Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Universities say ‘thank you’ for innovation support

Feb 10, 2011
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/universities-say-thank-you-for-innovation-support/
Feb 1, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Announces-Appointment-Six-New-Members-Science-Technology-Innovation-1388701.htm
Revised document reflects challenges faced by social science and humanities researchers.
Feb 7, 2011
Laura Eggertson
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/guideslines-ethics-research-humans.aspx
Feb 8, 2010
Science and Technology Committee, U.K. House of Commons
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/45/45.pdf
July 2010
U.K. Secretary of State for Health
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm79/7914/7914.pdf

An Action Plan For Prosperity

Oct 2010
Coalition for Action on Innovation in Canada
http://www.actiononinnovation.ca/en/media/ENG_Plan.pdf
Jan 25, 2011
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
http://www.climateprosperity.ca/eng/studies/canada-us/report/canada-us-report-eng.pdf

Policy Briefing: Energy

Dec 6, 2010
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/section/pb/download/1291611600
Feb 2011
PricewaterhouseCoopers & BIOTECanada
http://www.pwc.com/en_CA/ca/pharma-life-sciences/publications/canadian-life-sciences-industry-forecast-2011-01-21-en.pdf
Jan 21, 2011
Ontario Bioscience Industry Organization (OBIO)
http://obio.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2010-OBIO-Consultation-Final.pdf
Feb 7, 2011
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/dubious-claims-diminish-rd-tax-credit/article1896434/
Feb 10, 2011
BARRIE MCKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/canada-needs-more-bang-from-university-research/article1902267/
Feb 12, 2011
Deborah Yedlin
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Differing+research+views+both+right/4270984/story.html
Feb 11, 2011
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, PC, MP, Minister of State (Science and Technology)
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06287.html
Science prizes also claimed by McGill, UBC researchers
Feb 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/14/science-herzberg-hinton-artificial-intelligence.html
Feb 14, 2011
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/trailblazing-gene-researcher-returns-to-canada/article1905697/
Feb 10, 2011
IAN MERRINGER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/ontario-invests-225-million-in-new-innovation-centres/article1901563/

One + one = success

Take a Canadian company with a problem, add the expertise of a graduate student, and the result is a solved business problem and a grad with shop-floor experience. That is the simple math behind the fabulously successful MITACS.
Feb 7, 2011
Michael Smith
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/one-plus-one-success.aspx

The underused academic

Feb 1, 2011
Paul Krzyzanowski
Stem Cell Network blog
http://scnblog.typepad.com/scnblog/2011/02/the-underused-academic-research-funding-canada.html
Jan 24, 2011
Glen Hodgson
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/insideedge/2011/january-2011/jan24-innovation-gap.aspx
Feb 9, 2011
Rob O’Flanagan
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/760517

Innovate or perish

Feb 8, 2011
Dr. Kevin G. Lynch
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/executive/Innovate+perish/4240645/story.html
Modern Green Development contributes $3.5 million to project
Feb 5, 2011
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Chinese+property+developer+join+forces+strategic+deal/4229809/story.html
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Feb 2011

The oil sands: Sorting out fact from fiction
Todd Hirsch
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/hirsch.pdf

After CancĂºn: Time to shift strategy
Velma McColl
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/mccoll.pdf

Sustainable solutions in the oil sands
Bruce Carson
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/carson.pdf

US energy security: A Canadian perspective
Kevin Lynch
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/lynch.pdf

Why Canada needs an energy strategy
David Emerson
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/emerson.pdf

Portrait of an energy powerhouse: Canada
Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/hasenfratz.pdf

Obama and climate policy reform: A continuing education in American politicking
Colin Robertson
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/robertson.pdf

How to meet the oil sands protest: challenge
Donald Barry
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb11/barry.pdf
Feb 7, 2011
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/02/07/new-metrics-for-assessing-scientists-lets-accessorize/

Innovation vs. Invention

Feb 4, 2011
Rob Annan
Researcher Forum
http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/innovation-vs-invention/
Feb 1, 2011
BEN WILDAVSKY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/leading-thinkers/brightest-minds/excerpt-what-is-global-higher-education-and-why-does-it-matter/article1883628/singlepage/#articlecontent
Yes, conference-going is one of the perks of the professoriate. But it is easy to be cynical about how much conferences accomplish.
Feb 7, 2011
Christine Overall
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/academic-conferences-hate-em-love-em.aspx
Jan 2011
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)

Biodiversity Offsetting
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn_369-biodiversity-offsetting.pdf

Living with Environmental Limits
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn_370-environmental-limits.pdf

