Friday, October 23, 2009

Canada's science media centre opens doors

Researchers and policymakers hope it will help journalists better cover science and researchers better understand reporters' motivations
Oct 19, 2009
Peggy Berkowitz
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/Article.aspx?id=6806
Increase, felt in all regions, was most dramatic at the graduate level
Oct 23, 2009
ELIZABETH CHURCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/university-enrolment-jumps-reflecting-bad-economy/article1335122/

Enrolment up again across Canada

Recession likely keeping students in school and out of the labour market
Oct 22, 2009
Léo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/enrolment-up-again-across-Canada.aspx
TransAlta's carbon-spewing coal plants are part of a ‘green' plan that blends technology and renewable energy
Oct 23, 2009
Richard Blackwell
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/multiple-fuels-multiple-solutions/article1336324/
Only 36% feel humans to blame, poll says
Oct 23, 2009
Associated Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/714762--americans-waning-on-global-warming
Oct 23, 2009
Dan Healing
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Suncor+embraces+tailings+pond+technology/2138432/story.html

NASA should skip moon: panel

Oct 23, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/23/tech-space-nasa-panel-report.html
Oct 23, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/human+space+flight+plan+underfunded+experts/2137243/story.html
Oct 23, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/football+fields+deforested+each+minute/2137561/story.html
Oct 23, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/give+threatened+polar+bears+vast+critical+habitat/2137574/story.html
Oct 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/23/ont-wind.html
Dr. Michael Gardam of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, and Globe and Mail reporter Caroline Alphonso wade through the confusion around the pandemic and the vaccines
Oct 23, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/our-experts-answered-your-swine-flu-questions/article1335617/
Oct 23, 2009
Christina Spencer
SUN MEDIA
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/canada/2009/10/23/11508431-sun.html

Canada enters 2nd wave of H1N1

Oct 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/23/h1n1-second-wave-canada.html
Oct 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/23/mb-first-nation-h1n1-plans.html
Oct 23, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/23/h1n1-world.html
Reconsider sick note requests for flu, Ont. doctors tell employers
Oct 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/23/flu-antivirals-tamiflu.html
Oct 23, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/23/lawrence-solomon-democrats-are-abandoning-obama-on-global-warming.aspx
More suggestions that biofuels are not an environmental free lunch
Oct 22, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14710469
Oct 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/22/tech-climate-biofuels-kyoto-error.html
Oct 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/22/tech-climate-ocean-dead-zone-microbe.html
Government's stock-for-charity program saves investors money and helps Canada's doctors save lives
Oct 22, 2009
ALISON CUNLIFFE
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/investing/article/713077--tax-change-injects-funds-into-medical-research
Canadian flu cases on the rise
Oct 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/22/h1n1-vaccine-pregnant-women-sogc.html
Oct 22, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/22/cervarix-hpv-us.html
Big Oil has attacked a global scientific consensus on climate change; now some local authors are exposing its tactics
Oct 22, 009
Charlie Smith
Georgia Straight
http://www.straight.com/article-265275/taking-goliath
Stevia has a no-calorie zip that's popping up in natural health products, but the risks have left a bitter taste
Oct 22, 2009
Carly Weeks
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/stevia-is-sweet-but-is-it-safe/article1333389/
'Now is the time to make those bets that will drive productivity'
Oct 22, 2009
Iain Marlow
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/microsoft/article/713962--microsoft-s-ceo-bullish-on-tech-sector

The WHO's political pandering

Oct 22, 2009
Michael Fumento
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/22/michael-fumento-the-who-s-political-pandering.aspx

