Originally planned to be released with fanfare and a cross-country tour, a Health Canada report on climate change will instead be quietly ‘made available’ to Canadians who request copies. At a July 3 conference, scientists who worked on Human Health in a Changing Climate learned long-delayed launch plans had been scrubbed. Instead, on July 31 Health Canada quietly announced hard copies of the report could be ordered by emailing or phoning Health Canada. Health Canada spokesperson Paul Spendlove later told the media the ground-breaking research document itself was “too big” to post on the government’s website.     

Meanwhile, Milan Ilnyckyj, an Oxford scholar living in Ottawa, experienced no such difficulty posting the scientific report to his blog, A Sibilant Intake of Breath. He has broken it into downloadable chapters, as well posted the full 500-page document as a single file, at this link. A handful of others around the country have done the same, while various alternative media outlets have begun spreading the word that the report is now available on the web, thanks to some alert and resourceful citizens.

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