Toronto Star: The existence of the real world should never have to become a partisan issue. Yet, the extreme ideologies that characterized the Harper government led to pervasive suppression of federal science and scientists for nearly a decade. Whether it was measuring contaminants in our streams and rivers, poisons in the air, or patterns of glacier melt, no fact was too small or technical to escape Orwellian scrutiny. Scientists, whether in public or on the phone, have been watched by communications staffers...