Housing and Health
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn_371-housing_health_h.pdf

Political winds rock turbines

Feb 15, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/938863--political-winds-rock-turbines
Feb 15, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2011/02/15/prostate-cancer-genome.html
Feb 15, 2011
LISA PRIEST
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/diabetes-discovery-brings-out-hospitals-entrepreneurial-side/article1907436/
Feb 15, 2011
MaRS Innovation
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2011/15/c2712.html

Windmill foes are full of hot air

Feb 14, 2011
Marcus Gee
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/marcus-gee/windmill-foes-are-full-of-hot-air/article1907142/
Feb 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/14/arctic-climate-study.html
Feb 14, 2011
Lindsey Tanner
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/energy-drinks-should-be-regulated-like-tobacco-and-alcohol-report-argues/article1905922/

NASA revisits Deep Impact comet

Feb 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/14/science-nasa-stardust-comet-tempel1.html
The federal government is not interested in listening to its own environmental advisory board, the NRTEE, whose members it appointed, say opposition MPs.
Feb 14, 2011
KRISTEN SHANE
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/nrtee-02-14-2011
Feb 14, 2011
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Strengthens-Food-Allergen-Labelling-Regulations-1395386.htm
Feb 14, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Cambridge-Clean-Energy-Project-1395368.htm
Feb 14, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Moving-Forward-on-Road-to-Historic-Waste-Cleanup-in-Port-Hope-1395393.htm
Feb 14, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Strengthening-Canadas-Herb-and-Spice-Industry-1395640.htm
Feb 14, 2011
CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Implementation-International-Standard-Phytosanitary-Measures-No-15-2009-Wood-Packaging-1395622.htm
Feb 13, 2011
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/salt-industry-smells-blood-in-transfer-of-sodium-reduction-file/article1904574/
Feb 13, 2011
PAUL WALDIE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/surging-corn-set-to-fuel-widespread-price-hikes/article1905386/
Feb 13, 2011
Andy Blatchford
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/938054--local-dry-cleaners-top-target-for-environment-canada-inspections?bn=1
Feb 13, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/harper-tories-split-with-friends-abroad-on-crime-policy/article1904473/

Rethinking Canadian agriculture

New system could double value of food exports to $75 billion by 2025, think tank says
Feb 12, 2011
DAVE COOPER
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Rethinking+Canadian+agriculture/4270265/story.html
Feb 11, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/11/ont-wind-farms.html
Feb 11, 2011
Jonathan Sher, Kelly Pedro and Troy Patterson
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/11/17242051.html
Feb 11, 2011
STEVEN CHASE AND TAVIA GRANT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/chief-statistician-asked-to-rethink-census-for-2016/article1904832/
Officials dismiss concerns over nuclear steam boilers as 'fearmongering'
Feb 11, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/11/nuclear-briefing.html
Feb 11, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/cida-casts-off-one-of-its-successes/article1904441/
Feb 11, 2011
Linda Nguyen
Postmedia News
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Environment+Minister+unfazed+anti+oilsands+campaign+riding/4268530/story.html
How to turn sunlight and water into fuel for cars
Feb 11, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/02/artificial_photosynthesis
Feb 11, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/11/rom-bees-mystery.html
Inaugural post from Minister Glen Murray
Feb 11, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/blog/
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Feb 11, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE021111.asp
McGuinty Government Committed to Renewable Energy While Protecting the Environment
Feb 11, 2011
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
http://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2011/02/ontario-rules-out-offshore-wind-projects.html
Feb 11, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Congratulates-First-Canadian-Recipient-of-Prestigious-NASA-Award-1394608.htm

Are the oil sands ethical?

In the fifth of a five-part series, The Globe asks the five Charles Taylor Prize finalists to debate that question
Feb 10, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/charles-taylor-prize/
Feb 10, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/10/alberta-oilsands-panel.html
Feb 10, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canadas-Economic-Action-Plan-Helps-Pulse-Industry-Market-Their-Sustainable-Practices-1393757.htm
Feb 10, 2011
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Economic-Action-Plan-Supports-Software-Development-in-Alberta-1393562.htm
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Feb 10, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE021011.asp
Feb 9, 2011
The StarPhoenix
http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Another+voice+Canada+requires+agriculture+policy+meet+challenge/4254061/story.html
Feb 9, 2011
JAMES BRADSHAW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-rejects-stronger-export-regulations-for-genetically-modified-crops/article1901494/

HIV denial is fatal

The most convincing argument that the virus causes AIDS is that anti-retroviral medications are prolonging the lives of millions
Feb 9, 2011
NORBERT GILMORE
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/denial+fatal/4247661/story.html

Beer 1 - Health Care 0

Feb 9, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/935302--editorial-beer-1-health-care-0
Feb 9, 2011
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/enbridge-offers-bc-first-nations-additional-pipeline-benefits/article1900777/
Feb 9, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/09/science-sea-lice-sockeye-salmon.html

Towering beauty?

