A difference of opinion between a Harvard University professor and the Newfoundland and Labrador government is being pushed to the top ranks of the Ivy league university. Dr. Elsie Sunderland has denied, through university officials, that she agreed to do further research for the Newfoundland and Labrador government. "That's not the sort of work that professor Sunderland does or would do," Paul Karoff, assistant dean of communications, told CBC News earlier this week. A budget prepared by Harvard officials was subsequently submitted associated with this proposed sampling," Trimper wrote in his letter. Trimper says Harvard and Sunderland's lab have already done research on mercury levels in Labrador, and the results are now being used to fuel the protests.

Source: CBC News October 22, 2016 15:56 UTC