Monday, July 5, 2010

A New Way to Change the World

Grand Challenges Canada will bring scientific innovation to the developing world to solve urgent health problems
Jun 30, 2010
Peter Singer
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1772-a-new-way-to-change-the-world
June 30, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/06/30/doctors-of-philosophy-i-fear-not/
Jun 28, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-State-Goodyear-Meet-with-Provincial-Territorial-Ministers-Discuss-Innovation-1282769.htm
Jun 30, 2010
PETER HADEKEL
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Quebec+master+plan+answers+call+improve+province+productivity/3218662/story.html
Medical journal calls for system to initiate clinical studies in response to promising therapeutic discoveries
Jun 28, 2010
Carly Weeks
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/plight-of-ms-patients-exposes-flaws-in-canadas-approach-to-medical-research/article1621494/
June 29, 2010
Rob Annan
Researcher Forum
http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/public-has-a-right-to-influence-research-policy/
Jun 30, 2010
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Dalhousie+Alberta+crack+international+list/3219963/story.html
Institute recruits top graduates in math, science and engineering to be the leaders of the future
Jun 30, 2010
Neil Turok
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/transforming-africa-one-student-at-a-time/article1624575/
Interest in expansion abroad driven by scarce resources at home and huge untapped market
Jul 2, 2010
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-universities-see-india-as-land-of-opportunity/article1627322/
Jul 2, 2010
Nick Martin
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/staff-declines-hurt-education-universities-97650904.html

It’s time to talk carbon taxes

Jul 5, 2010
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/830737--hamilton-it-s-time-to-talk-carbon-taxes
The Senate Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment Committee is studying whether a sub-ocean blowout like BP's in the Gulf of Mexico could happen in Canada. Oil companies say no, but some Senators aren't convinced.
Jul 5, 2010
KRISTEN SHANE
The Hill Times
http://www.hilltimes.com/page/view/drilling-07-05-2010
Are they an economic bonanza? Or an environmental apocalypse?
Jul 5, 2010
Todd Hirsch
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-quest-for-truth-in-the-oil-sands/article1626967/
Jul 5, 2010
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorials/1190519.html
Jul 5, 2010
Neil Boyd
Special to the Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Conservatives+irrational+crime+laws+make+sense+cost+billions+dollars/3236458/story.html
Jul 5, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/05/fisheries-science-newfoundland-705.html
Jul 5, 2010
Philip Ling
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Expiry+antiviral+stockpile+leave+Canada+without+pandemic+defence+Health+officials/3236821/story.html
Liberal government would formalize moratorium on crude-oil tanker traffic to prevent spill from occurring off B.C.'s north coast
Jul 5, 2010
Michael Ignatieff
Special to the Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Protecting+oceans+protecting+economy/3236454/story.html
Research finds there aren't enough experts gathering knowledge about plants and animals in the field
Jul 5, 2010
cynthia vukets
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/1122152
Jul 5, 2010
Environment Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-announces-Funding-for-Lake-Simcoe-Clean-Up-Projects-1285531.htm
Jul 5, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Ban-on-Flavoured-Tobacco-Products-Now-in-Full-Force-1285621.htm
Saturn’s Titan is a vast reservoir of hydrocarbons
Jul 5, 2010
Neil Reynolds
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/many-moons-to-go-the-promise-of-lunar-mining/article1626913/
Jul 5, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/07/05/inuit-health-icc-nuuk.html
Jul 5, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/07/05/obesity-waist-circumference-bmi.html
Jul 5, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/05/tim-hortons-waste-cups-fuel.html

BP cleanup costs pass $3B US

Jul 5, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/05/bp-gulf-costs-oil-spill.html
Jul 5, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/05/con-hybid-safety.html
Jul 4, 2010
Katherine Dedyna
Times Colonist
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Threat+West+Nile+fallen+steadily/3234488/story.html
Jul 3, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20100703/boreal-conservation-100703/
Jul 3, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20100703/male-hpv-100703/
Jul 2, 2010
Canadian Association of University Teachers
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/02/c9863.html
Federal review panel, which warned of ‘significant adverse environment effects,’ didn’t have mandate to weigh economic benefits
Jul 2, 2010
David Ebner and Justine Hunter
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/harper-to-decide-fate-of-controversial-mine/article1627110/
Jul 2, 2010
John Spears
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/831294--province-blocks-solar-generation-loophole
U.S. journal editor defends finding of higher mortality for home births
Jul 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/07/02/home-births-safety.html
Jul 2, 2010
Dean Bennett
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/831381--don-t-tread-on-ed-premier-stelmach-defends-alberta-oilsands-in-washington-post
The Alberta government’s ad in The Washington Post, making the case for the oil sands in the United States, is both necessary and appropriate
Jul 2, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/stelmachs-timely-reminder-of-american-self-interest/article1627132/
'A potential new environmental danger'
Jul 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/02/oil-spill-arsenic.html
Jul 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/29/calgary-alberta-land-nature-conservancy-red-deer-plover.html
Jul 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/02/pei-eagles-returned-584.html
Jul 1, 2010
Kathryn Blaze Carlson
National Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/base+cure+hope+Paper/3223856/story.html

