Friday, October 31, 2008

"Nature" endorses Obama

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7217/full/4551149a.html
Oct 31, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=beae4406-b427-4197-9c6f-27c1c915a3d7
Oct 31, 2008
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081030.wcabinetprentice31/BNStory/politics/home
Oct 31, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081031/leona_vault_081031/20081031?hub=Canada&s_name=
Oct 31, 2008
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=3b1e4d06-dd3f-4066-aebc-f3124c2e8a4d
Numbers spawning in five key indicator streams down 90 per cent
Oct 31, 2008
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=6d3af277-d143-4115-adf9-25a2825e342a
Oct 31, 2008
The Conference Board of Canada
MARKET WIRE
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Conference-Board-Canada-Good-Grade/story.aspx?guid=%7BCFEDBE9C-6368-4E18-82D1-C285D688629F%7D

MPP warns of farm sludge 'crisis'

Fears pellets used on fields cause health risks
Oct 31, 2008
Carola Vyhnak
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/527927
Oct 31, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/31/avandia-petition.html
Oct 31, 2008
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081031.wlmelamine31/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home
Researchers say climate models definitively prove the effect of CO2 emissions, but others still aren't convinced
Oct 31, 2008
ALISON AULD
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081031.wwarming31/BNStory/National/home
Oct 30, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=3c06fda4-47be-4898-a23d-3a96f89d961c
Oct 30, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081030/canada/canada_politics_environment_1
Oct 30, 2008
Jen Skerritt
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d6f6fdd7-2156-4b7a-a40b-eb386dc7047c
Oct 30, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgLy4d_vzOFwsZkc7OcPDzVYHXKA
Oct 30, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/30/west-nile.html
Oct 30, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/30/hospital-hygiene.html
Oct 30, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/30/syringes-lloydminster.html
Oct 30, 2008
Robin Pomeroy
Reuters
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081030/canada/canada_us_trade_asbestos_1
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Ottawa to revive supplement safety bill

Oct 30, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081030.wlvitamins30/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home
Oct 30, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/30/tech-clement.html
Oct 30, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/30/pe-tuna-report.html

Wind farm opponents turn up heat

Province wary of small but effective groups as it aims to beef up renewable energy plan
Oct 30, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/527170
Oct 30, 2008
The Conference Board of Canada
MARKET WIRE
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Canadas-Chronic-Failure-Innovate-Undermines/story.aspx?guid=%7B78613274-A0E5-4BEF-B701-22B4D888BFCA%7D
Nine senior agrologists protest way ALR decisions are made
Oct 30, 2008
Andrew MacLeod
TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/10/30/Agrology/
Oct 30, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081030/flu_drug_081030/20081030?hub=Health&s_name=
Oct 29, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/10/29/corporate-research.html?ref=rss

Tax exemption rules assailed

Oct 29, 2008
Peter Kovessy
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/292972116399688.php

Stop exporting asbestos

Oct 29, 2008
Aleck Ostry, Tom Kosatsky, Bruce W. Case
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/29/203785.aspx
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

FDA's finding that chemical in food containers is safe is flawed: panel

Oct 29, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/29/bpa-fda.html
Oct 29, 2008
MARIA BABBAGE
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.saultstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1270606
Oct 29, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/29/hospital-infections.html
Equivalent of 2 planets may be needed by mid-2030s to maintain lifestyles, WWF director says
Oct 29, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/29/livingplanet.html
Oct 29, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/29/methane-growth.html
Oct 29, 2008
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j4G6Sbw5pf1zYvg5Yh5pTIuNXqpAD944BAF00
Oct 29, 2008
DOROTHY SHAW AND JANE SCHALLER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081028.wcohpv29/BNStory/specialComment/home
Oct 29, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/29/hospitals-food-violations.html
Canadians must consider alternatives to status quo, think-tank says
Oct 29, 2008
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=91aaed79-6ad5-438d-b409-8c4e6b3be2e4
Oct 29, 2008
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=d354e0af-efc2-40d6-ada1-1a5ab4818232
Oct 29, 2008
Lorne Swetlikoff, N.D.
Special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/29/f-weekly-swetlikoff.html

Canadian health gets a 'B'

