June 16, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/06/16/devils-of-details-getting-scientists-to-understand-how-policy-making-works/
‘We are fabulous engineers but we are terrible business people because we are risk adverse and find reasons not to do things’
Jun 14, 2010
Mark Evans
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/start/mark-evans/canada-falls-down-on-commercialization/article1603149/?cid=art-rail-top40under402009
Province lags in innovation, venture capital
Jun 12, 2010
Gary Lamphier
Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Alberta+prosperity+from+assured/3145436/story.html

Innovation key to future

GE Canada CEO addresses oil and gas conference
Jun 19, 2010
DAVE BARTLETT
The Telegram
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=344115&sc=82
Science whiz's dream: a Nobel; Marymount student has a mess of medals, but makes time for other stuff, too
Jun 18, 2010
CHLOE FEDIO
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/chasing+Holy+Grail/3168959/story.html
Jun 12, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100612/science-museum-location-100612/20100612/?hub=OttawaHome
Jun 19, 2010
Dave Hall
The Windsor Star
http://www.windsorstar.com/business/firms+receive+research+funding/3174156/story.html
Jun 19, 2010
Environment Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Community-Environmental-Projects-in-the-Okanagan-1278616.htm
Jun 14, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Construction-New-Federally-Funded-Technology-Centre-Under-Way-Universite-de-Moncton-1275540.htm
Premier McGuinty Addresses Inaugural Canadian Water Summit
June 17, 2010
Office of the Premier, Government of Ontario
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2010/06/ontario-leading-the-way-in-water-opportunities.html
McGuinty Government Supporting Clean Transportation
Jun 18, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Transportation
http://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2010/06/ontario-paves-the-way-for-electric-vehicles.html
Jun 18, 2010
BIOTECanada
http://www.financialpost.com/Canadian+Biotech+Bench+Strength+Devoted+Taking+Canada+Beyond+Moose+Mountains+andinto+Economy+Future/3171684/story.html
Joint venture between Waterloo universities and BlackBerry entrepreneur’s private think tank feeling tension about who calls the shots
Jun 17, 2010
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/turnover-at-balsillie-school-raises-questions-of-academic-freedom/article1608394/

Doing their research

Jun 18, 2010
NICKI CRUICKSHANK
Barrie Examiner
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2628448
Jun 18, 2010
Courier-Islander
http://www.canada.com/applauds+aquaculture+investment/3168433/story.html

Old-school fuel

Jun 19, 2010
Carrie Tait
Financial Post
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/fp/school+fuel/3173228/story.html

PM's aversion to climate talk

Jun 19, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/825226--pm-s-aversion-to-climate-talk
Jun 18, 2010
Naomi Oreskes and Richard Littlemore
Special to the Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Climate+change+deniers+doing+disservice+legitimate+science/3169693/story.html
Jun 18, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/18/climate-carbondioxide-study.html
Jun 18, 2010
Allison Jones
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/825895--ottawa-aims-for-green-g8-g20-summits
Jun 18, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/18/calgary-enmax-district-energy-centre-heat-east-village.html
Jun 18, 2010
Giuseppe Valiante
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Canadians+much+generic+drugs+Report/3171080/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
Jun 18, 2010
Gabriel Zarate
Nunatsiaq News
http://www.vancouversun.com/Nunavut+reversal+polar+bears+alarming+Scientist/3172367/story.html
Jun 18, 2010
Jen Skerritt
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/government+enforcement+blame+Flin+Flon+contamination+expert/3173770/story.html
As northern gannets in the Gaspé guard their eggs, scientists worry the display may be much diminished in years to come
Jun 18, 2010
CINDA CHAVICH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/will-the-gannets-in-the-oil-drenched-gulf-return/article1609184/
Jun 18, 2010
MICHAEL LIGHTSTONE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1187958.html

Farm progress show all about tech

Jun 18, 2010
Barbara Woolsey
Saskatchewan News Network
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Farm+progress+show+about+tech/3169613/story.html

Japan could scupper whaling ban

Jun 18, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/18/japan-whaling-ban.html
June 18, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/17/stroke-prevent.html
Jun 18, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/06/18/lancaster-sound-letter.html
Jun 18, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/16/diabetes-cases-canada.html
Jun 18, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/18/female-viagra-libido.html
Jun 17, 2010
Mike Barber
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/million+Canadians+will+diabetes+this+decade+shows+study/3165490/story.html
Jun 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/06/17/mb-mosquito-fogging-winnipeg.html
June 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/17/ottawa-emerald-ash-borer-central-experimental-farm.html
Access to urban health care doesn't lower mortality rates
Jun 17, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/17/man-infant-mortality-cp-manitoba.html
As an ex-parliamentary researcher, CaSE's new head knows his way around the corridors of power
June 17, 2010
Paul Jump
Times Higher Education
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=412067&c=1
Jun 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/17/carbon-sequestration-iceland.html
Jun 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/17/h1n1-swine-genes.html
The Japanese chalk up two successes in space
Jun 17, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/16374480
A decade after the human-genome project, writes Geoffrey Carr (interviewed here), biological science is poised on the edge of something wonderful
Jun 17, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/16349358