On the path to dependency

Sustainable Development Technology Canada, out of taxpayer cash, wants more. Ottawa should say no
Oct 22, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/22/peter-foster-on-the-path-to-dependency.aspx
Oct 22, 2009
Raphael Alexander
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/22/raphael-alexander-canada-s-flu-panic-for-political-purposes.aspx
Oct 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/21/ndp-climate-change-bill-liberals-copenhagen.html
Oct 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/21/flu-vaccine-h1n1-approval-canada.html
Oct 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/21/h1n1-vaccine-us-uk.html
High-risk groups will be priority, as H1N1 vaccine receives approval
Oct 21, 2009
Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/healthy-canadians-asked-to-hold-off-getting-swine-flu-vaccine/article1333107/

Sask. to limit needle exchange

AIDS group calls change 'recipe for disaster'
Oct 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/21/sk-needle-exchange-limits.html
Emissions action urged as UN conference looms
Oct 21, 2009
Richard J. Brennan
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/article/713379--climate-experts-accuse-ottawa-of-foot-dragging
Oct 21, 2009
Charley Beresford
Special to the Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Canada+needs+back+track+climate+change/2126832/story.html
Oct 21, 2009
Tom Harris and Tim Patterson
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Anti+Gore+film+doesn+help+climate+change+skeptics/2126459/story.html

Germany's renewable myth

Germany is seen as a leader in renewable energy, but its experience has been a costly waste
Oct 21, 2009
Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter and Colin Vance
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/21/germany-s-renewable-myth.aspx
Industry, government and NGOs are creating a new political model
Oct 21, 2009
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/21/terence-corcoran-climatism-and-the-new-green-industrial-state.aspx
A true believer's goal for the future: Practical electric cars with clean battery power
Oct 21, 2009
Jeremy Cato
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/auto/electric-vehicles-the-rational-choice/article1332495/

Bringing science to youth

Oct 21, 2009
TRACEY TONG
METRO OTTAWA
http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/345712--bringing-science-to-youth

Jumping to crack conclusions

Oct 21, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2125890
Oct 21, 2009
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2125923

Flu prevention worth a shot

Oct 21, 2009
JOHN KASTNER
Winnipeg Sun
http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/editorial/2009/10/21/11470056-sun.html
Only way to help addicts is to get them to quit
Oct 21, 2009
Jon Ferry
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/health/Crack+addict+safe+inhalation+zone+just+nuts/2126573/story.html
Oct 20, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/gairdner-awards-celebrate-50-years/
Oct 20, 2009
Ann Silversides
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/20oct09_cihr_appointment.shtml
Oct 20, 2009
Waterloo Record
http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/616544
Oct 20, 2009
Eric Lam
Financial Post
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/slumped+even+before+financial+crisis/2123582/story.html
Oct 20, 2009
Kevin Bissett
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jqndB_uB6foUJX7eDt8J8STOKFRQ
Oct 20, 2009
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gUwbn7MbLrHro-VPF34VJATdiaew
Oct 20, 2009
Keith Gerein
Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/More+women+than+making+grade+Alberta+universities/2123893/story.html

America's dirty little secret

Influence wielded by coal-producing states – 25 of them – is the big reason the U.S. is a climate-change laggard
Oct 20, 2009
Jeffrey Sachs
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/americas-dirty-little-secret/article1331242/
Oct 20, 2009
CATHRYN ATKINSON
Special to The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/academics-entrepreneurs-combine-to-market-green-discoveries/article1330287/
Oct 20, 2009
WENDY STUECK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bcs-top-medical-health-officer-calls-for-crack-inhaling-rooms/article1330227/
We steered away just as the world was entering the knowledge economy
Oct 20, 2009
Roger Martin
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/712638
Oct 20, 2009
CHRISTINA SPENCER
Winnipeg Sun
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/canada/2009/10/20/11457571-sun.html
With a growing global population, declining freshwater resources and an increasingly volatile climate, the world will rely on food technologies like his sooner than we realize
Oct 20, 2009
Karen Pinchin
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/growing-plants-indoors-no-longer-rooted-in-sci-fi/article1330448/
Oct 20, 2009
Barrie Examiner
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2136942
Lake sediment suggests summer temperatures have only been this warm once before in last 200,000 years
Oct 20, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/arctic-heat-wave-unique-in-history-study/article1330231/
Oct 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/20/hiv-aids-vaccine.html
Oct 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/20/consumer-food-labels.html
Oct 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/20/mercury-autism-children-blood.html
Oct 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/20/to-turkey-swine.html
Oct 20, 2009
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/20/maldives-president-all-wet-on-sea-level.aspx
Oct 19, 2009
Let's Talk Science
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/19/c7690.html

