Sunday, October 23, 2011

Canada's Innovation Underperformance: Whose Policy Problem is it?

Oct 14, 2011
Tijs Creutzberg
Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation
http://www.mowatcentre.ca/pdfs/mowatResearch/36.pdf
Oct 14, 2011
Barrie McKenna
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/study-urges-drastic-cuts-to-federal-rd-tax-breaks/article2200463/

Closing the innovation gap

After 30 years of unproductive spending, it’s clear the government needs a new innovation strategy
Oct 20, 2011
Carol Goar
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1073531--goar-closing-the-innovation-gap
Oct 18, 2011
Statistics Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/88-204-x/88-204-x2011001-eng.pdf
Oct 18, 2011
The Daily, Statistics Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/111018/dq111018b-eng.htm
Scientific and technological activities of provincial governments and provincial research organizations, 2005/2006 to 2009/2010
Oct 2011
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/88-001-x/88-001-x2011002-eng.pdf
Oct 17, 2011
Laura Payton
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/17/pol-goodyear-research-panel.html
Oct 17, 2011
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/rd-tax-scheme-too-rich-federal-panel/article2203628/
Despite spending $5 billion a year, Canada is not getting value for its funding, experts panel says
Oct 18, 2011
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Research+development+overhaul+urged/5565689/story.html
Oct 17, 2011
Daniel Proussalidis
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/17/panel-finds-federal-rd-funding-too-complex
Oct 17, 2011
Robert Hiltz
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Expert+panel+calls+overhaul+funding/5563366/story.html
Oct 17, 2011
Jameson Berkow
Financial Post
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/10/17/canadas-rd-funding-system-unnecessarily-complicated-and-confusing-panel-finds/
Oct 17, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1071341--r-d-system-too-complex-says-blue-ribbon-panel
Plans to help R&D companies could retard growth or make things worse
Oct 18, 2011
Don Cayo
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Panel+recommendations+evoke+feelings+d%C3%A9j%C3%A0/5565770/story.html
R&D Tax Update
Oct 17, 2011
Deloitte & Touche LLP
http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Canada/Local%20Assets/Documents/Tax/EN/2011/ca_en_tax_RD_ShapingFuture_of_Canadian_innovation_Jenkins_Review_171011.pdf
Universities welcome recognition of leadership in talent, discovery and ideas
Oct 17, 2011
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/860087/aucc-applauds-expert-panel-s-vision-for-innovation
Oct 18, 2011
John Manley
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/Centralize+Ottawa+funding/5564939/story.html

Handbacks, not handouts

Oct 18, 2011
Neil Seeman
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/Handbacks+handouts/5564938/story.html

Dim-bulb R&D policy

Oct 19, 2011
Peter Foster
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/bulb+policy/5571407/story.html
Oct 16, 2011
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/barrie-mckenna/a-chance-to-fix-our-broken-rd-model/article2202881/
The lack of a common approach to intellectual property ownership in our academic institutions is stifling our ability to bring products to market.
Oct 20 2011
Karen Mazurkewich
The Mark News
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/7130-confronting-canada-s-innovation-gap
Index, 12 years in the making, tracks quality of life in Canada.
Oct 19, 2011
Rosanna Tamburri
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/canadian-researchers-to-launch-national-index-of-wellbeing.aspx
‘The trends are for classes to get larger, for courses to be less available, and for more and more of the teaching to be done by sessional and itinerant instructors’
Oct 21, 2011
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/universities-get-an-f-for-failing-undergrads/article2208088/
Oct 19, 2011
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/the-search-for-sustainability-in-higher-ed/
Volume 2 - Issue 4
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
http://www.nsercpartnerships.ca/_docs/Media-Media/Bulletins-Bulletins/Vol2-Issue4-EN.pdf
Apr 2011
Sir Peter Gluckman
Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
http://www.pmcsa.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Towards-better-use-of-evidence-in-policy-formation.pdf
Jun 15, 2011
Deloitte & Touche LLP
http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Canada/Local%20Assets/Documents/Consulting/ca_en_productivity_complete_150611.pdf

How's Life?

