Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Indentured servants, with lots of degrees

Apr 20, 2010
Tom Spears
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Indentured+servants+with+lots+degrees/2920843/story.html
Apr 20, 2010
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/whats-the-next-big-question-in-research/

A vestige of the 18th century

Homeopathy hasn't changed much since the days of blood-letting. So why are people still buying it?
Apr 20, 2010
Mitchell Gerskup, Ryan Gray, Michael Kruse, Iain Martel and Justin Trottier
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2926915
Apr 19, 2010
Jim Roche
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.obj.ca/Technology/2010-04-19/article-1026130/Canada%26rsquo%3Bs-productivity-gap,-and-what-to-do-about-it-/1
Award winner shifts farmers from dependence on chemicals
Apr 19, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/19/tech-cuban-seed-farmer.html
'Working together' to fill knowledge gaps
Apr 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/20/nunavut-mining-wildlife.html
Apr 15, 2010
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Dr-Gilles-G-Patry-Appointed-President-and-CEO-of-the-CFI-1148592.htm
Apr 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/15/calgary-alberta-carbon-emissions-greenhouse-gas-research.html
Apr 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/15/cancer-drug-research.html

Thinking big

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is on the lookout for the Next Big Question
Apr 13, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/thinking-big/article1533011/

Cancer genome project expands

Apr 14, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/14/cancer-genome.html
According to one 2008 survey, Canadian faculty were the highest-paid among 15 countries studied.
Apr 13, 2010
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/universities-are-sitting-ducks-for-reform/article1532075/
Apr 12, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/12/old-debate-more-participants-what-do-80-of-phd-holders-do-for-a-career/

Whither the NRC?

Apr 7, 2010
Rob Annan
Researcher Forum
http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/whither-the-nrc/
Apr 8, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/08/more-about-communicating-science-to-nonscientists/
Apr 15, 2010
Zahra Yamani
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108654419174440
Apr 16, 2010
Jenni Dunning
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/753790

Taking a stand for science

Science writer Michael Brooks plans to stand in the general election against Bosworth MP David Tredinnick, who wants homeopathy to keep receiving NHS funding
Mar 30, 2010
Michael Brooks
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/mar/30/mp-homeopathy-science

Youth-Driven Innovation in Canada

Now is the time to engage young people in innovation if we want to create the “economy of tomorrow”
Mar 29, 2010
Vinod Rajasekaran
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1212-youth-driven-innovation-in-canada
Mar 30, 2010
JAY BRYAN
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Canada+deficit+innovation+endangers+long+term+competitiveness/2741872/story.html
Mar 26, 2010
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/03/26/13372176.html
And the column's author responds to Environment Canada's defence of its practices
Apr 1, 2010
Charles Slowey and Mitchell Anderson
TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/04/01/FedsFireBack/
Apr 1, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/John-McDougall-Appointed-President-of-the-National-Research-Council-of-Canada-1141748.htm
A science writer has won the right to rely on the defence of fair comment in a libel action, in a landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal
Apr 1, 2010
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8598472.stm
Mar 30, 2010
JULIE GRECO
THE STANDARD
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2513757
Mar 30, 2010
STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/1000937

Green groups fear for funding

Sixteen local organizations await word on cash as Ottawa reviews its priorities
Mar 30, 2010
BEVERLEY WARE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1174723.html
Apr 21, 2010
Colleen Kimmett
The Tyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Rights-Justice/2010/04/21/WeaverSues/
Auditor-general tells Ottawa to live up to its 2009 commitment to protect, develop and assess changes in N.W.T. and elsewhere
Apr 21, 2010
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Government+ignoring+environment+jobs+North+report/2933049/story.html
Apr 21, 2010
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Climate+researchers+slap+Canada+emissions+record/2935233/story.html
Apr 21, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/21/toxic-pollution.html
Apr 21, 2010
Denise Deveau
Special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/20/led-lighting-technology-environment.html
Apr 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/20/salt-food-fda.html

