Wednesday, December 23, 2009

What’s up for the year ahead?

Dec 23, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/whats-up-for-the-year-ahead/
Female graduates still encounter obstacles to their professional advancement, especially if they have children
Dec 22, 2009
Sarah Wolfe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/how-to-keep-women-on-the-career-ladder/article1409380/
Dec 19, 2009
Kristine Owram
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iHvT1yVCYtrGU4BV5V0xqNonxtMw
Dec 18, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/2009/12/18/clement-nrc-magna-partnership.html

Disputes over Nobel time-honoured

Among laureates, Canadian is not alone in having his achievement questioned
Dec 23, 2009
LES PERREAUX
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/disputes-over-nobel-time-honoured/article1409813/
Dec 22, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/22/tech-boyle-nobel.html
Dec 23, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/23/drinking-water-pharmaceuticals.html
Dec 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/23/pneumonia-traffic-pollution.html
Canada 'missed' chance to lead in the fight against a global threat
Dec 23, 2009
Robert Benzie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/742215--ottawa-wasted-climate-talks-mcguinty-says
Dec 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/23/tech-climate-habitat-shift.html
Dec 23, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/742119--honest-criticism-or-act-of-betrayal

Drug research and policy is vital

Dec 23, 2009
Russell Williams
Burnaby Now
http://www2.canada.com/burnabynow/news/community/story.html?id=70f3b642-3378-4c18-bcfb-fa2278cc0b4f
Probe looks at why Darlington workers were filling wrong tank
Dec 23, 2009
Tyler Hamilton & Jesse McLean
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/742225--nuclear-plant-spills-tritium-into-lake
Dec 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/22/trans-fats.html

A yo-yo diet of nutritional news

Peanuts were down but vegetarianism was up – along with the BMI of many Canadians
Dec 23, 2009
Leslie Beck
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/a-yo-yo-diet-of-nutritional-news/article1409441/

Problems in AECL sale

Dec 22, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/741635--problems-in-aecl-sale

AECL wins 1st Japan contract

Dec 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/22/aecl-japan-contract.html
Dec 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/22/acrylamide-junk-food-additive.html
Dec 22, 2009
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/741811--do-you-want-anti-cancer-drug-in-junk-food
French Fries, Chips
Dec 22, 2009
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2368755

Advance of the killer fish

Dec 22, 2009
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/22/advance-of-the-killer-fish.aspx
Dec 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/22/electric-cars.html

Deconstructing Alberta's spin

Dec 22, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/741634--deconstructing-alberta-s-spin
Dec 22, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Canadians+cool+Harper+climate+change+stand/2371025/story.html
Dec 22, 2009
Gillian Steward
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/741655
Dec 22, 2009
Adrian MacNair
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/22/adrian-macnair-gordon-cambpell-green-scofflaw.aspx
Dec 22, 2009
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/22/moses-green-s-ten-commandments.aspx
New research underscores that diabetes is increasingly a disease of poverty in Canada
Dec 21, 2009
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/diabetes-death-rate-drops-more-so-among-high-income-earners/article1408115/

Worry-free feasting

It’s a chemical world: Christmas dinner exposes us to harmless doses of Mother Nature’s finest carcinogens
Dec 21, 2009
Rolf Penner
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/21/rolf-penner-worry-free-feasting.aspx
Women in certain professions face a high risk of having children with physical problems, research shows
Dec 21, 2009
Beatrice Fantoni
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/study-suggests-link-between-occupation-and-birth-defects/article1408244/
Dec 21, 2009
Helen Branswell
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/swineflu/article/741542--experts-say-h1n1-could-have-a-silver-lining-if-it-knocks-out-other-viruses
A diluted congressional bill will suit the Harper government just fine
Dec 21, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/canada-has-long-shadowed-the-us-on-climate-change/article1408023/

Obama's phony climate victory

If the Copenhagen farce proves to be a step toward global ruin, blame the President and his big-power politics
Dec 21, 2009
Jeffrey Sachs
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/obamas-phony-climate-victory/article1408090/
Dec 21, 2009
Don Martin
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/21/don-martin-frosty-provincal-relations-new-climate-crisis.aspx
Support on climate deal essential, Jim Prentice says
Dec 21, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/741317--provinces-urged-to-back-copenhagen-climate-pact
Dec 21, 2009
Stephen Gordon
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/21/stephen-gordon-we-are-all-albertans-on-climate-change.aspx
Dec 21, 2009
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/21/km-the-deal-in-ebnmark.aspx
There's trouble over tree rings as the Climategate emails reveal a rift between scientists
Dec 21, 2009
Terence Corcoran
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/21/terence-corcoran-a-2-000-page-epic-of-science-and-skepticism-part-2.aspx

Is milk good for your kids?

