Thursday, December 23, 2010

Expert Panel Launches Consultation on Business R&D

Federal review of R&D spending seeks views from Canadians on maximizing impact
Dec 21, 2010
Review of Federal Support to Research and Development
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Expert-Panel-Launches-Consultation-on-Business-R-D-1372298.htm
Gilles Patry talks of challenges, priorities and new programs
Dec 16, 2010
Laura Eggertson
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/new-cfi--president-seeks-750-in-funding.aspx
Dec 16, 2010
CIHR Scientific Council
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/42857.html

The productivity gap

Dec 21, 2010
Sean Fine
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/trade/the-productivity-gap/article1845764/
Dec 19, 2010
Michael Geist
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/908924--geist-canadian-education-faces-technology-tipping-point
Optical makes Internet connections 100,000 times faster
Dec 14, 2010
Vito Pilieci
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.vancouversun.com/Canadian+businesses+gain+access+ultra+high+speed+network/3975512/story.html
Dec 20, 2010
GHISLAIN ALLARD
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/12/20/16623016.html
Dec 22, 2010
Alex Paterson
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/u-of-m-has-high-hopes-for-new-energy-efficient-supercomputer-112301679.html
Dec 23, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/911292--fertility-ruling-supreme-court-muddies-issue
Provinces responsible, says top court
Dec 23, 2010
Matt McClure
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Alberta+fertility+industry+remain+unregulated/4017903/story.html

Canada beckons

Polar bears may yet survive global warming
Dec 23, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/meeting_american_geophysical_union_0
Crisis after crisis made for political dynamite in 2010
Dec 23, 2010
Graham Thomson
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/shut+about+oilsands/4018125/story.html
Dec 23, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/12/23/ns-great-white-protection.html
Dec 22, 2010
CAROLYN ABRAHAM
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/fertility-ruling-spawns-new-round-of-confusion/article1847011/
Dec 22, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/22/prentice-oil-sands-wikileaks.html
Dec 22, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/former-environment-minister-was-ready-to-impose-new-rules-on-oil-sands/article1847647/
Dec 22, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/12/22/alberta-suncor-oilsands-dumping-fine.html
Dec 22, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/canadas-cancer-survival-rate-speaks-well-of-our-health-care-system/article1847723/

Cannibal cod could get protection

Dec 22, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/22/north-arctic-cannibal-cod-species-at-risk.html
Dec 22, 2010
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/22/bee-blackawton-science-journal.html
Dec 22, 2010
SYLVIA HUI
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/elementary-school-childrens-report-on-bees-published-in-prestigious-journal/article1847786/
Dec 22, 2010
ADAM RADWANSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/record-on-education-is-ontario-premiers-best-case-for-re-election/article1847848/
Dec 22, 2010
Brian Ellsworth
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/brazil-to-boost-crackdown-on-biopiracy/article1847199/
Dec 22, 2010
CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Measures-Protect-Canadas-Aquatic-Industry-1372983.htm
Dec 21, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/qa-can-canada-cope-with-climate-change/article1846426/
Dec 21, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/21/oilsands-pollution-report.html
Dec 21, 2010
Sean Myers
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Alberta+beef+oilsands+monitoring/4007124/story.html
Dec 21, 2010
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/910233--oilsands-monitoring-woefully-inadequate-report-finds?bn=1
Dec 21, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/governments-vow-to-overhaul-environmental-monitoring-of-oil-sands-development/article1846498/
Dec 21, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-alberta-blamed-for-lax-oil-sands-oversight/article1845680/
New greenhouse gases discharge rules to take in 50 operations in province
Dec 21, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/relatively+minor+offender+smokestack+emissions+Environment+Canada/4007426/story.html
Temperatures 10 to 12 degrees higher than normal
Dec 21, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/21/north-warm-nunavut-climate-change.html
Near top of 6-country study
Dec 21, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/12/21/cancer-survival.html
Dec 21, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/survival-rates-up-for-major-cancers/article1846902/
Dec 21, 2010
Gillian Steward
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/910042--steward-premier-wall-vindicated-on-ms-trials
Dec 21, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/saskatoons-recycling-debate-goes-around-and-around/article1846640/
Dec 21, 2010
LESLIE BECK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/leslie-beck/fighting-a-cold-skip-the-echinacea/article1846064/
The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, in collaboration with Open Policy Ontario’s John Stapleton and research consultant from Toronto Public Health, Brian Cook, releases its report recommending initiatives to help low income families overcome challenges in consuming a nutritious diet
Dec 21, 2010
Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity
http://www.competeprosper.ca/index.php/media/press_releases/the_poor_still_pay_more/
Dec 21, 2010
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Investment-in-Oat-Research-to-Benefit-Prairie-Growers-1372504.htm
Dec 20, 2010
GARY MASON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/gary_mason/visions-of-emissions-trading-fading-in-puff-of-smoke/article1845336/
Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/edmonton-water-monitoring-alberta-system.html
Dec 20, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY and JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/alberta-steps-up-oil-sands-oversight/article1845347/
Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/pei-trout-unlimited-aquabounty-584.html
Dec 20, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/tech-disasters-earthquakes-heat-waves.html
Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/north-polar-bear-count.html
Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/chronic-fatigue-xmrv-contamination.html
Dec 20, 2010
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Albertas-Forest-Industry-1371875.htm
Dec 19, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/909078--maternal-health-harper-s-helping-hand
Dec 19, 2010
Industry Canada and FedNor
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Announces-Investment-Strengthen-Economy-Create-Jobs-Nipissing-Timiskaming-1371294.htm
Dec 17, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-kept-in-dark-on-abnormal-fish-found-in-oil-sands-rivers/article1841714/
Dec 17, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/suncor-total-team-up-on-oil-sands/article1841763/
Dec 17, 2010
Geoffrey York
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/on-the-move-in-a-warming-world-the-rise-of-climate-refugees/article1843024/
Dec 17, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change-migration-around-the-world/article1843086/

