Probe into waterfowl deaths taking too long, group says

'It's a complex issue,' spokeswoman for Environment Canada declares
Dec 26, 2008
NORVAL SCOTT AND DAWN WALTON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081226.DUCKS26/TPStory/Environment

Campbell's doomed policies on fish farming will be a tough sell to voters

Dec 26, 2008
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081226.BCHUME26/TPStory//?page=rss&id=GAM.20081226.BCHUME26

Asia at risk of era of mega-disasters: report

Dec 26, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1116307

Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home

Dec 25, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081225/genetic_engineer_081225/20081225?hub=Health

Arctic ice melting faster than predicted: expert

Dec 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/24/climate-passage.html

NASA awards space cargo contracts to private companies

Dec 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/24/nasa-spacex.html

Seven toys in Canada recalled in 2008 due to barium

Dec 24, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081224/toxictoys_barium_081224/20081224?hub=Health

Smoking rate for pregnant women in Alberta exceeds national average

Dec 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/24/smoking-pregnancy.html

U.S. seniors at risk for dangerous drug combo reactions: study

Dec 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/24/seniors-drugs.html

All I want for Christmas ....

Dec 23, 2008
DAVID SUZUKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081223.wcogreen24/BNStory/specialComment/home

It's time to get off our laurels – and innovate, innovate, innovate

Dec 23, 2008
ROBERT PALTER AND SACHA GHAI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081223.wcoecon24/BNStory/specialComment/home

Listeria outbreak rocketed Canada's food safety system to top of mind in 2008

Dec 23, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jXkRCnSTsYh1tjYMQHN05u0c1x0Q

More than 100 million Americans breathe sooty air

Dec 23, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081223/sooty_air_081223/20081223?hub=Health

Alberta remains No. 1 greenhouse gas emitter

Dec 23, 2008
Dina O'Meara and Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=a9f85166-c697-4492-9179-931a335b37d1

Prepare for longer emergencies due to climate change: EMO

Dec 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/23/nb-emo-prepared.html

Ont. shop owner charged with selling addictive poppy derivative

Dec 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/23/doda-charge.html

'Global land grab' causing alarm among NGOs

Dec 23, 2008
Fabien Zamora
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1108602

White Christmases falling to climate change

Dec 23, 2008
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/story.html?id=1106582

Repeal laws banning cousins from marrying: geneticists

Dec 22, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/22/cousins-marry.html

GlaxoSmithKline bans corporate political donations

Dec 22, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081222/GlaxoSmithKline_081222/20081222?hub=Health

Obama team primed to push climate change agenda

Dec 22, 2008
Deborah Zabarenko
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1105525

EU launches fresh WTO challenge to US, Canadian beef sanctions

Dec 22, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081222/usa/eu_us_canada_wto_trade_dispute_1

Environmental groups sue to stop EPA from changing rule allowing surface mining near streams

Dec 22, 2008
Jesse J. Holland
Canadian Business
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/headline_news/article.jsp?content=D957U87O0&utm_source=markets&utm_medium=rss

Fewer Americans Worried About Climate Change

Dec 22, 2008
Angus Reid Global Monitor
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/fewer_americans_worried_about_climate_change/

Canada deserves 'Colossal Fossil' award

Dec 20, 2008
Dave Martin
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/556665

With failing hands, we drop the climate-change torch

Dec 20, 2008
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/556069

Obama names 4 top members of science team

Dec 20, 2008
HOPE YEN
Associated Press
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-20-08-02-16

Idaho energy czar aims to harness cow pie power

Dec 20, 2008
John Miller
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/12/20/7815111-ap.html

Canada earns the 'colossal fossil' label

Dec 19, 2008
Alison Ménard
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/516980

New ban imposed on regulating global warming gases

Dec 19, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081219/gas_ban_081219/20081219?hub=SciTech

Trade deals must protect environment: Obama

Dec 19, 2008
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4BI5WG20081219

Study Shows Canada Can Tackle Climate Change & Prosper

Canada can be a leader in tackling climate change and still experience strong economic and employment growth according to a groundbreaking study
Dec 19, 2008
Bob Ewing
DigitalJournal.com
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263713

