Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Let's Teach Innovation

Canada can help close the productivity gap with the U.S. by breaking down the distinction between research and education.
Jul 21, 2010
Rob Thacker
The Mark News
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1901-let-s-teach-innovation
Minister Goodyear launches initiative to connect Canadian businesses with the next generation of skilled workers
Jul 28, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canadas-Economic-Action-Plan-Attracts-Top-Research-Talent-to-Southern-Ontario-1296782.htm
Minister Goodyear highlights investment in innovation and job creation in Southern Ontario
Jul 29, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canadas-Economic-Action-Plan-Supports-Business-Innovators-1297490.htm
Jul 29, 2010
Sarah Anderson
Waterloo Record
http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/752573
Student group concerned at loss of ‘public university model’
Jul 29, 2010
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tuition-creeping-beyond-government-funding/article1656628/

Having more BAs is a good thing

Aug 4, 2010
Allan Rock
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Having+more+good+thing/3356398/story.html

Campus crowding

Jul 27, 2010
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Campus+crowding/3325851/story.html
Let’s attract the brightest minds to our country’s universities and colleges, while, at the same time, send more of our own into the world
Aug 2, 2010
Amit Chakma
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/internationalizing-canadas-student-experience/article1657674/
LearnSphere to help companies get ideas to the marketplace
Jul 28, 2010
SHAWN BERRY
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/1152651

Three steps to a strong Canada

Jul 27, 2010
Kevin G. Lynch
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/news/Three+steps+strong+Canada/3326085/story.html
Report contradicts other countries’ analyses of impact on trade
Jul 28, 2010
Tim Kiladze
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-trade-missions-ineffective-ubc-study-says/article1655426/
David Rogers is honoured by his peers for work that has helped improve the accuracy of dosages that cancer patients receive
Jul 28, 2010
Jennifer Pagliaro
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Radiation+treatment+calibration+nets+Ottawa+researcher+award/3330404/story.html
The chorus is coming from groups of every kind, yet the federal government continues to adhere to its wrong-headed policy. It still has time, but only a little, to listen, and reverse its census decision.
Aug 4, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/short-census-question-will-the-government-listen/article1660871/
Aug 4, 2010
GUY VEZINA
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1162052

When oil policy springs a leak

How do we resolve the conflict between energy needs and environmental hazards?
Aug 4, 2010
Gary Hufbauer and Meera Fickling
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/when-oil-policy-springs-a-leak/article1660822/
Aug 4, 2010
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/article/843894--biofuels-impact-hard-to-gauge-report-warns
Aug 4, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/04/sask-ms-libertation-treatment-funding-research.html
Aug 4, 2010
Rob Breakenridge
The Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Premiers+jump+treatment/3356742/story.html
Aug 4, 2010
Les Whittington
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/843306--stockwell-day-questions-lower-crime-rates
Aug 3, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/crime-rated-down-but-day-says-unreported-crimes-up-99848269.html
Minister says a rise in unreported victims means Canada needs more prisons
Aug 4, 2010
MIKE DE SOUZA
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/mocked+online+over+crime+comments/3357152/story.html
Aug 4, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/04/pei-bed-bug-pandemic-584.html
Aug 4, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/04/fitness-credit-study.html
Recommendations flow from report into surgical errors in Windsor
Aug 4, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/04/wdr-mistaken-mastectomy-report-released-100804.html
Aug 4, 2010
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/08/04/14923921.html
Aug 4, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/04/hurricane-forecast-atlantic.html
Census not on the agenda – but it will likely be on the table
Aug 3, 2010
Steven Chase
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/annual-premiers-meeting-to-plot-census-strategy/article1661111/
Ottawa uses 2004 Statscan data to defend costs after dismissing reliability of census
Aug 3, 2010
Campbell Clark
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/stockwell-day-cites-alarming-rise-in-unreported-crime-to-justify-new-prisons/article1661054/