Milk has had a favoured spot in Canada's food guide and in kids' lunches for many years, but new studies have some experts asking if dairy products are really necessary - or even safe
Dec 21, 2009
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/is-milk-good-for-your-kids/article1407183/
Dec 21, 2009
Gwyn Morgan
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/copenhagens-actors-and-the-winners-are/article1407211/
Dec 20, 2009
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/20/climategate-what-s-the-quot-trick-quot-and-what-did-it-quot-hide-quot.aspx

The work must continue

Dec 19, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-work-must-continue/article1406389/
The accord delivered by the Copenhagen climate talks is hardly far-reaching
Dec 19, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15124802

Planetary birth control gone mad

Adopting China's one-child policy won't save the Earth
Dec 18, 2009
Lysiane Gagnon
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/planetary-birth-control-gone-mad/article1406093/
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Protecting universities from the cuts to come

Dec 15, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/protecting-universities-from-the-cuts-to-come
Dec 17, 2009
Don Pittis
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/12/17/f-vp-pittis-canadian-green-innovation-environment.html
Dec 11, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Scrounging+vital+cash+slows+search+knowledge/2330400/story.html

Long live social science

Gender imbalance persists and social science continues to dominate, says Stats Can
Dec 16, 2009
Carson Jerema
Macleans
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2009/12/16/long-live-social-science/
Dec 18, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2009/18/c4518.html
Dalhousie gets international recognition for new sustainability program
Dec 18, 2009
Erin Millar and Ben Coli
Macleans
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2009/12/18/the-new-liberal-education-sustainability/
Dec 19, 2009
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/Research+reactor+will+allow+reach+potential/2362109/story.html
In addition to budget cuts, Daniel Woolf believes the school has to focus its academic direction
Dec 13, 2009
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/queens-principal-to-do-less-with-less/article1399045/

Canada's booming asbestos market

The cancer-causing mineral is prized in India, even as it is reviled here. Jennifer Wells investigates the demand for a product we shun – but still mine
Dec 20, 2009
Jennifer Wells
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/india/article/741085--canada-s-booming-asbestos-market?bn=1
Dec 20, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/741087--climate-accord-works-for-jim-prentice

Turning up the heat on business

Doing nothing to secure the future of the planet actually costs more than ignoring the solutions
Dec 20, 2009
David Olive
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/741042--olive-turning-up-the-heat-on-business

Copenhagen deal leaves work to do

Dec 20, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/741048--copenhagen-deal-leaves-work-to-do
Key nations led by Barack Obama forge last-minute accord but fail to set deadline to make it legally binding
Dec 19, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/740932--climate-deal-hailed-but-hard-choices-left
The president, who spent Friday brokering the pact, calls it a small step; critics judge it more harshly
Dec 19, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/740936--barack-obama-climate-progress-is-not-enough
Dec 19, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/740934--summit-a-public-relations-flop-for-canada

New steps at summit

Dec 19, 2009
Diane Francis
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=61135da9-4b03-4c36-8eae-da0abe0db135
Is facing critics at home preferable to being an international target?
Dec 19, 2009
Graham Thomson
Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/energy-resources/premier+didn+Copenhagen/2362469/story.html

Copenhagen anti-climax

Dec 19, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2361853
Dec 19, 2009
Catherine Farley
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/article/740882--something-s-rotten-under-the-arctic-cap

Wikipedia’s climate doctor

How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
Dec 19, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/19/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx
Dec 19, 2009
Terence Corcoran
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=78aa4157-da68-4596-859a-a7e49a6207ae
Colourless, odourless radon can seep into basements and cause lung cancer
Dec 18, 2009
Hanneke Brooymans
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Lung+association+urges+action+over+radioactive/2355925/story.html
Dec 18, 2009
Steve Thoms
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/18/steve-thoms-how-to-cure-asthma-by-sitting-in-a-warmish-box.aspx
Proposals from expert panel, nuclear facility's employees go unanswered by Ottawa as it rolls out plan to sell reactor division
Dec 18, 2009
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ottawas-sale-clouds-the-future-of-chalk-river/article1404808/

H1N1 deaths top 10,000: WHO

Dec 18, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/18/h1n1-who.html
An environmental group releases e-mails in which British Columbia MP Colin Mayes says “a few scientists” believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming
Dec 18, 2009
Jill Mahoney
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/conservative-mp-dismisses-human-role-in-climate-change/article1405228/
A promise to achieve a goal by 2050 is scarcely worth the paper it is written on
Dec 18, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/at-copenhagen-they-avoided-the-worst-but-did-not-achieve-the-best/article1406081/
The great conference seems to have whistled by the challenge of the East Anglia e-mails
Dec 18, 2009
Rex Murphy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/through-copenhagens-looking-glass/article1406080/
Delays in climate-change regulations, intended to match U.S. policy, are expected to add to cost and logistical effort
Dec 18, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/canadas-strategy-promise-now-implement-later/article1406232/
Dec 18, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/18/copenhagen-last-day.html
Working version of climate change deal calls for 50 per cent cut in 1990 emissions by 2050, but key details will have to be left to later negotiations
Dec 18, 2009
Eric Reguly and Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/draft-of-copenhagen-deal-has-broad-targets-sparse-details/article1404932/
Still no sign of a deal that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and more than 100 other world leaders are supposed to sign within hours
Dec 18, 2009
Michael Casey and Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/climate-talks-in-disarray-as-leaders-gather-at-copenhagen-summit/article1404901/
Dec 18, 2009
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/Nuclear+power+must+Sask+options/2354874/story.html
Ad campaign touts Alberta's green efforts
Dec 18, 2009
Jason Fekete
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Stelmach+fires+back+Ontario+Quebec/2355208/story.html
Dec 18, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2009/12/18/climate-canada-award.html
Dec 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/17/ott-radon-removal.html
Dec 17, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/17/h1n1-who.html
Dec 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/17/marijuana-teen-brain-rats.html

Candu reactor division to be sold

Dec 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/17/candu-reactor.html
Natural Resources minister confirms government is inviting investors to submit bids, move won't affect Chalk River facility
Dec 17, 2009
Bill Curry
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-putting-candu-reactor-division-up-for-sale/article1403759/
Dec 17, 2009
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/Government+invites+investor+bids+CANDU/2351771/story.html
The Globe's Michael Valpy takes lays out the underlying moral issues at hand as Copenhagen draws to an end
Dec 17, 2009
Michael Valpy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/copenhagen-and-the-ethics-of-climate-change/article1404694/
Everyone agrees on the need to save trees, but the details are still tricky
Dec 17, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15129518
Better news is coming out of Copenhagen as world leaders prepare for the climate change summit's last day. No thanks, unfortunately, to Canada
Dec 17, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/us-initiative-canadian-passivity/article1404727/

