Monday, September 26, 2011

Research focus hitting undergrad education

Sep 22, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/22/pei-undergraduate-education-quality-584.html
ACFAS debate looks at growing power of citizens in influencing research.
Sep 19, 2011
Jean-François Venne
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/are-science-and-democracy-mutually-exclusive.aspx
Sep 22, 2011
Mark Parsons
C.D. Howe Institute
http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/Commentary_334.pdf
A report on the AUCC workshop on undergraduate education in Halifax, March 6-8, 2011
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)
http://www.aucc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/the-revitalization-of-undergraduate-education-in-canada-2011.pdf

Healthy Animals, Healthy Canada

The Expert Panel on Approaches to Animal Health Risk Assessment
Sep 22, 2011
Council of Canadian Academies
http://www.scienceadvice.ca/uploads/eng/assessments%20and%20publications%20and%20news%20releases/animal%20health/final_ah_web_report_eng.pdf
Sep 20, 2011
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/oecd-science-technology-and-industry-scoreboard-2011_sti_scoreboard-2011-en
Start-up Guide
Sep 2011
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/55/60/48704993.pdf
OECD Green Growth Studies
Sep 14, 2011
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/science-and-technology/fostering-innovation-for-green-growth_9789264119925-en
Sep 2011
World Economic Forum
http://reports.weforum.org/pdf/wef-new-sustainability-champions-2011.pdf
Sep 8, 2011
Bernd Ebersberger, Sverre J. Herstad, Eric Iversen, Eva Kirner, Oliver Som
European Commission
http://www.proinno-europe.eu/sites/default/files/innogrips/Innogrips%20-%20WP3_final_0.pdf
Minister confident pipeline approval will come, but vows development will continue regardless
Sep 26, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/26/pol-keystone-mcdiarmid.html
Sep 26, 2011
Erica Johnson
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/23/antibiotic-usee-in-animals.html

Ontario’s energy election

Sep 26, 2011
Mark Winfield
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1060025--ontario-s-energy-election

Energy NIMBYs win

The Mississauga area’s energy needs are being sacrificed to win an election.
Sep 26, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1060032--energy-nimbys-win
Sep 26, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/police-arrest-oil-sands-protesters-on-parliament-hill/article2180350/
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/26/ottawa-oilsands-protest-parliament-hill.html
Sep 26, 2011
Bradley Bouzane
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Greenpeace+founder+defends+oilsands+reclamation+efforts/5459244/story.html
Sep 26, 2011
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/andre-picard/why-is-a-1575-a-month-drug-approved-and-a-7-one-isnt/article2180517/
Petition demands disclosure be forced
Sep 26, 2011
MICHELLE LALONDE
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Genetically+modified+corn+sold+unlabelled+activists+warn/5457353/story.html

