Friday, December 17, 2010

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2010

Dec 2010
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9210051E.PDF
U.S., Germany, Korea, Sweden receive praise
Dec 14, 2010
Peter O'Neil
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+decline+research+spending+criticized+report/3975296/story.html
Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02158.html
Dec 2010
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06128.html
Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02163.html
Dec 2010
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
http://www.mrcglobal.org/projects/african_innovation
Dec 16, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Dr-Howard-Alper-Reappointed-as-Chair-Science-Technology-Innovation-Council-1370536.htm
Dec 2010
Council of Canadian Academies
http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?EtsV--5rAu-Tx3tu5
Dec 14, 2010
ADAM RADWANSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/scrapping-innovation-awards-latest-sign-that-ontario-liberals-are-running-scared/article1838107/
Accepting strong foreign students is immigration policy at its best; shunning them is emigration policy at its worst
Dec 15, 2010
CLIFFORD ORWIN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/our-choice-spend-the-money-or-lose-the-brightest/article1837977/
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/uoft-hertzmann-steacie-prize.html
Dec 16, 2010
JEREMY NOLAIS
METRO CALGARY
http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/local/article/721297--science-centre-will-enthrall-a-geek-near-you
Institutions will have to adapt to changing demographics, economic conditions
Dec 14, 2010
MARY-ELLEN SAUNDERS
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1350839

Making the grade

Dec 14, 2010
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Making+grade/3973239/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
For real change, we need to radically rethink the teaching and learning process
Dec 6, 2010
Pierre Zundel & Patrick Deane
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/its-time-to-transform-undergraduate-education.aspx
The law continues to threaten stem-cell research in America
Dec 9, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17672816
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Dec 17, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121710.asp
McGuinty Government Supporting Entrepreneurs, Bringing Local Ideas To Life
Dec 16, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121610.asp
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Dec 14, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121410.asp
Dec 17, 2010
Karen Kleiss
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Alberta+fund+study+Zamboni+treatment/3992749/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Norman Spector
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/spector-vision/filtering-out-the-climate-change-bs/article1842438/
Dec 17, 2010
MIKE DE SOUZA
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Climate+role+helps+national+image+memo/3990564/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Environment+Canada+lobbied+stay+global+warming+panel/3990896/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/tech-carp-asian-great-lakes.html
Dec 17, 2010
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Editorial+Canada+must+ensure+prescription+drugs+that+pass+testing+heal/3991518/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Carmen Chai
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Unnecessary+surgeries+costing+million+health+study+says/3992767/story.html
Project threatened by low gas prices
Dec 17, 2010
Dan Healing
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Mackenzie+pipeline+will+built/3989427/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/17/mackenzie-pipeline-s-value-diminished-by-new-north-american-shale-gas-resources.aspx
Dec 17, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/17/bc-and-canada-sharing-joint-program-to-report-ghg-emissions.aspx
Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/calif-climate-law.html
Dec 17, 2010
Janice Tibbetts
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Supreme+Court+rule+control+country+fertility+industry/3995261/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/tobacco-lawsuits.html
Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/nunavut-tuberculosis.html
Melting glaciers on Ellesmere Island reveal branches and trunks from millions of years ago, when the North was a temperate zone
Dec 17, 2010
Randy Boswell
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Mummified+forest+offers+glimpse+warmer+Arctic/3993837/story.html
Dec 17, 2010
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/17/c6195.html
Dec 16, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE and CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/alberta-to-study-controversial-ms-therapy/article1840990/
Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/12/16/edmonton-zamboni-ms-alberta-study.html

Mackenzie pipeline approved

Dec 16, 2010
Nathan VanderKlippe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/mackenzie-pipeline-approved/article1841156/
Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/12/16/f-mackenzie-valley-pipeline-history.html
Dec 16, 2010
BRIAN DALY
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/12/16/16581961.html
Dec 16, 2010
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Climate-Change-Adaptation-Must-be-Higher-on-Canadian-Agenda-1370100.htm
Dec 16, 2010
CHRISTA MARSHALL
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/16/16climatewire-albertas-fight-to-clean-its-oil-sands-95308.html
Dec 16, 2010
Don Braid
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Braid+Government+comes+worse+than+oilsands+scientists+report/3985427/story.html
Dec 16, 2010
Deborah Yedlin
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Society+oilsands+report+pulls+punches/3985485/story.html
What the scientists got right, and missed, in their high-profile, largely damning report
Dec 16, 2010
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Tyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/12/16/RoyalSocietyStudy/