Getting youth hooked on science

Oct 19, 2009
TRACEY TONG
METRO OTTAWA
http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/343784--getting-youth-hooked-on-science
CEFRIO survey: Baby boomer kids put priority on job security
Oct 21, 2009
ROBERTO ROCHA
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/uses+technology+eschews+learning+tech+skills/2126271/story.html

Tech drive to entice 'Gen C'

Oct 19, 2009
ROBERTO ROCHA
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Tech+drive+entice/2122139/story.html
Oct 19, 2009
Michael Geist
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/technology/article/712135--law-bytes-canadian-universities-closed-minded-on-open-access
Oct 19, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/19/tech-cp-hawking-waterloo.html
Co-founder of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates discusses how renewable energy will change the world
Oct 19, 2009
Gordon Pitts
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/managing/tech-guru-shines-a-light-on-the-energy-century/article1328777/
Cancers in the 0 to 19 age group account for fewer than 1 per cent of all cancer diagnoses but understanding their root causes is essential in fighting the disease
Oct 19, 2009
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/about-3-of-cancer-research-focuses-on-childhood-illness/article1329878/
Oct 19, 2009
Dave Machacek
LondonTopic.ca
http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=16588
The small reductions gained by staggering per-tonne costs illustrate what every independent analyst knows: The Harper government's 20-per-cent reduction target will not be met
Oct 19, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/on-a-cost-basis-carbon-capture-projects-are-madness/article1329825/
Oct 19, 2009
Tom Spears
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/rocket+engine+could+make+trips+Mars+realistic/2119300/story.html
Oct 19, 2009
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Tillsonburg News
http://www.tillsonburgnews.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2136375

Filmmaker, debunk thyself

Oct 19, 2009
John Moore
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/19/john-moore-filmmaker-debunk-thyself.aspx

Clean hands, every day

Oct 19, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/clean-hands-every-day/article1328736/
Oct 19, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jpVztREInBL76IgRoQTYuysaqCig
Oct 19, 2009
Peter Kovessy
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/321006641083227.php
Oct 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/19/aecl-union.html
52-year-old reactor has been plagued by shutdowns in recent years
Oct 19, 2009
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/chalk-river-repairs-have-70-million-price-tag-aecl/article1329937/
Oct 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/19/file-cancer-society-191009.html
Oct 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/19/consumer-bagged-salad.html
Oct 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/19/consumer-nutrition-survey.html
'Accountability act' could be enacted in time for Copenhagen conference, Layton says
Oct 19, 2009
Richard J. Brennan
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/712363--pass-climate-bill-to-send-message-ndp-urges
Oct 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/19/hiv-vaccine.html
Oct 18, 2009
JIM PRENTICE
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Canada+doing+part+fight+climate+change+minister/2118449/story.html
Oct 18, 2009
CTV.ca News
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091018/Climate_Debate_091018/20091018/?hub=TorontoNewHome

Harper's inconvenient truth

The prime minister knows cap-and-trade is wrong for Canada and bad for Canadians. He should say it
Oct 18, 2009
LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/10/18/11438451-sun.html

Kids to the Rescue

Canadian youth are doing what they can to clean up an ecological mess they didn't create
Oct 18, 2009
Angelo Dicaro
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/588-kids-to-the-rescue