System in search of better icebreaker

Field trials continue for a less corrosive product to replace 2,000 tonnes of rock salt used yearly
Dec 19, 2008
Tess Kalinowski
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/556247

Develop sound, scientific criteria on pesticide use

Dec 19, 2008
Lorne Hepworth
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/Opinions/article/417864

Cold meds not suitable for kids under 6: Health Canada

Dec 19, 2008
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081219.wlcold19/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

How safe is our food? Don't ask

Feds withhold records on management of crisis
Dec 19, 2008
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/556249

Listeria files withheld under deluge of access-to-information requests

Dec 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/19/listeria-cfia.html

Children's kidneys not harmed by low doses of melamine: study

Dec 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/19/melamine-hong-kong.html

Health Canada wants stricter heart failure warning on diabetes drug Actos

Dec 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/19/actos.html

Island institute receives $8M for bioscience research

Dec 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/19/pe-bioscience-funding.html

Health experts face drug-resistant flu strain challenges

Dec 19, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081219/flu_drugs_081219/20081219?hub=Health

Darwinism: Why we are, as we are

As the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On The Origin of Species” approaches, the moment has come to ask how Darwin’s insights can be used profitably by policymakers
Dec 18, 2008
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12795581

Coal should be warming concern: scientists

Dec 18, 2008
Clare Baldwin
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4BH0GO20081218?sp=true

Eyes west

Could the United States topple Europe as the driver of international climate-change regulations?
Dec 18, 2008
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7224/

FDA raises the bar for heart risks of new diabetes drugs

Dec 18, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/18/diabetes-drugs.html

MRSA outbreak delays surgeries at Charlottetown hospital

Dec 18, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/18/pe-mrsa-surgery.html

EU finalizes deal to fight climate change

Dec 17, 2008
Pete Harrison and Huw Jones
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4BG2SH20081217

Obama focuses on alternative energy, environment

Dec 17, 2008
Deborah Charles
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE4BG43N20081217

U.S. will fail to meet 2022 biofuels mandate: EIA

Dec 17, 2008
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE4BG4EQ20081217

Corn pests to thrive as global climate warms: study

Dec 17, 2008
Karl Plume
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE4BG45X20081217

Rising sea levels, earthquakes to hit B.C., says study

Dec 17, 2008
Richard Watts
Victoria Times Colonist
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1083823

Suicide warning added to epilepsy drugs in U.S.

Dec 17, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/17/epilepsy-warning.html

Canada falls short

Dec 16, 2008
editorial
The Whig-Standard
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1347464

Adapting to a changing climate

Documents sent to Transport and Infrastructure Canada by federal experts warn that water resources are particularly vulnerable to changes in the climate and urge Ottawa to offer more support, guidance and leadership
Dec 16, 2008
MIKE DE SOUZA
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/story.html?id=1079893

It's almost too late to stop warming

Dec 16, 2008
Gwynne Dyer
Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/482719

Alberta mulls new wind power lines

Dec 16, 2008
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE4BF58H20081216

Generic drug makers seek changes to patent law

Consumers would benefit from lower costs, says industry
Dec 16, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/16/generic-court.html

Protect kids with stricter regulation of chemicals, group urges

Dec 16, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/16/children-chemicals.html

Groups urge BPA ban in all food packaging

Dec 16, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081216.BISPHENOL16/TPStory/National

The big melt

Two trillion tons of ice have melted since 2003
Dec 16, 2008
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081216.wbigmelt1216/BNStory/Science/home

Arctic ice volume lowest ever as globe warms - U.N.