Harper lies low in Copenhagen

With Canada staking out unpopular ground, PM opts not to address plenary session during his first day at UN climate-change summit
Dec 17, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-lies-low-in-copenhagen/article1404101/
U.S. Secretary of State warns U.S. will back down on financing pledge unless China, others commit to transparency in reporting greenhouse gas emissions
Dec 17, 2009
Eric Reguly
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/clinton-warns-of-deal-breaker-on-100-billion-climate-pact/article1403560/
Harper leaves it to his Environment Minister to present plenary session with little in the way of specifics or commitments
Dec 17, 2009
Shawn McCarthy and Eric Reguly
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/prentice-delivers-canadas-unpopular-position/article1404676/
Dec 17, 2009
Sylvain Charlebois
Special to The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/Climate+action+Canada+farms+part+solution/2350104/story.html
Dec 17, 2009
Michael Scott
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/739863

The debate over wind

Dec 17, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/739843--the-debate-over-wind
Dec 17, 2009
Jonathon Narvey
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/17/jonathon-narvey-save-the-panet-end-climate-summits.aspx

The Copenhagen PR scam

Dec 17, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2349715

This is no way to run a planet

The leaders in Copenhagen will reach some agreement. Politically, they have to
Dec 17, 2009
William Watson
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/17/william-watson-this-is-no-way-to-run-a-planet.aspx
Dec 17, 2009
Archie McLean
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/world/Shale+forces+Stelmach+shift+royalties/2353717/story.html
Critics insist turbines can have 'devastating impacts'
Dec 16, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/16/chatham-wind-turbine-study-091216.html
Dec 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/16/tech-space-planet-red-star.html

Canada's a joke at climate talks

Dec 16, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/739272--canada-s-a-joke-at-climate-talks

Canada should lead climate fight

Dec 16, 2009
John Whalley
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/16/canada-should-lead-climate-fight.aspx
Canadian companies seek exemptions similar to what Washington is giving to U.S. coal
Dec 16, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/oil-sands-pushing-for-regulatory-relief/article1403249/
Danielle Smith is not entirely convinced there's a climate-change problem. And that will make the many skeptics in her province happy
Dec 16, 2009
Gary Mason
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/albertas-wildrose-leader-is-no-shrinking-violet/article1403149/
Dec 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/15/h1n1-canada.html
'Let's not claim success too soon,' advocacy group head says
Dec 15, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/15/malaria-who.html
Dec 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/15/sars-mental-health.html
Dec 15, 2009
Jennifer Sygo
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theappetizer/archive/2009/12/15/on-nutrition-what-canadians-need-from-their-food-labels.aspx

Wind gets clean bill of health

Turbines do not make people sick, industry-funded study of impacts concludes
Dec 15, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/738734--wind-gets-clean-bill-of-health
Dec 15, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Wind+farms+annoying+harmful+Report/2344246/story.html

The Burden of “Proof”

If you want absolute certainty on the causes of climate change, you're going to be waiting for a very, very long time
Dec 15, 2009
Rob Thacker
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/758-the-burden-of-proof
Doesn't Canada's government even want to take part in the debate?
Dec 15, 2009
Peter Robinson and Marlo Raynolds
Special to Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/oh-for-an-open-conversation-about-climate-change/article1401446/
Dec 15, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2340657
Dec 15, 2009
Father Raymond J. de Souza
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2340660
Dec 15, 2009
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/15/the-easy-way-to-fight-global-warming-too-easy.aspx

Canada’s Galileo government

The Copenhagen agreement will increase bureaucracy and Swiss bank accounts without helping the planet
Dec 15, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/15/peter-foster-canada-s-galileo-government.aspx
Dec 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/14/bc-nissan-leaf-electric-car.html
Toronto hospital foundation will pay for screening after study finds female Jews at increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer, but many don't qualify for genetic testing
Dec 14, 2009
Lisa Priest
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/jewish-women-in-ontario-offered-free-genetic-test-to-prevent-cancer/article1399826/
Protesters back doctors who threaten to quit region
Dec 14, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/14/quebec-uranium-cp.html
Dec 14, 2009
JOHN TIERNEY
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/science/15tier.html?_r=3&n=Top%2fNews%2fScience%2fColumns%2fFindings
Dec 14, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hOavBcwR8GDRKSF35tMpoirv0XKw
Canada needs its own made-in-Canada policy, and it shouldn't follow the U.S., says former Grit environment minister David Anderson
Dec 14, 2009
HARRIS MACLEOD
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/climateleg-12-14-2009
PMO spokesman criticizes 'childish pranks'
Dec 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/14/hoax-copenhagen-climate.html
Two biggest provinces don't want to shoulder environmental burden for the sake of oil sands
Dec 14, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/738400--ontario-and-quebec-fear-chill-over-climate-pact

