Saturday, May 28, 2011

Budgeting for the long run

As the United States Congress confronts budgeting challenges, whether federal funding of scientific research is perceived as an investment or a discretionary expense will have long-term consequences.
May 23, 2011
Nature Materials
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v10/n6/full/nmat3044.html
May 27, 2011
CTV.ca News
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/start/business-planning/canada-among-top-three-countries-for-entrepreneurs/article2037540/
May 26, 2011
Government of Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/science-pour-tous-earns-nserc-award-for-science-promotion-1519532.htm
In just six months, Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation has helped to propel about a half-dozen research projects into the field
May 26, 2011
RENATA D’ALIESIO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/extreme-trekkers-citizen-scientists/article2036774/
May 22, 2011
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/05/22/identifying-good-scientists-and-keeping-them-honest/
May 26, 2011
Léo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/market-signals-income-advantage-push-university-enrolment-higher/
New report by AUCC predicts 125,000 more students, a 14-percent rise, by 2020.
May 26, 2011
Léo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/enrolment-will-continue-to-climb-despite-demographic-decline.aspx
May 2011
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/_pdf/english/publications/trends-2011-vol1-enrolment-e.pdf
May 2011
CBC Office of the Ombidsman
http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/pdf/2011-05-11-Robbins.pdf
May 2011
Thomson Reuters
http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/ls/movers_shakers.pdf
May 2011
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
Ecosystem Service Valuation: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn_378-Ecosystem-Service-Valuation.pdf
Climatologist and author to be among presenters at Congress of the Humanities and Social Science
May 27, 2011
Jennifer pritchett
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1410049
May 27, 2011
BARRIE MCKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/deal-confirms-governments-right-to-ban-cosmetic-pesticides-minister-says/article2038340/
May 27, 2011
Larry Pynn
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/food/Fatabase/4854294/story.html
Authors of study claiming bacteria used usually toxic arsenic to build DNA stand by results
May 27, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/05/27/science-arsenic-bacteria-wolfe-simon.html
May 27, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/05/27/mb-lawn-care-killex-eco-green.html
May 27, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/05/27/physical-activity-work.html
May 27, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/05/27/ns-medical-marijuana-lawsuit.html
May 27, 2011
CHBC News, Kelowna
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Kelowna+school+first+kind+Canada/4853598/story.html
May 27, 2011
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tories-set-to-steer-new-course-on-health-care-funding/article2038257/
No province has completely met the benchmarks for the Famous Five procedures, and some are very far away
May 27, 2011
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/wait-times-so-much-money-such-modest-progress/article2036335/
Canada's scholars descend on Fredericton for the annual "intellectual Olympics"
May 27, 2011
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/27/c8266.html
Ontario is helping NORCAN Hydraulic Turbine Inc. - a clean energy equipment manufacturer in Carleton Place - acquire new machinery and expand its plant, creating 12 new jobs and supporting close to 30 additional construction jobs.
May 27, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
http://news.ontario.ca/medt/en/2011/05/clean-energy-investment-creates-42-new-jobs-in-ottawa-valley.html
Commercial interests hope to prevent ban seen in eastern provinces
May 26, 2011
Mychaylo Prystupa
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/05/26/mb-lawn-chemical-ban.html
May 26, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/05/26/pol-enviro-wildfires-cities.html
May 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/05/26/nunavut-dental-care-costs.html
Many people think of malaria as a single disease. It isn’t
May 26, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/18741412

Moon has more water than believed

May 26, 2011
OLIVER MOORE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/moon-has-more-water-than-believed/article2036718/
Ontario's clean energy economy continues to grow, creating 2,000 new jobs by adding more than 700 new clean energy projects across the province.
May 26, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Energy
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2011/05/new-clean-energy-projects-creating-2000-jobs.html
May 25, 2011
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/andre-picard/is-tobacco-control-no-longer-a-federal-priority/article2034642/

Hudak is endangering green jobs

If he follows through on his promise, not only will many jobs fail to materialize but those that have will likely disappear
May 25, 2011
Ken Neumann and Rick Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/997082--hudak-is-endangering-green-jobs