Culturomics: Reading by numbers

Science invades the humanities
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17730198
Dec 16, 2010
Jason Dearen
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/california-approves-incentives-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions/article1841661/
Dec 15, 2010
GREG KEENAN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/us-fuel-economy-proposal-would-hit-auto-industry-hard-study/article1839640/
Dec 15, 2010
Jeff Rubin
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/jeff-rubins-smaller-world/cancun-summit-no-solution-to-global-warming/article1837443/
Dec 15, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/oil-sands-report-criticizes-all-stakeholders/article1838315/
Dec 20, 2010
Erica Foley
The Daily Planet

The Daily Planet, a daily science show that delivers a fascinating mix of documentaries and features on the Discovery Channel Canada, is looking for exciting stories from British Columbia. If you are on the brink of an interesting development, new invention or are somebody doing something pretty incredible, please contact Researcher Erica Foley (contact information listed below).

In particular, she’s looking for local BC stories regarding new machinery, research breakthroughs or backyard inventors.

Erica Foley
erica.t.foley@gmail.com
250-683-8131

The Daily Planet
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=13287
http://twitter.com/DiscoveryCanada

The Daily Planet has been running for 16 years and its 7pm nightly broadcast attracts about 1 million viewers. It airs in Canada, and is repackaged for international viewers.
Friday, December 17, 2010

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2010

Dec 2010
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9210051E.PDF
U.S., Germany, Korea, Sweden receive praise
Dec 14, 2010
Peter O'Neil
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+decline+research+spending+criticized+report/3975296/story.html
Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02158.html
Dec 2010
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06128.html
Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02163.html
Dec 2010
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
http://www.mrcglobal.org/projects/african_innovation
Dec 16, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Dr-Howard-Alper-Reappointed-as-Chair-Science-Technology-Innovation-Council-1370536.htm
Dec 2010
Council of Canadian Academies
http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?EtsV--5rAu-Tx3tu5
Dec 14, 2010
ADAM RADWANSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/scrapping-innovation-awards-latest-sign-that-ontario-liberals-are-running-scared/article1838107/
Accepting strong foreign students is immigration policy at its best; shunning them is emigration policy at its worst
Dec 15, 2010
CLIFFORD ORWIN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/our-choice-spend-the-money-or-lose-the-brightest/article1837977/
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/uoft-hertzmann-steacie-prize.html
Dec 16, 2010
JEREMY NOLAIS
METRO CALGARY
http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/local/article/721297--science-centre-will-enthrall-a-geek-near-you
Institutions will have to adapt to changing demographics, economic conditions
Dec 14, 2010
MARY-ELLEN SAUNDERS
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1350839

Making the grade

Dec 14, 2010
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Making+grade/3973239/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
For real change, we need to radically rethink the teaching and learning process
Dec 6, 2010
Pierre Zundel & Patrick Deane
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/its-time-to-transform-undergraduate-education.aspx
The law continues to threaten stem-cell research in America
Dec 9, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17672816
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Dec 17, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121710.asp
McGuinty Government Supporting Entrepreneurs, Bringing Local Ideas To Life
Dec 16, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121610.asp
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Dec 14, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121410.asp
Dec 17, 2010
Karen Kleiss
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Alberta+fund+study+Zamboni+treatment/3992749/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Norman Spector
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/spector-vision/filtering-out-the-climate-change-bs/article1842438/
Dec 17, 2010
MIKE DE SOUZA
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Climate+role+helps+national+image+memo/3990564/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Environment+Canada+lobbied+stay+global+warming+panel/3990896/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/tech-carp-asian-great-lakes.html
Dec 17, 2010
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Editorial+Canada+must+ensure+prescription+drugs+that+pass+testing+heal/3991518/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Carmen Chai
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Unnecessary+surgeries+costing+million+health+study+says/3992767/story.html
Project threatened by low gas prices
Dec 17, 2010
Dan Healing
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Mackenzie+pipeline+will+built/3989427/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/17/mackenzie-pipeline-s-value-diminished-by-new-north-american-shale-gas-resources.aspx
Dec 17, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/17/bc-and-canada-sharing-joint-program-to-report-ghg-emissions.aspx
Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/calif-climate-law.html
Dec 17, 2010
Janice Tibbetts
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Supreme+Court+rule+control+country+fertility+industry/3995261/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/tobacco-lawsuits.html
Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/nunavut-tuberculosis.html
Melting glaciers on Ellesmere Island reveal branches and trunks from millions of years ago, when the North was a temperate zone
Dec 17, 2010
Randy Boswell
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Mummified+forest+offers+glimpse+warmer+Arctic/3993837/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/17/c6195.html
Dec 16, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE and CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/alberta-to-study-controversial-ms-therapy/article1840990/
Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/12/16/edmonton-zamboni-ms-alberta-study.html