Ontario, Quebec Attack Oil Sands

We won't carry extra emission burden, provinces say
Dec 14, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2337734
Dec 14, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2340101
Dec 14, 2009
AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hSYkualJNtYtIWZxw6QpGfhLhjUA
Global warming is still fact, but a bumbling response helped deniers cloud the public's understanding
Dec 14, 2009
Colleen Kimmett
TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/12/14/Climategate/
In the real world beyond Copenhagen, it’s internal bickering over emissions that’s the deal-breaker
Dec 14, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-political-hurdles-of-climate-change/article1400140/
Voters are the only group whose opinion really matters to the Tories
Dec 14, 2009
Michael Adams and Keith Neuman
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/assertive-action-on-climate-change-isnt-yet-a-bread-and-butter-issue/article1400167/
Dec 14, 2009
Matthew Johnston
Western Standard.ca
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2009/12/73-of-canadians-want-global-warming-policy-delay-for-economic-reasons-or-doubts-over-scientific-cert.html
Dec 14, 2009
Don Martin
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/don-martin-canada-s-worst-enemy-at-copenhagen-is-itself.aspx

A cleaner grid

Dec 14, 2009
Derek H. Burney
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/derek-h-burney-a-cleaner-grid.aspx
Dec 14, 2009
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/kelly-mcparland-the-nigerian-solution-for-climate-change.aspx
Dec 14, 2009
Stephen Gordon
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/stephen-gordon-listen-to-jack-mintz-not-david-suzuki.aspx
Dec 14, 2009
John Moore
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/john-moore-why-i-don-t-care-about-global-warming.aspx
Dec 14, 2009
Jonathan Abrams
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/jonathan-abrams-on-climate-change.aspx
Dec 12, 2009
Andrew Leach
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/Canada+needs+level+playing+field/2333894/story.html

A dose of skepticism is healthy

I'm perfectly willing to trust the climate experts. But isn't doubt an integral part of serious research?
Dec 11, 2009
Lysiane Gagnon
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-dose-of-skepticism-is-healthy/article1397938/

Climate science under attack

Dec 11, 2009
Andrew Weaver
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Climate+science+under+attack/2331806/story.html
Dec 14, 2009
Boreal Songbird Initiative & International Boreal Conservation Campaign
http://www.borealbirds.org/resources/letter-boreal-leaders.pdf
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Scientists protest appointment of Pfizer boss to health panel

Dec 7, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Scientists+protest+appointment+Pfizer+boss+health+panel/2313837/story.html
Dec 8, 2009
Mia Rabson
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/mps-reject-bid-to-quash-drug-council-appointment-78751902.html

Educating Canada

When it comes to undergraduate education, we can do better
Dec 10, 2009
Robert Campbell, Michael Goldbloom, Ray Ivany and Sean Riley
Special to Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/educating-canada/article1396050/
Dec 10, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/finance-committee-tables-pre-budget-report/

PSE report roundup

Dec 8, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/pse-report-roundup/
Dec 10, 2009
Pat Hewitt
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hmNO0ttshArDyxomADiUco89ueCQ
Most schools are concerned about funding from provincial grants
Dec 7, 2009
Rosanna Tamburri
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/endowment-levels-improve.aspx
Willard Boyle, whose work in optics revolutionized photography, receives the Nobel Prize in Physics Thursday
Dec 10, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/canadian-scientist-receives-nobel-prize/article1395843/
Dec 10, 2009
Steve Lambert
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/78994732.html
Dec 9, 2009
Jeremy Torobin
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/clement-unveils-funds-for-high-tech-firms/article1393700/
Dec 8, 2009
Roberto Rocha
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/letters/Canadian+investment+fund+help+tech+startups/2318079/story.html

Still following the U.S. lead

Canada's intention to 'harmonize' with Washington's climate policies carries risks that should be debated
Dec 13, 2009
Tyson Dyck
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/737867
As major consumer of Canadian energy, Martin says Americans share responsibility
Dec 13, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/738198--u-s-bears-oilsands-burden-ex-pm-says
Dec 13, 2009
Krista Armstrong
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iorpGzNfTblX1Rz-J0xXteGJWq6g

Canada balks at climate plan

Proposed agreement unbalanced and needs 'considerable work,' Ottawa negotiator says
Dec 12, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/737939--canada-balks-at-climate-plan

A media gone carbon-cuckoo

Dec 12, 2009
Robert Fulford
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/12/robert-fulford-a-media-gone-carbon-cuckoo.aspx

The gas of life

Western carbon dioxide emissions increase plant yields in the Third World. So why are they asking for reparations?
Dec 12, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/12/lawrence-solomon-the-gas-of-life.aspx
Dec 11, 2009
James Wood
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/health/Province+awaits+decision+about+research+isotope+reactor/2328109/story.html

H1N1 moving eastward, WHO says

Dec 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/11/h1n1-who.html
Dec 11, 2009
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/More+successes+than+failures+Canada+H1N1+preparedness/2329013/story.html
Poor countries want deal to continue, but U.S. – and Canada – take a different view
Dec 11, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/737532--battle-brewing-over-future-of-kyoto
Dec 11, 2009
Arthur Max
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/737708--u-s-china-clash-at-climate-talks
Dec 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/11/eu-brown-sarkozy-fund.html
Dec 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/11/copenhagen-climate-draft.html
Real issue is 'harassment of climate scientists,' prof says
Dec 11, 2009
Petti Fong
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/737517--campus-break-ins-target-leading-researcher

With willing provinces

Dec 11, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/with-willing-provinces/article1396628/
Dec 11, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/737408--climate-change-policy-in-the-dark
Minister strikes back at Canada's green critics
Dec 11, 2009
John Ivison
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=2449aa65-c921-43f9-be59-073b12f5e12f

