Monday, March 7, 2011

Let’s ‘Own the Podium’ in health research

Unless there is a major infusion of new funding, Canada could lose it’s competitive position.
Mar 2, 2011
Reinhart Reithmeier
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/947633--let-s-own-the-podium-in-health-research
Research and development investments strengthen economy, improve quality of life
Feb 28, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402868.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402887.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402900.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402897.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402988.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1403052.htm
Mar 2, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/02/sk-nuclear-money-1102.html
In his book, The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada’s Productivity Challenge, Tom Brzustowski, RBC professor for the commercialization of innovation at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, talks about the “social contract between science and society in the U.S.” that arose in the late 1940s and gave rise to that unique ecosystem we know today as Silicon Valley.
Mar 2, 2011
Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.obj.ca/Technology/2011-03-02/article-2294254/Silicon-Valley%3A-A-big-bright-heat-lamp-for-startup-incubation/1
National collaboration among libraries keeps Canada's universities at the forefront of innovation despite tough economic times
Mar 4, 2011
Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/04/c8036.html
Mar 4, 2011
JAMES BRADSHAW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mapping-canadas-math-skills-reveals-huge-disparities/article1931149/
Mar 4, 2011
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/globe-to/vaccine-giants-expansion-may-be-a-prescription-for-a-better-economy/article1930980/
Mar 2, 2011
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Weve-Come-a-Long-Way-Baby-New-Video-Highlights-Canadian-Women-Excelling-in-Science-1405010.htm

Best, brightest must be wooed

Role models will draw women to professions in engineering, geoscience
Mar 3, 2011
Kim Farwell
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Best+brightest+must+wooed/4376576/story.html
Lack of women in the program a 'big concern' says professor
Mar 1, 2011
STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
CanadaEast News Service
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/1384427
Mar 3, 2011
Dean Beeby
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/948208--bachman-donates-t-bird-to-science-museum
Dec 2010
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov/docs/Enhancing_Peer_Review_Report.pdf

Time to clarify health priorities

Mar 6, 2011
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Time+clarify+health+priorities/4391767/story.html
Mar 6, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/climate-change-to-have-greatest-impact-on-those-least-responsible-study/article1931615/
Mar 6, 2011
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/how-the-coho-returned-to-the-tsolum-river/article1931877/
Mar 6, 2011
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Health+ministers+unveil+plan+tackle+childhood+obesity/4392517/story.html
Mar 6, 2011
DeBorah ZaBarenko
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/nasa-scientist-draws-scrutiny-over-claim-to-have-found-life-signs-on-meteorite/article1931778/
Goal could make Minority Report a reality
Mar 6, 2011
Ian MacLeod
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Canadian+defence+scientists+probe+biometrics+intent/4393047/story.html
Mar 5, 2011
Margaret Munro
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Researchers+find+more+plastic+guts+Arctic+seabirds/4391273/story.html
Mar 5, 2011
Randy Boswell
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/greening+North+climate+change+shrinking+tundra+says+study/4387983/story.html

Mad cow case confirmed in Alberta

CBC News
Mar 4, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/04/calgary-alberta-mad-cow-disease-bse-case.html
Mar 4, 2011
Adrian Humphreys
National Post
http://www.financialpost.com/todays-paper/Harper+offers+poor+youth+into+university/4383207/story.html
Mar 4, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/fund-pathways-to-education-not-to-prison/article1930827/
Mar 4, 2011
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/Nuclear+research+centre+puts+Sask+ideal+position/4381966/story.html
CBC News
Mar 4, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/04/wndsr-asian-carp.html
Mar 4, 2011
Erin Anderssen
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/health/policy/can-paying-for-a-new-kidney-save-organ-donation/article1930796/
Mar 4, 2011
Carolyn Abraham
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/a-new-prime-suspect-behind-the-global-upsurge-in-obesity-and-diabetes-the-womb/article1930666/
Mar 4, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/04/aecl-paradis.html
Mar 4, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/04/pei-wind-pwer-eggs-584.html
Mar 4, 2011
ADRIAN MORROW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/scandal-over-dubious-surgery-research-rocks-europe/article1929739/
Mar 4, 2011
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Shea-Provides-Fishers-With-Long-term-Economic-Benefits-1406553.htm
Southwestern Ontario’s TechAlliance External link is now part of the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE)
Mar 4, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE030411.asp
Mar 4, 2011
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Supports-Manufacturing-in-Cambridge-1406260.htm
Mar 4, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/04/c8077.html
Mar 3, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/1-billion-federal-outsourcing-bill-raises-spectre-of-shadow-public-service/article1928390/

The Shadow Public Service

The swelling ranks of federal government outsourced workers
Mar 3, 2011
David Macdonald
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2011/03/Shadow_Public_Service.pdf
An attempt is being made to devise a universal intelligence test
Mar 3, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/18276224

N.L. to monitor caribou herds

Mar 3, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/nl-caribou-census.html
Mar 3, 2011
MARK MacKINNON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/green-agenda-gets-top-billing-in-chinas-5-year-plan/article1929300/
Mar 3, 2011
STEPHANIE NOLEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/india-on-the-front-lines-in-the-battle-to-eradicate-polio/article1929578/
Mar 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/calgary-university-study-predator-prey.html
Mar 3, 2011
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-warned-not-to-follow-us-tough-on-crime-mistakes/article1929448/
Mar 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/pei-hydrogen-bus-experiment-584.html