Ottawa isn't the oil sands' enemy

May 25, 2011
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/Ottawa+sands+enemy/4834986/story.html
David Grimes begins 4-year term June 6
May 25, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/05/25/canada-grimes-meteorology.html
May 25, 2011
RENATA D’ALIESIO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/first-canadian-to-be-worlds-weatherman-forecasts-more-focus-on-north/article2035274/
May 25, 2011
RACHEL BRADY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-news/ad-campaign-tackles-link-between-teen-drug-use-and-family-medicine-cabinet/article2035288/
Why the report of a far-sighted panel is dead on arrival
May 25, 2011
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/save-resource-money-for-the-future-nah-says-alberta/article2033331/
May 25, 2011
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/government-of-canada-implements-new-faster-testing-method-for-shellfish-toxins-1518963.htm
May 25, 2011
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/25/c7341.html
May 24, 2011
Sarah Schmidt¸
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Health+Canada+expert+wonders+what+water+Coca+Cola/4833642/story.html
May 24, 2011
Alister Doyle
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/norway-unveils-billion-dollar-clean-energy-plan/article2032574/
Forecasters keeping a close watch on Canada's coming tornado season
May 24, 2011
Kazi Stastna
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/05/24/f-tornadoes-trend.html
May 24, 2011
Wency Leung
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/trends/trends-features/exploding-watermelons-canadians-say-no-thanks-to-chinese-food-imports/article2033298/
May 24, 2011
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/bill-gates-urges-rich-countries-to-fund-poor-farmers/article2033487/
May 24, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/05/24/science-spirit-mars-rover.html
May 24, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/05/24/environment-peregrine-falcons-sudbury.html

Another health checkup

With a spending crunch ahead, it’s time for a new royal commission on health care
May 24, 2011
Dr. Harvey Schipper
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/995031--another-health-checkup
But that doesn’t include yet another royal commission on health care
May 24, 2011
Gregory Marchildon
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/996307--preserving-medicare-means-accepting-changes
May 24, 2011
ADAM RADWANSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/hudak-borrows-from-harpers-playbook-to-explain-his-health-care-policies/article2033634/
At this week’s G8 summit, Prime Minister Harper must push for an accounting on aid dollars earmarked for maternal and children’s health
May 24, 2011
Dave Toycen
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/995026--our-pledge-to-children-and-mothers
May 24, 2011
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/24/c7176.html
May 24, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency & National Energy Board
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/24/c6939.html
More than 670 students will have access to new and improved facilities at the University of Guelph Ridgetown campus by fall 2012.
May 24, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
http://news.ontario.ca/tcu/en/2011/05/improved-facilities-for-university-of-guelph-students.html
Ontario's shift toward clean, renewable energy is strengthening the province's economy by attracting good jobs, investment and opportunities for Windsor-area families.
May 24, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Energy
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2011/05/clean-energy-investment-creating-80-new-jobs.html
Canada experimented with the safer fuel for decades. Now China, using Candu reactors, is likely to beat us to its use
May 23, 2011
NEIL REYNOLDS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/with-thorium-we-could-have-safe-nuclear-power/article2030383/

A fiery environmental apocalypse

Human-engendered climate change could be linked to the increasing frequency and scope of forest fires in Canada and around the world
May 23, 2011
Stephen Scharper
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/995041--a-fiery-environmental-apocalypse
May 23, 2011
ADRIANA BARTON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-policy/the-computer-will-see-you-now-telehealth-programs-catch-on/article2031925/
May 22, 2011
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/no-one-followed-the-bc-black-market-salmon/article2031554/

The tyranny of mother’s milk

Women were made to feel that failing to nurse their babies was tantamount to child abuse
May 20, 2011
MARGARET WENTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-tyranny-of-mothers-milk/article2030188/
May 20, 2011
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/slave-lake-shows-the-increasing-risk-of-serious-forest-fires-experts-warn/article2030715/
May 20, 2011
TU THANH HA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/ns-health-authority-wants-only-nutritious-snacks-at-its-tim-hortons-hospital-outlets/article2029868/
May 19, 2011
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/fukushima-chills-uranium-development/article2025353/
It may be possible to vaccinate people against addictive drugs
May 19, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/18710110
May 17, 2011
Pilita Clark, Jim Pickard
The Financial Times
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/european/uk-agrees-to-tough-carbon-targets/article2025243/
May 17, 2011
Colleen M. Flood
Longwoods.com
http://www.longwoods.com/content/22370/print
May 16, 2011
Diana Mehta
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-policy/arsenic-lead-in-womens-cosmetics-environmental-group-calls-for-regulation/article2023309/
May 16, 2011
JOHN FLESHER
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/bruce-power-pulls-application-to-us-safety-regulator-for-great-lakes-nuke-shipment/article2024220/
May 5, 2011
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/More+doctors+prescribing+placebos+unwitting+patients/4728558/story.html