Inuit debate polar bear quota

Nunavut hunters concerned too many bears killed in Nunavik this year
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/09/26/north-polar-bear-quota.html
Sep 26, 2011
Monique Beaudin
The Gazette
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2011/09/26/ottawa-river-wetland-to-become-part-of-a-new-nature-reserve-in-quebec/
Sep 26, 2011
Lynn Moore
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canada+urged+back+string+charging+stations+electric+vehicles/5461299/story.html
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/26/quirks-clean-energy-mad-like-tesla.html
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/26/cancer-care-costs.html
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/26/weight-terms-children-teens.html
Ahvaz, Iran, world's worst city for air pollution
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/26/air-pollution-who-ahvaz.html
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/26/colon-cancer-fruits-vegetables.html
Sep 26, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/26/caffeine-children-limits.html
Sep 26, 2011
Steve Ladurantaye AND Carys Mills
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-election/hudak-questions-liberal-commitment-to-cancel-ontario-power-plant/article2180365/
Sep 26, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/minister-oliver-highlights-canadas-energy-advantage-at-international-science-meeting-1565431.htm
Sep 26, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statement-honourable-joe-oliver-pc-mp-minister-natural-resources-on-keystone-xl-pipeline-1565415.htm
Sep 25, 2011
James Bradshaw
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/universitynews/university-education-no-guarantee-of-earnings-success/article2179803/
Sep 25, 2011
Peter McMahon
CTV News
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110922/waterloo-physics-institute-grabbing-top-scientists-110924/20110924/?hub=TorontoNewHome&cid=top
Sep 25, 2011
Nathan Vanderklippe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/battle-lines-drawn-in-nebraska-over-keystone-pipeline/article2179472/
Sep 25, 2011
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/mark-hume/beach-seining-for-salmon-raises-question-of-waste/article2179839/
Poor countries are developing the diseases of the rich, with lethal consequences
Sep 24, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21530099
Arctic sea ice is melting far faster than climate models predict. Why?
Sep 24, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21530079
Sep 24, 2011
Karen Howlett
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-election/mcguinty-retreats-on-controversial-gas-fired-power-plant-plan/article2179046/
Details were still sketchy, but officials say that the bus-sized satellite first penetrated Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean
Sep 24, 2011
Dawn Walton AND Carrie Tait
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/reports-nasa-satellite-debris-fell-in-alberta-may-be-misguided/article2178971/
Sep 24, 2011
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/scary-are-the-tory-measures-to-combat-crime/article2178055/
Sep 23, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/23/bc-federal-study-fracking.html
Sep 23, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/23/ont-nissan-leaf-sale.html
Sep 23, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/23/sk-ms-patients-liberation-1109.html
Sep 23, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/23/bedbugs-insecticide.html
Sep 23, 2011
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Federal+government+blowing+over+ozone+monitoring+cuts+critics/5450956/story.html
Sep 23, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/23/bc-metro-vancouver-parks-smoking-ban.html
Sep 23, 2011
Alison Crawford
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/23/pol-mercury-fillings.html
Who travelled faster than light
Sep 23, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/09/neutrinos
Sep 23, 2011
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/northwest-atlantic-fisheries-organization-2011-annual-meeting-1564961.htm
Sep 23, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/minister-oliver-touts-canadas-energy-resources-and-economic-strengths-1564848.htm
Sep 23, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/new-market-access-to-serbia-and-malaysia-for-canadian-sheep-and-goat-industry-1564816.htm

The problem with 'ethical oil'

Sep 22, 2011
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/problem+with+ethical/5439271/story.html

Pipeline foes miss the point

The problem is not oil production, but consumption.
Sep 22, 2011
Jatin Nathwani
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1058308--pipeline-foes-miss-the-point
Sep 22, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/22/technology-particles-light-speed.html
Sep 22, 2011
Brian Kemp
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/21/great-lakes-threat-list.html
Sep 22, 2011
Laura Payton
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/22/pol-planned-parenthood-funding.html
Sep 22, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/22/nl-labrador-mothers-922.html
Sep 22, 2011
Dave Seglins and John Nicol
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/21/wind-turbines.html
Sep 22, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/22/chronic-fatigue-xmrv.html
Sep 22, 2011
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/bureaucrats-questioned-on-principle-of-fisheries-act-at-cohen-commission/article2177088/
Sep 22, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/22/technology-satellite-uars-debris.html
Healthy Animals, Healthy Canada
Sep 22, 2011
Council of Canadian Academies
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2011/22/c5652.html
Sep 22, 2011
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statement-from-canadas-chief-veterinary-officer-council-canadian-academies-report-on-1564521.htm
Sep 22, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/government-of-canada-invests-in-feasibility-study-for-bio-based-jet-fuel-1564443.htm
Sep 22, 2011
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/plavix-blood-thinner-new-recommendations-for-use-with-ppis-antacids-1564480.htm
Sep 22, 2011
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/baby-car-seat-carrier-safety-belts-pose-risk-of-serious-injury-to-infants-1564518.htm
Sep 21, 2011
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/keystone-pipeline-approval-complete-no-brainer-harper-says/article2174907/