The Goracle speaks on Climategate

The emails, far from being meaningless or out of context, show alteration of data and attempts to rig the peer review process
Dec 11, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/11/peter-foster-the-goracle-speaks-on-climategate.aspx
Hospital stays longer for infection reaction therapy than other conditions, CIHI says
Dec 10, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/10/sepsis-hospitals-patient-safety.html
Dec 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/10/tech-climate-uk-scientists.html
Dec 10, 2009
Richard Ingham
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Climate+change+Plan+awaits+diplomacy+fails/2325525/story.html
Dec 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/10/climate-copenhagen-soros.html
Dec 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/10/copenhagen-north-exemption.html
Dec 10, 2009
Bob Weber
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/78998567.html
Dec 10, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Canada+mocked+praised+Copenhagen/2326208/story.html

How to break the climate impasse

If Copenhagen is our last chance for a deal, let's try creative diplomacy
Dec 10, 2009
Fen Osler Hampson and William Zartman
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/how-to-break-the-climate-impasse/article1396354/
Start with big oil companies, and the money and connections flow
Dec 10, 2009
Donald Gutstein
The Tyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/12/10/ClimateDeniers/

Our costly climate plan

Attacking the energy industry is bad news for all of Canada, but especially Alberta and Saskatchewn
Dec 10, 2009
Jack Mintz
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/10/jack-mintz-our-costly-climate-plan.aspx
Dec 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/08/bc-alcohol-consumption-study.html
Change in ocean conditions in 2007 likely behind mass death of stocks
Dec 9, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/09/bc-scientists-sockeye-climate-change.html
Dec 9, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/08/lancaster-sound-study.html
Several Liberal senators skip vote; bill passes as is
Dec 9, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Senate+passes+consumer+product+safety+bill/2322328/story.html
Dec 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/09/ns-dalhousie-nuclear-reactor.html
Development adds to coastline problems
Dec 9, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/10/ns-coastal-report.html
'We will not sign an inequitable deal'
Dec 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/09/climate-developing-nations.html

Rethinking Green: Fuel for debate

The conclusion of Kevin Libin’s five-part Rethinking Green series, which looks at unexpected ways to help the environment
Dec 9, 2009
Kevin Libin
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/copenhagen/story.html?id=2322878

Blunt instrument on CO(2)

Dec 9, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/blunt-instrument-on-co2/article1393675/
Dec 9, 2009
LYN COCKBURN
Edmonton Sun
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/columnists/lyn_cockburn/2009/12/09/12089316-sun.html
Dec 9, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/prominent+Canadians+advise+Canada/2322670/story.html
It's no surprise that accusations of ‘carbon colonialism' are filling the air in Denmark
Dec 9, 2009
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/copenhagen-climate-rage-whos-the-villain/article1395002/
Dec 9, 2009
John Ivison
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/09/john-ivison-canadians-want-all-the-climate-progress-they-can-get-for-free.aspx
Dec 9, 2009
Judith Lavoie
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/climate+scientists+back+Premier+Gordon+Campbell/2319759/story.html

No faith in Harper on climate

With the world watching Copenhagen, Quebec's francophone pundits give up hope on the Prime Minister
Dec 9, 2009
Kalli Anderson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/no-faith-in-harper-on-climate/article1394595/
Dec 9, 2009
John Geddes
Macleans
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/09/thinking-through-canadas-climate-change-position/
Dec 9, 2009
John Spears
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/736648--canada-s-climate-change-plan-hurting-us-miller
Dec 9, 2009
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gFN8NoLLPFL8rhbm4dlhow4c_yMw

The skeleton of climate change

Dec 9, 2009
Lorne Gunter
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=2319958

Science Makes Good Policy

History is full of examples of scientific input leading to better policy outcomes. The climate change debate should be no different.
Dec 8, 2009
James Hrynyshyn
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/743-science-makes-good-policy
Dec 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/08/tamiflu-review.html

Canada to host meeting on BPA use

Dec 8, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canada+host+meeting/2318125/story.html
Dec 8, 2009
Jeremy Warren
Saskatchewan News Network; Canwest News Service
http://www.leaderpost.com/business/Sask+will+resist+trade+plans/2314871/story.html
Dec 8, 2009
John Geddes
Macleans
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/08/jim-prentice-sums-up-canadas-climate-change-postion/
Dec 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/08/edmonton-renner-copenhagen-talks.html
Dec 8, 2009
Shaun Polczer
Calgary Herald
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Alberta+Environment+minister+attend+Copenhagen+climate+summit/2317766/story.html
A privileged generation chose to roll the dice on its children's future
Dec 8, 2009
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735644--travers-o-canada-the-world-s-dirty-old-man
Dec 8, 2009
David Olive
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/735533--olive-canada-the-ant-at-climate-conference-picnic
Dec 8, 2009
Tracy Snoddon and Randall Wigle
Institute for Research on Public Policy
http://www.irpp.org/choices/archive/vol15no11.pdf
And 2009 will probably end up as one of the warmest years
Dec 8, 2009
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/un-weather-agency-says-decade-likely-warmest-on-record/article1392331/
EPA eyes monitoring car, industry emissions
Dec 8, 2009
Associated Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735616--u-s-wants-greenhouse-gases-on-hazard-list

The real inconvenient truth

The whole world needs to adopt China's one-child policy
Dec 8, 2009
Diane Francis
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=342e1874-cf39-4c23-b5e5-1e684033817a
Dec 8, 2009
Renata D'Aliesio
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Global+warming+unproven+Wildrose+leader+says/2314494/story.html