Dec 16, 2008
Robert Evans
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1082827

"Safer" cigarette smoke just as harmful to embryos

Dec 16, 2008
Anne Harding
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=f93ad7b5-4b41-46b6-9152-89ac63d49bee

Electronics firms slow on climate change: Greenpeace

Dec 16, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1082010

The million-dollar degree

Dec 16, 2008
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/blog.aspx?id=4834&blogid=86

Canadian research misconduct to be studied by Health Canada-led committee

New study for Canadian Research Integrity Committee compares policies and incidence at home with eight other countries
Dec 15, 2008
Nick Taylor-Vaisey
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/canadian-research-misconduct-to-be-studied-by-health-canada-led-committee.aspx

FAO says Africa needs massive water investment

Dec 15, 2008
Imed Lamloum
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1078429

Canada labelled a ‘Colossal Fossil’

Climate change top Ottawa priority despite environmentalist criticism: Prentice
Dec 15, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/Live/article/154237

Obama left with little time to curb global warming

Dec 15, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081215/obama_globalwarming_081215/20081215?hub=SciTech

In the shadow of Canada's oil boom

Dec 15, 2008
Sarah Shenker
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7776775.stm

Biotech Essential to Economic Recovery

Dec 15, 2008
BIOTECanada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Biotech-Essential-Economic-Recovery/story.aspx?guid=%7B51957138-8FEA-4931-9E0A-A566BDAC8011%7D

CLIMATE CHANGE: Chasm Widens Between Science and Policy

Dec 15, 2008
Stephen Leahy
Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45121

Air forced underground could provide energy

Storing compressed air below ground could provide the grid with wind power when it's needed, not just when it blows
Dec 15, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/553702

Colonoscopies miss more cancers on right side than left, study suggests

Dec 15, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/15/colonoscopy.html

U.S. government plans more research on bisphenol A

Dec 15, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/15/bisphenol-fda.html

Mystery source of hospital's superbug outbreak found

Dec 15, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/15/sinks-hospital.html

Recall of toys sparks study on lead risks

Health Canada; Special X-rays will scan people's bones
Dec 15, 2008
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1076803

Going digital to save health care millions of dollars

Converting X-rays and other images to electronic format will reduce costs, aid patients, report says
Dec 15, 2008
LISA PRIEST
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081215.DIGITAL15/TPStory/National

Scientists urge caution in ocean-CO2 capture schemes

Dec 15, 2008
David Fogarty
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4BE0K520081215?sp=true

Australia to cut pollution 5 to 15 per cent by 2020

Dec 15, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/15/australia-climate.html

Nuclear-medicine crisis averted as reactor restarts

Dec 15, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/15/isotopes-medical.html

Chalk River reactor steps up isotope production

Dec 14, 2008
Adrian Morrow
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/553656

Cellphone health study on hold

Other nations have released their data on wireless health effects, so why hasn't Canada?
Dec 14, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/553500

New study firmly ties hormone use to breast cancer

Dec 14, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081214/breastcancer_hormones_081214/20081214?hub=Health

We must watch over Ontario's Far North

Dec 13, 2008
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/552438

The glaciologist's worst nightmare

Forget melting. The possibility of ice break-up could lead to an irreversible catastrophe
Dec 13, 2008
Daniel Tanuro
Special to the Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/552439

Scientist dropped from climate delegation to save money: Prentice

Dec 13, 2008
Paul Jay
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/12/prentice-maciver.html

Prentice says climate a priority for Tories

Environment minister offers reassurance despite economic crisis
Dec 13, 2008
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/553266

Gifts that nurture an interest in science

Dec 13, 2008
Rod Charlton
Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1345546

Tories ‘embarrassing’ Canada: Government scientist

Dec 12, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1069327

Canada mocked for its green policies

Dec 12, 2008
VIVIAN SONG
SUN MEDIA
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/12/12/7720391-sun.html

Canada to work with U.S. on climate

North America-wide approach needed, Prentice tells summit
Dec 12, 2008
Jasmeet Sidhu
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/552592

EU breakthrough strengthens UN climate talks

Dec 12, 2008
Simon Sturdee
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1067749

EU leaders agree on climate-change deal

Dec 12, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/12/eu-climate.html

Vatican condemns embryo stem cell research, cloning

Dec 12, 2008
Philip Pullella
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1067731

Vatican hardens opposition to using embryos for stem cell research, cloning

Dec 12, 2008
Nicole Winfield
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/12/12/7725696-ap.html