Massive B.C. dam project approved

Apr 19, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/19/bc-site-c-announcement-peace-river-dam.html
Warm, dry spring helped cankerworms but hindered mosquitoes
Apr 19, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/19/mb-cankerworm-spraying-winnipeg.html
Apr 19, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/19/lancaster-sound-seismic.html
Apr 19, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/19/tech-paradis-canco2.html
NDP betraying policy, says Blois
Apr 18, 2010
GORDON DELANEY
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1177895.html
Apr 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/16/space-obama-mars-landing.html
Apr 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/16/tech-atlantic-garbage-patch.html
Number of cases hits 44 provincewide
Apr 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/16/bc-northern-measles-outbreak-spreads.html
The scientists in “climategate” did not fudge the data, a report finds
Apr 15, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15905891

'Climategate' researchers cleared

Apr 14, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/14/east-anglia-climate-change.html

For maternal health, hope at last

Concrete efforts do pay off. All the more reason to put more energy and ingenuity, not to mention money, toward solving the problem of maternal deaths.
Apr 15, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/for-maternal-health-hope-at-last/article1534801/
Apr 6, 2010
Thomas Mueller
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1007536
Researchers say universal flu immunization saves more lives and money than targeted doses
Apr 6, 2010
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/it-pays-to-give-everyone-the-flu-shot-study-says/article1525434/
Apr 2, 2010
Caroline Riseboro
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/789254--8-8-million-children-die-as-world-spends-billions-on-pet-food
Strategic prize: Space-based satellites can tap ‘an inexhaustible reservoir' of clean, renewable energy by 2050 or earlier
Apr 1, 2010
Neil Reynolds
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/you-can-turn-off-the-lights-or-collect-solar-energy-in-space/article1520485/
Apr 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/01/grizzly-bear-study.html

New isotope reactor ruled out

Too expensive, too long to build: report
Apr 1, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/31/ottawa-isotope-reactor-chalk-river.html
Apr 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/01/melting-icesheet.html
Apr 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/01/nl-buchans-health-401.html
Mar 31, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/30/clinton-contraception.html
Mar 31, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/31/eco-retrofit.html
Mar 31, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/31/alberta-red-deer-bse-lawsuit-rally-calgary.html
Mar 31, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/31/ct-screening-colonoscopy-fda-radiation-safety.html
Sexually transmitted infection showing signs of antibiotic resistance
Mar 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/30/gonorrhea-antibiotic-resistant-superbug.html
Mar 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/30/bc-living-oceans-oil-spill-costs.html
Mar 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/30/bc-measles-outbreak.html
Potential donors rise by record 75 per cent after one-day drives in Richmond, Toronto
Mar 30, 2010
Pamela Fayerman
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Chinese+Canadians+respond+stem+cell+call/2742345/story.html

'D' is for deficiency

Mar 30, 2010
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/deficiency/2742352/story.html
Mar 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/30/medical-isotopes-shortage.html

Call for action on Alzheimer's

Mar 29, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/786700--call-for-action-on-alzheimer-s

Seabirds struggle in warmer North

Mar 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/29/north-seabirds-climate-change-deaths.html
The fast-tracked drug has saved hundreds of Canadian lives, but now the scientist who developed it is calling attention to its drawbacks
Mar 29, 2010
Lisa Priest
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/herceptin-a-wonder-drug-but-not-a-miracle/article1515391/

Flushing out local polluters

By raising a stink while making moves to regulate sewage dumping, the feds hope municipalities will act more quickly
Mar 28, 2010
GREG WESTON
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/greg_weston/2010/03/26/13370351.html
Mar 27, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/27/nb-miramichi-bass-fishermen-731.html

Keep your lights on

Mar 27, 2010
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2732774
Mar 26, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/26/tanning-ban-proposal.html
Protective equipment missing; Despite promoting use of safety gear, agency images differ from policies
Mar 26, 2010
SARAH SCHMIDT
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Health+Canada+photos+contradict+message/2727158/story.html