Oct 29, 2008
Mike Barber
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=f954cf48-5627-4e57-834a-8b67d94c1ca5
Oct 29, 2008
ROB TAYLOR Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081029.waustclimate1029/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081029.waustclimate1029
Oct 29, 2008
Tini Tran
The Associated Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081029/world/china_climate_change_1
Oct 28, 2008
Karen Selick
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=914091
Oct 28, 2008
Patrice Novotny
AFP
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=9141eddd-eb59-475e-94ee-f62c36c54dcc
Oct 28, 2008
Susan Heavey
Reuters
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081028/us/usreport_us_bayer_aspirin_1
Oct 28, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/28/e-coli-ont.html
Oct 28, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/28/heart-surgery-elderly.html
Oct 28, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/28/women-heart-trials.html
Oct 28, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/28/e-coli-vaccine.html
Death tally could exceed 20 but in many cases investigations to spot bacteria weren't done
Oct 28, 2008
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/525647
Oct 27, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/27/flu-shot-deaths.html
'Very low' risk of transmission, medical officer says
Oct 27, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/27/high-prairie.html
Oct 27, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/27/killers-who.html
Oct 27, 2008
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/BreakingNews/article/396640
Oct 27, 2008
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/story/4242552p-4885464c.html
http://www.thestar.com/article/525494
Toronto Star
Oct 28, 2008 04:32 AM
Monday, October 27, 2008

Biotech cash crunch threatens new medicines: UK expert

Oct 27, 2008
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=c6462c95-4722-452a-8bf8-b05f870223f5
After his Thatcher-era funding ran out, Phil Blake faced economic reality and switched to the private side of the health-care industry
Oct 27, 2008
GORDON PITTS
Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081027.RATTHETOP27/TPStory/Business
Oct 27, 2008
Shabnam Janet Janani
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/525011
Oct 27, 2008
Tiffany Crawford
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=44db7821-bc4a-4996-b052-1f3b22ac8c68
Oct 27, 2008
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081027/health/health_norovirus_drinking_water_1
Oct 27, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/27/emerg-hall.html
Oct 26, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081026.wasbestos1027/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081026.wasbestos1027
Oct 26, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/26/bc-thyphoid-fever-warning.html
Oct 26, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/26/nfld-incinerators.html

Protect pesticide bans — May

Oct 26, 2008
JOHN GILLIS
Chronicle Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1086897.html
Oct 26, 2008
Chinta Puxley
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081026/national/hazardous_public_housing_1
Oct 26, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081027/health/us_health_infection_mrsa_1
Oct 25, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081025/greenhouse_gases_081025/20081025
Oct 25, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/25/diarrhea-rotavirus.html
Friday, October 24, 2008

In Obama or McCain, US scientists see new hope

Oct 24, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081024/usa/us_vote_science_1
Oct 24, 2008
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=91fa1298-3bec-49f0-a04a-645210a8060f
Oct 24, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081024.wlcellphone24/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

EU's pesticides may damage brain

Oct 24, 2008
ALISTER DOYLE
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081024.weupestic1024/BNStory/Science/home
Oct 23, 2008
James Cowan
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=8f0f1d67-2007-45d0-bdf3-64d1399fbd50
Oct 23, 2008
Rob Linke
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/457198
Oct 23, 2008
Investment Executive
http://www.investmentexecutive.com/client/en/News/DetailNews.asp?id=46584&IdSection=148&cat=148&BImageCI=1
Oct 23, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/23/placebo-study.html
NDP Leader Calvert suggests the introduction of a levy is akin to a carbon tax
Oct 23, 2008
James Wood
TheStarPhoenix.com
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=8ce12a5c-b958-4797-9d02-e2477941fab0
Oct 23, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081023/canada/japan_climate_warming_2
Oct 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/23/bc-carbon-tax-credit.html
Oct 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/23/tech-fuelcells.html

Greening government

Oct 22, 2008
editorial
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/521535
Oct 23, 2008
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/23/kelly-mcparland-hopes-of-greenies-may-go-down-with-the-shift.aspx

IT Innovation: On the Skids

Technologists look to a new White House to reverse decade-long slide in R&D
Oct 22, 2008
Gary Anthes
Computerworld
http://pcworld.about.com/od/softwareservices/IT-Innovation-On-the-Skids.htm
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Universities carry a big R&D load, says AUCC report

Research share significantly higher than the average for other OECD countries
Oct 24, 2008
Léo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/2008/010/24/universities-carry-a-big-rd-load-says-aucc-report.aspx
Oct 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/23/research-spending.html
Oct 23, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=cd4a632b-a376-4d8e-8a86-7b3b217ff5c8
Oct 23, 2008
Mike Stobbe
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/523231

Boys need HPV vaccine, too

Nobel winner says males carry cancer-linked virus
Oct 23, 2008
Trish Crawford
Toronto Star
http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/article/522361
Oct 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/23/polaris-health.html
Oct 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/23/cancer-funding.html
The facilities will not cure drug abuse but they're integral to strategies for prevention and rehabilitation
Oct 23, 2008
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081023.wlpicard23/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home
Oct 22, 2008
Patrick Dare
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=9dbd37a4-c98d-4851-9035-339e325a9ca5
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Creationists declare war over the brain

