Thursday, August 13, 2009

Canadian changes in the air

Aug 12, 2009
Virginia Gewin
Nature
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2009/090813/full/nj7257-920a.html
Aug 12, 2009
Cathy Ellis
For The Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Parks+Canada+cuts+scientific+research+budget+Banff/1884125/story.html
Aug 12, 2009
JOHN CLINKARD
Journal of Commerce
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id34885
Study examines why Canada lags in competitiveness
Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/08/10/f-productivity-statistics-canada-study.html
Aglukkaq blasts opposition as government doles out $926,600 to develop strategies that businesses can use to get through pandemic
Aug 13, 2009
Caroline Alphonso and Bill Curry
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/a-summer-of-discontent-over-ottawas-flu-plan/article1249561/
More than nine million sockeye have vanished from B.C. river. How it happened remains a mystery
Aug 13, 2009
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/millions-of-missing-fish-signal-crisis-onthefraserriver/article1249976/
Isotope shortage could cost province $10M by end of year: Bolduc
Aug 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/13/isotope-shortage.html
Idled Chalk River reactor won't restart until 2010
Aug 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/13/chalk-river-isotope-reactor081309.html
Aug 12, 2009
Megan Ogilvie
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/679845
Aug 12, 2009
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ga4fc-CuD_2uVK_dOPlbPaGheujw
Aug 13, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/13/asteroid-threat-earth-collide-detect-nasa.html
Aug 12, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/12/manitoba-prentice-climate.html
Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/11/nwt-dna-research.html
The government should undertake a comprehensive review of the Patented Medicine Review Board
Aug 11, 2009
Jeffrey Graham and Alissa Raphael
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/11/our-medicine-review-board-is-broken.aspx

GM’s electric clunker

The Volt would not exist but for ‘energy independence’ mania
Aug 11, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/11/peter-foster-gm-s-electric-clunker.aspx
Aug 12, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/12/national-post-editorial-board-will-the-chevy-volt-really-go-230-miles-per-gallon-that-depends.aspx

No need to panic on Tamiflu

Aug 12, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/12/national-post-editorial-board-no-need-to-panic-on-tamiflu.aspx
Aug 12, 2009
STEVEN CHASE AND SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ottawa-says-it-wont-block-nortel-sale/article1249058/

PM stands firm on Nortel

Harper says foreign asset sale will be examined, but Tories won't support increased protectionism
Aug 12, 2009
Les Whittington
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/679841
Aug 11, 2009
Michelle Lang
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/plus+Albertans+West+Nile/1880204/story.html

More E. coli in sand than water

Study suggests beach sand contains far more E. coli and parasites than beach water does, and could cause gastrointestinal illness
Aug 12, 2009
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/more-e-coli-in-sand-than-water/article1248992/
Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/11/mammogram-psa-screening.html
Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/11/inuit-newfoundland-811.html