Honk if you hate global warming

Dec 8, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2314409
Dec 8, 2009
Kevin Libin
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=2318164
Dec 8, 2009
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorials/1156596.html
Dec 8, 2009
Adrian MacNair
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/08/adrian-macnair-on-climate-change.aspx
Dec 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/07/oxycontin-ontario-deaths.html
Dec 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/06/health-diabetes-report.html
Dec 7, 2009
Gerard Wynn
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=2312246
Environment Canada says Canada is seeking a new international climate change agreement 'that balances environmental protection and economic prosperity.'
Dec 7, 2009
HARRIS MACLEOD
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/climate_change-12-7-2009
Petition, protest keep pressure on Harper government, as key U.S. agency moves on greenhouse gas emissions
Dec 7, 2009
Steve Rennie
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735389--canadians-conservatives-differ-on-climate-poll
Dec 7, 2009
Bob Weber
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/735399--oilsands-pollution-exceeds-official-estimates-study
Toxic emissions from industry are equal to one major oil spill every year, independent report suggests
Dec 7, 2009
Martin Mittelstaedt
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/oil-sands-emissions-polluting-waterways-study-finds/article1391749/
Dec 7, 2009
Mike DeSouza
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2313348

Star joins global climate crusade

As the Copenhagen summit kicks off today, 56 newspapers in 45 countries have united to demand action
Dec 7, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735124--star-joins-global-climate-crusade
Dec 7, 2009
Bob McDonald
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/quirks-blog/2009/12/350_years_of_science_now_under.html
Agency declares greenhouse gases a health risk, strengthening Obama's hand at summit and posing challenge for industry
Dec 7, 2009
Eric Reguly
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/us-makes-first-move-at-copenhagen/article1391958/

Canada's polluted politics

To explain Canada's dismal record on climate change is to understand the toxic grip that oil holds over its government
Dec 7, 2009
Colin Horgan
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/dec/04/canada-tar-sands-monbiot-harper
As the Copenhagen talks open, there's lots of bogus science around
Dec 7, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/climate-change-is-not-weather-change/article1391782/
Cap-and-trade poses immense danger to Canadian jobs and prosperity
Dec 7, 2009
Gordon Gibson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/yankee-protectionism-this-time-dressed-in-green/article1391896/
I confess I have been rather fascinated by blogosphere and journalistic politicos taking a stab at science over the past fortnight -- and I think that metaphor, by the way, is apt.
Dec 7, 2009
John Baglow
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/07/john-baglow-sure-there-are-climate-conspiracies-but-not-coming-from-scientists.aspx
Dec 7, 2009
John Wiebe
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735199--business-seeks-sign-world-serious-about-tackling-the-globe-s-warming

Canada inactive on climate front

Dec 7, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/735079--canada-inactive-on-climate-front
Dec 7, 2009
Iain Henderson
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/07/iain-henderson-oil-sands-key-to-growing-green-technology-in-canada.aspx
Dec 7, 2009
Matt Price
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/734753
Dec 7, 2009
Donald C. Thompson
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/734752
Rethinking Green
Dec 7, 2009
Kevin Libin
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2310172
Dec 7, 2009
Kevin Libin
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=2314104
Dec 7, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/07/lawrence-solomon-climategate-gang-is-writing-the-script-for-copenhagen.aspx

Canada's isotope fiasco

Dec 6, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/734730--canada-s-isotope-fiasco

Canada 'Darth Vader of G8'

Green record of broken promises, unmet targets
Dec 6, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735011--canada-darth-vader-of-g8
While it has its defenders, home of the oil sands must prove it can be part of the solution as global summit set to begin
Dec 6, 2009
Eric Reguly and Nathan Vanderklippe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/dirty-image-puts-canada-in-climate-doghouse-at-copenhagen/article1390657/
Dec 6, 2009
Steve Rennie
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735059--prentice-says-canada-sticking-to-greenhouse-gas-targets-at-copenhagen-conference
Dec 6, 2009
Arthur Max, Karl Ritter
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/735045--we-re-at-a-climate-turning-point-official-warns

How Canada can cope in Copenhagen

Dec 6, 2009
SUN MEDIA
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/editorial/2009/12/06/12055286-sun.html
Dec 5, 2009
Mia Rabson
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Manitoba+isotope+plan+second+look/2307744/story.html

Few scientists sweet on M & M

Two Canadians, Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, are a thorn in the side of climatologists who say the planet is under threat from man-made global warming
Dec 5, 2009
RICHARD FOOT
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/scientists+sweet/2306270/story.html
It's time for a new national project: to make Canada a clean-energy superpower
Dec 5, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-changing-climate-and-canadian-realities/article1389967/

The fight for our future begins

Evidence of global warming continues to stack up despite a growing cloud of skepticism
Dec 5, 2009
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fight+future+begins/2306957/story.html

Blue Bin Blues

Recycling may have negative effect on the environment: expert
Dec 5, 2009
Kevin Libin
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2305645

The road to Copenhagen

Dec 5, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2305651

Dirty climate data

Climategate emails prove that we must redo the science with data and a process that can be trusted
Dec 5, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/05/dirty-climate-data.aspx

Private Gain or Public Interest?