Vatican issues major new bioethics document

Dec 12, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081212/bioethics_vatican_081212/20081212?hub=SciTech

Canada Foundation for Innovation: $45 Million Investment in Research Infrastructure Attracts World-Class Researchers

Dec 12, 2008
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Canada-Foundation-Innovation-45-Million/story.aspx?guid=%7BF16BFD5B-073F-4E62-970B-0F63E3C46708%7D

Experts back brain boosters for all

Dec 12, 2008
ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081212.wldrugs12/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Hospital mortality rate dips slightly

Dec 12, 2008
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081212.whospital12/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Cambodian man gets bird flu, first case since 2007

Dec 12, 2008
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=e4897cd8-16fd-4939-9d01-57d0c7987491

Fears of human bird flu cases rise in India's Assam

Dec 12, 2008
Biswajyoti Das
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=5b5340ec-abb3-4cb1-a4ee-53fdaed36bfd

Toronto stood up to bottled water industry

Dec 11, 2008
Tony Clarke
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/551909

Nations collect funds for bogus immunizations, report says

Dec 11, 2008
DIANA MEHTA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081211.wImmunize12/BNStory/International/home

Tech industry asks Ottawa for $60B stimulus package

Dec 11, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/11/cata-stimulus.html

Canada a 'constructive force' at climate talks: Prentice

Dec 11, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/11/prentice-poland.html

Canada urges climate-change battle

Dec 11, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=1062783

Canada criticized for lax approach to environment

Dec 11, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081211.CLIMATE11/TPStory/Environment

Climate change is a challenge for us all

Dec 11, 2008
The Gazette
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=0fa8f8c6-7e28-45d0-b5ff-773d01dc13fb

Safe toys

Falling behind the U.S.
Dec 11, 2008
Windsor Star
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=c79199db-671a-488e-a604-a3edda3e5634

Sniffle season

Dec 11, 2008
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=88cd6880-c96d-4cab-a242-6522c1b60d61

Tuberculosis is closer to home than you think

Dec 11, 2008
Gail Johnson
Georgia Straight
http://www.straight.com/article-175333/tuberculosis-closer-home-you-think

Greenhouse gas targets on track, official says

Dec 11, 2008
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/552008

Drinks cheap but social costs high: doctors

Dec 11, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/11/cheap-drinks-doctors.html

Risks of some asthma drugs greater than benefits, FDA told

Foradil, Serevent singled out
Dec 11, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/11/asthma-drugs.html

P.E.I. orders more flu vaccine to meet demand

Dec 11, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/11/pe-flu-vaccine.html

Toward a Next Generation Canada?

Dec 10, 2008
ANDREA WOOD
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081209.lawwebcommentary1209/BNStory/robLawPage/home

Canada adopts melamine standards set by WHO

Decrease in levels allowed in infant formula
Dec 10, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/12/10/melamine-canada.html

B.C. health critic calls on government to regulate sale of candy-flavoured cigars

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jmu9Wp_ezzfOYU-n6tCD28OM1oaA

Scientists hope Poland treaty can mitigate climate change effects

Dec 10, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/10/poznan-climate.html

U.S. nanotechnology safeguards inadequate: report

Dec 10, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/10/nanotechnology-safety.html

St. John's addicts caught shoplifting to lose methadone access

Decision vindictive, medical ethicist says
Dec 10, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/10/addicts-shoplifting.html

Medical schools urge limits to drug makers' influence on students

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/10/medical.html

Medical regulator to gain right to watch Ont. clinic procedures

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/10/ot-081210-clinic.html

Canada's Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice Responds to European Union Scientific Review Group Decision on Polar Bear Imports

Dec 10, 2008
Environment Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Canadas-Minister-Environment-Jim-Prentice/story.aspx?guid=%7B738E5E0B-6287-44C3-AD98-6686B0D17608%7D

20% of coral reefs gone, climate group says

Dec 10, 2008
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/551531

Canada ranked near bottom in list of climate change fighters

Saudi Arabia ranked higher in Climate Action Network Europe survey
Dec 10, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1058777