A new way of transmitting electricity may soon be coming to a field near you
Feb 9, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/18107032
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Feb 9, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE020911.asp
McGuinty Government Helping Build Ontario's Clean Energy Economy
Feb 9, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Energy
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2011/02/fort-erie-business-creating-clean-energy-jobs.html
McGuinty Government Protecting Environment And Strengthening Clean Economy
Feb 9, 2011
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
http://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2011/02/recycling-electronics-creates-200-jobs.html
Feb 8, 2011
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bill-would-add-more-scrutiny-to-approval-process-of-new-genetically-modified-seeds/article1899895/
Feb 8, 2011
ANNE McILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/dementia/how-canadian-researchers-hope-to-delay-onset-of-alzheimers/article1899875/
Feb 8, 2011
TIM COOK
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hudson-bay-polar-bears-threatened-by-early-ice-breakup-alberta-study-says/article1899900/
Feb 8, 2011
LESLIE BECK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/leslie-beck/popeye-was-right-spinach-can-make-you-stronger/article1899432/
Feb 8, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/08/science-polar-bear-births-climate.html
Takes in jazz masterclass delivered via Government-supported broadband network
Feb 8, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Celebrates-Fusion-of-Music-and-Technology-1392439.htm
Canadian Diabetes Association Releases Saskatchewan Diabetes Cost Model Report
Feb 8, 2011
Canadian Diabetes Association
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2011/08/c8624.html
Feb 7, 2011
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/health-researchers-slam-tory-mandatory-minimum-sentence-proposal/article1897910/
Feb 7, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/02/07/nb-information-technology-job-shortage-1052.html
Feb 7, 2011
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-needs-policy-overhaul-to-keep-up-with-global-food-markets/article1898130/

The final gift

A few people, perhaps a thousand a year, leave their body to medical science at Canadian universities. This is their story.
Feb 7, 2011
Susan Peters
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/the-final-gift.aspx
UBC scientist says accurate fishing numbers are important
Feb 7, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/07/baffin-fisheries-arctic.html
Feb 7, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/07/wdr-great-lakes-water-shortages.html
Recognizing some of Cambridge's innovative metalworking expertise
Feb 7, 2011
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canadas-Economic-Action-Plan-Supports-Research-and-Development-in-Ontario-1391453.htm
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Feb 7, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE020711.asp
Feb 6, 2011
Andy Blatchford
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/environment-canada-investigates-many-but-convicts-few/article1896450/
Feb 5, 2011
John Kennelly and Douglas Hedley
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/What+Canada+must+help+fight+looming+food+crisis/4229790/story.html
Feb 5, 2011
Susan Lunn
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/05/parks-canada-gps-susan-lunn.html
Feb 4, 2011
DAVID SUZUKI With Faisal Moola
Daily Gleaner
http://www.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1376994
Feb 4, 2011
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/failure-to-report-on-fishery-undermines-canadas-claim-to-arctic/article1895724/
Feb 4, 2011
OLIVER MOORE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/in-the-race-for-the-bluefin-in-pei-profits-go-over-the-side/article1895695/
Feb 4, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/bruce-power-gets-approval-to-ship-16-radioactive-generators-through-great-lakes/article1895721/
Bruce Power plan to ship nuclear steam boilers to Sweden raised concerns
Feb 4, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/04/great-lakes-nuke-boilers.html
Feb 4, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/04/arctic-fish-catches.html
Feb 4, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/04/ns-wood-pest-worries.html
Feb 4, 2011
MICHAEL POSNER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/researchers-develop-camera-that-will-show-your-mind/article1895605/
Feb 4, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Investing-in-Research-and-Development-Infrastructure-in-Quebec-1390926.htm
Feb 4, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Partnership-Launches-Program-Bring-Space-Exploration-Curriculum-Nova-Scotia-1390759.htm
Feb 4, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Tours-Centre-Built-Environment-Nova-Scotia-Community-College-Dartmouth-1390897.htm
Feb 3, 2011
Larry Pynn
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canada+discuss+restricting+chinook+harvest+help+whales/4215033/story.html
Atomising trash eliminates the need to dump it, and generates useful power too
Feb 3, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/18061104
Feb 3, 2011
Ontario Science Centre
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2011/03/c7620.html
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Feb 3, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE020311a.asp
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Feb 3, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE020311b.asp
Feb 2, 2011
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/study-gives-harper-new-clout-in-push-to-sell-oil-to-us/article1892235/
Feb 2, 2011
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/professor-quits-oil-sands-panel-over-lack-of-aboriginal-representation/article1891910/
Feb 1, 2011
WENCY LEUNG
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/environmentalists-skeptical-of-loblaws-boost-for-salmon-farming/article1891039/
The province's industry is being demonized while Alaskan 'ranched' fish are marketed as 'wild caught'
Feb 1, 2011
Vivian Krause
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/American+attempt+kill+salmon+farms/4201024/story.html
Ontario Science Centre study shows three quarters of Canadians feel that climate change will lead to more serious natural disasters
Feb 1, 2011
Ontario Science Centre
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2011/01/c7013.html
Jan 31, 2011
Hanneke Brooymans
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Beef+scope+water+monitoring+program+Alberta+oilsands+Report/4199171/story.html
Jan 31, 2011
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/funding-for-test-fisheries-to-expire/article1889622/