Oct 22, 2008
Amanda Gefter
New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/brain/mg20026793.000-creationists-declare-war-over-the-brain.html
Oct 22, 2008
Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081022.wgategrant1022/BNStory/Science/home
The Center for Science in the Public interest pushes for healthier foods, but some object to its tactics
Oct 22, 2008
Joanne Chianello
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c1b3802d-d72a-42b5-ab34-0cc930b5040b

The new asbestos science scare

Oct 22, 2008
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=099f2d62-3f7e-4d58-a38c-9e9b85bb4834

The case for selling asbestos

Oct 22, 2008
National Post Editorial Board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/22/national-post-editorial-board-the-case-for-selling-asbestos.aspx
Oct 22, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/22/e-coli-north-bay.html
Oct 22, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hhtiUMKbrcnwELppaU5_9LNdfMew
Oct 22, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/22/britain-stem-cells.html
Oct 21, 2008
ELIZABETH HOWELL
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081021.wnasa22/BNStory/Science/home
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Province wants to charge manufacturers for recycling costs

Oct 21, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/10/21/blue-box.html?ref=rss
Oct 21, 2008
Allan Dowd
Reuters
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081021/canada/canada_us_climate_canada_lawsuit_1
Oct 21, 2008
Maria Babbage
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081021/national/ont_environment_report_2
Oct 21, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081021/laureate_hpv_081021/20081021?hub=World&s_name=
Oct 21, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081021/genome_fanatics_081021/20081021?hub=World&s_name=
Oct 21, 2008
Lee Greenberg
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=27ce9d34-d4e0-490f-ae88-743fa79fa059
Oct 21, 2008
Cassandra Kyle
The StarPhoenix
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=2b558ab4-e9c3-46f9-9fcf-14fcd42173bf&k=82919

Global warming doubters targeted

Oct 21, 2008
BILL KAUFMANN
SUN MEDIA
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2008/10/21/7151921-sun.html
Environment watchdog says non-profit groups documenting crisis of 'huge loss of species'
Oct 21, 2008
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/520933
Oct 21, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/20/diet-heart-attack.html
Oct 21, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/21/biologicals-warnings.html

Maple Leaf meat given the OK

Oct 21, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/521081
Oct 21, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/21/toxicjunk.html
Oct 21, 2008
The Canadian Press http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQrzTt8WthRAZap7ztBE7zdiCkhQ
Oct 20, 2008
Lorne Gunter
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirty-years-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
Polls show Montrealers want curbside pickup
Oct 20, 2008
The Gazette
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3395c24b-3bde-4f64-b7b2-30dd272baad2
Oct 20, 2008
Christian Spillmann
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=7bc33c3b-fc08-429d-a9ce-b1c97b5f3379

Selective listening

Oct 17, 2008
editorial
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081017.weinsite17/BNStory/specialComment/home
Monday, October 20, 2008

Medical journal blasts Ottawa for promoting asbestos abroad

Oct 20, 2008
Tiffany Crawford
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=6e41ed6a-1ef2-4bde-8299-23a039ce3806

PM unveils $100M for climate

Offers few details about fund to help developing countries deal with global warming issues
Oct 20, 2008
Andrew Chung
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/520292

Is Carbon Tax Political Poison?

Dion and Campbell might have just sold it badly: pollster
Oct 20, 2008
Tom Barrett
TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/10/20/CarbonTax/

Nuclear costs pressure industry

Oct 20, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/520190
Oct 20, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/20/schmidt-milk.html
Oct 19, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081019/canada/francophonie_summit_warming_environment_1
Cases linked to fast-food restaurant in North Bay
Oct 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/19/ecoli.html

Far from settled

No scientific consensus on 'safe-injection' issue
Oct 19, 2008
TOM BRODBECK
Winnipeg Sun
http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/10/19/7133531-sun.html
Oct 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/18/bc-naomi-trial-results.html
Ontario to meet stricter U.S. standard by 2010
Oct 19, 2008
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/520028
Oct 19, 2008
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=d9696fa0-f69c-428e-be0f-17e227dc789c&k=50746
Oct 19, 2008
Ottawa Sun
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/19102008/54/switch-hitters-push-energy-conservation.html
Oct 18, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/rss/article/452444
Oct 18, 2008
Laura Stone
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=aa7b5b57-91a4-4da7-a78c-c96a182e8879
Oct 18, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/17/bc-insite-federal-lawyers.html
Oct 18, 2008
Scott Stinson
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/18/scott-stinson-r-i-p-green-shift-a-noble-idea-badly-sold.aspx
Oct 17, 2008
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=711cd873-686e-417d-95b7-c2a8c7f57fc7
Oct 17, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=ff502dd3-adb4-45f3-ad59-99d3341c91a6
Outposts also expected in India, Latin America, Middle East
Oct 17, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/17/fda-china.html
Oct 16, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/16/flu-shot.html
Friday, October 17, 2008