Canada has bad rep at UN climate talks

Dec 10, 2008
Colleen Kimmett
The Tyee
http://www.thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2008/12/10/CanadaRep/

Canada accused of blocking progress at UN climate summit

Dec 10, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/12/10/7698106.html

All eyes on EU as UN climate talks stumble on

Dec 10, 2008
Simon Sturdee
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1058374

New Science museum top priority for new CEO

Partnership with private firm probable way to go, says longtime public servant
Dec 10, 2008
Paul Gessell
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1054536

Health committee ‘re-postpones’ debate over fluoride in water

Dec 10, 2008
Tim Foran
Milton Canadian Champion
http://www.miltoncanadianchampion.com/news/article/224975

Diabetes drugs may raise fracture risk in women

Dec 10, 2008
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081210.wldrugs10/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Many Americans turning to unconventional medicine

Dec 10, 2008
Will Dunham
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=3fae960c-67a9-4995-95e5-bcf0008e4b4b

Drugmakers to note actors, make other ad changes

Dec 10, 2008
Susan Heavey
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=ab70263b-fbf4-4abb-b095-bff35cf876ce

Prostate cancer sufferers should delay treatment: Research

One way to delay or avoid side effects of incontinence and impotence
Dec 10, 2008
Michelle Magnan
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1058898

Ireland's food crisis spreads to beef

Dec 10, 2008
Carmel Crimmins
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1057163

Is fear of food allergies creating hysteria?

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081210/food_allergies_081210/20081210?hub=Health

The trouble with tar sands

Dec 10, 2008
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Canoe.ca
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/Suzuki/2008/12/10/7698041-ca.html

Cheap food products come with a price

Dec 9, 2008
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081208.wcofood09/BNStory/specialComment/home

P.E.I. households greenest in the country

Dec 9, 2008
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081209/StatsCan_households_081209/20081209?hub=SciTech

Young graduates struggle for Silicon Valley jobs

Dec 9, 2008
Reuters
http://ctv.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081209.wgttechjobs1209/tech/Technology/techBN/ctv-technology

Chemicals feminizing males, study suggests

Dec 9, 2008
Diana Zlomislic
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/550470

Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says

Dec 9, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/09/who.html

Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak

Dec 9, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/09/hk-bird-flu.html

Climate change not imminent danger, UN panel chief says

But governments should reconsider emissions cuts
Dec 9, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/09/climate-meeting.html

Nuclear engineering on the rise at McMaster

Dec 9, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/09/mcmaster-nuclear.html

Asian grade-school students rule math, science: study

Dec 9, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/09/math-students.html

China takes action on food safety

Dec 9, 2008
Duncan Mavin
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=1051874

Caution on 'cures,' please

Dec 9, 2008
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=90cf39ca-e9a7-4c27-b1b7-a84f645b7ea3

Canada Signs Agreement for the Safe Management of Harmful Chemicals in North America

Dec 9, 2008
Environment Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Canada-Signs-Agreement-Safe-Management/story.aspx?guid=%7BF5B6B723-3285-4C57-887C-725D408F0F82%7D

Deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions not in the cards: Prentice

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/prentice-climate.html

B.C. backs Science World with $10.5M

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/bc-science.html

Prostate cancer: When women nag, men get screened

Dec 8, 2008
ZOSIA BIELSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081208.wlnag08/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Climate change - unlike the financial meltdown - is a long-haul crisis

Dec 8, 2008
James Ford, Lea Berrang Ford and Tristan Pearce
The Gazette
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=900b78cb-dbb4-4e1a-ba12-fdfe8ef55dcb

Green energy our best shot

Dec 8, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/549945

Watch more streams

Dec 8, 2008
editorial
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081207.wefish08/BNStory/specialComment/home

Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people

Dec 8, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/pills.html

Ontario to set standards for electric car

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/electric-car.html

Tests find toxin in 75% of plastic children's toys

Additive linked to reproductive harm in kids
Dec 8, 2008
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1046315

