Jan 6, 2011
Louise Desjardins and Darren King
Statistics Canada & Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-595-m/81-595-m2011089-eng.pdf
December 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sbrp-rppe.nsf/vwapj/entrepreneurship-entreprenariat_dec2010_eng.pdf/$file/entrepreneurship-entreprenariat_dec2010_eng.pdf
Scientific leaders have been too quick to praise the reprieve for research money, says Colin Macilwain. The slashing of teaching funds will do real damage.
Jan 12, 2011
Colin Macilwain
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110112/full/469133a.html
Jan 13, 2011
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/01/13/questionable-projects-does-the-public-have-the-answer/

Role of science in public policy

Jan 16, 2011
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Role+science+public+policy/4116623/story.html
Jan 19, 2011
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/Canada+needs+focus+efforts+innovation/4129829/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
Jan 18, 2011
Rob Annan
Researcher Forum
http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/rd-review-panel-seeking-submissions/

Canada picks up pace in patents

Jan 17, 2011
BARRIE McKENNA, RICHARD BLACKWELL
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/grow/new-product-development/canada-picks-up-pace-in-patents/article1873617/
Jan 20, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/20/arctic-bird-bety.html
Jan 13, 2011
Grand Challenges Canada
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/288228/674c3c80a1/1315022291/647f449d2e/
Jan 20, 2011
Luisa D’Amato
Waterloo Record
http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/476427--university-of-waterloo-researchers-get-2-6m-boost

Research projects get $2-M boost

Jan 22, 2011
Darrell Chippeway
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/research-projects-get-2-m-boost-114411369.html
Jan 21, 2011
Damian Inwood
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/business/Feds+announce+funding+university+research+projects/4147238/story.html
Investment bolsters future economic growth, improves quality of life of Canadians
Jan 21, 2011
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Strengthens-Canadas-Knowledge-Economy-1383836.htm
Jan 21, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-State-Goodyear-Celebrates-Official-Opening-Research-Academic-Centre-Laurier-1383724.htm
Chairs program brings best and brightest researchers to Canada's universities
Jan 20, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Celebrates-Three-New-Canada-Research-Chairs-Laurentian-University-1382977.htm
Chairs program brings best and brightest researchers to Canada's universities
Jan 13, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Celebrates-New-Canada-Research-Chair-University-Winnipeg-1380251.htm
Jan 13, 2011
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/CFI-Welcomes-Two-New-Vice-Presidents-1380197.htm
Jan 18, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02167.html
Jan 18, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02166.html
Jan 20, 2011
Steve Lambert
The Canadian Press
http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/476298--professor-battles-university-over-academic-standards
Math prof wants PhD taken away from student
Jan 21, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/21/mb-exam-anxiety-degree-challenge-lukacs-winnipeg.html
Jan 18, 2011
Quentin J. Pittman, James D. McGhee and George Chaconas
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/vanishing+Alberta+Advantage+medical+research/4128658/story.html
Parkinson's disease: University vice-president condemns 'hysterical' coverage of proposed research
Jan 21, 2011
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/health/defends+experiments+monkeys/4143039/story.html
Jan 14, 2011
JOE FRIESEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/highly-educated-immigrants-fare-better-in-us-than-canada/article1871562/
Jan 15, 2011
PEGGY CURRAN
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Stop+fighting+lecturers+union+drive+Julius+Grey+other+profs+urge+McGill/4112678/story.html

Stem cell pioneer McCulloch dies

Jan 21, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/21/mcculloch-stem-cell-obit.html
Jan 14, 2011
ANNE McILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/why-things-just-dont-add-up-for-some-students/article1871286/
One of the best places for doing chemistry is the kitchen sink
Jan 20, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/01/american_science_education
Jan 2011
U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)
http://www.parliament.uk/pagefiles/504/postpn368rare_earth_metals.pdf
An emerging power in research
Jan 6, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17851421
Jan 23, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/01/23/harper-maternal-health.html

The war on drugs is lost

It’s time to move away from a punitive approach and start pursuing drug policies that actually work
Jan 23, 2011
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/926417--the-war-on-drugs-is-lost
Jan 22, 2011
Steve Bartlett
St. John's Telegram
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/better+worse+Canada+hook+Frankenfish/4150647/story.html

Antidepressants found in fish

Drugs not removed by sewage treatment
Jan 22, 2011
WILLIAM MARSDEN
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Antidepressants+found+fish/4148501/story.html