Energy drinks are drugs: panel

Rules proposed; Health Canada ponders advice from experts
Sep 21, 2011
SARAH SCHMIDT
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Energy+drinks+drugs+panel/5433513/story.html
Sep 21, 2011
Brian Topp
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/brian-topp/keystone-xl-a-pipeline-that-should-not-be-built/article2174916/
Sep 21, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/21/multiple-sclerosis-brain-neurosteroids.html
Beverages among top sources of sugar
Sep 21, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/21/sugar-eat-statistics-canada.html
Sep 21, 2011
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/oil-sands-workers-press-mps-to-oppose-wrongheaded-keystone-pipeline/article2174188/
At the UN meeting, leaders mouthed fine phrases and principles. But they put neither new money nor a credible strategy on the table needed to back them up
Sep 21, 2011
John Kirton AND Laurette Dubé
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/from-new-york-to-cannes-baby-steps-in-the-battle-against-non-communicable-diseases/article2173549/
Sep 21, 2011
Carly Weeks
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-news/sweet-heavens-statscan-finds-average-canadian-eats-26-tsp-of-sugar-a-day/article2174438/
Twenty-four “Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates” Recognized for Their Contributions to the Advancement of Science
Sep 21, 2011
Thomson Reuters
http://thomsonreuters.com/content/press_room/science/2011-citation-laureates
Sep 21, 2011
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/health-canada-decision-on-trasylol-aprotinin-1564068.htm
Sep 21, 2011
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/working-with-canadians-to-protect-our-trees-1564024.htm
Sep 20, 2011
Steven Chase
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/sweeping-conservative-crime-bill-only-the-beginning/article2173915/
Sep 20, 2011
Carolyn Abraham
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-news/canadian-mds-consider-denying-fertility-treatments-to-obese-women/article2173941/
Sep 20, 2011
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ethical-oil-ad-sparks-war-of-words-between-ottawa-saudis/article2173999/
Sep 20, 2011
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/author-of-salmon-science-review-accused-of-bias/article2173846/
Sep 20, 2011
James Bradshaw
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/montreal-raised-researcher-wins-500000-macarthur-fellowship/article2172217/
Sep 20, 2011
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2011/20/c4906.html
Sep 20, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2011/20/c5016.html
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has proposed guidelines that would compel physicians "to propose both allopathic and non-allopathic therapeutic options that are clinically indicated or appropriate."
Sep 19, 2011
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleases/19sept11_nonconventional-therapy-guidelines.xhtml
Sep 19, 2011
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/andre-picard/chronic-diseases-could-cost-global-economy-47-trillion/article2171607/
Sep 19, 2011
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/no-primary-cause-for-salmon-collapse-of-2009-analysis-of-evidence-shows/article2172114/
Cardiovascular diseases leading worldwide killer: WHO
Sep 19, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/who-2011/
Canada should for the time being continue its exclusion of blood donations from men who have had sex with men, but should also continue to re-examine the question
Sep 19, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/blood-donation-ban-for-gay-men-merits-re-evaluation/article2171947/
Ontario’s political parties differ sharply in one key area — energy: what kind to produce, and how to pay for it.
Sep 19, 2011
Martin Regg Cohn
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/provincialelection/article/1056440--cohn-energy-flashpoints-and-the-politics-of-power
Treats look more inviting when blood sugar drops, brain scans show
Sep 19, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/19/obese-brain-scans.html
Sep 19, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/19/ottawa-elk-hunt.html
Sep 19, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/19/science-oceans-climate-change.html
Sep 19, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/19/technology-foldit-hiv.html
Sep 19, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/19/chronic-disease-un.html
Sep 19, 2011
Centre for Inquiry
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/new-alternative-medicine-policy-draws-fire-from-doctors-public-1562945.htm
Sep 19, 2011
September is ovarian cancer awareness month. Research is crucial to help prevent, detect and treat this disease
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2011/19/c3928.html
Jean-Pierre Côté honoured for his collaborative contribution to the establishment of the pilot-phase Canadian National Site Licensing Project and its successor organization, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network
Sep 19, 2011
Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2011/19/c4285.html
Sep 18, 2011
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/fish-return-to-howe-sound-once-a-toxic-dead-zone/article2170555/
Sep 17, 2011
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/are-we-serving-the-public-or-the-providers/article2169054/
Niagara region hopes exercise regime will help improve its students’ marks
Sep 17, 2011
John Rieti
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/16/f-photos-eastdale-sparking-life.html
An extraordinary manslaughter trial starts in Italy
Sep 17, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21529006
Sep 17, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/research-critical-creating-jobs-economic-growth-says-minister-state-goodyear-as-stephen-1562344.htm
Old and creaking, America’s electricity grid needs urgently to be rewired
Sep 16, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/09/reliability-grid
Sep 15, 2011
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/project-to-help-salmon-past-hot-spot-abandoned-cohen-commission-told/article2168284/
Sep 14, 2011
Sunny Dhillon
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/make-pacific-salmon-bcs-official-fish-groups-urge/article2166574/