Transit versus cars

Without compromise, everyone will lose Toronto’s transportation war
Jan 31, 2011
Michael Warren
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/930197--transit-versus-cars

Take time to get it right

Roofs featuring vegetation are a good idea, in general, but may not be the best way to cap Toronto’s industrial buildings
Jan 31, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/930514--take-time-to-get-it-right
McGuinty Government Welcomes New Investment, That Will Create Up To 300 New Jobs
Jan 31, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Energy
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2011/01/more-clean-energy-jobs-coming-to-toronto.html
Jan 31, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Strengthening-Traceability-in-Sheep-and-Goat-Industry-1388059.htm
Jan 31, 2011
CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/CFIA-North-American-Foot-Mouth-Disease-Vaccine-Bank-Provides-Vaccine-Republic-Korea-1387913.htm
Jan 30, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/930128--africa-s-hope-save-aids-drugs-bill

Time to pull plug on nuclear?

Re: Don’t abandon Canada’s stake, Editorial Jan. 25; and Used nuclear company is no bargain, Opinion Jan. 25
Jan 29, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/929417--time-to-pull-plug-on-nuclear
A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutionality of federal reproductive technologies legislation was caught up in 20-year-old rhetoric and fears about "cloning in the garage," says Timothy Caufield, chair of health law and policy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton
Jan 28, 2011
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/28jan11_patchwork-regulations-likely-outcome-of-reproductive-technologies-ruling.dtl
Jan 28, 2011
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/peter-kent-sees-no-pressing-need-for-new-climate-laws/article1886462/
The vaccination panic is strongest among highly educated liberal elites
Jan 28, 2011
MARGARET WENTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/margaret-wente/if-only-there-were-a-shot-against-irrational-fears/article1886974/

Light rail that works

Jan 28, 2011
MARCUS GEE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/marcus-gee/light-rail-that-works/article1887237/
To make the world peaceful, we need to make bread more plentiful. It’s the stuff of life
Jan 28, 2011
DOUG SAUNDERS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-dangers-of-treating-food-as-a-strategic-asset/article1886971/
McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Jan 28, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE012811.asp
Jan 28, 2011
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/28/c6077.html
Jan 28, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Wheat-and-Pulse-Farmers-Win-With-Launch-of-Canada-Morocco-Free-Trade-Negotiations-1387130.htm
Study identifies gaps in primary health care for seniors with multiple chronic conditions
Jan 27, 2011
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/27/c5783.html
Jan 27, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Invests-Forest-Industry-Transformation-Alberta-Newsprint-Mill-1386674.htm
McGuinty Government Supports New Pathology Imaging Centre
Jan 26, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://news.ontario.ca/mri/en/2011/01/faster-health-diagnoses-for-ontarians.html
Dr. Arlene King Says That Public Health Is Everyone's Business
Jan 27, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2011/01/ontario-needs-comprehensive-public-health-strategy.html
Jan 26, 2011
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/growth/innovate-or-be-left-behind-obama-warns/article1883919/
Jan 26, 2011
Andy Hargreaves
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/928064--canada-s-culture-of-excellence-in-education
Northern culture and environment matter as much as our military role
Jan 26, 2011
TONY PENIKETT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/arctic-security-means-more-than-arctic-sovereignty/article1882672/
How cheap food is destabilizing the global economy
Jan 26, 2011
NICK CULLATHER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/world-food-prices-arent-too-high-theyre-too-low/article1882674/
The new Environment Minister should read more about climate change and the oil sands
Jan 26, 2011
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/does-peter-kent-even-care-about-emissions/article1882673/
McGuinty Government Building Better Public Transit
Jan 26, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Transportation
http://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2011/01/ontario-launches-environmental-assessment-for-electrification-of-air-rail-link.html
McGuinty Government Invests In Safeguarding Drinking Water
Jan 26, 2011 9:00 AM
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
http://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2011/01/protecting-drinking-water-sources-across-the-province.html
McGuinty Government Supporting Energy Efficiency And Solar Projects
Jan 26, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Energy
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2011/01/markham-first-city-to-join-ontarios-clean-energy-program.html
Jan 25, 2011
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/dont-wait-for-us-set-emission-rules-on-industry-now-panel-says/article1881980/
Jan 25, 2011
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/rating-the-potential-high-cost-of-carbon-to-investors/article1882675/
Jan 25, 2011
RHÉAL SÉGUIN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/quebec-hires-bouchard-to-head-oil-and-gas-lobby-group/article1882789/
Jan 25, 2011
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/discussions/jeffrey-simpson-on-emissions-politics/article1882714/
Stephen Harper can lead an international effort to ensure girls and young women aren't left out
Jan 25, 2011
Jill Sheffield
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/keep-up-the-pressure-on-maternal-health-canada/article1881298/