Mackenzie pipeline approved

Dec 16, 2010
Nathan VanderKlippe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/mackenzie-pipeline-approved/article1841156/
Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/12/16/f-mackenzie-valley-pipeline-history.html
Dec 16, 2010
BRIAN DALY
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/12/16/16581961.html
Dec 16, 2010
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Climate-Change-Adaptation-Must-be-Higher-on-Canadian-Agenda-1370100.htm
Dec 16, 2010
CHRISTA MARSHALL
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/16/16climatewire-albertas-fight-to-clean-its-oil-sands-95308.html
Dec 16, 2010
Don Braid
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Braid+Government+comes+worse+than+oilsands+scientists+report/3985427/story.html
Dec 16, 2010
Deborah Yedlin
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Society+oilsands+report+pulls+punches/3985485/story.html
What the scientists got right, and missed, in their high-profile, largely damning report
Dec 16, 2010
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Tyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/12/16/RoyalSocietyStudy/

Rightful rebukes

Oilsands report slays myths and scolds government
Dec 16, 2010
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/Rightful+rebukes/3985449/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

The oil industry gets a do-over

Dec 16, 2010
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/industry+gets+over/3984581/story.html
Dec 16, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/16/lo-and-behold-updated-canadian-industrial-emissions-data-arrives-in-time-for-xmas.aspx
Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/ottawa-chelsea-radon-125.html
Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/tech-paris-car-sharing-bikes-electric.html
An international deal on deforestation makes it ever more important to measure the Earth’s woodlands
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17730208
Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/prostate-cancer-psa-genetic.html
Dec 16, 2010
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-Over-2-million-in-Arctic-Environment-Response-Equipment-1370513.htm
Dec 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/oilsands-scientists.html
Report rebuts cancer claims and recommends changes to oversight and monitoring
Dec 15, 2010
Hannah Hoag
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/news.2010.676.html
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/edmonton-oilsands-report-alberta-reaction.html

Hope for polar bears

Greenhouse gas reduction could save northern mammals, study suggests
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-polarbears-study.html
Dec 15, 2010
Sharon Oosthoek
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-arctic-hybrids.html
Dec 15, 2010
Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/inuit-object-to-government-ban-on-sales-of-valuable-narwhal-tusks-111962719.html
Laura Eggertson
Dec 15, 2010
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/15dec10-HC-passes-the-buck.dtl
Dec 15, 2010
ARI ALTSTEDTER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/biodiesel-plant-to-open-in-torontos-port-lands/article1839711/

Put an end to transplant tourism

Dec 15, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/put-an-end-to-transplant-tourism/article1839716/
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-periodic-table.html
Ontario Health Study turns festive season into something more socially directed
Dec 15, 2010
Ontario Health Study
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/15/c5389.html
The forest products industry got ahead of policy, discovered savings and stopped playing defence
Dec 15, 2010
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-greener-image-awaiting-oil-and-gas/article1837973/
Regional plans like cross-border hydro hold great green promise, and it's business that will deliver
Dec 15, 2010
OLEG DERIPASKA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/climate-progress-doesnt-only-come-at-summits/article1837953/
Pollution target would be equal to car-free society
Dec 15, 2010
Mychaylo Prystupa
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/man-climate-change-selinger.html
Dec 15, 2010
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/anti-smoking-groups-fight-for-larger-warning-labels-on-cigarettes/article1839947/
Dec 15, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Welcomes-Extension-Historic-Partnership-with-European-Space-Agency-1369683.htm
Dec 15, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Assembly-First-Nations-Continue-Joint-Task-Group-on-First-Nations-1369873.htm
Dec 15, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Receives-Royal-Assent-1369840.htm
Dec 14, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/14/con-electric-cars.html

Great news from Cancun!