Wind’s PR problem

Aug 3, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/842902--wind-s-pr-problem
Aug 3, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/03/census-of-marine-life-biodiversity.html
Aug 3, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/03/fertility-quebec-ivf-funding.html
Aug 3, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/03/lancaster-seismic-injunction-qia.html
Aug 3, 2010
John Lewandowski
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/science/article/843168--marine-census-attempts-to-catalogue-ocean-creatures
Aug 3, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/03/qc-magdalen-islands-turtles-plastic-danger.html
‘The world, in fact, has spoken on this issue,’ says Statistical Society of Canada
Aug 2, 2010
Brenda Bouw and Steven Chase
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-stat-crunchers-join-census-fight/article1659883/
Some $25-million of $30-million on advertising to be spent on short census follow-up
Aug 2, 2010
TIM NAUMETZ
The Hill Times
http://hilltimes.com/page/view/integrity-08-02-2010
Ivan Fellegi says the federal agency is in crisis.
Aug 2, 2010
HARRIS MACLEOD
The Hill Times
http://hilltimes.com/page/view/census-08-02-2010
Once again, Stephen Harper has charted a course for the nation that drops the ball in the provinces' and territories' lap.
Aug 2, 2010
ARMINE YALNIZYAN
The Hill Times
http://hilltimes.com/page/view/yalnizyan-08-02-2010
But claim rejected by Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board
Aug 2, 2010
KRISTEN SHANE
The Hill Times
http://hilltimes.com/page/view/offshore-08-02-2010
Aug 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/02/income-cancer-study.html

The last resort on climate change

Aug 2, 2010
Gwynne Dyer
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/842625--the-last-resort-on-climate-change
Hormone-disrupting chemical is already banned in baby bottles
Aug 2, 2010
Nancy J. White
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/843074--bisphenol-a-coats-40-of-store-receipts
Aug 2, 2010
Maria Babbage
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/843007--experts-worried-about-ontario-birds-migrating-to-gulf-oil-spill
Albedo effect Warming link underestimated
Aug 2, 2010
RANDY BOSWELL
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Soot+cause+climate+change+study/3350147/story.html
Critic says researchers trying to justify industrial agriculture
Aug 2, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/02/farming-conventional-greenhouse-gases.html
Aug 2, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/02/dead-zone-gulf.html
Aug 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/02/ont-peregrine-falcon-rebound-100802.html
Aug 1, 2010
P.W. Stevenson
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Reverse+policy+jeopardize+integrity+reputation/3348175/story.html
Aug 2, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/02/cutworm-cornfield-pest.html
A North America-wide system would be preferable, but in the absence of federal leadership, some provinces and states are right to start their own cap-and-trade scheme to cut carbon
Aug 1, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-provinces-step-in-to-fight-climate-change/article1656706/
Aug 1, 2010
David Hutton
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canadian+spin+windmill+design+touted+green+energy+breakthrough/3346937/story.html

Cures that could kill

Banned health products full of heavy metals and bacteria are still for sale in ethnic stores across Vancouver
Aug 1, 2010
Tamara Baluja
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/life/Cures+that+could+kill/3348487/story.html
Aug 1, 2010
Tanya Talaga
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/842938--group-wants-hillary-clinton-to-keep-asian-carp-from-lakes
Jul 31, 2010
Andrew Mayeda
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Prospect+pumping+from+Beaufort+back+deep+freeze/3346975/story.html

Two countries, one carbon tax

Jul 31, 2010
David Frum
National Post
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/31/david-frum-two-countries-one-carbon-tax/
Jul 30, 2010
Sarah McGinnis
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Changes+census+harm+records/3340713/story.html
Jul 30, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/30/asteroid-earth-trajectory.html
Health Canada's Sodium Working Group is calling on Canadians and industry to slash the levels of salt they use in preparing foods
Jul 30, 2010
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/30july10_saltE.dtl

