The free luncher: Exelon

Oct 17, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/17/the-free-luncher-exelon.aspx

Schools, students squeezed by economic downturn

Province says it is doing what it can to maintain funding, increase spaces
Oct 17, 2009
Keith Gerein
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Schools+students+squeezed+economic+downturn/2116767/story.html

Farmers venturing into brave new world of carbon markets

Provincial programs transforming industry
Oct 17, 2009
Jason Fekete
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Farmers+venturing+into+brave+world+carbon+markets/2116550/story.html

The death of Canada’s education advantage

Oct 16, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/the-death-of-canadas-education-advantage/

Investing in innovation will fuel Canada's economic growth

Information technology is the key to improving productivity
Oct 16, 2009
Steve Ballmer
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/investing-in-innovation-will-fuel-canadas-economic-growth/article1327215/

Universities learning how to recruit

With falling enrolment from local areas, students from away fill the empty spots
Oct 16, 2009
TASLEEM MAWJI
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1147909.html

Michael Ignatieff should think outside the green box

Following the global-warming herd doesn't show courage – quite the opposite, in fact
Oct 16, 2009
Rex Murphy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/michael-ignatieff-should-think-outside-the-green-box/article1327161/

Testing testing

Oct 16, 2009
Cassandra Kyle
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Testing+testing/2109773/story.html

No quick carbon solution: Imperial CEO

CEO sees 100-year span to tame greenhouse gases
Oct 16, 2009
Shaun Polczer
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/quick+carbon+solution+Imperial/2109599/story.html

Alberta shelves annual pap tests

Exam now needed every three years
Oct 16, 2009
Michelle Lang
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Alberta+shelves+annual+tests/2109582/story.html

HPV vaccinations to be completed in some N.B. schools

Oct 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/10/16/nb-hpv-vaccine-continues-612.html

Climate change dominoes fall

Oct 16, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/16/lawrence-solomon-climate-change-dominoes-fall.aspx

Celebrate National Science & Technology Week (NSTW) in Pacific Canada

Oct 16, 2009
BC Innovation Council
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/16/c7814.html

Bracelets 'ineffective' for arthritis pain

Oct 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/16/arthritis-bracelets-copper.html

Officials defend go-slow approach to inoculation

Goal is safe, effective vaccine, minister says
Oct 15, 2009
PATRICK WHITE AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/officials-defend-go-slow-approach-to-inoculation/article1324221/

The duty to be vaccinated

Being vaccinated against H1N1 is the most effective way to save lives. It is the right thing to do.
Oct 15, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-duty-to-be-vaccinated/article1325664/

Limit H1N1 testing: N.L. health authority

Oct 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/10/15/nl-h1n1-testing-1015.html

B.C. feeling more brunt of H1N1 than other provinces

Oct 15, 2009
AMY O’BRIAN and DARAH HANSEN
VANCOUVER SUN
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/H1N1+virus+hitting+harder+than+rest+Canada/2112666/story.html

The weather exploiters

Radical environmentalist Tim Flannery’s new book contains the usual hysterical pseudo-science. Second in an occasional series titled Countdown to Catastrophe: Copenhagen.
Oct 15, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/15/peter-foster-the-weather-exploiters.aspx

Marcel Coutu responds to October 16, 2009 Globe & Mail Article

Oct 16, 2009
Marcel Coutu
Canadian Oil Sands Trust
http://www.oilsandsnow.ca/pr091017.html

Allow higher oil sands emissions: CEO

Move would impose greater burden on others, but strict limits on producers would stifle the industry's growth, says head of Canadian Oil Sands Trust
Oct 15, 2009
Shawn McCarthy and Richard Blackwell
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/allow-higher-oil-sands-emissions-ceo/article1325369/

Canadians will get H1N1 shots faster than others: official

Chief public health officer says population should be immunized by Christmas before the virus peaks
Oct 14, 2009
Chinta Puxley
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadians-will-get-h1n1-shots-faster-than-others-official/article1323652/