Dec 14, 2010
MARGARET WENTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/great-news-from-cancun/article1836376/
Dec 14, 2010
LAURA PAYTON
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/12/14/16547396.html
Dec 14, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Passes-Parliament-1368703.htm
Dec 13, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/conquer-tb-dont-just-control-it/article1836273/

TB once again stalking the Arctic

Dec 13, 2010
PATRICK WHITE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tb-once-again-stalking-the-arctic/article1834983/
Dec 13, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/why-is-there-no-national-vaccination-strategy/article1830159/
Dec 12, 2010
SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/the-post-cancun-climate-challenge-putting-words-into-actions/article1834808/
Dec 12, 2010
JANE TABER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ndp-liberals-call-outcome-of-climate-talks-positive/article1834809/
Dec 9, 2010
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-met-with-cigarette-maker-months-before-postponing-bigger-warning-labels/article1831673/
Dec 8, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canadian-immunization-conference-childrens-rotavirus-vaccine-all-but-wipes-out-us-cases/article1830657/
Dec 7, 2010
ADRIAN MORROW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/36-million-spent-on-cigarette-warnings-that-werent-implemented/article1829166/
Monday, December 13, 2010

R&D spending in Canada retreats for third straight year

Dec 9, 2010
BARRIE MCKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20101209.RBRESEARCHSPENDINGMCKENNAATL/TPStory/TPBusiness/

The future of research spending

Dec 4, 2010
Sheila Pratt
Edmonton Journal
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/future+research+spending/3929823/story.html

Online flu resources

Dec 13, 2010
Ontario Newsroom & Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-term Care

Video: Take the "Flu U" IQ Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_QZNjV4p1w

Video: How is the flu vaccine created?
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/publichealth/flu/flu_videos.aspx
Dec 5, 2010
Mark Brownlee
The Canadian Press
http://news.therecord.com/article/825455
Dec 8, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/08/research-development-business-industrial.html
Dec 8, 2010
Rebecca Lindell
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canadian+spending+continues+downward+spiral+StatsCan/3947668/story.html
Dec 9, 2010
Rebecca Penty
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/1344050

$26M boosts stem cell research

New U of A facility, first in Western Canada, will take ideas from lab to patient
Dec 10, 2010
Jodie Sinnema
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/boosts+stem+cell+research/3956465/story.html
It’s Maclean’s magazine time again
Dec 6, 2010
Paul Axelrod
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/the-trouble-with-university-rankings.aspx

Turning science into cash

Dec 9, 2010
Sheila Pratt
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/TURNING+SCIENCE+INTO+CASH/3951304/story.html
Dec 6, 2010
The Honourable Tony Clement, PC, MP
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06136.html
Dec 6, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Wavefront+named+Canada+centre+excellence+wireless/3934668/story.html
Dec 7, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-State-Moore-Highlights-Government-Support-Small-Businesses-Innovation-2010-1365306.htm
Dec 7, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Goodyear-Outlines-Plan-for-Jobs-Growth-and-Innovation-in-Southern-Ontario-1365190.htm
Deep concern about the funding of biomedical research in Canada
Dec 2010
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cihrfunding/
Oct 26, 2010
The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)
http://www.sciencepages.ca/PressReleaseSP_en.pdf
Oct 2010
Tomasz Kasprzycki, Barbara Kubica, and Edith Lamoureux
The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)
http://www.sciencepages.ca/oct2010_en.pdf
Dec 4, 2010
Gerry Bellett
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/gets+Gates+Foundation+grant+prevent+maternal+deaths/3928223/story.html

Women scientists must speak out

Female researchers still battle sexism. The media gives them an opportunity to be heard alongside male colleagues
Dec 8, 2010
Jennifer Rohn
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/468733a.html
Although an identical number of women get a PhD in the life sciences, only 15-20% of tenured positions are secured by women
Dec 9, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/12/09/nice-gals-finish-last-sexist-reference-letters-or-skewed-value-systems/

Photocopied Education

Dec 4, 2010
Kenyon Wallace
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/Photocopied+Education/3927482/story.html
Dec 11, 2010
Sherri Gallant
LETHBRIDGE HERALD
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/front-page-news/universities-team-up-to-relaunch-aerospace-research-in-canada-121110.html
Dec 13, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/Long+road+ahead+before+climate+deal+Baird+says/3967199/story.html
Ottawa contributes $300M as 'repayable investment'
Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/13/clement-pratt-whitney.html
Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/12/canada-prattwhitney.html
Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Announces-Major-Aerospace-Investment-Create-Jobs-Keep-Canada-Cutting-1367864.htm
Dec 13, 2010
Thana Dharmarajah
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/735344
Dec 13, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/oil-companies-finalize-pact-to-share-tailings-research/article1835655/
Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/13/science-salmon-study.html
Dec 13, 2010
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/sea-lice-not-to-blame-for-bc-salmon-collapse-report/article1835717/
Dec 13, 2010
Robert Wager
The Daily News
http://www.canada.com/lice+science+raises+question+advocacy/3968274/story.html
Dec 13, 2010
David Suzuki
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1349269
Dec 13, 2010
Bill Donahue
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Water+report+details+morass+problems/3967722/story.html
Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/13/folic-acid-folate-canadians-fortify.html

