Friday, April 10, 2009

Blue Dog Democrats growling at climate-change plan

Party's fiscal conservatives and those elected in mining states could side with GOP to veto Obama's cap-and-trade proposal
Apr 10, 2009
JOHN IBBITSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090410.IBBITSON10ART2244/TPStory/Environment
Cancer project had success against stroke. Now there's no money
April 10, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/616724
Local figures uncertain compared with last year due to new poll, but participation up across Canada
Apr 10, 2009
Debra Black
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/616707
Apr 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/09/tech-090409-prentice-greenhouse-gas.html
Apr 9, 2009
Juliet O'Neill
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/sues+Canadian+government+over+pesticide/1482852/story.html
Apr 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/04/09/mtl-montmegantic-funding-0409.html

Time to invest in R&D

Apr 8, 2009
DAVID CRANE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1115586.html

Green dreams, unplugged

The U.S. and Canadian bailout plans announced this week for the big auto companies find policy makers caught in a contradiction: They are trying to save jobs building gas guzzlers at the same time as promoting alternative energy and reduced emissions. And that, as Konrad Yakabuski reports, could be a dead end
Apr 4, 2009
KONRAD YAKABUSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090404.COVER04/TPStory/Environment/