Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Collaboration = innovation

Canada must stimulate R&D spending, universities argue
May 19, 2009
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/blogs/story.html?id=1607262
New brain drain to U.S. could start sapping us of our brightest minds and our innovative potential
May 17, 2009
David Olive
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/635522

Feds to spend $1B on clean energy

May 19, 2009
Dave Cooper
Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/Feds+spend+clean+energy/1609464/story.html
The Tories have been in power for more than three years, and still don't have a plan
May 18, 2009
Bea Vongdouangchanh
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2009/may/18/legislation/&c=2
May 19, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090518.wchalk19/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Ignatieff and Asbestos

How he really can get on the right side of this long overdue debate
May 19, 2009
Murray Dobbin
TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2009/05/19/IgnatieffAsbestos/
May 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/19/swine-flu-vaccine465.html
Advisory against travel to Mexico lifted; Canada's chief public health officer says second spike still possible
May 19, 2009
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wflu19art02250/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090519.wflu19art02250
Star Jenny McCarthy's Oprah turn could spark fears
May 18, 2009
Emily Senger
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=1606853
May 18, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/18/obama-emissions.html
'It's a travesty'
May 19, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Abandoned+research+station+toxic+ghost+town+scientists/1609143/story.html
As the world punishes polluters with carbon taxes, the price of power produced from fossil fuels can only go up, URB chairman says
May 19, 2009
JUDY MYRDEN
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/News/1122715.html
May 19, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wroilsands19art1940/BNStory/energy/home
May 18, 2009
Timothy Gardner
Reuters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8513912
Draft from province contains little in the way of action or clear policy, environment groups say
May 19, 2009
Tanya Talaga
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/636025
May 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/05/19/mb-dutch-elm-vaccine.html
May 18, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/18/tech-lithium-battery-sulphur-cathode-material.html
May 18, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/18/health-cigarette-us-cancer-risk.html
May 18, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/18/canada-swine-flu.html
May 19, 2009
Nigel S. Lockyer
Georgia Straight
http://www.straight.com/article-222146/angels-or-demons-physics-movies
May 19, 2009
Cheryl Chan
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/Health/teens+coveted+prize+national+science+fair/1607662/story.html
May 18, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/635746
Genetic discovery vaults researcher onto list with Obama, Gates
May 18, 2009
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/635760

The cap-and-trade con game

The closer the United States gets to adopting a cap-and-trade system to control greenhouse gas emissions, the more frightening it gets
May 17, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/17/national-post-editorial-board-the-cap-and-trade-con-game.aspx
May 15, 2009
HAYLEY MICK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090515.wlfair15/BNStory/lifeMain/home
May 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/15/tech-090515-energy-standards-electronic-devices-standby-power-off.html

Libel: Court behind

“Evidence”: a scientific word—or a legal one?
May 14, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13643973
May 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/14/quebec-tobacco-healthcare-costs-law.html
May 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/14/sea-levels-rise-overestimate-antartic-ice-sheet-collapse.html
May 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/14/multiple-sclerosis-research-centres.html

For and against wind power

Utility-scale wind energy, critics insist, is neither as green as supporters say, nor as economical
May 12, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/632642

30% emission reduction by 2016

May 11, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/emission+reduction+2016/1585281/story.html

An open, honest nuclear debate

Alberta's 'public consultation' on nuclear power seems designed to quash any opposition to the plan
May 6, 2009
Douglas Roche
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/Business/open+honest+nuclear+debate/1568305/story.html