Wednesday, July 22, 2009

PhDs can get lost in sterotypes

Jul 20, 2009
Carolyn Steele
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-sense/phds-can-get-lost-in-sterotypes/
July 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/22/swine-flu-tamiflu-resistance.html
Jul 22, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/669706

Public-private calamity

Jul 22, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/public-private-calamity/article1226667/

Public protection

July 22, 2009
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Public+protection/1814197/story.html

A troubling report

July 22, 2009
Edmonton Journal
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/troubling+report/1815573/story.html
July 22, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/669858
Analysis catalogues succession of failures that led to troubling tragedy
Jul 22, 2009
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/669868
July 21, 2009
Sarah Schmidt and Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Listeriosis+report+calls+greater+role+public+health+officer/1812091/story.html
July 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/21/listeriosis-report.html
July 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/21/fish-vegetables-aquaponics.html
July 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/22/cod-recover-722.html
Fishermen are competing in limited space for a vulnerable resource
Jul 21, 2009
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/as-crab-stocks-collapse-tensions-rise-on-the-waterfront/article1223981/
Jul 22, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hmr7yEWbqJMPBRvGESnzWr1EUPPA

Doing the right thing for whales

July 22, 2009
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
CanadaEast.com
http://www.canadaeast.com/progress/article/736755
Two biotechnology companies have started injecting adult volunteers in Adelaide and the government has ordered 21 million doses if tests are proven to work
Jul 22, 2009
Tanalee Smith
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/australia-starts-first-h1n1-vaccine-trials/article1226829/
Latest flu outbreak is shaping up as fourth pandemic dud in the past six years
Jul 22, 2009
Dr. Richard Schabas
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/669727
July 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/21/swine-flu.html
July 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/20/nb-swine-flu-schools-1109.html
July 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/22/radon-homes-lung-cancer.html
Jul 21, ,2009
GEOFFREY YORK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/treatment-as-prevention---a-once-ridiculed-idea-whose-time-has-come/article1225364/
Jul 21, 2009
Ralph Pentland
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/669138

No such thing as free water

Jul 21, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/no-such-thing-as-free-water/article1225407/

Too much faith in mass screening

Does all this testing for cancer make a difference?
Jul 21, 2009
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/too-much-faith-in-mass-screening/article1225114/
July 20, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/20/aids-south-africa-vaccine-trial.html
July 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/20/heart-disease-hypertension-diabetes-obesity.html
July 20, 2009
Carrie Tait
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/Pincher+Creek+lessons+science+wind/1809937/story.html
July 22, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Genetically+modified+rice+crucial+drought+battle/1816058/story.html
July 20, 2009
Slim Allagui
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Greenland+shark+become+source+biofuel/1809275/story.html
Jul 21, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/medical-pot-operation-leaves-flin-flon/article1225441/
July 21, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Obama+pledges+backing+space+program/1812427/story.html
Commitments to staff space station and return to the moon by 2020 make Martian expedition too daunting a task, says Charlie Bolden
Jul 21, 2009
Irene Klotz
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/status-quo-wont-get-nasa-to-mars-agencys-chief-says/article1226281/