Reforming Canada's Oil and Gas Industry
Dec 4, 2009
David Thompson, Keith Newman
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/reports/docs/Public%20Interest%20or%20Private%20Gain.pdf
The following is an exchange between Financial Post columnist Terence Corcoran and Anthony Cary, British High Commissioner to Canada since 2007
Dec 4, 2009
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/04/one-rollicking-climate-change-debate-corcoran-vs-cary.aspx
The effects of atmospheric warming on our vast territory, immense coastlines and abundance of fresh water are already apparent
Dec 4, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/geographically-speaking-what-on-earth-is-canada-doing/article1389524/

Responding to the skeptics

Science takes on four common arguments against global warming
Dec 4, 2009
Thomas Homer-Dixon and Andrew Weaver
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/responding-to-the-skeptics/article1389545/
Leaked e-mails from Britain's Climatic Research Unit threaten to undermine Copenhagen summit on carbon emissions
Dec 4, 2009
Doug Saunders
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/breach-in-the-global-warming-bunker-rattles-climate-science-at-the-worst-time/article1389842/

Canada's Kyoto legacy

The government hasn't come close to cutting greenhouse gases to meet its Kyoto target, but the protocol opened Canadians' eyes to the threat of climate change
Dec 3, 2009
Jill Mahoney
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/canadas-kyoto-legacy/article1387407/
Science never writes closed textbooks. It does not offer us a holy scripture, infallible and complete.
Dec 2, 2009
MIKE HULME
The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571613215771336.html
The "ClimateGate" affair - the publication of e-mails and documents hacked or leaked from one of the world's leading climate research institutions - is being intensely debated on the web. But what does it imply for climate science? Here, Mike Hulme and Jerome Ravetz say it shows that we need a more concerted effort to explain and engage the public in understanding the processes and practices of science and scientists.
Dec 1, 2009
Mike Hulme and Jerome Ravetz
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8388485.stm
The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen
Nov 30, 2009
George Monbiot
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal
Monday, December 7, 2009

2009 Canadian Science Policy Conference: Complete Coverage Now Online

Dec 7, 2009
The entire content of CSPC 2009 is now publicly available online for all Canadians:
- audio of all conference sessions
- video of keynote addresses
- video interviews with opinion leaders, conducted on-site at the CSPC by The Mark News
- written report of all sessions
http://sciencepolicy.ca
Saturday, December 5, 2009

Canadian Science Policy Conference 2009: The Video Interviews

The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/videos/472
Dec 1, 2009
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2009/12/01/the-solution-hire-scientists-to-do-scientific-research%e2%80%a6/
The appointment of a Pfizer Canada vice-president to the governing council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research raises issues
Dec 3, 2009
Andre Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/the-man-from-pfizer-should-big-pharma-help-steer-health-research/article1386213/
If the Canadian Institutes of Health Research exists to promote the public interest, why has a VP at Pfizer been named to its governing body?
Dec 2, 2009
Francoise Baylis
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/727-an-intractable-conflict-of-interest
Dec 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/03/pfizer-prigent-cihr-aglukkaq.html

Women make strides in sciences

Support network key for female students
Dec 2, 2009
Derek Sankey
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Women+make+strides+sciences/2294977/story.html
Faculty research work cuts far too deeply into teaching hours
Dec 2, 2009
Ian D. Clark
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/733239
Dec 2, 2009
Mark Langer
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/733214
It is long past time to bring the quality of teaching offered to undergraduates up a notch
Nov 30, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-elusive-ideal-of-the-scholar-teacher/article1383430/
Nov 30, 2009
ELIZABETH CHURCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-university-model-unsustainable-authors-say/article1382266/
Nov 30, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/radical-rethink-of-ontario-universities/

Research funds hiked

Dec 3, 2009
BRUCE ERSKINE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1155746.html
Dec 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/12/03/ottawa-science-technology-museum.html
Dec 3, 2009
Tom Spears
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/envision+Science+Technology+Museum+beside+aviation+museum/2300379/story.html
Dec 1, 2009
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/01/stem-cells.html
Report follows global isotope shortage after Chalk River shutdown
Dec 4, 2009
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/12-billion-reactor-needed-for-isotopes-ottawa-told/article1388208/
Acid-reducing proton pump inhibitors are being prescribed to seniors 60 per cent more often than they were five years ago
Dec 4, 2009
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/use-of-stomach-drugs-by-seniors-soars/article1387709/
Dec 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/03/tech-biology-bird-feeding-evolution.html
Dec 4, 2009
Cathal Kelly
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/734484--dutch-scientists-grow-meat-see-end-to-factory-farming
Dec 4, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/04/tech-climate-un-data.html
Dec 4, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/734405--tories-revive-discarded-climate-plan-prior-to-talks
Stolen material suggests climate-change data skewed
Dec 4, 2009
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/canada-targeted-as-climate-laggard-78502047.html
Dec 4, 2009
Judith Lavoie
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Canadian+climate+change+scientist+says+hackers+targeted/2302881/story.html
Security breaches
Dec 4, 2009
Megan O'Toole
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2301809

Big oil's relentless lobby

Dec 4, 2009
WILLIAM MARSDEN
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/relentless+lobby/2300804/story.html
Dec 4, 2009
BRUCE ERSKINE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1155998.html
There's an astonishing contrast in psychology between future-driven corporate investment and backward-based government regulation
Dec 4, 2009
Neil Reynolds
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/for-a-greener-future-innovation-trumps-regulation/article1388234/
Dec 4, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/04/lawrence-solomon-even-before-climategate-the-public-suspected-fraud.aspx
Dec 3, 2009
Brett Taylor
Special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/26/f-weekly-checkup-taylor-alternative-medicine.html
Dec 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/03/aids-generic-drug-bill.html
Dec 3, 2009
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5giMI0DcU2Ya4oTJdvN5bnD0zweVg
Dec 3, 2009
Sharon Kirkey
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2298089

