Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Tories' long-term plan shifts focus from spending to innovation

Ottawa will keep up stimulus for now, but party aims to show it's tackling future challenges in Throne Speech and budget
Mar 2, 2010
Bill Curry and Steven Chase
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/budget/tories-long-term-plan-shifts-focus-from-spending-to-innovation/article1486269/
Canada has the fiscal capacity to make decisions now about supporting research and development that will enhance our competitive position and lay the foundations for growth, health and prosperity in the decades ahead, and to position Canada internationally
Feb 22, 2010
Heather Munroe-Blum
The Hill Times
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2010/munroe_blum_hill_times_02_22_e.html
Feb 22, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/02/22/climbing-up-the-hill-getting-involved-in-science-and-society/

Leaner, Meaner Innovation

As venture capital continues to shrink in Canada, a new kind of startup backed by a new kind of money is beginning to emerge
Feb 26, 2010
April Dunford
The Mark News
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/922-leaner-meaner-innovation

Research Funding at Risk

Feb 23, 2010
Rob Annan
Researcher Forum
http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/research-funding-at-risk/
Feb 23, 2010
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canadian+climate+scientists+fight+renewed+research+funding/2603541/story.html
Feb 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/02/24/defence-research.html

Twitter for scientists

Feb 23, 2010
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/twitter-for-scientists/
Major projects increase opportunities in hot pockets of activity
Mar 2, 2010
Derek Sankey
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/business/Strengthening+economy+boosts+demand+engineers/2632410/story.html
Stimulus funding boosts environmental job prospects
Feb 22, 2010
Derek Sankey
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Green+jobs+abound+public+sector/2597412/story.html
Feb 24, 2010
Mia Rabson
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Researchers+group+slams+decision+cancel+vaccination+facility/2607037/story.html
Let’s cut the business equivalent of Own the Podium
Feb 23, 2010
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/23/the-chopping-block-own-the-test-tube.aspx
Mar 2, 2010
Roy Culpeper
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/773542--help-poor-countries-cope-with-climate-change
Mar 1, 2010
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/cleanbreak/article/773051--hamilton-bloom-and-the-coming-energy-convergence
Mar 1, 2010
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/China+eyeing+perks+free+Arctic+study/2627909/story.html
Mar 1, 2010
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/China+moves+become+major+Arctic+player/2626826/story.html
Mar 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/01/media-children-teens-health.html
Review to include 3 Windsor-area hospitals
Mar 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/01/windsor-pathology-review.html
Mar 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/01/montreal-c-difficile-outbreak-rosemont-hospital.html
Mar 1, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/01/tsunami-alert-communication-australia.html
Feb 27, 2010
Robyn Doolittle
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/772423--don-humber-river-valleys-to-get-greenbelt-protection
Feb 27, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/27/pathology-review.html
Feb 26, 2010
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hunting-in-bc-provincial-parks-puts-grizzlies-at-risk-study-finds/article1482088/
- Herbicide resistance found in kochia weed
- Farmers may suffer increased costs to treat weeds
- Monsanto evaluating problem, advising farmers
Feb 26, 2010
Carey Gillam
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2623528420100226?type=marketsNews
Feb 26, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/26/que-health-department-bans-green-cleaning-products.html
Feb 26, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/26/nb-biomedical-waste-treated.html
Feb 26, 2010
GREG KEENAN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/magna-intensifies-the-focus-on-electric-vehicles/article1482118/

Revolution or false hope?

Micronutrients show promise for mood disorders
Feb 26, 2010
ALBERT NERENBERG
Special to The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Revolution+false+hope/2618521/story.html
Feb 26, 2010
Steve Lambert
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/despite-health-risks-some-people-continue-to-buy-and-sell-breast-milk-online-85550212.html
Feb 26, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/26/tech-iceberg-antarctica.html
This century will be dominated by human movement, but not one caused by temperature
Feb 26, 2010
Doug Saunders
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/lets-not-fret-over-climate-migration/article1483245/
Refutes Bernier's suggestions that evidence doubted
Feb 25, 2010
Mike De Souza And Sheldon Alberts
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2609467
Feds had blasted province's vehicle rules as 'folly'
Feb 25, 2010
SHELDON ALBERTS
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Prentice+wants+play+nice+with+Charest+emissions/2609301/story.html
While U.S. hits hard with Hollywood-style ads, Canada takes a rudimentary approach
Feb 25, 2010
Simon Houpt
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/canadas-rudimentary-approach-to-unselling-drugs/article1481627/
Feb 25, 2010
Larry Pynn
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Grizzly+bears+being+killed+parks+protected+areas+review/2612595/story.html

NASA needs vision, senators say

Feb 25, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/25/tech-space-nasa-hearing.html
Signatories to endangered species convention to vote on proposal in March
Feb 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/25/cites-polar-bears.html
Feb 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/25/tech-energy-biofuel.html
Feb 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/25/nat-aecl-paradis.html
Feb 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/25/nat-aecl-paradis.html
Feb 25, 2010
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2010/25/c4659.html
Feb 25, 2010
Sarah Frank
myKawartha.com
http://www.mykawartha.com/news/article/623876--canada-wide-science-fair-ready-to-roll

Keeping the lakes great

Feb 25, 2010
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Keeping+lakes+great/2609713/story.html
The success of genetically modified crops provides opportunities to win over their critics
Feb 25, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15579956

Looking for ET: Signs of life

As the search for alien life turns 50, its practitioners find new methods
Feb 25, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15577544