Dion ignored Green Shift warnings

Oct 17, 2008
Linda Diebel
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/519051
Impact felt as weather in fall 5C above normal
Oct 17, 2008
Randolph E. Schmid
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/519023

Red tape halts $300M wind farm

Long wait for provincial approvals on project near Goderich proves too costly for Alberta firm
Oct 17, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/519024

93 E. coli cases in North Bay

Oct 17, 2008
Colin Perkel
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/519039
Seven-year report shows those very ill at the time face a 30 per cent higher risk of kidney damage
Oct 17, 2008
Noor Javed
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/519043
Oct 17, 2008
PETER HADEKEL
The Gazette
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=4509ce26-0cbb-4166-8c18-0ec26bb6b35d
Oct 16, 2008
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=e81a7270-aec9-48cb-aad3-b74df38feec0
Oct 16, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081016/health/environment_climate_warming_eu_kyoto_1
Oct 16, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081016/lead_standards_081016/20081016?hub=Health&s_name=
Oct 16, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081016/world/eu_summit_climate_warming_environment_2
Oct 16, 2008
Jonathan Lynn
Reuters
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081016/canada/canada_us_trade_wto_hormones_1
Oct 16, 2008
Melanie S. Welte
The Associated Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081016/health/health_flu_health_care_1

Not quite a green machine

Having set a new record for futility, it's time for the Green Party - and the green movement - to abandon some myths
Oct 15, 2008
ANDREW STEELE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081015.WSteele15/BNStory/politics
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Atlantic provinces embracing climate change agenda; APEC report

Oct 16, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081016/national/apec_going_green_1
Oct 15, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081015/delection/fedelxn_environment_2
Oct 15, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2008/10/15/nb-graham-carbon-tax.html?ref=rss
Oct 15, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/15/iucn-biodiversity.html
Oct 15, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/449715
Oct 15, 2008
Jennifer Graham
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/10/14/7085506-cp.html
Oct 15, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/10/15/stelmach-reaction.html?ref=rss
Oct 15, 2008
Chris Purdy
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081015/delection/fedelxn_bitumen_1
Oct 14, 2008
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081014.wunclimatechange14/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081014.wunclimatechange14
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Denying the data

Oct 15, 2008
editorial
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=06cf6cf8-c2dd-47c8-8458-cc67ddb2636e

Sun rises on new energy deal

Toronto becomes first North American city to buy solar power, and at no higher cost
Oct 15, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/517415
Oct 15, 2008
GARY MASON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081015.wElectionmason15/BNStory/politics/home

HPV vaccines well underway

Oct 15, 2008
Laura MacLean
Huntsville Forester
http://www.huntsvilleforester.com/article/119027
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Will global money meltdown tip the scales on clean energy development?

Small projects may be hit particularly hard as discriminating lenders put cash in bigger ventures considered less risky
Oct 14, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/516694
Oct 14, 2008
William Pentland
Forbes
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/07/f-forbes-naturalgas.html
Oct 13, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFCFRqwyoinvqVWPxoxEJ-WhX79Q
Oct 13, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/516431
Oct 7, 2008
Gina Doggett
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=db3f16ba-6c77-4ebd-9739-3577f4d8248d
Friday, October 10, 2008

Transfer of Federal Labs: A Blueprint for Dismantling Public Science

Communications Magazine > Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer 2008
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
http://www.canadians.org/integratethis/safety/2008/Sep-1.html
Over the last two years, Conservatives took away or redirected $21 million from HIV/AIDS response
Oct 10, 2008
Tanya Talaga
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/515203
Oct 9, 2008
Agence France-Presse
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=55f77282-3748-44b8-ae54-584163ae0f54
Oct 10, 2008
Stephen Hume
Vancouver Sun
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=63c28ddf-3f8a-4cfa-85b2-08ba943fe8d4&k=38192
Oct 9, 2008
JANE TABER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081009.welxndion1009/BNStory/politics/home
Oct 9, 2008
WENDY STUECK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081009.wb-insite10/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081009.wb-insite10
Oct 9, 2008
CBC News
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/081009/canada/science_strepa_tbay_7
Listeria is in all ready-to-eat foods, he says
Oct 9, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.thespec.com/News/article/448077
Oct 9, 2008
Deborah Zabarenko
Reuters
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081009/us/politics_us_summit_usa_1
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Canadian researchers call for end to 'politicization' of science

