Ontario to provide major new research funding

$100-million to keep top scientists from departing for U.S.
May 4, 2009
ANTHONY REINHART
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.wontscience04art2220/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Ontario to announce $100M fund for scientists

May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/04/ontario-research-competition.html

Top AIDS researcher lured away by Florida

Scientist expects to double his budget; hopes U.S. move will be wake-up call for Ottawa
May 4, 2009
ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.waids04/BNStory/National

Critics question ban on pesticides

Chemicals nixed in war on weeds
May 4, 2009
Derek Spalding
Daily News
http://www.canada.com/Critics+question+pesticides/1561366/story.html

Researchers flag increasing levels of fresh water in Labrador Sea

May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/04/labrador-sea-504.html

No more free rides for the mining industry

May 4, 2009
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/more+free+rides+mining+industry/1560198/story.html

Pork industry in panic as pigs catch the flu

China bans imports - prompting fears U.S. will follow suit - after Alberta quarantines 2,200 pigs
May 4, 2009
PATRICK WHITE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.FLUPORK04ART2249/TPStory/National

Human-to-swine transmission escalates mutation risk

May 4, 2009
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.FLUMAIN04ART22282/TPStory/National

Researchers seeking `smoking pig' in flu virus outbreak

May 3, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Researchers+seeking+smoking+virus+outbreak+with+word+optional/1560562/story.html

Perspective quells fears

Mostly a cough is just a cough, not swine flu, a top Canadian psychologist says
May 4, 2009
Jim Gibson
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/Health/Perspective+quells+fears/1561219/story.html

More than 1,000 swine flu cases worldwide: WHO

'Level 6 does not mean, in any way, that we are facing the end of the world:' WHO chief
Margaret Chan
May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/04/swine-flu-world-health119.html

Canada on verge of IT student shortage

Education Greater emphasis on information technology in high schools is key to reversing trend, expert says
May 4, 2009
Brett Bundale
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/655580

Will Canada miss the next wireless revolution?

Industry and government must move fast to embrace a new generation of mobile network access. Here's how
May 4, 2009
SARA DIAMOND
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.RAGENDADIAMOND04ART1931/TPStory/Business

U.S. list tarnishes Canada's digital reputation

May 4, 2009
Michael Geist
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/628419

Falling costs revive oil sands

Alberta's oil sands producers are hopeful a rollback in labour and material costs will breathe new life into a sector struggling with the freefall in crude prices
May 4, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.ROILPATCH04ART1939//TPStory/National

Too many cooks in cancer kitchen

May 4, 2009
EMILE THERIEN
The Examiner
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1551904

The battle over the world's purest water

Environmentalists vow to stop a plan to build a garbage dump in Ontario's Tiny Township, famed for water as clean as any on Earth
May 4, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.wwater04art2147/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

The answer's still blowin' in the wind turbine

May 2, 2009
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/627747

CANADA: Open access - promises and challenges

May 3, 2009
Leslie Chan
University World News
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20090430200134133

The Steady Erosion of Science Journalism

May 1, 2009
Tom Price
Miller-McCune.com
http://www.miller-mccune.com/mediator/the-steady-erosion-of-science-journalism-1194

Knowledge: the Most Important Renewable Resource

May 1, 2009
Tom Price
Miller-McCune.com
http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/knowledge-the-most-important-renewable-resource-1191

What's ahead?

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future
May 2, 009
PETER HADEKEL
Special to The Gazette
http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/saturdayextra/story.html?id=a186d59c-8de6-4b46-be71-919ef88f0795

Flu remedy or snake oil?

Scientist claims to have antidote, Health Canada has yet to approve
May 1, 2009
Nelson Bennett
Richmond News
http://www2.canada.com/richmondnews/news/story.html?id=5c511e45-fba5-41d6-8559-266b62167fd8

Companies tout health products for profits in wake of flu outbreak

May 2, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j1lgxjjUcsLbZgO3hzVc2lxHioew

Clean technologies moving mainstream

Canada's auto sector contributed about 2% to GDP in 2006
May 1, 2009
Alia McMullen
Financial Post
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Clean+technologies+moving+mainstream/1554876/story.html

Celebrating the Burgess Shale

One hundred years after discovery, fossil beds are still teaching us about diversity of life on Earth
May 3, 2009
Valerie Berenyi
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Celebrating+Burgess+Shale/1558063/story.html

Canada enhances pork inspections to quell swine flu fears

Egypt begins slaughter of entire pig population
Apr 29, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/29/pork-imports-restrictions465.html