One Billion Bottles Recycled

McGuinty Government's Bag It Back Program Reducing Waste
Dec 13, 2010
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
http://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2010/12/one-billion-bottles-recycled.html
Dec 12, 2010
Jen Skerritt
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canada+accused+ignoring+rates/3966051/story.html
U of A scientist’s decades of research point to a North soon to be ‘seasonally ice free’
Dec 12, 2010
Ed Struzik
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Arctic+book+untold+stories/3964489/story.html
Dec 11, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/global-accord-on-climate-change-hailed-as-breakthrough/article1834216/
Dec 11, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/World+leaders+approve+global+climate+package+fund/3963211/story.html
John Baird’s aggressive message – a classic instance of throwing stones at glass houses – was designed for Canadian consumption
Dec 11, 2010
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/climate-change-reputation-in-tatters-try-blustering/article1833682/

Digging out from Cancun

Dec 11, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/905625--digging-out-from-cancun
Dec 11, 2010
Derek Abma
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/branch+science+build+better+tree/3964214/story.html
Armed with $50-million in seed money, Global Crop Diversity Trust launches hunt for wild relatives of common crops, with goal of developing hardier varieties through crossbreeding
Dec 10, 2010
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/wild-relatives-of-common-crops-may-hold-key-to-future-of-food/article1832219/
Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/climate-change-wildfires.html
Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/canada-climate-cancun.html
Dec 10, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/climate-draft-text-signals-breakthroughs/article1832783/

Sask. delays 'clean coal' power

Full-scale carbon-capture and storage facility waiting on regulatory details
Dec 10, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/sk-sask-power-clean-coal-101210.html
Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/2010/12/10/wdr-international-joint-commission-scientists.html

Coltan: a new blood mineral

Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/coltan-faq.html
Dec 10, 2010
Les Perreaux
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ms-treatment-in-costa-rica-medical-miracle-or-just-common-sense/article1833801/
Dec 10, 2010
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Province-British-Columbia-Sign-Agreement-on-Aquaculture-Management-1367360.htm
Dec 9, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-pressured-to-soften-kyoto-stand/article1831219/
Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/cancun-canada-climate.html

Canada's climate of contradiction

Dec 9, 2010
Alec Bruce
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1344213
Dec 9, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/nuclear-shipment-great-lake.html
Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/nunavut-us-ringed-seals.html
Group travelled from Asia to protest mineral's export
Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/anti-asbestos-activists-meet-with-minister.html
Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/pei-summerside-plug-in-cars.html
Dec 9, 2010
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-accused-of-bowing-to-big-tobacco-on-cigarette-labels/article1831673/
Dec 9, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/no-need-to-agree-on-kyoto-extension-yet-canadian-envoy-says/article1831219/
Dec 9, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/carbon-planet-diamond.html
Some of the most creative applications of technology are taking place in what are usually considered unsophisticated industries: Western Canada’s resource sectors
Dec 9, 2010
TODD HIRSCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/prairie-farmers-show-how-tech-is-done/article1830670/

Baby mice produced from 2 males

Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/2-mice-fathers-babies.html

The Shanghai surprise

Canada still does well by global standards. But those standards have just shot up
Dec 9, 2010
MARGARET WENTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-shanghai-surprise/article1830667/
Dec 9, 2010
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Announces-Most-Fuel-Efficient-Vehicles-1366647.htm
Dec 9, 2010
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/CFI-News-Brief-Novel-Treatment-for-Diabetes-Burn-Victims-and-Lung-Disease-Patients-1366732.htm
Dec 8, 2010
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Science+only+factor+trials+critics/3948873/story.html
Dec 8, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/charests-climate-zeal-honoured-with-an-australian-forest/article1829306/
Dec 8, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/08/baird-china-cancun.html
Dec 8, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/baird-comes-out-swinging-at-china-at-cancun-climate-talks/article1829859/
Dec 8, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-patch-pricing-carbon-tariffs-into-new-projects/article1830656/
While individual departments are taking the issue seriously, lack of political leadership means they are working in silos
Dec 8, 2010
Carl Meyer
Embassy
http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/climate-12-08-2010
Dec 8, 2010
CARL MORTISHED
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/carl-mortished/education-rankings-the-new-schoolyard-bully/article1829424/
Dec 8, 2010
KATE HAMMER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-canada-is-becoming-outclassed-in-school/article1829259/

Canada is not becoming outclassed

Dec 10, 2010
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/canada-is-not-becoming-outclassed/article1831853/

Mutant worms defy aging theory

Montreal university's research contradicts long-held 'free radicals' explanation
Dec 8, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/08/worms-lifespan-aging-free-radicals.html
Dec 8, 2010
Marcia Dunn
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/private-spacecraft-blasts-into-history-first-to-reach-orbit-return-to-earth/article1830304/
Dec 8, 2010
CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Forum-Gives-Consumer-Associations-a-Clear-Voice-in-Food-Safety-1366180.htm