How to improve the IPCC

Code of conduct and rapid communication are key, scientists tell review panel
Jun 16, 2010
Hannah Hoag
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/news.2010.302.html
Fund to be managed by independent 3rd party, Obama says
Jun 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/16/obama-bp-executives.html
484,000 square kilometres, largely sea ice, deemed critical
Jun 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/16/polar-bears-alaska.html
Jun 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/16/con-obama-bicycles.html
Jun 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/16/nwt-lake-mercury-fish.html
Jun 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/16/con-sf-cell-radiation.html
Medical isotope shortage because of rector closing led to one-fifth fewer tests, report says
Jun 16, 2010
Sarah Boesveld
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/aecl-wants-chalk-river-reactor-operating-by-end-of-july/article1607040/
Jun 16, 2010
Ian MacLeod
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Chalk+River+reactor+ready+restart+AECL/3163184/story.html
Jun 16, 2010
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/science-matters-species-loss-is-a-silent-epidemic-that-threatens-our-planet-96491229.html
Jun 16, 2010
ELIZABETH THOMPSON
SUN MEDIA
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/06/16/14415806.html
Jun 16, 2010
The Fraser Institute
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Fraser-Institute-Sustainable-Water-Exports-Possible-With-Reformed-Canadian-Water-Policies-1276814.htm
Jun 16, 2010
Shereen Dindar
National Post
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/16/male-menopause-symptoms-revealed-but-there-are-skeptics/
The risks of synthetic biology are outweighed by the hope it may help us avert environmental catastrophe
Jun 15, 2010
Peter Singer
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/creation-redux-a-powerful-tool-for-redesigning-life/article1603949/
Jun 15, 2010
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/g8/article/823391--tories-put-climate-change-on-g8-agenda
Jun 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/15/bc-cohen-salmon-inquiry.html
Jun 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/15/mcguinty-charest.html
Jun 15, 2010
Rob Ferguson
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/824053--quebec-and-ontario-eye-cap-and-trade-system-to-cut-carbon
Jun 15, 2010
Sidney Ribaux and Rick Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/823490--joint-cabinet-meeting-a-chance-to-chart-green-canadian-future
At the heart of the case is the question: Does the donation process protect recipients at the price of discrimination?
Jun 15, 2010
Natalie Stechyson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/court-asked-to-weigh-gay-rights-and-blood-policy/article1605732/
Jun 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/15/chevron-deepwater-oil-drill-615.html
Jun 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/15/bc-ecojustice-orcas-lawsuit.html
Jun 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/15/hopedale-pollution-legacy-meeting-615.html
Jun 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/15/nunavut-baffin-bay-polar-bears.html
Jun 15, 2010
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/clean+spill+under+Arctic+Expert/3158005/story.html
Jun 15, 2010
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Disband+fertility+industry+monitor/3156448/story.html
Jun 15, 2010
MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iuTQi_aNAaDX4fMjQSxw4OiYJpegD9GBQG700
Jun 15, 2010
Paul Stanway
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Albertans+must+develop+thicker+skin+about+oilsands/3155535/story.html

Thinning on top

Predicting the Arctic’s summer fate is not so simple
Jun 15, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/16369706
Jun 14, 2010
Dirk Meissner
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/western-leaders-to-talk-clean-and-green-at-annual-meeting-in-vancouver--96340069.html
Jun 14, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/14/arctic-drilling-neb.html
Jun 14, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20100614/ms-board-ccsvi-100614/
Anger and insurrection disrupt annual meeting
Jun 14, 2010
Anne Kingston
Macleans
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/14/ms-society-of-canada-a-house-divided-ceo-says/

Ottawa fails to lead on isotopes

Government has ignored expert panel’s key recommendation for new reactor
Jun 14, 2010
Jatin Nathwani & Donald Wallace
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/822618--ottawa-fails-to-lead-on-isotopes
Jun 14, 2010
Mark Kinver
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10307761.stm
Jun 14, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/article/823162--gulf-oil-spill-wake-up-call-for-ontario-groups-warn-mcguinty

This science is fishy

Jun 18, 2010
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/This+science+fishy/3169251/story.html
The authors assume 16 indirect jobs for every solar employee
Jun 16, 2010
William Watson
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/06/16/junk-science-week-solar-junk-economics/

Junk Science Week: Hope mongering

Media promotes the opposite of scare mongering
Jun 14, 2010
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/06/14/hope-mongering/#more-2112
Canada should call for a trial to test the science
Jun 14, 2010
David McCarron
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/06/14/junk-science-week-salt-scare-lacks-solid-evidence/#more-2104
Repeated claims of thousands of victims fail basic statistical tests
Jun 15, 2010
Peter Shawn Taylor
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/06/15/junk-science-week-the-missing-smog-dead/
Replacing products with low levels of bisphenol A with less-studied materials will have unknown effects
Jun 16, 2010
Julie E. Goodman
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/06/16/junk-science-week-the-devil-you-know/
Why would scientists allow themselves to be recruited to essentially political objectives?
Jun 15, 2010
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/06/15/junk-science-week-climate-junk-hard-to-dump/
Jun 13, 2010
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Feds+isotope+plans+short+sighted+critics/3149387/story.html
Jun 13, 2010
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Harper+pressured+climate+change+agenda/3149140/story.html
Jun 13, 2010
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/823043--millions-of-litres-of-pollutants-dumped-in-cities-analysis?bn=1
Jun 13, 2010
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Arctic+Ocean+retreating+year+record+pace/3149267/story.html
Jun 12, 2010
Ian MacLeod
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Push+Canadian+population+million+scholar+argues/3147619/story.html
Forget the Enlightenment; this is the Endarkenment
Jun 12, 2010
Peter Scowen
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/columnists/the-sleep-of-reason-produces-monsters-or-at-least-oil-covered-pelicans/article1603315/
Lloyd Axworthy’s ambitious mission has drawn prominent backers – and a few grumblers
Jun 11, 2010
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/remaking-the-university-of-winnipeg/article1601582/
After months of agitation from some patients, Canadian and U.S. societies put up $2.4-million to probe links between CCSVI and MS
Jun 11, 2010
Adrian Morrow
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/ms-societies-to-fund-research-into-controversial-theory/article1601709/