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Saturday was a cold windy day in Saskatoon, but that didn’t stop a group of around 50 people from gathering in Victoria Park for the second annual March for Science.

Participants in the march, which took place in cities across Canada and around the world, hope to promote the need for all levels of government to tackle policy making with a scientific and evidence based approach.

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Julia Boughner, one of the organizers of this year’s march in Saskatoon and an associate professor in the college of medicine, said the March for Science is an important step to help citizens get informed and involved in the policy making process.

“In general, I think that having an informed, scientifically literate population that can think critically is really important for citizens to ensure that policies are being made that are in their best interests and to be able to recognize when people are trying to pull one over (on them),” she explained.