Climate and combustion: Fired up

This year’s meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science looked at, among other things, fire, siestas, alien life and nuclear forensics
Feb 25, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15577520
Feb 25, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/24/date-rape-report.html
Feb 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/25/windsor-pathology-review-100225.html

When good ideas go bad

Feb 25, 2010
Elizabeth Payne
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/When+good+ideas/2609720/story.html
Feb 24, 2010
John Geddes
Macleans
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/24/a-british-plea-for-sensible-policy-on-unscientific-remedies/
Feb 24, 2010
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100224/hiv_scrapped_100224/20100224?hub=QPeriod
Environment minister, Conservative party distance themselves from MP's views
Feb 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/24/quebec-mp-maxime-bernier-doubts-climate-change-science.html

Canada's Sarah Palin emerges

Feb 24, 2010
Robert Silver
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/silver-powers/canadas-sarah-palin-emerges/article1480122/
Feb 24, 2010
LAURA PAYTON
SUN MEDIA
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/02/24/13008936.html
Opposition attacks Conservative government's sincerity on global warming after Maxime Bernier publicly questions scientific consensus
Feb 24, 2010
Joan Bryden
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/siding-with-skeptics-tory-mp-decries-climate-change-alarmism/article1479747/
Feb 24, 2010
Mike De Souza and Sheldon Alberts
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2608369
Feb 24, 2010
Nick Gamache
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/02/the-bernier-letter-the-directors-cut.html
Feb 24, 2010
Norman Spector
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/spector-vision/maxime-bernier-challenges-climate-science/article1479289/

Emissions: one single standard

Feb 24, 2010
Jim Prentice
The Leader-Post
http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Emissions+single+standard/2605249/story.html
Operations performed on 2 women who did not have cancer
Feb 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/24/windsor-second-mastectomy-100224.html
Feb 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/24/surgical-checklist.html
Could mean nuclear reactor won't be up and running by the end of April as planned
Feb 24, 2010
Sarah Boesveld
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/less-than-half-of-chalk-river-repairs-completed/article1480454/
Feb 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/24/h1n1-who-post-peak.html
Feb 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/24/tech-google-china-science.html
Feb 24, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/24/tech-climate-weather-data.html
Feb 24, 2010
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Shutdown+Chalk+River+nuclear+reactor+extended/2608608/story.html
Feb 24, 2010
Steven Edwards
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/watchdog+takes+Canada+medical+marijuana+program/2608747/story.html
Massive oil sands project could see 425,000 barrels a day by 2020
Feb 24, 2010
Lauren Krugel
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/syncrude-plans-to-boost-production/article1480061/
Terry Macyk laid the groundwork for advances in restoring coal mine and oilsands terrain
Feb 24, 2010
Dave Cooper
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Alberta+pioneer+reclamation+retires/2605904/story.html
Feb 24, 2010
Laura Stone
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canadian+scientists+Olympics+study+spread+infectious+diseases/2608687/story.html

Ontario power risk

Hydro One: Rising debt, higher costs, falling income
Feb 24, 2010
Parker Gallant
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/24/ontario-power-risk.aspx
Expert panel says it's premature to say virus past its peak; notes it's unclear how virus will spread as southern hemisphere
Feb 24, 2010
Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/who-says-too-early-to-call-end-to-h1n1-pandemic/article1479664/
Feb 24, 2010
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Decision+baby+bottles+controversial+documents/2606872/story.html
Ultra violet could have utility in dealing with flu viruses but there are serious limitations on that potential value, says microbiologist Eleanor Fish
Feb 24, 2010
Becky Rynor
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/24feb10-beware-of-wands.dtl
Community wants 'viable route' through Blanding's turtle habitat
Feb 24, 2010
Kate Jaimet
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Stupid+stupid+Terry+plan+draws+Sierra+Club+into+fight/2605010/story.html
Feb 24 2010
Carol Goar
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/770350--goar-tapping-canada-s-urban-breadbasket
Feb 24, 2010
PAUL TURENNE
QMI Agency
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/02/23/12999276-qmi.html
Feb 23, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/02/23/man-wastewater-scientist-nitrogen.html
Experts point to a shift in labour and health, as well as a limit to longevity gains
Feb 23, 2010
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/life-expectancy-gap-closing-between-men-and-women/article1478750/
Feb 23, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/23/life-expectancy-canada.html
Feb 23, 2010
Sunanda Creagh
Reuters
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/says+emissions+vows+enough+avoid+rise+degrees/2602286/story.html

Follow U.S. lead on Great Lakes

Feb 23, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/769801--follow-u-s-lead-on-great-lakes

Gardasil approved for males

Feb 23, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/23/hpv-gardasil-males.html

Blinded by science

Feb 23, 2010
George F. Will
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/02/23/george-f-will-blinded-by-science.aspx
Feb 22, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/22/britain-homeopathy.html

Homeopathic nonsense

Feb 22, 2010
Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd
Troy Media
http://www.troymedia.com/?p=8452
Feb 22, 2010
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/China+India+adding+waste+timebomb/2597341/story.html
Is having a family a human right?
Feb 22, 2010
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-right-to-bear-children-and-of-course-well-pay/article1477513/

How Quebec 'cornered' hydro power

From a political slogan, 'maitres chez nous,' to the biggest hydroelectric utility in the world
Feb 22, 2010
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/961721
Using sunlight to clean waste water
Feb 22, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science-technology/technology-monitor/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15570635
Feb 22, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/02/22/gabapentin-neurotonin-lawsuit.html
Ottawa gave millions to national agency Infoway without proper accountability; report casts doubt on department's controls
Feb 20, 2010
Dean Beeby
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/health-canada-slammed-in-ehealth-audit/article1475781/