Saturday, May 2, 2009

An R&D machine in need of direction

What are Canada's priorities? Where does the money go? And how to strengthen the 'innovation chain'?
May 1, 2009
HARVEY WEINGARTEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090501.wcoessay0502/BNStory/specialComment/home
May 2, 2009
ERIN ANDERSSEN AND ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090502.wcover02/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090502.wcover02
May 1, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Industry-Canada-983433.html
FIRST IN CANADA: 'It's a difficult degree'
May 2, 2009
ANDREA HOUSTON
THE EXAMINER
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1550680
May 2, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090502.LAKE02ART2053/TPStory/Environment
Apr 28, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Arctic+centre+build+keep+lights+heat/1542613/story.html
May 2, 2009
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1555633
May 1, 2009
Jim Coyle
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/627128

The Dark Lord

Sir Nicholas Stern says there will be ‘no powerful carbon policemen.’ Don’t bet on it
May 1, 2009
Peter Foster
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/01/peter-foster-the-dark-lord.aspx
May 1, 2009
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/627154

Pigs, viruses and politics

May 2, 2009
Thomas Walkom
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/627748
Governments scrambling for solutions to current outbreak risk repeating mistakes of a decades-old health-scare fiasco
May 2, 2009
LES PERREAUX
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090502.FLUSEVENTYSIX02ART2134/TPStory/National
May 1, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/swine-flu-spanish-origin.html
May 1, 2009
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/tech-090501-online-tools-pandemic.html
May 1, 2009
Harvey Enchin
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/deadly+season+virus+takes+toll+economy/1552515/story.html
Genetic analysis of H1N1 virus done in six countries, including Canada, does not show the markers for virulence seen in 1918 outbreak
May 2, 2009
GLORIA GALLOWAY AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090502.FLU02ART2152/TPStory/National/
May 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/01/swine-flu.html