Nuclear hub for U of S

Province earmarks $30 million for campus research centre
Mar 3, 2011
Jeremy Warren
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/health/Nuclear/4375571/story.html
Mar 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/technology-better-place.html
Ontario's vision to have one out of 20 vehicles to be electrically powered by 2020 is moving forward.
Mar 3, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
http://news.ontario.ca/medt/en/2011/03/ontarios-electric-vehicles-plan-revs-up.html
100% of presenting companies funded after company CEOs pitched to angel investors in November 2010
Mar 3, 2011
MaRS Discovery District
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/03/c7628.html

Food research crucial

Mar 2, 2011
C. Don Palmer
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Food+research+crucial/4369570/story.html
Mar 2, 2011
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
CANOE.ca
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/Suzuki/2011/03/02/17466646.html
Advice for Premier McGuinty on solving a vexing political problem.
Mar 2, 2011
Andy Frame
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/947632--five-steps-to-lower-hydro-bills-and-votes
Mar 2, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/let-us-eat-cake-without-the-fat-tax/article1925788/
Secret talks that begin this week for a new treaty to replace the Food Aid Convention will be overshadowed by the fear of price fluctuations
Mar 2, 2011
STUART CLARK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/an-international-food-reserve-would-calm-markets-and-donors/article1925782/
Almost half of Ontario's four-and-five-year olds will benefit from full-day kindergarten in September 2012.
Mar 2, 2011
Ontario Office of the Premier
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2011/03/full-day-kindergarten-to-be-offered-in-900-more-schools.html

Growing debate over fat tax

Mar 1, 2011
Christina Frangou
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Growing+debate+over/4365189/story.html
Mar 1, 2011
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/environment-culture-face-cuts-as-ottawa-turns-off-stimulus-taps/article1924899/
Mar 1, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/01/water-conference-cholera.html
Mar 1, 2011
Michael Geist
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/funding+open+education+materials+game+changer/4363933/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
Innovation: PhD student ignored university's rejection, went on to found two million-dollar firms
Mar 1, 2011
Jennifer Campbell
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1384312
Mar 1, 2011
KAREN HOWLETT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/two-provinces-moving-on-follow-up-care-for-ms-liberation-therapy/article1925266/
Ontario is establishing an expert advisory group to provide advice on follow-up care and treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who return to Ontario after undergoing the experimental Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) procedure outside of Canada.
Mar 1, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2011/03/ensuring-the-best-possible-care-for-ms-patients.html
Mar 1, 2011
Canadian Diabetes Association
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/01/c6893.html
Feb 28, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/28/pol-cdhowe-water-report.html
Feb 28, 2011
MARIA BABBAGE
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/agent-orange-used-widely-in-ontario-over-decades-minister-says/article1924512/
Feb 28, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/28/environment-mercury-ban.html
Feb 28, 2011
TAMARA BALUJA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ban-spells-the-end-of-the-mercury-glass-thermometer/article1923471/
Feb 28, 2011
Chris Kahn
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/us-approves-first-deepwater-well-in-gulf/article1924149/
Feb 28, 2011
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-in-position-to-be-listened-to-in-secretive-world-food-aid-talks/article1922934/
Canada should include recipients of food aid in discussions where life-and-death matters are decided
Feb 28, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/canada-should-bring-poor-nations-to-the-food-aid-discussion-table/article1922937/
Feb 28, 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/06341.html
MMB's technology enables home appliances and devices to communicate on smart grid connected home area networks
Feb 28, 2011
MaRS Discovery District
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2011/28/c6540.html
Feb 28, 2011
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2011/28/c6462.html
Feb 28, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Naked-Oat-Nutrition-Stripped-Down-to-its-Bare-Essentials-1403147.htm
Feb 28, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Reports-Show-Bright-Future-for-Canadian-Agriculture-1403088.htm
Feb 28, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Protects-Jobs-in-Canadas-Forest-Sector-1403218.htm
Ontario's Greenbelt is six years old today.
Feb 28, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
http://news.ontario.ca/mah/en/2011/02/statement-by-minister-rick-bartolucci-on-the-sixth-anniversary-of-ontarios-greenbelt.html
Feb 27, 2011
Katherine Dedyna
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/naturopaths+first+Canada+prescribe+medications/4355073/story.html
A great public-health success should not be pushed too far; some new studies call for a dose of caution
Feb 27, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/folic-acids-triumphs-and-caveats/article1921651/
Feb 27, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Invests-in-Clean-Energy-Projects-Across-the-Country-1402490.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Invests-in-Clean-Energy-1402481.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Invests-in-Clean-Energy-Project-in-Nova-Scotia-1402478.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Invests-in-Clean-Energy-Project-in-Saskatchewan-1402472.htm

UBC launches green energy project

Feb 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/26/bc-ubc-biomass.html
Feb 25, 2011
Carolyn Abraham
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-the-diabetes-linked-thrifty-gene-triumphed-with-prejudice-over-proof/article1921859/singlepage/#articlecontent

Canada’s alien species

Feb 22, 2011
WENDY STUECK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/canadas-alien-species/article1916689/
Feb 21, 2011
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/folic-acid-doctors-at-odds-over-benefits-risks/article1915007/
Feb 20, 2011
LISA PRIEST
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/concussions/former-cfl-players-brains-used-to-study-link-between-concussions-and-disease/article1914797/