committee Business —so it's a pleasure to share it with you. Many of the programs you mentioned, of course, are worth funding. In your opening statement you said ...

Spoke in the House on Science and Technology Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity tonight to speak to science and technology. There are two things on which I would like to ...

Mentioned by Vancouver Sun Poll: Most Canadians back call for Commons to accept online petitions OTTAWA — A strange-bedfellow coalition of ordinary MPs fighting for greater democratic freedoms in Parliament say their cause is supported by a poll funded by Burnaby NDP MP Kennedy Stewart. The poll suggests an overwhelming majority of Canadians ...

Two months ago

Mentioned by Burnaby NewsLeader MP Stewart's e-petitions bill to be debated in House Kennedy Stewart appears to be putting his political science background to good use in an effort to secure support across party lines for electronic petitions to Parliament. The New Democrat MP for Burnaby-Douglas has tabled a motion to allow the use of ...

Mentioned by Burnaby NewsLeader Chevron position on pipeline expansion has changed: Lord As reported in the NewsLeader, the change, from a neutral to a supportive stance, is significant because it's the reason cited by both Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan and Burnaby-Douglas New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart for why they are no longer ...

Mentioned by Coast Reporter A few questions for MP Weston A few questions for MP Weston. March 29, 2013. Editor: I have a few simple questions for our member of Parliament John Weston: why did you vote no to science and technology critic Kennedy Stewart's following motion? “That, in the opinion of the House, ...

Spoke at the Industry committee on Broadband and Internet Access Across Canada Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to all the witnesses for coming today and the great discussion here. Most of my comments will be aimed ...

Spoke at the Industry committee on Broadband and Internet Access Across Canada Okay. In Burnaby, where I'm from, we have a lot of tech companies, but I think of other tech companies around the world, and they think ...

Three months ago

Spoke at the Industry committee on Broadband and Internet Access Across Canada Okay. We often think about commuting reducing productivity, in that if you have to drive an hour to work, it takes that time out of the ...

Spoke at the Procedure and House Affairs committee on Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Alberta 2012 and Report ... That's right, and that's the only way those two municipalities connect. The objection to this merger of north Burnaby and North Vancouver is highlighted in the ...

Spoke at the Industry committee on Current State of Engineering in Canada I'm going to talk a little bit about recruiting foreign engineers to come in to fill gaps for companies. You're saying that the pool is drying ...

More than three months ago

Spoke at the Industry committee on Supplementary Estimates (B) 2012-2013: Votes 5b and 10b under ATLANTIC CANADA OPPORTUNITIES ... I'm asking specifically about written directions to the new director of the NRC and whether you could table those for us, because right now there's nothing ...

Spoke at the Industry committee on Intellectual Property Regime in Canada Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for coming today. It's my understanding that the envelope is changing, actually, on SR and ED ...

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