Ontario Attracting High Tech Jobs

Tax Cuts And Credits Help Ontario Become Hub for Digital Media Jobs
Dec 8, 2010
Ontario Office of the Premier
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2010/12/ontario-attracting-high-tech-jobs.html
Dec 8, 2010
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/08/c3380.html
Dec 8, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-State-Goodyear-Congratulates-NRC-Researcher-on-Discovery-New-Planet-Another-1366208.htm
Dec 7, 2010
Greg Weston
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/f-weston-oilsands.html
Federal government not ready to respond to effects of climate change, commissioner says
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/environment-audit-oil-spill.html
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/07/multiple-sclerosis-veins-ccsvi-cihr.html
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/tech-education-oecd-rank.html
Dec 7, 2010
Shannon Proudfoot
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Canada+slipping+math+science+reading+skills/3937286/story.html
Dec 7, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/is-canada-falling-behind-in-math-science-and-reading/article1828316/
The climate talks are all about not repeating Copenhagen's shortcomings. This may be their downfall
Dec 7, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2010/12/climate-change_talks
Dec 7, 2010
SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/kyoto-impasse-could-torpedo-climate-talks-us-warns/article1829183/
Dec 7, 2010
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-government-lax-on-climate-change-issues-report-says/article1828178/
Dec 7, 2010
Dalton McGuinty
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/902499--bright-lights-and-clean-air-for-ontario

Kyoto is dead

Dec 7, 2010
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/Kyoto+dead/3937311/story.html
Dec 7, 2010
John Ivison
National Post
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/12/07/john-ivison-environment-commissioner-gives-tories-thumbs-down/
Government not meeting its obligation to protect habitat of endangered whales
Dec 7, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/bc-killer-whale-court-ruling.html
Resolution non-binding, likely to be ignored
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/oil-tanker-motion.html
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/baird-cancun-climate-change-talks.html
Dec 7, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/calgary-university-video-games-exergaming.html
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/nb-mary-majka-dovekies-139.html
Que. premier takes shot at federal environmental policy at global climate conference
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/charest-climate-change.html
Dec 6, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/jean-charest-again-calls-out-harper-government-on-climate-change/article1826816/
‘It’s pretty clear what they’re doing, they’re trying to block my bill,’ says NDP MP Linda Duncan about her private member’s bill, C-469.
Dec 6, 2010
Tim Naumetz
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/dailyupdate/view/41
Dec 6, 2010
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-scientists-map-out-the-oceans-destiny/article1827565/
Dec 6, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/china-worlds-best-hope-worst-fear-regarding-climate-crisis/article1827521/
Germanwatch rates Brazil among best environment-improving countries
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/tech-climate-change-ranking.html

Lancaster Sound to be Arctic park

Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/lancaster-sound-marine-conservation.html
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/nl-coyote-caribou-1206.html
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/edmonton-cancun-renner.html
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/bc-cherries-spotted-wing-drosophilia.html

B.C. spaceport campaign launched

Dec 6, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/bc-spaceport-muslim.html
Christmas trees could retain their needles for months with treatment
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/christmas-trees.html
Dec 6, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-players-join-forces-on-tailings-cleanup/article1827425/
Dec 6, 2010
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-moves-to-protect-serengeti-of-the-arctic/article1827418/
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/arsenic-microbe-dna-nasa-wolfe-simon.html
Dec 5, 2010
Kevin Bisset
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/expert-says-new-brunswicks-ms-liberation-fund-has-political-motives/article1825738/
Dec 5, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-gets-ready-to-walk-away-from-kyoto-protocol/article1825976/
Dec 5, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ted-turner-urges-global-one-child-policy-to-save-planet/article1825977/
Dec 5, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/without-government-push-companies-losing-interest-in-carbon-investment/article1825831/
Dec 4, 2010
Norman Spector
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/spector-vision/on-climate-change-canada-finally-comes-clean/article1825385/
Dec 4, 2010
Charles J. Hanley
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/with-emission-cuts-stalling-scientists-look-to-geoengineering/article1825426/
Dec 4, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/rejecting-kyoto-extension-threatens-climate-talks-developing-nations/article1825499/
Dec 3, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/who-will-pay-for-the-environmental-mess-were-in/article1825157/
Dec 3, 2010
David Fogarty
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/making-forests-pay-in-a-warming-world/article1823945/
It is a terrible irony that humankind’s efforts to engineer a delay to the aging process may consume vast quantities of time, money and hope, while an answer – exercise – is already before us
Dec 3, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/a-simple-way-to-stave-off-infirmity/article1824780/
Dec 2, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/china-india-brazil-must-pull-weight-in-climate-change-accord-baird-says/article1823097/
Dec 2, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/heat-is-on-canadian-arctic-as-temperature-rises-sea-ice-melts/article1823096/
Dec 1, 2010
ADAM RADWANSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/election-preparations-reveal-fissures-in-unity-of-ontario-environmentalists/article1821461/
Nov 30, 2010
CARL MORTISHED
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/carl-mortished/green-energy-development-will-hit-wall-as-subsidies-dry-up/article1818067/
Nov 25, 2010
JESSICA LEEDER and WENCY LEUNG
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/global-food/canadas-transgenic-enviropig-is-stuck-in-a-genetic-modification-poke/article1812708/
Nov 25, 2010
SIRI AGRELL
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/ms-treatment-trials-getting-under-way-in-newfoundland/article1812849/