Ban asbestos worldwide: doctors

Jul 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/07/01/mtl-asbestos-global-ban.html
Group is calling for global ban on the mining and use of the mineral
Jul 1, 2010
Julie Steenhuysen
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/researchers-ask-canada-to-ban-asbestos/article1625512/
Jul 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/07/01/stem-cell-online-warning.html
A new test can forecast extreme longevity
Jul 1, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/16479276
Acidification threatens the world’s oceans, but quantifying the risks is hard
Jul 1, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/16479264
Jul 1, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/01/aecl-chalk-river-isotopes-july.html
Jun 30, 2010
Robert Gibbens
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Health+organisations+call+govt+halt+asbestos+exports/3220879/story.html
Jun 30, 2010
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/sci_tech/science-matters-what-the-beluga-can-teach-us-about-ourselves-97472704.html
Jun 30, 2010
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Collaborating-With-US-on-Materials-Research-for-Clean-Energy-1284441.htm
Jun 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/30/new-planet-discovery.html
Jun 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/30/study-ozone-arctic-ice-levels.html
French nuclear giant looking to build clean energy parks
Jun 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/30/nb-areva-nuclear-reactor-532.html
Jun 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/30/nb-dutch-elm-disease-fredericton-635.html
Agreement aims to keep contaminated seafood out of circulation
Jun 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/30/con-gulf-fishing.html
Jun 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/30/pei-tanning-bed-laws-584.html
Jun 30, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/30/exercise-dementia.html

Windmills kill more birds

A double standard applies to the ‘Cuisinarts of the Air’
Jun 30, 2010
Diane Katz
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/06/30/windmills-kill-more-birds/
Quebec government considering investment in dying Jeffrey mine
Jun 29, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/29/mtl-cancer-society-asbestos-industry.html

'We need a carbon tax'

Harvard professor urges Canadians not to follow the U.S. path
Jun 29, 2010
Lynn Moore
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/need+carbon/3214419/story.html
Jun 29, 2010
Tamara Gignac
Calgary Herald
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Many+popular+baby+foods+high+sugar+Study/3215410/story.html
Potential Future Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon
Jun 29, 2010
CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/The-Canadian-Space-Agency-Invests-in-Concept-Studies-1283018.htm
Jun 29, 2010
Reuters
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Enbridge+expand+pipeline+join+carbon+capture+project/3214261/story.html
June 29, 2010
Joey Sabljic
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/654271

The connected Arctic

A long way from anywhere, researchers are plugged into everywhere
Jun 29, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/16472913
McGuinty Government Supports Local Manufacturing And Job Creation
Jun 29, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
http://news.ontario.ca/medt/en/2010/06/aerospace-innovation-taking-off-in-toronto.html
Jun 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/29/mosquitoes-study.html
Jun 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/29/mtl-reaction-quebec-cuts-generic-drugs.html
Jun 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/29/carlin-inquest-drug-safety.html
Jun 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/29/ns-bras-dor-biosphere.html
Jun 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/29/inuit-greenland-drilling.html

War on drugs a costly failure

Jun 29, 2010
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/drugs+costly+failure/3214796/story.html
Political will needed but Tories going other way
Jun 29, 2010
Ethan Baron
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Portugal+experience+points+drug+solution/3214518/story.html
Jun 28, 2010
Todd Coyne
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Decriminalize+drugs+urge+groups+ahead+AIDS+conference/3210808/story.html

Carbon capture concerns raised

Jun 28, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/28/carbon-capture-storage.html
Irving Oil decision to kill its tidal power plans sparks interest in Maine
Jun 28, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/28/nb-tidal-power-maine-610.html
Jun 28, 2010
Jeremy Warren
The StarPhoenix
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Weed+Control+Part+sufferer+finds+relief+with+medical+marijuana/3198412/story.html
Medical marijuana growers face obstacles, while police still see issues
Jun 27, 2010
David Hutton
The StarPhoenix
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Weed+Control+Part+Still+treated+criminals/3204415/story.html
Coroner’s inquest into suicide of Ontario teen recommends sweeping changes to drug safety regulations
Jun 28, 2010
Adrian Morrow
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/beef-up-rules-on-prescription-drugs-inquest-urges/article1622095/
Jun 28, 2010
Peter Singer
National Post
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/28/peter-singer-the-task-of-saving-mothers-and-children-starts-today/
June 28, 2010
BILL TAYLOR
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1112736
The diabetes drug is under fire again as the U.S FDA gets ready to examine its risks and benefits Jun 28, 2010
Carly Weeks
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-avandia-study-raises-more-questions-about-diabetes/article1622006/
Canada's top medical journal urges caution over new MS treatment
Jun 28, 2010
Megan Ogilvie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/829834--medical-journal-urges-caution-over-new-ms-treatment
June 28, 2010
Helen Branswell
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/829735--ms-patients-going-in-droves-for-unproven-therapy
Jun 28, 2010
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Magnitude+global+warming+uncertain+survey+finds/3212837/story.html

R&D, plus vision equals success

Instrument Concepts enjoys strong rep
Jun 28, 2010
MARTHA WILSON
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1189449.html

Canary in a coal mine

Jun 28, 2010
Larry Sampson
New Brunswick Business Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1112823
Jun 28, 2010
CANADA'S RESEARCH-BASED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES (RX&D)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2010/28/c8903.html
Jun 28, 2010
The Daily News
http://www.canada.com/agency+needed+handle+outbreak/3210677/story.html
Jun 27, 2010
David Karp
Times Colonist
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Tenth+person+with+difficile+dies+Nanaimo+hospital+since+March/3208467/story.html
Federal government scientists seek out beneficial insects in effort to control crop pests
Jun 27, 2010
Brian Lewis
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/life/Good+bugs+bugs+bugbears+farming/3207713/story.html
Jun 26, 2010
Mike Desouza
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/should+fossil+fuel+subsidy+summit+poll/3204612/story.html
Jun 26, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/26/oil-cleanup-technology.html
May 19, 2010
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/wr02462.html