The federal government’s Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) has sent out notice that is now accepting submissions as part of its annual Pre-Budget Consultation for Budget 2019.
Read More »Department of National Defence Budget Remains Flat at $20.38 Billion
The Department of National Defence budget for 2018-19 has been set at $20,377,579,955, slightly lower than the previous year.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Budget Continues Downward Spiral (Update)
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) today published its departmental plan for the current budget year 2018-19, and while it is slightly higher at $349 million than last years planned spending for this year, it is a continuation of a downward budgetary spiral.
Read More »Space: A Healthy Space Program Equals A Healthy Economy
As the Canadian government considers what do to about the future of Canada’s space program we thought it might be worth looking back a few years to the same question that was posed in the U.S. This interview by Eva-Jane Lark with Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses how space and the economy are interrelated. The interview first appeared in Space Quarterly Magazine in September 2012.
Read More »An In-depth Discussion with Space Advisory Board Chair Lucy Stojak
It’s been almost a year since the government unveiled its latest iteration of a Space Advisory Board and immediately its members were thrown into the lions den.
Read More »New Canadian Space Strategy Not Ready – Exclusive
There’s a reason Budget 2018 didn’t include any significant funding or major new programs the space community wanted. The government says “more work needs to be done” on developing a long-term strategy.
Read More »The Space Advisory Boards Emails Stakeholders That it Was “Very Disappointed with Budget 2018”
The Space Advisory Board has sent an email to stakeholders expressing their disappointed with Budget 2018 but says they will continue to “emphasize” the “need for urgent action to reverse the decline in Canada’s space capability” as they engage “with the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and his officials.”
Read More »Bill Nye Takes Not so Subtle Poke at Government Support of the Space Program
It was meant to be an armchair discussion with Bill Nye “The Science Guy” on budget investments in Canadian innovation, particularly science. However, while mainstream media picked up on the political query related to the Kinder Morgan pipeline program at the end of the session, what they didn’t pick up on was the not-so-subtle poke Nye made about the space program.
Read More »Budget 2018 Provides $3.2 Billion for Science, No Specific Funds for New Space Projects
Surprising most people, the government unveiled $21.5 billion in new spending, more than anticipated for Budget 2018. This includes and significantly, $3.2 billion for science funding and a total of $6.4 billion for what the chapter in the budget calls Progress.
Read More »The CSA to Fund CubeSats, Quantum Encryption and a Mars Orbiter Instrument
In the recently announced budget the government had announced $80.9 million in new funding for the Canadian Space Agency over five years. We now know a little more about the projects the funds will go to.
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