Building a better fish ladder

Sturgeon can live for 150 years and grow more than two metres long. Helping them get up the river to spawn is a challenge
Jan 22, 2011
Tom Spears
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Building+better+fish+ladder/4149324/story.html
Jan 21, 2011
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2011/01/21/canadian-biotech-sector-seeks-flow-through-tax-credits-to-attract-investors.aspx
Jan 21, 2011
KATE HAMMER and JOE FRIESEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/academic-success-of-east-asian-immigrants-overshadows-struggles-of-others/article1879602/singlepage/#articlecontent

NASA adds 1 more shuttle flight

Jan 21, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/21/nasa-shuttle-atlantis-final-flight.html

Province unveils loan relief

Jan 21, 2011
IAN MACALPINE
THE WHIG-STANDARD
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2939709
Jan 21, 2011
CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/National-Farm-Level-Biosecurity-Standard-for-the-Dairy-Sector-1383928.htm
Oakville-based PharmaTrust Inc. to help patients safely and effectively manage their medications
Jan 21, 2011
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Economic-Action-Plan-Supports-Research-and-Development-in-Oakville-1383736.htm
Public Policy Forum announces recipient of Hyman Solomon
Jan 21, 2011
Public Policy Forum
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/21/c4227.html
Rising oil prices and falling production costs favour the extraction of oil from Alberta’s tar sands. But environmental objections are fierce
Jan 20, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17959688?story_id=17959688&fsrc=rss
Jan 20, 2011
David McKie
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2011/01/19/health-canada-drugs.html
Jan 20, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/20/hawthorne-bruce-power-aecl.html
Jan 20, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/20/environment-world-meteorological-organization-weather-climate-un.html

Homes for the smallpox virus

Jan 20, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/homes-for-the-smallpox-virus/article1876412/
Jan 20, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/20/north-avian-cholera-eider-ducks.html
Jan 20, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/20/medical-devices-fda.html

Critics say drug talks rigged

Jan 20, 2011
Amy Minsky
Postmedia News
http://www.leaderpost.com/Critics+drug+talks+rigged/4136178/story.html
Jan 20, 2011
Sarah Schmidt
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Provinces+time+define+what+qualifies+healthy+food/4138316/story.html
Jan 20, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Nova-Scotias-Renewable-Energy-Projects-1383283.htm
Jan 20, 2011
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Aglukkaq-Marks-National-Non-Smoking-Week-With-Focus-on-Smoking-Prevention-Youth-1383248.htm
Renal transplantation saving millions in dialysis costs
Jan 20, 2011
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/20/c4076.html
Jan 20, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Supports-Quebecs-Apple-and-Apple-Juice-Processing-Industry-1383107.htm
Jan 19, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/924181--alzheimer-s-disease-heeding-the-cries-in-the-night
Premier says Ontario still wants to buy 2 nuclear power plants
Jan 19, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/19/mcguinty-aecl-sale-ottawa.html
Jan 19, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/19/sk-carbon-dioxide-report-1101.html
Refitted ship to launch in late 2011
Jan 19, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/19/science-tsekoa-fuel-cell-hybrid.html
Jan 19, 2011
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY (ONTARIO DIVISION)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/19/c3694.html
Jan 19, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/19/c3417.html
Jan 19, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/The-Livestock-Auction-Traceability-Initiative-Now-Accepting-Applications-1382454.htm
Jan 19, 2011
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Supports-Small-Businesses-in-Rural-Southern-Ontario-1382352.htm
Jan 18, 2011
Heather Mallick
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/924213--mallick-the-autism-enigma-beauty-and-silence
Jan 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/17/bc-uranium-ship-altona.html
Jan 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/18/bc-deer-too-many.html
'Tens of thousands' in Canada take risky mix of antibiotics
Jan 18, 2011
Sharon Kirkey
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Researchers+warn+dangerous+drug+reactions/4123891/story.html
Jan 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/18/nb-bird-count-2-1048.html
Jan 18, 2011
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/health-canada-restricts-use-of-rubber-duck-chemicals-in-childrens-products/article1875129/
Jan 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/18/health-phthalates-restrictions-children-toys.html
Jan 18, 2011
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Takes-Action-to-Reduce-Childrens-Exposure-to-Phthalates-1381599.htm
Aside from hungry, gene-altered micro-organisms, the Joule technology requires only carbon dioxide, sunshine and water
Jan 17, 2011
NEIL REYNOLDS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/a-brave-new-world-of-fossil-fuels-on-demand/article1871149/
Jan 17, 2011
Gillian Steward
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/923371--steward-ethical-oil-and-ethical-leadership
Jan 17, 2011
Louise Brown
Toronto Star

