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

Canada's decline in research spending criticized in new report

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

Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program: Addressing the Innovation Pre-Commercialization Gap

Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02158.html

Canadian Intellectual Property Office Business Plan 2010-2011

Dec 2010
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06128.html

Working Together to Drive Innovation at the Atlantic Research Forum

Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02163.html

African Innovation: New Hope for Local Health Issues

Dec 2010
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
http://www.mrcglobal.org/projects/african_innovation

Dr. Howard Alper Reappointed as Chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council

Dec 16, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Dr-Howard-Alper-Reappointed-as-Chair-Science-Technology-Innovation-Council-1370536.htm

Dr. Lorna Marsden to Serve as Chair of the Expert Panel on Women in University Research

Dec 2010
Council of Canadian Academies
http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?EtsV--5rAu-Tx3tu5

Scrapping innovation awards latest sign that Ontario Liberals are running scared

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/

Our choice: Spend the money or lose the brightest

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/

U of T computer prof wins Steacie Prize

Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/uoft-hertzmann-steacie-prize.html

Science centre will enthrall a geek near you

Dec 16, 2010
JEREMY NOLAIS
METRO CALGARY
http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/local/article/721297--science-centre-will-enthrall-a-geek-near-you

Universities must embrace change: expert

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

It’s time to transform undergraduate education

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

Embryonic stem cells: Testing science

The law continues to threaten stem-cell research in America
Dec 9, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17672816

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In The Sudbury Region

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

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In Durham Region

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

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In Guelph Region

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

Alberta to fund study on Zamboni MS treatment

Dec 17, 2010
Karen Kleiss
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Alberta+fund+study+Zamboni+treatment/3992749/story.html

Filtering out the climate-change BS

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/

Climate role helps national image: memo

Dec 17, 2010
MIKE DE SOUZA
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Climate+role+helps+national+image+memo/3990564/story.html

Environment Canada lobbied to stay on global warming panel

Dec 17, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Environment+Canada+lobbied+stay+global+warming+panel/3990896/story.html

U.S. to step up fight against Asian carp

Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/tech-carp-asian-great-lakes.html

Canada must ensure prescription drugs that pass testing heal rather than harm

Dec 17, 2010
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Editorial+Canada+must+ensure+prescription+drugs+that+pass+testing+heal/3991518/story.html

Unnecessary surgeries costing $180 million, health study says

Dec 17, 2010
Carmen Chai
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Unnecessary+surgeries+costing+million+health+study+says/3992767/story.html

Mackenzie pipeline OK'd, but will it be built?

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

Mackenzie pipeline's value diminished by new North American shale gas resources

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

BC and Canada sharing joint program to report GHG emissions

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

Emissions cut rules OK'd by California

Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/calif-climate-law.html

Supreme Court to rule on control of country's fertility industry

Dec 17, 2010
Janice Tibbetts
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Supreme+Court+rule+control+country+fertility+industry/3995261/story.html

Tobacco firm to pay $151M to smoker's estate

Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/tobacco-lawsuits.html

Nunavut TB infections break record

Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/nunavut-tuberculosis.html

Mummified forest offers glimpse of a warmer Arctic

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

Mining and Related Support Industries Offer the Greatest Economic Potential for Northern Canada

Dec 17, 2010
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/17/c6195.html

Alberta to study controversial MS therapy

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/

Alberta to study vein therapy for MS

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/

Mackenzie Valley pipeline: 37 years of negotiation

Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/12/16/f-mackenzie-valley-pipeline-history.html

Debate rages over Canadian aerospace subsidies

Dec 16, 2010
BRIAN DALY
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/12/16/16581961.html

Climate Change Adaptation Must be Higher on Canadian Agenda

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

Alberta's Fight to 'Clean' Its Oil Sands

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

Government comes off worse than oilsands in scientists' report

Dec 16, 2010
Don Braid
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Braid+Government+comes+worse+than+oilsands+scientists+report/3985427/story.html

Society's oilsands report pulls no punches

Dec 16, 2010
Deborah Yedlin
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Society+oilsands+report+pulls+punches/3985485/story.html

Nikiforuk Pores Over Royal Society's Oil Sands Study

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

Lo and behold, updated Canadian industrial emissions data arrives in time for Xmas

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

Radon in tap water worries Chelsea residents

Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/ottawa-chelsea-radon-125.html

Paris to launch electric car-sharing program

Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/tech-paris-car-sharing-bikes-electric.html

Monitoring forests: Seeing the world for the trees

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

Gene markers may aid prostate cancer test

Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/prostate-cancer-psa-genetic.html

Government of Canada Invests Over $2 million in Arctic Environment Response Equipment

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

Oilsands not boosting cancer levels: scientists

Dec 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/oilsands-scientists.html

Impacts of Canada's oil-sands operations 'exaggerated'

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

Oilsands report welcomed by Alta. minister

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

Arctic hybrids not a good sign, warn scientists

Dec 15, 2010
Sharon Oosthoek
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-arctic-hybrids.html

Inuit object to government ban on sales of valuable narwhal tusks

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

Health Canada “passes the buck” on diabetes drug, researcher charges

Laura Eggertson
Dec 15, 2010
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/15dec10-HC-passes-the-buck.dtl

Biodiesel plant to open in Toronto’s port lands

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/

Canadian leads revamp of periodic table

Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-periodic-table.html

New Year’s Resolution: Go Online to Help Future Generations

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 greener image awaiting oil and gas

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/

Climate progress doesn't only come at summits

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/

Selinger sticks with climate-change goals

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

Anti-smoking groups fight for larger warning labels on cigarettes

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/

Minister Clement Welcomes Extension of Historic Partnership with European Space Agency

Dec 15, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Welcomes-Extension-Historic-Partnership-with-European-Space-Agency-1369683.htm

Government of Canada, Assembly of First Nations Continue Joint Task Group on First Nations Health

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

Harper Government's Consumer Product Safety Act Receives Royal Assent

Dec 15, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Receives-Royal-Assent-1369840.htm

Calif. to set up electric car infrastructure

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/

Feds, industry happy with new consumer safety law

Dec 14, 2010
LAURA PAYTON
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/12/14/16547396.html

Harper Government's Consumer Product Safety Act Passes Parliament

Dec 14, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Passes-Parliament-1368703.htm

Conquer TB, don’t just control it

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/

Why is there no national vaccination strategy?

Dec 13, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/why-is-there-no-national-vaccination-strategy/article1830159/

The post-Cancun climate challenge: putting words into actions

Dec 12, 2010
SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/the-post-cancun-climate-challenge-putting-words-into-actions/article1834808/

NDP, Liberals call outcome of climate talks positive

Dec 12, 2010
JANE TABER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ndp-liberals-call-outcome-of-climate-talks-positive/article1834809/

Ottawa met with cigarette maker months before postponing bigger warning labels

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/

Canadian Immunization Conference: Children’s rotavirus vaccine all but wipes out U.S. cases

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/

$3.6-million spent on cigarette warnings that weren’t implemented

Dec 7, 2010
ADRIAN MORROW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/36-million-spent-on-cigarette-warnings-that-werent-implemented/article1829166/