Oct 9, 2008
Paul Jay
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/09/scientists-letter.html
Oct 9, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/09/leakey-science.html
Two-thirds of Toronto hospitals and nursing homes were affected
Oct 9, 2008
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/447611
Oct 9, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/10/09/listeriosis-tests.html?ref=rss
Toronto public health officials pressed food inspection agency to alert public
Oct 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/10/08/mapleleaf-warning.html?ref=rss
Oct 9, 2008
JENNIFER DUNVILLE
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/rss/article/442157
Oct 9, 2008
Darcy Wintonyk
CTV News
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081008/BC_whale_lawsuit_081008/20081009?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
Prominent Canadian scientists call for end to politicization of science and research
Oct 9, 2008
MarketWatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/canadians-health-safety-undermined-government/story.aspx?guid=%7BE3CF392A-B726-4865-8806-976FD61AA20B%7D&dist=hppr
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Secret RCMP studies of Insite ideologically biased, say advocates

Oct 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/10/08/bc-rcmp-insite-studies-pivot.html?ref=rss
Oct 7, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/07/easter-reaction.html?ref=rss
Oct 8, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081008/bc_democrats_081008/20081008?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
Oct 8, 2008
Jennifer Campbell
Ottawa Citizen Special
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=1bc4db62-a0d8-4b56-91bd-868328919958&p=1
Party releases platform less than a week before Election Day
Oct 7, 2008
Tonda MacCharles
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/513183
Oct 7, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/07/cancer-brufsky.html?ref=rss
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Read election letter from top scientists

Oct 7, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/content/view/418/1/
Oct 7, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/20081006/election2008_environment_081007/20081007?s_name=election2008&no_ads=
Other factors may raise infection risk, non-hospital cases in Quebec suggest
Oct 7, 2008
Sheryl Ubelacker
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/512935

Study links smog, appendicitis

Researchers in Calgary examined 5,000 patients
Oct 7, 2008
Bill Graveland
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/512759
Oct 6, 2008
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081006.wbcelectiondion1007/BNStory/politics/home
Oct 6, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/06/vote-environment.html
Monday, October 6, 2008

Where They Stand: Climate change

Oct 6, 2008
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081006.welectioncarbon0610/BNStory/politics/?pageRequested=all

Putting humans in their place

Oct 6, 2008
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Special to LondonTopic.ca
http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=11128
Meat plants not required to tell food inspectors when bacteria found
Oct 6, 2008
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/512306
Oct 6, 2008
David McKie
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/05/listeria-inspections.html?ref=rss
Canada needs to reverse growing gap between rich and poor, advocates urge
Oct 6, 2008
David Hogben
Vancouver Sun
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=6d524558-f748-4194-8b01-7b2c9aec499c&k=61857
Oct 5, 2008
CTV News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080928/windmill_safety_080928/20081005?hub=Canada&s_name=
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Pandering to populism: farewell to reason in public discourse

A recent trend gives 'ordinary people' the same credibility as those 'snobby, elitist' scientists
Oct 4, 2008
Peter McKnight
Vancouver Sun
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=18c170c6-ce94-4369-b43a-e062ae73b453
Oct 4, 2008
Rod Charlton
The Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1233383
Oct 4, 2008
Andrea Janus
CTV News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081002/flu_season_081004/20081004?hub=TopStories&s_name=
Oct 2, 2008
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=5369d10c-e760-4f53-a9b4-672ce1a0214b
Oct 2, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/10/02/ot-health-board-081002.html?ref=rss
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Canada's PM on hotseat in debate over climate change

Oct 2, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081002/canada/canada_vote_debate_environment_2
Oct 2, 2008
Canadaeast News Service
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/434437
Oct 1, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081001/usa/us_vote_republicans_palin_climate_1
Sep 30, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/09/30/implants-suit.html?ref=rss
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Science And Technology: Central To Canada's Success

The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Oct 2008 issue
http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=October&artYear=2008&EntryNo=8877
Sep 30, 2008
Jodie Sinnema
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=f2506048-04ab-483b-812d-18514ee1e436&k=45046
Sep 30, 2008
Mike Blanchfield
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/decisioncanada/story.html?id=7795b7b3-fcae-4d67-a3df-9df372113b17