Half-dose flu shot may suffice for healthy young adults: U.S. researchers

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/08/flu.html

Canadian Inuit at greatest risk of lung cancer: study

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/08/inuit.html

Malaria vaccine shows promise in babies and youngsters: clinical trials

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/08/vaccine.html

Climate change: Sci-fi solutions no longer far-fetched

Dec 8, 2008
Richard Ingham
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1048002

U.S. state laws fail to curb teens' indoor tanning

Dec 8, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081208/tanning_laws_081208/20081208?hub=Health

Ont. needs to improve food safety regulations: AG

Dec 8, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081208/AG_foodsafety_081208/20081208?hub=Toronto

Women twice as likely to die from severe heart attack

Dec 8, 2008
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081208/heartattacks_women_081208/20081208?hub=Health

Tories open door a crack on climate talks

Dec 7, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iYqQ99R0q6gEnCCIF4YJcCzwkGdA

Lawsuit filed against Bayer over drug risks

Dec 7, 2008
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/trasylol_study_081203/20081207?hub=Health

Plan to bury nuke waste based on outdated science: report

Dec 7, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081207/nuclear_waste_081207/20081207?hub=SciTech

Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herds

Dec 7, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081207/caribou_herds_081207/20081207?hub=SciTech

The war to beat the flu bug

Modern medicine has tools to fight this age-old malady. The question is, why don't they always work?
Dec 6, 2008
Diana Zlomislic
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/547330

Expect vaccine to inhibit HIV within 5 years: Nobel winner

Dec 6, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/06/hiv-vaccine.html

Our smog is worse than we thought

Research behind city's new emission-reporting bylaw finds high levels of suspected carcinogens
Dec 6, 2008
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/549457

WHO panel sets melamine limit for food

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/12/05/melamine-who.html

Natural Resources Canada: Minister Raitt Unveils Design of Government of Canada Research Lab in Hamilton

Dec 5, 2008
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Natural-Resources-Canada-Minister-Raitt/story.aspx?guid=%7BDE513B82-165A-4640-8FE5-376142619260%7D

Ontario Government Investment Supports R&D Expansion at Purdue Pharma Canada

Dec 5, 2008
Government of Ontario
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Ontario-Government-Investment-Supports-RD/story.aspx?guid=%7BEC1B9304-4046-4B8F-A678-56FD3A98597D%7D

Focus on Earth

Europe is rightly pioneering the systematic appliance of science in space to societal needs
Dec 4, 2008
Editorial
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7222/full/456546a.html

The cost of silence?

Analyses of AIDS deaths attributable to misguided policies in South Africa carry lessons for scientific leaders
Dec 4, 2008
Editorial
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7222/full/456545a.html

Solving the economic and environmental crises

Dec 5, 2008
TAMARA LORINCZ, GRETCHEN FITZGERALD and CHERYL RATCHFORD
Chronicle Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1094164.html

Alberta to bear brunt of climate policies

Report urges faster emissions cuts
Dec 5, 2008
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=592043ec-4084-4c58-a2c3-2c913dce0e82

Human rights court says U.K. DNA database violates rights

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/05/dna-database.html

Nunavut wildlife board to hold bowhead whale hearing in February

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/05/nwmb-bowhead.html

Cancer rates in industrial area no higher than rest of Alberta: study

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/05/edm-cancer-study.html

Risks of new asthma drugs vary, U.S. federal officials say

Dec 5, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/05/asthma-laba.html

Global measles deaths plummet: reports

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/05/measles.html

Hunger, HIV/AIDS hit Africa with double punch: WFP

Dec 5, 2008
Pascal Fletcher
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=2d25195e-52c9-402c-9d20-a3a2b5903404

No link found between abortions and later mental-health problems

Dec 5, 2008
PAUL TAYLOR
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081205.wldoses05/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

NASA to delay costly Mars mission until 2011

Dec 5, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081205/nasa_mars_081205/20081205?hub=SciTech

Study weighs lifetime cancer risks from repeated CT scans

Procedure may soon account for two per cent of all cases
Dec 4, 2008
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1031449

EU still not united on climate change package

Dec 4, 2008
Paul Harrington
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1032241

