Why science class has become a 'daunting slog'

Survey of science teachers finds most feel exams take excitement away from learning
Aug 21, 2009
Douglas Quan
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/why-science-class-has-become-a-daunting-slog/article1257894/

Swine flu 'explosion' coming: WHO

Aug 21, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/21/swine-flu-explosion-asia-world-health.html

Reserve swine flu drugs for sickest: WHO

Aug 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/21/swine-flu-antivirals.html

Tories under fire for neglecting troubled B.C. salmon stocks

Aug 21, 2009
Jorge Barrera
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1917631

Nortel sale review required by law: Opposition

Aug 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/08/21/ottawa-nortel-opposition-review-sale-ericsson.html

Ericsson awaits green light from Ottawa on Nortel deal

Aug 21, 2009
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Ericsson+awaits+green+light+from+Ottawa+Nortel+deal/1917550/story.html

University of Calgary receives funding from makers of BlackBerry for GPS

Aug 21, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iyqCZbDeU3CO7lAvjeaFGTEPl3mg

Canadian named in HRT scandal

Aug 22, 2009
Stuart Laidlaw
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/684982

Raitt defends move to shelve nuclear reactors

Federal Natural Resources Minister says two Maple reactors would not have prevented global isotope crisis
Aug 21, 2009
Anna Mehler Paperny
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/raitt-defends-move-to-shelve-nuclear-reactors/article1259261/

Yes In My Backyard to nuclear power

Aug 21, 2009
Patrick Brown
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/684231

A net-benefit greenhouse gas plan

Less really is more
Aug 21, 2009
Neil Reynolds
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/columnists/neil-reynolds/a-net-benefit-greenhouse-gas-plan/article1259526/

PM touts green benefits of Arctic power project

Harper's 10,000 km northern tour has the feel of an election trek
Aug 21, 2009
Bruce Campion-Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/684637

Google launches flu fight site

Aug 21, 2009
David Wylie
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/health/Google+launches+fight+site/1916215/story.html

Garbage in, energy out

From SHL Systemhouse to the Ottawa Senators, Rod Bryden has played a key role in developing and financing ideas that have been difficult to pull off. Now he's counting on municipal refuse to solve the world's energy crisis
Aug 21, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/garbage-in-energy-out/article1260457/

Vaccinate school kids first to slow pandemic: study

Better to target those likely to transmit virus, rather than the most vulnerable: researchers
Aug 21, 2009
Tom Spears
Canwest News Service
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Vaccinate+school+kids+first+slow+pandemic+study/1915684/story.html

Heroin helps hard-core addicts in treatment: study

Addicts provided with heroin rather than methadone more likely to stay in treatment, less likely to use street drugs
Aug 21, 2009
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/heroin-helps-hard-core-addicts-in-treatment-study/article1257858/

Critics: Canada should improve severe weather warnings

Aug 21, 2009
Christina Spencer
Sun Media
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2009/08/21/10555201.html

Ocean surface temperature hits record high

Aug 21, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/21/warming-oceans-record-july-noaa.html

Free flu shots tied to lower antibiotic use

Aug 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/21/flu-shots-antibiotics.html

Isotope regional disparity of 'great concern'

Aug 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/21/isotopes-medical.html

Flu shot guidelines criticized

Mathematical model suggests that US experts got their priorities wrong.
Aug 20, 2009
Elie Dolgin
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090820/full/news.2009.846.html

Rethink isotope production, MDs urge Ottawa

Aug 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/20/cma-isotopes.html

Canada explored, rejected idea of bottling flu vaccine in another plant: PHAC

Aug 20, 2009
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jqOoif18_aoyJHTMKU_JM2kBcF3Q

Mercury-tainted fish found widely in U.S. streams

Aug 20, 2009
Steve Gorman
Reuters
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Mercury+tainted+fish+found+widely+streams/1913171/story.html