H1N1 activity waxes, wanes: WHO

Dec 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/03/h1n1-who.html
Dec 3, 2009
Michael Fumento
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/03/michael-fumento-the-who-should-just-give-up-on-the-flu-scare.aspx
Dec 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/03/ottawa-frogs-sex-change-atrazine.html
Rich and poor countries have to give ground to get a deal in Copenhagen; then they must focus on setting a carbon price
Dec 3, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15017322
The planet’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide is under investigation
Dec 3, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15009907
Dec 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/03/tech-climate-east-anglia-review.html

Communication Crisis

The “Climategate” scandal doesn’t expose a problem with the science, so much as a problem explaining that science to the public
Dec 3, 2009
Josh Greenberg
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/731-communication-crisis
Dec 3, 2009
The Associated Press
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091203/climate_gate_091203/20091203/?hub=CalgaryHome
Dec 3, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canada+climate+change+policy+shifting/2299134/story.html
Dec 3, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scientists-press-pm-on-climate-change/article1386545/
Carbon sequestration works, but is among the least cost-effective measures
Dec 3, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/politically-tricky-holding-the-temperature-rise-to-two-degrees/article1387822/
Dec 3, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/733995--ontario-solar-plant-to-create-500-jobs?bn=1
Dec 3, 2009
Connie Hedegaard
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/733790
Canadians want this country to be a leader, not a laggard, at summit on climate change
Dec 3, 2009
John Cartwright
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/733818
Dec 3, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/733939--ottawa-starves-climate-critics-of-cash-on-eve-of-eco-summit
The audience shift at the Munk Debate followed a global trend
Dec 3, 2009
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/03/terence-corcoran-skeptics-score-a-win-against-alarmists.aspx
Dec 3, 2009
PETER ZIMONJIC
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/12/03/12016876-sun.html
Dec 3, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/03/lawrence-solomon-canada-s-environment-minister-wants-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-climategate.aspx

Climategate fallout

Discussion of the hacked emails from East Anglia University reinforce one thing: The IPCC process needs to be fixed
Dec 3, 2009
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/03/climategate-fallout.aspx
Dec 2, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Liberal+senators+move+dilute+product+safety+bill/2295672/story.html

H1N1 activity in Canada easing

Dec 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/02/h1n1-canada.html
From millions of birds to none in about 100 years
Dec 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/02/sk-prairie-chicken-extirpated.html
The West has lost interest, but 5,500 people die each day around the world
Dec 2, 2009
Gary Mason
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/yes-there-is-still-an-aids-crisis/article1386241/

Calgary pesticide bylaw turfed

Dec 2, 2009
Jason Markusoff
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Calgary+pesticide+bylaw+turfed/2295430/story.html
Quebec government holding on to asbestos-cancer report
Dec 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/12/02/quebec-officials-criticize-asbestos.html
Dec 2, 2009
Andy Blatchford
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gyb3_nLxBq5u9GktW-ZtVkzH9wJw
Oxfam report argues Canada has a greater responsibility to help developing nations
Dec 2, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/733493--ottawa-urged-to-pay-more-into-global-climate-fund
Dec 2, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2295516
Dec 2, 2009
Ian Irvine
Special to The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Charest+cent+solution+wash/2295342/story.html

Not mankind's defining crisis

The Munk Debate on climate change
Dec 2, 2009
Bjorn Lomborg
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/02/bjorn-lomborg-not-mankind-s-defining-crisis.aspx
The Munk Debate on climate change
Dec 2, 2009
George Monbiot
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/02/george-monbiot-climate-change-destroys-human-lives.aspx
Dec 2, 2009
MARLENE HABIB
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/cutting-edge-research-highlights-integral-role-of-medical-schools/article1385156/
Dec 2, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/health/Health+Canada+delays+natural+health+product+compliance+rules/2294107/story.html
We should be leading the pack in the race to fight global warming
Dec 2, 2009
STEVEN GUILBEAULT, RICK SMITH, TZEPORAH BERMAN, and DALE MARSHALL
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Wake+Canada+before+late/2292029/story.html

More Debate, Less Rhetoric

Dec 2, 2009
Elaine McCoy
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/723-more-debate-less-rhetoric
Dec 2, 2009
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/sci_tech/78316102.html
Dec 2, 2009
Lorne Gunter
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/02/lorne-gunter-why-the-climate-email-scandal-matters-big-time.aspx
Dec 2, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/02/lawrence-solomon-australia-ditches-cap-and-trade-in-climategate-s-aftermath.aspx
Defeat of carbon trading bill delivers blow to government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks in Copenhagen
Dec 2, 2009
Toni O'Loughlin
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/02/australia-senate-defeats-carbon-trading-bill
Dec 2, 2009
Shaun Polczer
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/energy-resources/Sunshine+Oilsands+could+unlock+deposit/2293496/story.html
Dec 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/01/edmonton-swan-hills-carbon-capture-storage.html

Fields Of Dreams

Economic Shifts And Recession Have Brought Innovation Cluster Theory To The Forefront. Will It Deliver? Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists And Governments Are Saying, "Yes."
Dec 1, 2009
Karen Mazurkewich
National Post
http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=2287746
Employees propose to break away from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s reactor business and become a nuclear research giant
Dec 1, 2009
Anna Mehler Paperney
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/chalk-river-workers-want-to-run-nuclear-facility/article1383563/
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which is supposed to be independent, is raising eyebrows
Dec 1, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/732811--nuclear-regulator-s-impartiality-questioned
Critics send letter to federal Health Minister demanding action but risk backlash in province that mines the deadly mineral
Dec 1, 2009
Martin Mittelstaedt
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-health-officials-speak-out-against-asbestos/article1385045/