White paper looks at why Canuck tech firms are "disappearing"

Oct 14, 2009
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/295648957466126.php

AECL engineers urge Ottawa to protect CANDU technology

Oct 14, 2009
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/AECL+engineers+urge+Ottawa+protect+CANDU+technology/2107755/story.html

H1N1 research gets $2.4M

Oct 14, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/H1N1+research+gets/2105832/story.html

Time to celebrate National Science and Technology Week

Oct 14, 2009
Dr. Todd Arsenault
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/liveit/article/823475

Dr. Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine, to deliver keynote address at the 2009 Canadian Science Policy Conference

Oct 19, 2009
Canadian Science Policy Conference
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/19/c8146.html

Unshackling Science

Basic scientific research can take decades to produce commercial results. We need to give scientists the time they need to explore ideas.
Oct 15, 2009
James Day
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/581-unshackling-science

Falling back

In science, technology, and innovation, Canada lags behind much of the developed world. We must start placing good policy above partisan politics.
Jun 3, 2009
Heather Munroe-Blum
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/277-falling-back

Top Priority

Science and technology has the power to address the environment, the economy, and the security and health of the American people.
Oct 16, 2009
Kei Koizumi
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/584-top-priority

Leave the Beaver

Canada needs a branding makeover to better position itself in a global, knowledge-based economy and put science at the forefront.
Oct 14, 2009
Paul Dufour
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/576-leave-the-beaver

Trust the Experts?

Public distrust of science and technology is increasing. But there are a few areas in the field where we can make good use of it.
Oct 14, 2009
Marc Saner
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/575-trust-the-experts

By, for, and with the public

It's important for both science and society that we find ways to engage non-scientists in dreaming about and generating scientific thought.
Oct 15, 2009
Elana Brief
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/582-by-for-and-with-the-public

The Science of Peace

Our tendency to accept violence and destruction as a necessary consequence of science is blind and must be challenged.
Oct 16, 2009
Ramin Jahanbegloo
The Mark
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/587-the-science-of-peace

Atlantic Canada’s universities committed to communities

Oct 15, 2009
PETER HALPIN
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1147609.html

Canada needs a national food strategy

Oct 15, 2009
Margaret Webb
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/710334--canada-needs-a-national-food-strategy

Canada refutes climate split with developing nations

Oct 15, 2009
AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gC5BBLwna4shv7tyghJhhzhd3gyQ

Anti-Canadian climate

Oct 15, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/710395--anti-canadian-climate

Kyoto questions will dog Ignatieff

Oct 15, 2009
LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Calgary Sun
http://www.calgarysun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/10/15/11407461-sun.html

Fossil award fuels action

Oct 15, 2009
MIKE NORRIS
Whig-Standard
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2126183

Water demand puts Canadian rivers at risk

Oct 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/15/canada-rivers-wwf-report331.html

Fewer warts after Gardasil vaccine rolled out

Oct 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/15/genital-warts-hpv-gardasil-vaccine226.html

Sask. braces for 200,000 swine flu cases

Oct 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/15/sk-swine-flu-statistics910.html

Ottawa city programs cut to speed swine-flu shots

Oct 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/15/ottawa-swine-flu-vaccination-public-health-programs.html

Treating frail elderly not always best: studies

Oct 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/15/elderly-end-of-life-care.html

Michael Ignatieff's environmental vision -- Let's be more like China

Oct 15, 2009
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/15/kelly-mcparland-michael-ignatieff-s-environmental-vision-let-s-be-more-like-china.aspx

High tech companies bloom in Silicon Vineyard

Oct 15, 2009
Kathy Michaels
Kelowna.com
http://www.kelowna.com/2009/10/15/high-tech-companies-bloom-in-silicon-vineyard/

Canadian tech firms need better entrepreneurial skills: study

Oct 14, 2009
Derek Abma
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2103037

Why people are chilled by warming

The apocalyptic language of environmentalists doesn't go down well with the public
Oct 14, 2009
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/why-people-are-chilled-by-warming/article1323750/