The BP spill’s costly lessons

Jul 30, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/842171--the-bp-spill-s-costly-lessons
U of C scientists find more females downstream
Jul 30, 2010
Gwendolyn Richards
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/todays-paper/River+chemicals+affecting+fish+gender/3340703/story.html

A roadmap to less salt

Jul 30, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/842097--a-roadmap-to-less-salt

Save the census

The Canadian government should rethink its decision to change the way census data are collected
Jul 29, 2010
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7306/full/466532a.html

Stubborn stance on census foolish

Jul 29, 2010
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/Stubborn+stance+census+foolish/3335466/story.html

Economists decry census move

More than 75 per cent of group surveyed do not believe it’s good policy to replace mandatory long-form census with a voluntary household survey
Jul 29, 2010
Tavia Grant
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economists-decry-census-move/article1656565/

Fish feminizing in Alberta rivers

Jul 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/29/calgary-fish-rivers-sex-hormones-research.html
Alberta researchers say gender-bending fish are swimming in the province’s southern rivers
Jul 29, 2010
Shannon Montgomery
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/gender-bending-fish-raise-red-flags/article1656646/

The explosive politics of MS

Medical funding is too important to be driven by popular demand instead of facts
Jul 29, 2010
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-explosive-politics-of-ms/article1655171/
Scientists hope findings will debunk some growing skepticism about climate change
Jul 29, 2010
Paul Waldie
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/the-earth-is-hotter-than-ever-global-warming-is-real-researchers-warn/article1655436/
Jul 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/29/f-climate-state-noaa-graphics.html
Jul 29, 2010
Carmen Chai
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Evidence+global+warming+undeniable+world+report+says/3338073/story.html
Jul 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/29/climate-change-study-noaa.html

We’re in a pinch over salt

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq sent a wrong message on an important prevention issue by being absent when Canada's long-overdue salt-reduction strategy was introduced
Jul 29, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/were-in-a-pinch-over-salt/article1656623/
Jul 29, 2010
Sarah Schmidt
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Salt+reduction+targets+shaken+industry+health+minister/3334445/story.html
Jul 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/29/calgary-enbridge-spill-pipeline-ercb-alberta-safe.html
Jul 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/29/joint-replacement-rabbits.html
When his census position was misrepresented, his resignation transcended policy
Jul 29, 2010
C.E.S. Franks
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-munir-sheikh-matter-was-no-technicality/article1655113/
We should think seriously before making changes that will affect governments’ capacity to deliver good public policy
Jul 28, 2010
Stuart Soroka
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/census-call-is-part-of-data-collection-trend/article1653638/

Bias triumphs in census row

Jul 28, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/840882--bias-triumphs-in-census-row
Jul 28, 2010
Mia Rabson
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/data-are-secure-retired-political-scientist-says-99447499.html
Jul 28, 2010
Giuseppe Valiante
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Police+caseloads+rise+crime+rates+waning+Canada+StatsCan/3333897/story.html
Critics say move by Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia reduces pressure for federal action
Jul 28, 2010
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-praises-three-provinces-set-to-introduce-cap-and-trade-system/article1655271/
Dalhousie research on phytoplanktons another indication of seas under stress
Jul 28, 2010
Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/plants-at-base-of-ocean-food-chain-in-decline-study-finds/article1654702/
Jul 28, 2010
Carmen Chai
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Crucial+marine+algae+declining+globally+study/3333694/story.html
Jul 28, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/28/phytoplankton-vanishing.html
Jul 28, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/28/ns-deep-sea-discoveries.html
Jul 28, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/28/marine-biodiversity-study.html
Jul 28, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/28/michigan-enbridge-oil-spill-100728.html
Interconnected data centers powered by wind, sun, could drastically reduce IT carbon footprints Jul 28, 2010
Michael Oliveira
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/canadian-researchers-hope-to-green-the-web-and-make-canada-the-worlds-web-server/article1654917/
Pulse Energy is based on a simple idea: Using less energy makes bottom-line sense. But implementing simple ideas requires minds schooled in complexity
Jul 28, 2010
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/clean-energy-getting-a-pulse-on-vancouver/article1653632/
Jul 28, 2010
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/science-matters-climate-change-and-water-are-inextricably-linked--99480509.html