$62m offered toward food research

Oct 18, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1148152.html
She hit BC to reassure about swine flu. But there was an outbreak of confusion.
Oct 18, 2009
Crawford Kilian
TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/18/AglukkaqH1N1/
Visit by renowned theoretical physicist to herald Waterloo institute's growing role as world leader in research
Oct 17, 2009
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hawking-gives-boost-to-perimeters-expansion/article1327788/

The free luncher: Exelon

Oct 17, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/17/the-free-luncher-exelon.aspx
Province says it is doing what it can to maintain funding, increase spaces
Oct 17, 2009
Keith Gerein
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Schools+students+squeezed+economic+downturn/2116767/story.html
Provincial programs transforming industry
Oct 17, 2009
Jason Fekete
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Farmers+venturing+into+brave+world+carbon+markets/2116550/story.html
Oct 16, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/the-death-of-canadas-education-advantage/
Information technology is the key to improving productivity
Oct 16, 2009
Steve Ballmer
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/investing-in-innovation-will-fuel-canadas-economic-growth/article1327215/
With falling enrolment from local areas, students from away fill the empty spots
Oct 16, 2009
TASLEEM MAWJI
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1147909.html
Following the global-warming herd doesn't show courage – quite the opposite, in fact
Oct 16, 2009
Rex Murphy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/michael-ignatieff-should-think-outside-the-green-box/article1327161/

Testing testing

Oct 16, 2009
Cassandra Kyle
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Testing+testing/2109773/story.html
CEO sees 100-year span to tame greenhouse gases
Oct 16, 2009
Shaun Polczer
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/quick+carbon+solution+Imperial/2109599/story.html

Alberta shelves annual pap tests

Exam now needed every three years
Oct 16, 2009
Michelle Lang
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Alberta+shelves+annual+tests/2109582/story.html
Oct 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/10/16/nb-hpv-vaccine-continues-612.html

Climate change dominoes fall

Oct 16, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/16/lawrence-solomon-climate-change-dominoes-fall.aspx
Oct 16, 2009
BC Innovation Council
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/16/c7814.html
Oct 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/16/arthritis-bracelets-copper.html
Goal is safe, effective vaccine, minister says
Oct 15, 2009
PATRICK WHITE AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/officials-defend-go-slow-approach-to-inoculation/article1324221/

The duty to be vaccinated

Being vaccinated against H1N1 is the most effective way to save lives. It is the right thing to do.
Oct 15, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-duty-to-be-vaccinated/article1325664/
Oct 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/10/15/nl-h1n1-testing-1015.html
Oct 15, 2009
AMY O’BRIAN and DARAH HANSEN
VANCOUVER SUN
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/H1N1+virus+hitting+harder+than+rest+Canada/2112666/story.html

The weather exploiters

Radical environmentalist Tim Flannery’s new book contains the usual hysterical pseudo-science. Second in an occasional series titled Countdown to Catastrophe: Copenhagen.
Oct 15, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/15/peter-foster-the-weather-exploiters.aspx
Oct 16, 2009
Marcel Coutu
Canadian Oil Sands Trust
http://www.oilsandsnow.ca/pr091017.html
Move would impose greater burden on others, but strict limits on producers would stifle the industry's growth, says head of Canadian Oil Sands Trust
Oct 15, 2009
Shawn McCarthy and Richard Blackwell
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/allow-higher-oil-sands-emissions-ceo/article1325369/
Chief public health officer says population should be immunized by Christmas before the virus peaks
Oct 14, 2009
Chinta Puxley
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadians-will-get-h1n1-shots-faster-than-others-official/article1323652/
Oct 14, 2009
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/295648957466126.php
Oct 14, 2009
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/AECL+engineers+urge+Ottawa+protect+CANDU+technology/2107755/story.html

H1N1 research gets $2.4M

Oct 14, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/H1N1+research+gets/2105832/story.html
Oct 14, 2009
Dr. Todd Arsenault
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/liveit/article/823475