Climate for smart change

Oct 14, 2009
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Climate+smart+change/2104506/story.html

Vaccine delayed, vaccine denied

With early H1N1 vaccinations, Canada could limit the ‘attack rate' quite effectively
Oct 14, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/vaccine-delayed-vaccine-denied/article1322594/

Trillion-dollar black holes

The costs of climate control dwarf the financial crisis
Oct 14, 2009
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/14/terence-corcoran-trillion-dollar-black-holes.aspx

Prentice doubtful on climate change accord in Copenhagen

Copenhagen agreement 'hard to see'
Oct 14, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Prentice+doubtful+climate+change+accord+Copenhagen/2104315/story.html

North Pole summers ice-free in 10 years: researchers

Oct 14, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/14/arctic-sea-summer.html

Future generations to benefit from 30-year cancer prevention project

Oct 14, 2009
Tamsyn Burgmann
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hbWnlHeJ7ZXYyOwJutoQn5GLLeig

Massive B.C. cancer project launched

Oct 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/14/bc-cancer-study-bc-generations.html

Cigarette firm destroyed studies, review finds

Oct 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/14/consumer-cigarette-cmaj.html

H1N1 wave hits N.W.T.

Oct 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/14/nwt-h1n1.html

Harper's hedge on H1N1 shot sparks confusion

Oct 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/14/h1n1-research-funding.html

Feds, Alberta pledge $779M to carbon-capture project

Oct 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/14/edmonton-harper-alberta-carbon-capture-transalta-keephills.html

'Alternative Nobel' prize bittersweet for David Suzuki

Proud to be honoured, 'humiliated' by Canada's climate change stance
Oct 14, 2009
Dene Moore
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/article/709839---alternative-nobel-prize-bittersweet-for-david-suzuki

New solar farm can provide power for 1,000 homes

Oct 14, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/709767--new-solar-farm-can-provide-power-for-1-000-homes

The trouble facing Canadian rivers

Canada's major waterways have suffered significant alterations in their natural flows, a WWF-Canada report contends
Oct 14, 2009
Martin Mittelstaedt
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-trouble-facing-canadian-rivers/article1323904/

Label law offers food for thought

Oct 14, 2009
Thomas Walkom
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/709665

Frontline workers need the flu shot

Oct 14, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/709659--frontline-workers-need-the-flu-shot

Suzuki wins 'alternative Nobel'

Oct 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/13/alternative-nobel-right-livelihood-award467.html

Fitness, fatness and hysteria

An epidemic of physical fitness is breaking out among the 50-plus generation
Oct 13, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/fitness-fatness-and-hysteria/article1321354/

Alberta's health networks get stitched back together

Oct 13, 2009
Gillian Steward
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/708350

Senate looks at accessibility of PSE

Oct 13, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/senate-looks-at-accessibility-of-pse/

Canada's Kyoto view triggers a walkout

Developing nations at climate talks protest call to replace protocol
Oct 13, 2009
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/709146--canada-s-kyoto-view-triggers-a-walkout

Plan to shelve flu vaccines breeds dissent

Doctors fear late rollout means flu shot will arrive just as virus begins to peak
Oct 13, 2009
Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/plan-to-shelve-flu-vaccines-breeds-dissent/article1322494/

H1N1 vaccine safe, top health officials stress

Oct 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/13/flu-vaccine-nunavut.html

AECL sale could be 'death knell' for CANDU reactors

Oct 13, 2009
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/AECL+sale+could+death+knell+CANDU+reactors/2103432/story.html

Make Olympians a priority for H1N1 shots: official

Plenty of time to receive vaccinations, health agency says
Oct 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/13/olympic-athletes-h1n1-flu-vaccine331.html

Aging Canadians a challenge for blood supply

Oct 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/13/blood-supply-aging.html

Glaciers in Indian Kashmir melting, says study

Oct 13, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/13/tech-environment-indian-glacier-climate.html