Rightful rebukes

Oilsands report slays myths and scolds government
Dec 16, 2010
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/Rightful+rebukes/3985449/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

The oil industry gets a do-over

Dec 16, 2010
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/industry+gets+over/3984581/story.html
Dec 16, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/16/lo-and-behold-updated-canadian-industrial-emissions-data-arrives-in-time-for-xmas.aspx
Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/ottawa-chelsea-radon-125.html
Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/tech-paris-car-sharing-bikes-electric.html
An international deal on deforestation makes it ever more important to measure the Earth’s woodlands
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17730208
Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/prostate-cancer-psa-genetic.html
Dec 16, 2010
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-Over-2-million-in-Arctic-Environment-Response-Equipment-1370513.htm
Dec 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/oilsands-scientists.html
Report rebuts cancer claims and recommends changes to oversight and monitoring
Dec 15, 2010
Hannah Hoag
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/news.2010.676.html
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/edmonton-oilsands-report-alberta-reaction.html

Hope for polar bears

Greenhouse gas reduction could save northern mammals, study suggests
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-polarbears-study.html
Dec 15, 2010
Sharon Oosthoek
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-arctic-hybrids.html
Dec 15, 2010
Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/inuit-object-to-government-ban-on-sales-of-valuable-narwhal-tusks-111962719.html
Laura Eggertson
Dec 15, 2010
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/15dec10-HC-passes-the-buck.dtl
Dec 15, 2010
ARI ALTSTEDTER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/biodiesel-plant-to-open-in-torontos-port-lands/article1839711/

Put an end to transplant tourism

Dec 15, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/put-an-end-to-transplant-tourism/article1839716/
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-periodic-table.html
Ontario Health Study turns festive season into something more socially directed
Dec 15, 2010
Ontario Health Study
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/15/c5389.html
The forest products industry got ahead of policy, discovered savings and stopped playing defence
Dec 15, 2010
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-greener-image-awaiting-oil-and-gas/article1837973/
Regional plans like cross-border hydro hold great green promise, and it's business that will deliver
Dec 15, 2010
OLEG DERIPASKA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/climate-progress-doesnt-only-come-at-summits/article1837953/
Pollution target would be equal to car-free society
Dec 15, 2010
Mychaylo Prystupa
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/man-climate-change-selinger.html
Dec 15, 2010
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/anti-smoking-groups-fight-for-larger-warning-labels-on-cigarettes/article1839947/
Dec 15, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Welcomes-Extension-Historic-Partnership-with-European-Space-Agency-1369683.htm
Dec 15, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Assembly-First-Nations-Continue-Joint-Task-Group-on-First-Nations-1369873.htm
Dec 15, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Receives-Royal-Assent-1369840.htm
Dec 14, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/14/con-electric-cars.html

Great news from Cancun!

Dec 14, 2010
MARGARET WENTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/great-news-from-cancun/article1836376/
Dec 14, 2010
LAURA PAYTON
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/12/14/16547396.html
Dec 14, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Passes-Parliament-1368703.htm
Dec 13, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/conquer-tb-dont-just-control-it/article1836273/

TB once again stalking the Arctic

Dec 13, 2010
PATRICK WHITE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tb-once-again-stalking-the-arctic/article1834983/
Dec 13, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/why-is-there-no-national-vaccination-strategy/article1830159/
Dec 12, 2010
SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/the-post-cancun-climate-challenge-putting-words-into-actions/article1834808/
Dec 12, 2010
JANE TABER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ndp-liberals-call-outcome-of-climate-talks-positive/article1834809/
Dec 9, 2010
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-met-with-cigarette-maker-months-before-postponing-bigger-warning-labels/article1831673/
Dec 8, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canadian-immunization-conference-childrens-rotavirus-vaccine-all-but-wipes-out-us-cases/article1830657/
Dec 7, 2010
ADRIAN MORROW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/36-million-spent-on-cigarette-warnings-that-werent-implemented/article1829166/