New Brunswick is offside on MS

Nov 24, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/new-brunswick-is-offside-on-ms/article1812463/
Nov 23, 2010
SIRI AGRELL
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/father-of-liberation-treatment-calls-on-ottawa-to-help-ms-sufferers/article1811061/
Nov 22, 2010
BERTRAND MAROTTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/fellow-ms-sufferers-death-no-deterrent-ontario-woman-says/article1808077/
Nov 22, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/government-accused-of-lobbying-against-action-on-climate-change/article1809399/
Friday, December 3, 2010

Canada boosts university research funding

Nov 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/24/tech-chair-funding.html
November 2010
Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress - Ninth annual report
http://www.competeprosper.ca/index.php/work/annual_reports/annual_report_todays_innovation_tomorrows_prosperity/
Asking for same opportunities as energy companies
Dec 3, 2010
Barry Critchley
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Biotech+sector+seeking+with+flow/3921479/story.html
Province supports industry despite shrinking R&D investments
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/01/que-government-increase-pharma-subsidies.html
December 5-7, 2010 at the Westin Hotel, Ottawa, ON
Dec 3, 2010
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Media-Advisory-INNOVATION-2010-Canadas-R-D-Partnership-Conference-1363551.htm
Nov 24, 2010
U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)

Biofortification of Foods
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn367_biofortification.pdf

UK Indoor Air Quality
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn366_indoor_air_quality.pdf
Nov 19, 2010
Toronto Region Research Alliance
http://issuu.com/torontoresearch/docs/trra_ar10_final_web
Dec 1, 2010
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/nserc-on-hunt-to-help-smaller-firms-do-research/article1821354/
Nov 29, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/perimeter-investments-show-its-good-to-be-smart/article1818116/
FedDev Ontario Invests in Southern Ontario's Future Leaders
Nov 29, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Initiative-Encourages-Young-People-to-Discover-Careers-in-Science-and-Tech-1360325.htm
Dec 1, 2010
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/news/intlearlycareer20101201.html

Well, there’s your problem...

