Saturday, April 25, 2009

Federal government's research funding scheme is wasteful: researchers

Apr 24, 2009
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/04/24/tech-090424-research-funding-caut.html

CAN SCIENCE SAVE THE OIL SANDS?

Falling oil prices and bad PR have hammered the oil sands. Out of all that bad news may rise a new era in innovation.
Apr 25, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090425.RCOVER25ART1935/TPStory/Business

Pandemic in the making

Canada raises health alarm as Mexico shuts down schools in effort to halt swine flu that has killed 20 people and possibly sickened hundreds more
Apr 25, 2009
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090425.ILLNESS25ART2116/TPStory/National/
Apr 25, 2009
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090425.COSIMP25ART1959/TPStory/National
Apr 25, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090425.MINING25ISLART2118/TPStory/Environment
Eco targets creating new positions, while businesses expand in traditional environmental sectors
Apr 25, 2009
DEREK SANKEY
Canwest News Service
http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/working/story.html?id=e87556dd-f350-4718-9a93-7b5be043e71e

The greener generation

Environmental consciousness already rooted in youth
Apr 25, 2009
AYOUB ANSARI
SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
http://www.torontosun.com/life/greenplanet/2009/04/25/9240716-sun.html
Apr 25, 2009
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/623475
Apr 25, 2009
JASMINE FRANKLIN
SUN MEDIA
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2009/04/25/9241346-sun.html
Apr 24, 2009
Dave Cooper
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/greening+oilsands+technologies+eliminate+tailings+ponds/1531439/story.html
World health agency schedules emergency meeting after 20 deaths
Apr 24, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/24/health-flu-mexico090424.html
Apr 24, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/24/ont-wind.html

Wanted: tech head

In many ways, Canada's largest tech players are loath to let go of analog business models. Some think they could use a push
Apr 24, 2009
KEN HUNT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090424.ROB5PG18/TPStory/Business
Apr 24, 2009
Cassandra Drudi
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Lead+contamination+closes+parts+Edinburgh+park/1530729/story.html
Still small, but segment poised to boom
Apr 23, 2009
Julie Beun-Chown
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Cars/story.html?id=1522691

A wide open field

Sustainability will be a big part of the new economic landscape
Apr 22, 2009
Mary Teresa Bitti
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/technology/Sustainability+will+part+economic+landscape/1520296/story.html
Apr 22, 2009
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090421.wcosimp22/BNStory/specialComment/home
Apr 21, 2009
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090420.wcosimp21/BNStory/specialComment
After dip, output now 33.8 per cent above Kyoto commitment
Apr 21, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/Canada+greenhouse+emissions+soaring+again+report/1516915/story.html

The anti-specialists

For one group, the future of science lies outside one's area of expertise
Apr 18, 2009
Joseph Brean
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1508693&p=1