Logjam in vaccine packaging to delay H1N1 flu shots

As Canadians wait for syringes, drug will be exported to other countries in bulk
Aug 19, 2009
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/logjam-in-vaccine-packaging-to-delay-h1n1-flu-shots/article1256528/

3 soldiers hospitalized in Quebec for superbug

Aug 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/19/superbug-quebec-city-military-drug-resistant.html

Feds, province spar over First Nations flu kits

Aug 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/19/manitoba-flu-kits.html

Gardasil's safety record normal: study

Aug 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/19/hpv-vaccine-safety.html

Researchers decry use of diabetes drug Avandia

Aug 19, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/19/diabetes-drugs-avandia.html

Australia, N.Z. mull common carbon plan

Australians expecting to begin carbon-trading scheme by 2011; New Zealand's plan still under review
Aug 19, 2009
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/australia-nz-mull-common-carbon-plan/article1257875/

Health official denies air problems at Moncton school

Aug 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/19/nb-moncton-school-air-527.html

P.E.I. records 1st TB case in 4 years

Aug 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/19/pei-tb-charlottetown.html

DFO exoneration of fish farms is very surprising

Aug 19, 2009
Alexandra Morton
Courier-Islander
http://www.canada.com/exoneration+fish+farms+very+surprising/1906936/story.html

Cannibis smokers have a seven-fold schizophrenia risk

Harper government devotes funds to studying the link between marijuana use and mental illness
Aug 19, 2009
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/mindmood/mentalhealth/article/682905

Firm raises eyebrows with suggestion for nuclear powered mines

Aug 18, 2009
Lynn Moore
Montreal Gazette
http://www.canada.com/technology/Firm+raises+eyebrows+with+suggestion+nuclear+powered+mines/1906151/story.html

Fewer antibiotics prescribed for coughs, colds in U.S.

Aug 18, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/18/antibiotic-rates.html

Health czar urged for flu readiness

Journal calls for national leader to make tough calls as doctors cite lack of direction from Ottawa
Aug 18, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/682370

MDs urged to prepare for H1N1's return

Aug 18, 2009
Janet French
Saskatchewan News Network; Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/urged+prepare+H1N1+return/1903150/story.html

Isotope shortage to be discussed at medical conference

Aug 19, 2009
Janet French
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
http://www.canada.com/health/Isotope+shortage+discussed+medical+conference/1908382/story.html

Canada protects deadly bio-lab

Ottawa will spend $30M on facility in central Asia
Aug 19, 2009
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1902934

The McMaster solution

The university's reactor could be part of a homemade fix to the isotope crisis
Aug 18, 2009
Mo Elbestawi
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-mcmaster-solution/article1254968/

Fortune magazine names Research in Motion world's fastest-growing company

Aug 18, 2009
Kristine Owram
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hJTCCNPUyhcKgX-c0I8IHNMSaldA

Alberta to cut acid-rain tests in oilsands region

Aug 17, 2009
Canwest News Service, Edmonton Journal
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Alberta+acid+rain+tests+oilsands+region/1902825/story.html

Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment: the Canadian experience

Aug 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/14/f-medical-marijuana.html

P.E.I. sand safe: health officials

Aug 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/17/pei-sand-safe.html

The future of wheat

Genetically modified wheat would increase yields, cut pesticide use and give Canadian farmers a global edge
Aug 18, 2009
Rolf Penner
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/18/the-future-of-wheat.aspx

Is the Mackenzie Pipeline dead?

New technology has revitalized old gas exploration areas and opened new ones, putting the economic logic of northern pipelines in doubt
Aug 18, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/18/peter-foster-is-the-mackenzie-pipeline-dead.aspx

You'll just have to take our word on the global warming stuff

Aug 18, 2009
Kevin Libin
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/18/kevin-libin-you-ll-just-have-to-take-our-word-on-the-global-warming-stuff.aspx

Prentice consults Nunavut leaders on climate change

Aug 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/17/prentice-nunavut.html