Monday, January 12, 2009

Faculty postpone retirement across Canada

Economy’s slide and end of mandatory retirement see more profs staying on
Jan 12, 2009
Anne Kershaw
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/faculty-postpone-retirement-across-canada.aspx
Jan 12, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=9178fa29-f0d6-4635-9c06-14cdae28d101
Jan 12, 2009
Times Colonist
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=0a385075-c07d-4952-9be8-079cf6e3101b
Jan 12, 2009
The Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=bf3ab620-03cf-465b-a6c8-834bd8bddb53
Jan 12, 2009
PETER CHENEY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090112.BAGS12/TPStory/National/
Jan 12, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/12/pe-wind-support.html
Jan 12, 2009
AVRIM LAZAR
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090108.wagendalazar0112/BNStory/robAgenda/home
Jan 12, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/569202
Jan 12, 2009
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/569250
Jan 12, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/12/flu.html

Fighting the flu

Jan 12, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/12/f-flu.html
Jan 12, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090112/fda_conflicts_090112/20090112?hub=Health
Jan 12, 2009
Marlowe Hood
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1168782

Raw milk: What's the risk?

Jan 11, 2009
Jordana Huber
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/milk+What+risk/1160835/story.html
Jan 11, 2009
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Special to LondonTopic.ca
http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=12542
Jan 11, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jzlCX6BGS_jR6gCm-Vu-fbRCMXbg
Jan 11, 2009
Rod Charlton
Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1382577
Jan 10, 2009
Dan Gardner
Ottawa Citizen
http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/katzenjammer/archive/2009/01/10/the-shared-folly-of-mbeki-and-mcguinty.aspx
Children gathered at wading pools, splash pads face risk of second-hand smoke, staff report warns
Jan 10, 2009
Vanessa Lu
Toronto Starhttp://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/568608
Jon-Jo Douglas once made witness don mask
Jan 10, 2009
Tracey Tyler
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/568627
Jan 9, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090109/fda_corruption_090109/20090109?hub=Health
Jan 9, 2009
ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090109.wracism09/BNStory/Science/home
Jan 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/09/shuttle-cost.html
Jan 9, 2009
John Cotter
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/564628
Jan 9, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iAs966dcawHojuicdv6bEScnEBwQ
Jan 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/09/anti-psychotic-risks.html
Jan 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/09/gardasil-fda.html
Jan 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/09/eating-habits-children.html
Despite campaign, official City of Toronto bags with logo are made of plastic
Jan 9, 2009
John Spears
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/564231
Jan 9, 2009
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1159263
Barack Obama is making good his promise to welcome scientists into his administration
Jan 8, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12887207
Jan 8, 2009
Jerome Cartillier
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1155516
Jan 8, 2009
ANDRE PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090108.wlpicard08/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home
Jan 8, 2009
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090108.wlnatural08/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home
Jan 8, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/08/invasive-great-lakes.html

Norwalk virus spreading on P.E.I.

Jan 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/08/pe-norwalk-morrison.html
Alberta biologist awarded $3.3M federal grant to help create a research group
Jan 8, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/08/nanotech-environment.html
Jan 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/08/food-climate.html
Jan 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/07/cgy-hpv-vaccine.html
Jan 7, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=5a9d9635-1db5-45d5-9b5e-f1bd2bfa4b2e
Jan 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/07/measles-europe.html
Jan 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/07/salmonella.html
Jan 7, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/07/champix.html

Harbour mess 'ignored'

The village may be left alone to deal with a problem likened to the Sydney tar ponds, Canada's worst toxic waste site
Jan 7, 2009
CHIP MARTIN
London Free Press
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/01/07/7941631-sun.html
Liberals losing support to the New Democrats ahead of May election
Jan 7, 2009
Petti Fong
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/562822

Stem cells: FAQs

Jan 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/07/f-stemcells.html

Why state R&D flops

Government spending on creating the green auto sector of the future will do nothing but hold the industry back
Jan 6, 2009
Peter Foster
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/06/peter-foster-why-state-r-amp-d-flops.aspx
Jan 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/06/smoking-third.html
Jan 6, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/06/gardasil-males.html
Jan 6, 2009
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1148184

Outsourcing contamination

Products that are supposed to improve one's health may actually contain harmful ingredients if they are outsourced from a country with few standards and low accountability
Jan 6, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1147676
Jan 6, 2009
Karl Moore
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090106.wmcgill_rayner_0106/BNStory/robAtWork/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail
Jan 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/06/ont-hightech.html
Alzheimer's patients getting younger: report
Jan 6, 2009
CHARLIE FIDELMAN
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Dementia+will+become+epidemic+study+warns/1145269/story.html
Jan 6, 2009
DEAN BENNETT
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090106.wnano0106/BNStory/Science/home

Listeriosis probe on back burner

Jan 6, 2009
editorial
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090105.weListeriosis06/BNStory/politics/home

The decline of science journalism

Jan 6, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/blog.aspx?blogid=86

Popping the hydrogen bubble

Electric and hydrogen cars present us with what looks like a transportation paradigm where almost everything becomes worse for the user in the short term
Jan 6, 2009
Stephen Strauss
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/06/f-strauss-hydrogencars.html
Jan 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/06/detox-science.html
Jan 6, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/06/marine-conservation.html
Jan 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/06/defib.html
Jan 5, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/561553
Jan 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/05/fda.html
Jan 5, 2009
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2009/brief_flaherty_01_05_e.html

Treating obesity

Jan 5, 2009
Elizabeth Payne
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=4974612e-c843-4154-b152-dab4a15265cc
Doctor Shortage
Jan 5, 2009
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1141872
Jan 5, 2009
David Frum
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/05/david-frum-more-on-the-high-cost-and-limited-return-of-wind-power.aspx