Nov 30, 2010
Rob Annan
Researcher Forum
http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/well-theres-your-problem/
It takes two years to win approval for a new technology
Nov 29, 2010
Tony Busseri
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/11/29/ottawa-and-innovation-just-don%E2%80%99t-mix/
Dec 1, 2010
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/is-a-university-education-a-right/
Nov 21, 2010
Yojana Sharma
University World News
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20101120090132925
Nov 23, 2010
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/un-seeks-university-partners-to-create-academic-impact/
Salaries pay almost $400 more per week than the average, statistics show
Nov 27, 2010
SCOTT SIMPSON
POSTMEDIA NEWS
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1324815
Nov 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/29/tech-perimeter-institute-theoretical-physics-bmo.html
Nov 26, 2010
THE EXAMINER
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2863758
McGuinty Government Celebrates Research Excellence In Ontario
Nov 26, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
http://news.ontario.ca/tcu/en/2010/11/2010-polanyi-prize-awarded-to-top-researchers.html
Nov 30, 2010
PETER HALPIN
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1330224
Nov 23, 2010
Jennifer Kwan
Reuters
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE6AM59S20101123
Nov 23, 2010
TAVIA GRANT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ontario-needs-to-pull-up-its-socks-task-force/article1809358/
Nov 23, 2010
Emily Mathieu
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/895139--ontario-lags-behind-u-s-prosperity
Publications retract articles after author repeatedly copied own work
Nov 28, 2010
Margaret Munro
Postmedia News
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Queen+University+papers+centre+growing+self+plagiarism+debate/3896018/story.html
Dec 2, 2010
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/02/c2068.html
Nov 25, 2010
Michael DeRuyter
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/726373
Nov 24, 2010
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/278870--feds-grant-mcmaster-university-12-million-for-five-new-and-six-existing-research-posts
Dec 1, 2010
Rebecca Lindell
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Canadian+Israeli+researchers+team+find+cures+spinal+injuries/3910766/story.html
Chairs Program brings best and brightest researchers to Canada's universities
Nov 24, 2010
Canada Research Chairs & Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Celebrates-the-Canada-Research-Chairs-Program-1359146.htm
Nov 30, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Dr-Suzanne-Fortier-Reappointed-as-President-Natural-Sciences-Engineering-Research-Council-1361402.htm
Nov 30, 2010
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2010/30/c8998.html
Dec 1, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/25/bonnie-schmidt-takes-science-beyond-the-classroom/article1819387/
Nov 30, 2010
Nick Rockel
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/25/brenda-milner-unlocks-the-mysteries-of-memory/article1817681/
Dec 3, 2010
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/climate-change-flooding.html
Dec 3, 2010
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Universities+launch+military+health+network/3921714/story.html
Dec 3, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Supports-R-D-Improve-Manufacturing-Technologies-Aerospace-Defence-1363745.htm
Dec 3, 2010
Kerry Sheridan
Agence France-Presse
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Discovery+changes+scientific+definition+life/3921878/story.html
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/bacteria-arsenic-dna-phosphorus-wolfe-simon.html
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/climate-change-cancun-wmo.html
Willing to compensate provinces for costs of Chalk River reactor shutdown
Dec 2, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/02/isotopes-medical-cost.html
Dec 2, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/gulf-oil-spill-panel-agency.html
Dec 2, 2010
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/cleanbreak/article/900603--hamilton-clean-tech-success-means-picking-right-battles
Local activist group worries logging Flores Island will push climate change further while another study suggests that using wood products would tackle it as well
Dec 2, 2010
Stefania Seccia
Westerly News
http://www.canada.com/Clayoquot+Sound+temperate+forests+among+highest+carbon+storage+areas+North+America/3917870/story.html
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/02/wifi-cellphone-radiation-health.html
Dec 2, 2010
Tyson Dyck
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/900102--when-will-we-follow-u-s-on-climate-change
Dec 2, 2010
Gordon McBean
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Cancun+future+climate+science/3915532/story.html
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/pei-gm-salmon-review-duke-584.html
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/north-qamanirjuaq-caribou-count.html
B.C., Quebec and Ontario will be first to see GM electric car
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/con-volt-canada.html
Dec 2, 2010
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/01/video-game-genetics-phylo.html
In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever
Dec 2, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17626874
McGuinty Government Helping Build Ontario's Clean Energy Economy
Dec 2, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2010/12/new-wind-blade-plant-creates-900-jobs-in-tillsonburg-area.html
Dec 1, 2010
Science-Metrix
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/01/c9156.html
SFU researchers find wind speeds have slowed three to five per cent per decade since the 1950s
Dec 1, 2010
Derrick Penner
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Climate+change+takes+wind+wind+energy+sails/3909629/story.html
Dec 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/01/biodiversity-infectious-disease.html
Haze over Earth's planetary neighbour sheds light on geo-engineering theory
Dec 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/01/venus-clouds-sulphur-dioxide.html
Dec 1, 2010
BILL HENRY
OWEN SOUND SUN TIMES
http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2870026
Dec 1, 2010
Dr. Julio Montaner
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/899394--world-aids-day-no-time-for-complacency
McGuinty Government Helping Build Ontario's Clean Energy Economy
Dec 1, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2010/12/new-wind-tower-plant-creates-700-jobs-in-windsor.html
Nov 30, 2010
Louise Elliott
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/11/26/vaccine-canada-aids-hiv.html
Canadian technology aims to extract $500 million a year from oilsands effluent
Nov 30, 2010
Dave Simms
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/f-oilsands-tailings-recovery.html
Nov 30, 2010
Alec Bruce
Times & Transcipt
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1330237
How much bluefin tuna should be caught in the Atlantic?
Nov 30, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/11/arguing_over_bluefin_tuna
Nov 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/north-offshore-drilling-review.html
Nov 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/bc-groups-want-ban-on-oil-tanker-traffic.html
Oil firms will change ad saying oilsands ponds 'like yogurt'
Nov 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/con-oilsand-ad-ruling.html
Innovation, know-how puts country ahead
Nov 30, 2010
Jameson Berkow
Financial Post
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Canada+doorstep+global+water+boom/3905667/story.html
Nov 30, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/tech-cancun-un-climate.html
Nov 30, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/mass-extinction-dead-zone.html
It’s not true that Alberta and Saskatchewan will bear the brunt of any attempt to price emissions
Nov 30, 2010
MARK JACCARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/a-convenient-excuse-for-climate-inaction/article1818177/
Nov 30, 2010
Paul Stanway
Calgary Herald
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Climate+guilt+tripping+doesn+work+China+India/3905583/story.html
Nov 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/pei-tuna-quota-iccat-584.html
Nov 30, 2010
JEFF GRAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bill-c-36-would-ratchet-up-consumer-protection/article1819610/
Nov 30, 2010
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/898832--panel-raises-recommended-level-of-sunshine-vitamin
Nov 30, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/tech-google-patents-translation.html
Nov 30, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/30/mb-radon-levels-health-canada.html
Nov 30, 2010
Peggy Curran
The Gazette
http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/universitycity/archive/2010/11/30/what-s-your-gaming-dna-mcgill-s-phylo-is-farmville-for-the-phd-set.aspx
McGuinty Government Proposes Expanding Chief Medical Officer Of Health's Powers
Nov 30, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2010/11/improving-ontarios-response-to-public-health-emergencies.html
McGuinty Government's Energy Plan Creating 126 Jobs and Cleaner Air
Nov 30, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2010/11/towers-of-ontario-steel-arrive-at-essex-wind-farm.html
Nov 30, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Encourages-Canadians-to-Test-Their-Homes-for-Radon-1361273.htm
Nov 30, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Aglukkaq-Announces-Appointment-Hazardous-Materials-Information-Review-Commission-1361463.htm
Nov 29, 2010
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/mark-hume/bcs-restructured-natural-resources-ministry-causing-shock-waves/article1816798/