Beyond eco-fees

Jul 28, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/840877--beyond-eco-fees
Saskatchewan agrees to fund clinical trials of experimental procedures
Jul 28, 2010
Tanya Talaga
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/841494--ontario-waits-to-make-decision-on-new-ms-treatment
Jul 28, 2010
David Hutton
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Sask+plan+fund+treatment+trials+raises+national+debate/3334159/story.html
Clement obdurate in testimony before Commons committee
Jul 27, 2010
John Ibbitson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/survey-says-government-still-not-listening-on-census/article1653939/
Current census is reliable, used by policy-makers and forms basis for other Canadian statistical analysis. By comparison, prospective voluntary survey is unsupported by professionals and unusable
Jul 27, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/long-form-testimonials-shine-light-on-bad-census-policy/article1653802/
Committee votes in favour of nonbinding motion to reinstate long-form census
Jul 27, 2010
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/sheikh-shares-his-disdain-at-census-changes-with-commons/article1653937/
Entrepreneurs, economists rely heavily on data from the long-form census, and most can’t afford the alternatives
Jul 27, 2010
Tavia Grant
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/grow/expanding-the-business/business-concerned-over-census-changes/article1653800/
Jul 27, 2010
Les Whittington
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/840595--ex-statscan-chief-says-he-quit-to-protect-agency-s-credibility
Jul 27, 2010
MINDY JACOBS
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/mindelle_jacobs/2010/07/26/14835731.html
Jul 27, 2010
Sharon Kirkey
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Medical+journal+urges+strict+regulations+high+caffeine+energy+drinks/3327540/story.html
Vessel made of recycled plastic bottles completes journey across the Pacific to highlight threat of pollution to the world's oceans
Jul 27, 2010
Cigdem Iltan
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/plastiki-a-message-in-12500-bottles/article1652748/
B.C., Ontario, Quebec embrace cap-and-trade system to fight global warming that is based on plan dropped by U.S. Senate
Jul 27, 2010
David Ebner
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/biggest-provinces-push-plan-to-cap-emissions/article1653672/
Premier puts province at forefront of Canadian efforts to introduce a treatment that has experts – and those with MS – divided
Jul 27, 2010
Patrick White
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/saskatchewans-wall-vows-to-fund-contentious-ms-treatment/article1653519/
Aug 2, 2010
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Launches-Investments-in-Forest-Industry-Transformation-Program-1298721.htm
Jul 30, 2010
Environment Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Celebrates-800th-Donation-Through-Ecological-Gifts-Program-1298220.htm
FedDev Ontario invests in people, communities and businesses
Jul 29, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Goodyear-Outlines-Plan-for-Jobs-and-Growth-in-Southern-Ontario-1297629.htm
Jul 29, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Welcomes-Sodium-Reduction-Report-1297556.htm
Jul 28, 2010
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/NRC-and-uOttawa-Scientists-Conduct-Groundbreaking-Scientific-Experiment-1296918.htm
Jul 28, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Announces-Continued-Support-National-Aboriginal-Diabetes-Initiative-1296903.htm
Jul 28, 2010
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Wind-Energy-in-New-Brunswick-1296619.htm
Jul 28, 2010
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Investing-Clean-Energy-Production-Improvement-AV-Nackawic-Pulp-Mill-1296695.htm
Jul 27, 2010
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
http://smr.newswire.ca/en/canadian-institutes-of-health-research-cihr/government-of-canada-supports-research-to-reduce-childhood
Jul 26, 2010
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/26/c6522.html