Don’t abandon Canada’s stake

Jan 25, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/927397--don-t-abandon-canada-s-stake
Jan 25, 2011
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/NRTEE-Recommends-Phased-In-Climate-Harmonization-Policy-with-US-1385026.htm
McGuinty Government Releases First Annual Report on Lake Simcoe
Jan 25, 2011
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
http://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2011/01/taking-action-to-protect-lake-simcoe-and-the-local-economy.html
- MaRS Innovation Invests in Mobile Health Technologies Created at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital
- Initial $300,000 Investment to Give VitalHub Inc. Crucial Head Start in "White Hot" Mobile Health IT Sector
Jan 25, 2011
MaRS Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/MaRS-Innovation-VitalHub-How-iPhones-Are-Helping-Health-Care-1385257.htm
Emphasizes importance of the role of small business in securing Canada's economic recovery
Jan 25, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Designates-2011-as-Year-of-the-Entrepreneur-1385172.htm
Jan 25, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/25/c5132.html
The world knows that the Chinese economic boom has led to a huge increase in carbon emissions. But the damage has to stop if global environmental catastrophe is to be averted
Jan 24, 2011
Johann Hari
The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-choking-of-china--and-the-world-2192372.html

Freedom from pasteurization

Jan 24, 2011
Adrian MacNair
National Post
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/24/adrian-macnair-freedom-from-pasteurization/
Jan 24, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2011/01/24/parasite-tropical-disease.html
Grand Challenges Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partner to support innovative Canadian research into disfiguring and debilitating diseases in the developing world
Jan 24, 2011
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/24/c4678.html
Jan 24, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-BC-Solar-Energy-Project-1384665.htm
Canadian-Led Team Announces Promising Reactor-free Method of Producing Medical Isotopes
Jan 24, 2011
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Solving-Canadas-Medical-Isotope-Crisis-1384607.htm
Jan 24, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Investing-in-Isotope-Innovation-1384587.htm
Jan 24, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Investing-Sustainable-Forest-Management-Research-Quebecs-Eastern-Townships-1384559.htm
Jan 24, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Canadian-Food-Processing-Industry-are-Working-Together-Grow-Sector-1384603.htm

Celebrate World Veterinary Year

Jan 24, 2011
CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Celebrate-World-Veterinary-Year-1384480.htm
Jan 24, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/24/c4758.html
Jan 24, 2011
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/24/c4677.html
Jan 21, 2011
BERTRAND MAROTTE, RHÉAL SÉGUIN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/quebec-rethinking-policy-on-shale-gas/article1879374/
Jan 5, 2011
Natalie Alcoba
National Post
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/05/light-rail-would-produce-more-winners-than-subway-environmentalists/
Jan 5, 2011
Tess Kalinowski
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/transportation/article/916372--subways-would-cost-more-and-serve-fewer-group-says
Jan 5, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2011/01/05/subway-light-rail-report241.html
Dec 8, 2010
John C McLachlan
British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6979.full?sid=399ff70a-c25d-45f9-a875-67d8f83b4ddf