{"id":4141,"date":"2015-08-29T02:51:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T06:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/2015\/08\/29\/a-scientist-with-environment-canada-has-been-put-on-administrative-leave-with-pay-pending-an-investigation-for-creating-a-politically-charged-protest-song-about-ousting-conservative-leader-stephen-har\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:19:41","slug":"federal-scientist-put-on-leave-over-harperman-protest-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=4141","title":{"rendered":"Federal scientist put on leave over Harperman protest song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Google+ reshared post<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A scientist with Environment Canada has been put on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation for creating a politically charged protest song about ousting Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Turner, a physical scientist at Environment Canada and longtime singer-songwriter in Ottawa&#8217;s folk music scene, wrote the controversial tune Harperman. Turner was sent home in mid-August, according to his union, over concerns that his song breached Environment Canada&#8217;s value and ethics code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/harperman-tony-turner-scientist-investigation-1.3207390\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal scientist put on leave over Harperman protest song<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harperman, a Protest Song\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ei50lM6ab1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Import\u00e9 de <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104239776541827516598\/posts\/CyCwJ2NpQAC\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google+ reshared post A scientist with Environment Canada has been put on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation for creating a politically charged protest song about ousting Conservative Leader Stephen Harper. Tony Turner, a physical scientist at Environment Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=4141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}