Bake beans, not teens

Jan 17, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/922705--bake-beans-not-teens
Jan 17, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/17/bc-salmon-farming-closed-pens.html
Jan 17, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/17/environment-co2-capture-leak.html
Jan 17, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/17/nl-dead-seals-117.html
Jan 17, 2011
Kelly Cryderman
Postmedia News
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/17/university-of-calgary-plans-carbon-capture-research-centre/
Environmentalists say there's little doubt Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave him his marching orders to begin selling the image of 'ethical oil' to the U.S. and beyond.
Jan 17, 2011
TIM NAUMETZ
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/kentenviro-01-17-2011
Jan 17, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Governments-Canada-Manitoba-Invest-Development-Water-Management-Plan-1381013.htm
Jan 17, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2011/01/17/ottawa-ciena-research.html
McGuinty Government Supports Telecommunications Industry In Ottawa Region
Jan 17, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
http://news.ontario.ca/medt/en/2011/01/innovation-at-ciena-creating-good-jobs.html
McGuinty Government Supports Job Programs At St. Lawrence College
Jan 17, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Energy
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2011/01/more-electricity-bill-relief-to-ontario-businesses-and-families-2.html
Jan 16, 2011
JAMES BRADSHAW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-to-make-it-easier-for-students-to-switch-schools/article1872354/
Jan 16, 2011
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/mark-hume/the-environmental-costs-of-protecting-bambi/article1872391/
Jan 16, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/922295--expanding-prisons-getting-it-right-on-crime
Jan 15, 2011
Sharon Kirkey
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Fertile+ground+business+baby+making/4114679/story.html
End to infestation in sight
Jan 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/14/bc-pine-beetle-peak.html
Jan 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/14/space-adventures-iss-soyuz.html
Jan 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/14/la-nina-extreme-weather-floods.html
Team that made discovery last September stands by findings
Jan 14, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/14/habitable-planet-gliese-vogt-gregory.html
Jan 14, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/922319--flu-shots-act-now-or-risk-being-sorry-later
Exhibit A: the Aravind Eye Hospital in India, where innovation has changed the game
Jan 14, 2011
PETER SINGER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/look-at-the-developing-world-to-cut-health-costs/article1869350/

El Nino, La Nina and weather woes

Jan 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/13/f-weater-el-nino-la-nina.html
Jan 14, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/14/c2655.html

Ontario's Air Quality Improving

McGuinty Government Helping To Clean Up The Air Ontario Families Breathe
Jan 14, 2011
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
http://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2011/01/ontarios-air-quality-improving.html
Jan 14, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/From-Farm-Table-The-Government-Canada-Invests-Innovative-Joint-Traceability-System-1380619.htm
A new, private initiative should help show which gases come from where
Jan 13, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17899734
Jan 13, 2011
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/alleged-leaks-from-carbon-storage-project-questioned/article1869487/
Jan 13, 2011
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/mysterious-infection-is-killing-bc-salmon/article1869440/
Jan 13, 2011
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/13/sockeye-salmon-deaths-virus.html
Jan 13, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/13/bird-flu-chickens-gm.html
Jan 13, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/13/bc-video-game-cancer.html

Penguins harmed by banding

Bands make diving more difficult, 10-year study finds
Jan 13, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/13/penguin-flipper-banding.html
Jan 13, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Announces-Aerospace-Investment-Create-Jobs-Keep-Canada-Cutting-Edge-1380028.htm
Jan 13, 2011
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/flu-hitting-gta-hardest-province-urges-people-to-get-vaccinated/article1868973/
Immunization Program Still Available
Jan 13, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2011/01/ontarians-encouraged-to-get-immunized-against-the-flu.html
Jan 12, 2011
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/doctors-discredited-vaccine-autism-link-leaves-a-legacy-of-preventable-death-and-disease/article1867998/
Jan 12, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/12/environment-2010-climate-hottest-warmest-year.html
Jan 12, 2011
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/12/quantum-networks-storage-entanglement.html
Jan 12, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/12/floods-great-barrier-reef.html
Jan 12, 2011
Clare Demerse
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/920924--can-peter-kent-be-our-captain-canuck
Jan 12, 2011
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/hospitals-overwhelmed-by-surge-of-flu-cases/article1868015/
Jan 12, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2011/01/12/calgary-art-stem-cell-science-glenbow.html
Jan 12, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110112/environment-canada-mothballs-leading-technology-110112/
America may shift its policy on genetically modified crops
Jan 6, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17855118
Jan 5, 2011
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/flu-cases-show-spike-amid-complacency-about-vaccines/article1858436/