Cancer, heart disease leading causes of deaths for Canadians: report

Dec 4, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/causes-death.html

Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in autism lawsuit

Dec 4, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/autism-court.html

Study says Canada can meet gas target

Dec 4, 2008
Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=bfd88ad1-4330-4076-be53-a941127e4f09

Research suggests children's brain function affected by poverty

Dec 4, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/brain-income.html

Study sheds light on breast cancer drug failure

Dec 4, 2008
Reuters, special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/tamoxifen.html

Watching and waiting

The search for dangerous asteroids is about to begin in earnest
Dec 4, 2008
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12719347

University infrastructure investment can boost economy

Dec 3, 2008
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2008/infrastructure_12_03_e.html

Ontario adds 6 new drugs to coverage list

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/03/drugs-ont.html

Canadians eating less lunch meat after listeriosis outbreak: study

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/03/listeria-outcome.html

Potential World Heritage boreal forest valued at $130M annually: study

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/03/world-heritage.html

Avian cholera threatens Arctic eider duck colonies: scientists

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/03/avian-cholera.html

Crackdown urged on 'rogue' stem cell clinics

Treatment benefits exaggerated, risks underestimated, researchers warn
Dec 3, 2008
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1031389

End of P.E.I. needle exchange worries health officer

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/03/pe-needle-exchange.html

Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?

Dec 3, 2008
Malcolm Ritter
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/scientists_technology_081203/20081203?hub=SciTech

Multitasking canola: A California miracle crop?

Dec 3, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/conola_water_081203/20081203?hub=SciTech

Greenhouse gas emissions increased in U.S.last year

Dec 3, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/gge_us_081203/20081203?hub=SciTech

Canada's growing list of wildlife at risk

Snapping turtles join species at the brink
Dec 3, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081203.wspecies03/BNStory/Science/home

Generic heart drugs measure up to branded versions: review

Dec 2, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/02/generic-drugs.html

Common heart surgery drug may be more dangerous than cheaper alternatives: study

Dec 2, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/02/aprotinin.html

Millions of birds could die from oilsands development: report

Dec 2, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/02/edm-birds-oilsands-report.html

Fuel cells for portable gadgets inch closer to market

Dec 2, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/02/tech-fuelcell.html

New chapter in Apotex legal battle

Dec 2, 2008
ELIZABETH CHURCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081202.wacademic02/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081202.wacademic02

HIV+ and looking to conceive

When a permanent, quarantined laboratory opens at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital this spring, the barriers to reproductive services may start to disappear for couples living with HIV. But there's still a long way to go
Dec 1, 2008
HAYLEY MICK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081201.wlhivaids01/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Canadian Immunization Conference highlights Innovation, Education and Partnership

Nov 30, 2008
Public Health Agency of Canada
http://news.gc.ca/web/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=425899&categoryid=1&category=News+Releases

Canadian universities may curtail hiring, scholarships

Losses in endowment and pension funds from economic slide put pressure on universities
Dec 1, 2008
Rosanna Tamburri
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/2008/12/01/schools-may-curtail-hiring-scholarships.aspx

Vanier scholarships challenged by tight deadlines

The awards brand Canada as a destination for top-flight students, but can they meet their potential to attract international students in short term?
Dec 1, 2008
Peggy Berkowitz
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/2008/12/01/vanier-scholarships-challenged-by-tight-deadlines.aspx

Scientific research: What's wrong with this picture?

Dec 1, 2008
Stephen Strauss
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/25/f-strauss-pigmentproject.html

Climate juggernaut on the horizon, UN talks told

Dec 1, 2008
Simon Sturdee and Richard Ingham
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1017092

More HIV testing can save babies' lives: U.N. report

Dec 1, 2008
Louis Charbonneau
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1018054

Beware cholesterol drugs for kids, journal warns doctors

Dec 1, 2008
Sharon Kirkey
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1017907

U.S. FDA seeks broader regulatory powers

Dec 1, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/01/fda-report.html

Candu reactor could be bomb springboard: Greenpeace

Dec 1, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/01/candu-greenpeace-report.html

