Sunday, January 17, 2010

Call for a bigger vision

Science in Canada cannot realize its full potential without clear direction from government
Jan 14, 2010
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7278/full/463135a.html

Producing more PhDs

Jan 11, 2010
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/producing-more-phds
Report recommends time limit on postdoctoral training
Jan 11, 2010
Rosanna Tamburri
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/canadian-survey-postdocs.aspx
Preston Manning has been a knowledgeable supporter of science for years
Jan 11, 2010
Daniel Mccabe
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/manning-an-unlikely-ally-for-universities.aspx

Canada needs a polar policy

A lack of coordination in Arctic research funding leaves scientists without the support they need for fieldwork. John England outlines how Canada can set things right, and show leadership in the north.
Jan 14, 2010
John England
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7278/full/463159a.html
Jan 13, 2010
Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gpniNCHdszW0AL7fhSwW78p76XxA
Jan 13, 2010
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/Arctic+researchers+frozen+funding+scientist/2437949/story.html
Jan 13, 2010
John Bowman
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/13/tech-arctic-polar-research.html
As hospitals scramble for philanthropic dollars, many fear that only pharmaceutical firms will have pockets deep enough for trials
Jan 16, 2010
LISA PRIEST
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/cancer-studies-face-national-funding-crisis/article1433644/
Jan 11, 2010
Bruce Cheadle
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/81182202.html
Jan 12, 2010
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/letters/shortsighted+save+little+money/2431133/story.html

Funds needed to stay on top

Jan 11, 2010
SHARON LEM
QMI AGENCY
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/01/11/12416201-sun.html
Jan 11, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/11/con-mine-geothermal.html
Jan 13, 2010
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/749960--ottawa-chips-in-58-million-for-clean-tech-innovations

Taxing Issues

Quebec culture, special interest groups to blame for slow pace of reform at cash-strapped universities
Jan 9, 2010
Giuseppe Valiante
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/Taxing+Issues+Reform+happening+slowly+cash+strapped+Quebec+universities/2422520/story.html
Jan 12, 2010
Eric McGuinness
Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/703598
Jan 14, 2010
Canadian Research Knowledge Network
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2010/14/c8778.html
Supermarket fined $3,500 for selling a live bighead carp that could endanger native fish
Jan 16, 2010
Ann Hui
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/751564--invasion-of-the-bighead-carp-has-ontario-scared
Jan 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/15/bc-court-ruling-safe-injection-site-vancouver.html
Health authorities cannot 'sit back,' Fukuda says
Jan 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/15/h1n1-pandemic-who.html
Jan 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/15/h1n1-economic-impact-hours-worked.html
Jan 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/15/h1n1-who-us-canada.html
Jan 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/15/hpv-infections-new-couples.html
Jan 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/15/smoking-finland.html
Jan 15, 2010
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/Paleontologists+concerned+about+mining+company+Arctic+project/2446342/story.html
Biggest Canadian pilot project
Jan 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/15/montreal-electric-car-quebec-mitsubishi.html
Jan 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/15/pei-wind-power-projects-584.html
Jan 14, 2010
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Tackling+obesity+require+anti+smoking+style+approach+Canada+doctor/2442097/story.html
Jan 14, 2010
Sharon Hill
The Windsor Star
http://www.canada.com/technology/More+preparation+needed+climate+change+says+Phillips/2442885/story.html
Jan 14, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/13/canadian-car.html
Critics claim agency colluded with makers of vaccine
Jan 14, 2010
Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/who-fights-back-over-criticism-that-it-exaggerated-h1n1-threat/article1431667/
Jan 14, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/01/14/consumer-pesticide-ban.html
Jan 14, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/01/14/chalk-river-isotopes.html
Jan 14, 2010
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/01/14/lawrence-solomon-australia-may-be-backing-away-from-cap-and-trade.aspx
Food, climate or toys: Policy implications enter into every stage of risk assessment
Jan 14, 2010
Ronald L. Doering
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/01/14/don-t-be-fooled-science-is-always-politicized-160.aspx

The new inquisition

In a new collection of essays, Post columnist Rex Murphy defends climate change heretics from David Suzuki
Jan 14, 2010
Rex Murphy
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/14/rex-murphy-the-new-inquisition.aspx
According to a landmark new study, we’re less fit in almost every way than we were 28 years ago. How did this happen – and what can we do about it?
Jan 13, 2010
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/fat-nation-canadians-are-heavier-wider-weaker/article1430315/
Jan 13, 2010
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gVB3NH3D7S2U3Qn-1e2OvnCCVDcA
Vehicles produce more emissions, according to Environment Canada
Jan 12, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/01/12/conference-board-oilsands.html
Jan 12, 2010
Paul Ekins
Special to the Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Global+lessons+building+carbon+economy/2431456/story.html
The widely used plastic-making compound has already been labelled toxic by Health Canada and removed from baby bottles
Jan 12, 2010
Martin Mittelstaedt
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/low-amount-of-bpa-can-increase-cardiac-risk-by-45-per-cent-study-finds/article1428929/
Jan 12, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j5u07YiMEmAnXSkSauLFb6pr00ag
StatsCan to release national survey that took physical measurements of Canadians
Jan 12, 2010
Sharon Kirkey
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Doctor+weighs+obesity+ahead+Statistics+Canada+survey+release/2433478/story.html

We just keep getting fatter

Jan 12, 2010
MINDELLE JACOBS
Edmonton Sun
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/columnists/mindelle_jacobs/2010/01/12/12440666.html
Jan 12, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/11/tv-watching-premature-death-heart-disease.html

WHO to examine its H1N1 response

Jan 12, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/12/h1n1-who.html
Jan 12, 2010
CHRISTINA SPENCER
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/01/12/12439436.html
Putting voluntary bite on sodium
Jan 12, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/11/salt-new-york-food-health.html
Jan 12, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/12/green-touch-network-communications.html
Jan 11, 2010
Laura Stone
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2426327
Jan 11, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/11/isotopes-chalk-river-doctors.html
Jan 11, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/11/baffin-caribou.html
Jan 11, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/11/hiv-resistance-bc.html
Jan 11, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/11/hepatitis-institute-medicine-us.html
Jan 11, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/11/medical-pot-new-jersey.html
Jan 11, 2010
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canadian+infant+formula+crackdown+fails+make+baby+steps+Internal+documents/2429668/story.html
Jan 11, 2010
Michael Geist
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/technology/lawbytes/article/748958--geist-ottawa-pulls-own-internet-hoax
Researchers say China may be the country to make significant discoveries in regenerative therapies
Jan 11, 2010
SHARON LEM
QMI AGENCY
http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/01/11/12416196-sun.html
Six young killers whales born in the past year returns endangered population back to 2007 levels
Jan 11, 2010
ROD MICKLEBURGH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/surprise-baby-boomlet-lifts-bcs-orca-pods/article1426431/
Analysis shows environment minister nearly matched by calls to Clement
Jan 10, 2010
Glen McGregor
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Prentice+leads+contact+with+lobbyists/2425569/story.html

'It's like a death watch'

Environmentalists say Canada is dithering despite clear evidence showing many species in decline
Jan 10, 2010
Ed Struzik
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/like+death+watch/2425928/story.html