Nobel win misses the point

The media have wrongly connected Elinor Ostrom's Nobel win to the climate-change controversy
Oct 13, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/13/peter-foster-nobel-win-misses-the-point.aspx

The British are for turning on climate change

Oct 12, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/10/12/lawrence-solomon-the-british-are-for-turning-on-climate-change.aspx

House holds H1N1 emergency preparedness simulation exercises

All party whips will collaborate on monitoring MPs' health on the Hill
Oct 12, 2009
CYNTHIA MÜNSTER
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/h1n1_house_preparedness-10-12-2009

Canadian diet looks like a dog's breakfast

Oct 12, 2009
Margaret Webb
Special to the Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/708794--canadian-diet-looks-like-a-dog-s-breakfast

Ecosystem erosion quickening, scientists say

Oct 12, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/12/ecosystem-biodiversity-loss-conference.html

Severe H1N1 infection in females 'striking': study

Oct 12, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/12/h1n1-virus-infection-females-young-aboriginals-study.html

Countdown to Copenhagen

Oct 12, 2009
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Special to LondonTopic.ca
http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=16450

If you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'

Variety of social factors cause first- and second-generation Canadians to attend university far in excess of non-immigrant children
Oct 12, 2009
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/if-youre-a-new-canadian-you-go-to-university/article1321201/

New Brunswick schools to be tested for radon levels

Oct 12, 2009
JENNIFER DUNVILLE
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/821253

They discovered stem cells ...

... so why the Toronto scientists didn't win the Nobel is another 'go figure' in Prize history
Oct 11, 2009
Megan Ogilvie & Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/708640

Diabetes a quiet and growing epidemic

Oct 10, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Diabetes+quiet+growing+epidemic/2091984/story.html

7% of U.S. H1N1 patients died: study

Oct 10, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/09/h1n1-children-us.html

Scientists seek truth on oil sands damage

Oct 10, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/scientists-seek-truth-on-oil-sands-damage/article1319806/

Canadian space food has come a long way since Tang

$439,000 spent on project to develop range of healthier meals for astronauts
Oct 10, 2009
Tom Spears
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Canadian+space+food+come+long+since+Tang/2091328/story.html

'We need to pay farmers... to protect nature'

Oct 10, 2009
Margaret Webb
Special to the Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/707700---we-need-to-pay-farmers-to-protect-nature

How Copenhagen could cost Canada most

Oct 9, 2009
Kevin Libin
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/09/kevin-libin-copenhagen-plan-could-wreck-global-economy.aspx

2 flu shots at same time OK in U.S.

Oct 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/10/09/h1n1-seasonal-flu-shots.html

Climate of distrust

Oct 8, 2009
William Marsden
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Climate+distrust/2087995/story.html

Eighty per cent of pregnant women in Nunavut smoke

Ottawa’s Bob Reid is trying to understand what’s at the root of the health crisis
Oct 7, 2009
Andrew Duffy
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Eighty+cent+pregnant+women+Nunavut+smoke/2082113/story.html

U.S. has vaccine, Canada washes its hands

35 per cent of Canadians could come down with H1N1, but vaccinations won't start until November
Oct 7, 2009
Sharon Kirkey
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/vaccine+Canada+washes+hands/2080725/story.html

Eyeing a Total oil sands package

Jean-Michel Gires discusses Total's future in Canada
Oct 6, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/eyeing-a-total-oil-sands-package/article1313295/

Enjoy your last days on campus

Another forecast of changes coming to university education
Oct 5, 2009
Patrick J.J. Phillips
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/enjoy-your-last-days-on-campus.aspx

Values for the times

Some of the fundamental values associated with postsecondary institutions have been transformed
Oct 5, 2009
Christine Overall
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/values-for-the-times.aspx

Canadian winner bemoans bureaucracy

Canadian whose work in physics led to the development of digital photography says politicians need 'an appreciation for the free will, free spirit of scientists'
Oct 7, 2009
Jill Mahoney and Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-winner-bemoans-bureaucracy/article1314594/