Measuring well-being
Oct 12, 2011
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/economics/how-s-life_9789264121164-en
Oct 10, 2011
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/agriculture-and-food/fisheries-and-aquaculture-certification_9789264119680-en
Oct 5, 2011
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/agriculture-and-food/evaluation-of-agricultural-policy-reforms-in-the-european-union_9789264112124-en
Oct 13, 2011
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/agriculture-and-food/evaluation-of-agricultural-policy-reforms-in-turkey_9789264113220-en
Oct 11, 2011
Allison Morris
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/student-standardised-testing_5kg3rp9qbnr6-en
Oct 5, 2011
Janet W. Looney
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/alignment-in-complex-education-systems_5kg3vg5lx8r8-en
Sep 30, 2011
Itzhak Goldberg, John Gabriel Goddard, Smita Kuriakose, Jean-Louis Racine
World Bank
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/09/30/000356161_20110930033352/Rendered/PDF/647000PUB0EPI000Box361544B00PUBLIC0.pdf
Sep 2011
Paul R. Williams
American Institute for Innovation Excellence
http://thinkforachange.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2011-03-Innovation-Execution-Gap-Research-Report.pdf
Oct 19, 2011
Edited by Matthias Wismar, Claudia B. Maier, Irene A. Glinos, Gilles Dussault, Josep Figueras
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/152324/e95812.pdf

SciencePages: Smart Grids

Jun 2011
Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)
http://www.sciencepages.ca/issues/sp_smartgrids_en.pdf
Oct 2011
UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
http://www.parliament.uk/pagefiles/504/postpn392_livestock-disease.pdf
Oct 23, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/21/health-shift-workers-heart-risk.html
Oct 23, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/minister-oliver-objects-to-the-european-unions-discrimination-of-canadian-crude-oil-1576471.htm

Are we reaching ‘peak car’?

Oct 22, 2011
Anita Elash
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/are-we-reaching-peak-car/article2210139/page1/

Climate change: The heat is on

A new analysis of the temperature record leaves little room for the doubters. The world is warming
Oct 22, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21533360
Oct 22, 2011
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Mental+health+strategy+time+MHCC/5592775/story.html
Oct 22, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/thousands-of-dead-birds-wash-up-on-ontario-shores-botulism-blamed/article2210591/
Steve Jobs died regretting that he had spent so long attempting to treat his cancer with alternative medicine before agreeing to undergo surgery, his biographer has disclosed.
Oct 21, 2011
Jon Swaine
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8841347/Steve-Jobs-regretted-trying-to-beat-cancer-with-alternative-medicine-for-so-long.html
Oct 21, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/21/health-cellphone-cancer-study.html
No 'allowable use exemption' in draft UN treaty
Oct 21, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/21/science-mercury-ban-vaccines.html
Taylor family donates $25M to facility
Oct 21, 2011
Sean Myers
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ceremony+showcases+205M+high+tech+digital+library/5585687/story.html
But that doesn't necessarily mean extra weight on the health system
Oct 21, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/21/mb-obesity-study-manitoba.html
Oct 21, 2011
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/21/scientist-speaks-out-after-finding-record-ozone-hole-over-canadian-arctic/
Oct 21, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/21/health-lifestyle-changes.html
Oct 21, 2011
Ingrid Peritz
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-news/canadian-researcher-traces-aids-to-single-bush-hunter-from-1921/article2210046/
Oct 21, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/ottawa-infection-control-breach-points-to-need-to-scope-all-clinics/article2209860/
Oct 21, 2011
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/government-canada-supports-partnerships-between-mohawk-college-local-businesses-1576376.htm
Oct 21, 2011
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/government-of-canada-supports-economic-growth-in-eastern-ontario-1576271.htm
Minister Ritz Makes Announcement During National Organic Week
Oct 21, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/government-canada-celebrates-organic-week-helping-boost-international-markets-producers-1576273.htm
Oct 21, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/harper-government-investing-in-new-market-opportunities-for-flax-and-hemp-farmers-1576352.htm
Oct 21, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/863047/spanish-mountain-gold-mine-project-public-comments-invited-and-federal-funding-available
Oct 20, 2011
Margo McDiarmid
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/20/pol-environmental-assessment-committee.html
Oct 20, 2011
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Health+Canada+licenses+revolutionary+skin+cancer+detector/5576466/story.html
Oct 20, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-bio.html
Oct 20, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/20/measles-quebec-vaccine-schedule.html
Oct 20, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/10/20/dance-your-phd-winner.html
Oct 20, 2011
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/government-of-canada-supports-new-business-in-vaughan-1575921.htm
Oct 20, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/minister-oliver-promotes-canadas-international-energy-interests-in-paris-and-london-1575803.htm
Oct 19, 2011
Ben Hirschler
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/facebook-may-be-changing-our-brains-says-study/article2206333/
Oct 19, 2011
David Baines
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Health+Canada+review+COLD+claim/5572290/story.html
Make Affordable Access to Cancer Drugs a Priority of Upcoming Health Accord Negotiations, Advocates Say
Oct 19, 2011
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/861551/put-the-healthcare-of-canadians-first
The Harper government risks being dragged into the U.S. presidential campaign if the Keystone pipeline becomes an issue.
Oct 18, 2011
Tim Harper
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1072206--tim-harper-pm-s-big-oil-no-brainer-an-emotional-issue-in-u-s
New nuclear units will sustain Ontario’s economic development while protecting its environment.
Oct 18, 2011
Ron Oberth, Ian Howcroft and John Mutton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1072167--get-on-with-the-darlington-upgrade

Medicine’s feminine mystique

Until relatively recently doctors didn’t understand there are important differences between men and women’s health, besides the reproductive ones
Oct 18, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1072144--medicine-s-feminine-mystique
Oct 18, 2011
Heather Scoffield
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/critics-of-omnibus-bill-advocate-for-criminals-conservatives-charge/article2205213/
Oct 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/18/colon-cancer-bacteria.html
Oct 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/18/down-syndrome-blood-test.html
Oct 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/18/ottawa-clinic-hotline-calls.html
Playtime is better for developing brains
Oct 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/18/babies-toddlers-tv.html
Oct 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/18/health.html
N.W.T. government hopes to learn more about the bears' behaviour
Oct 18, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/18/north-bear-satellite-collars.html
Taking ultrasound images from inside the heart will lead to more effective and safer treatment
Oct 18, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/medical-technology
Ontario's investment in the new Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute is attracting talent from around the world and creating good jobs for Ontario families.
Oct 18, 2011
Ontario Office of the Premier
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2011/10/strengthening-health-care-creating-jobs.html
Ending the war on drugs should be a straightforward economic proposition
Oct 17, 2011
NEIL REYNOLDS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/a-little-legalizing-a-big-peace-dividend/article2201408/
Oct 17, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/17/science-animals-and-plants-shrinking.html
ADHD guidelines shift younger
Oct 17, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/17/adhd-preschool.html

Cliffs Chromite Project

Public Comments Invited and Federal Funding Available
Oct 17, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/859847/cliffs-chromite-project
Funding Awarded for Participation in the Environmental Assessment Phase II
Oct 17, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/859877/marathon-platinum-group-metals-and-copper-mine-project-in-ontario
Oct 17, 2011
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/859475/tomorrow-s-northern-opportunities-depend-on-education-today
Biofuels and healthy food supplies need not be mutually exclusive.
Oct 16, 2011
Warren Mabee and Donald L. Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1070363--a-next-generation-biofuel-strategy
Oct 16, 2011
DAVID CRARY
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/global-population-to-hit-7-billion-by-octobers-end/article2202573/
Oct 15, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/nearly-7000-people-urged-to-get-tested-for-hiv-hepatitis-in-ottawa/article2202447/
Stratospheric changes can lead to nasty cold snaps
Oct 15, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21532246
Happiness is in your DNA; and different races may have different propensities for it
Oct 15, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21532247
Warfare is changing as weapons that destroy electronics, not people, are deployed on the field of battle
Oct 15, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21532245

Prostate testing's dark side

Oct 14, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/13/f-prostate-psa-test.html
Do men really need to be tested regularly for prostate cancer?
Oct 14, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/diagnosing-cancer
The genetics of a medieval pestilence
Oct 12, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/medical-archaeology
Oct 12, 2011
Anne McIlroy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-news/black-death-bug-hasnt-changed-but-we-have/article2198665/
Oct 11, 2011
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/malfunction-stalls-arctic-mapping-project/article2198107/
Oct 5, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/05/f-cellphone-health-wireless.html
Oct 3, 2011
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/record-arctic-ozone-hole-raises-fears-of-worse-to-come/article2188525/