Yukon, N.W.T. First Nations to protect Peel River from mining impact

Dec 1, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/01/peel-river.html

Another caribou herd in steep decline: study

Dec 1, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/01/caribou-decline.html

Cap and trade no silver bullet for climate woes: Edwards

Dec 1, 2008
Claudia Cattaneo
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1018105

Women moved into new health work, study finds

Dec 1, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081201.whealth1201/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Venture fund bets billion on cleantech

Dec 1, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/546219

Window widens for giving clot-buster to Canadian stroke victims

Dec 1, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/01/stroke-care.html

Treat ovarian cancer subtypes as distinct diseases: study

Dec 1, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/01/ovarian-cancer.html

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops

Dec 1, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081201/food_crunch_081201/20081201?hub=SciTech

AIDS crisis overblown? Some experts dare to say so

Dec 1, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081201/aids_crisis_081201/20081201?hub=Health

Doctors and nurses urged to get flu shots

Dec 1, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081201/flu_shots_081201/20081201?hub=Health

Swiss say yes to heroin prescriptions?

Nov 30, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081130/swiss_heroin_081130/20081130?hub=Health

Canada says economy slows environmental progress

Nov 30, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1014479

FDA sets melamine standard for baby formula

Nov 29, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081129/fda_melamine_081129/20081129?hub=Health

Manitoba to conduct environmental review of farming practices

Nov 29, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/29/man-agriculture.html

Glacial ice melting at alarming rate: researchers

Nov 29, 2008
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081129/Antarctic_Collapse_081129/20081129?hub=SciTech

Anti-sealing group head dismisses federal lawsuit

Nov 29, 2008
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1012947

Global warming solution begins at home: Weaver

Nobel laureate sees leadership role for Alberta
Nov 29, 2008
Dina O'Meara
Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=446322de-f1e3-480a-b1e4-f8ed09acdad0

Success: effort plus situation

Nov 29, 2008
Is genius born or made? Tim Adams asks the author of The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, about his new book and what it takes to be successful.
Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/success-effort-plus-situation/2008/11/28/1227491826879.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2

Single DNA molecule contains recipe of life for living organisms

Nov 29, 2008
Rod Charlton
The Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1322798

Selling cough, cold medicines for children under 12 questioned

Nov 28, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/28/cold-medicine-children.html

Prentice warms to critics ahead of climate talks

Nov 28, 2008
BILL CURRY and MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081128.wPOLprentice1129/BNStory/politics/home

Dubious tradition

Nov 28, 2008
editorial
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081128.webears29/BNStory/specialComment/home

Absence of evidence

Do drug firms suppress unfavourable information about new products?
Nov 27, 2008
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12675892

The ideal and the good

Deploying the drugs used to treat AIDS may be the way to limit its spread
Nov 27, 2008
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12675884

Tuna in trouble

Anger that the catch will still be too big
Nov 27, 2008
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12675910

STDs on rise among youth: study

Chlamydia cases double between 1997 and 2004
Nov 26, 2008
AARON DERFEL
The Gazette
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=c116c73c-2a33-40a7-bf9a-056c01fb2b88

Canada contributes $16M to keep foothold in European space plan

Nov 28, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/28/space-europe.html

Don't pull the plug on the Therapeutics Initiative

Nov 28, 2008
Adrian Dix
Special to the Vancouver Sun
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=bce9afed-4237-490a-bc2a-44013a5a7b8e

Our politicians out of touch, compared to Obama

Nov 28, 2008
DAVID CRANE
Chronicle Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1092982.html

Environmentalist turns to online campaign to protect B.C. forest

Nov 28, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/28/bc-great-bear-online.html

FDA rule change boosts access to morning-after pill

Nov 28, 2008
Anne Harding
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=abd5a68c-5bab-45b6-8c36-9e4f7aebd962

U.N. warns against cuts to AIDS prevention programs

Nov 28, 2008
Stephanie Nebehay
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=a072ca51-ec2e-4ac6-8ca6-003a0c5c05ca

Swiss likely to approve prescription heroin

Nov 28, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081128/prescription_heroin_081128/20081128?hub=Health

Stephen Hawking named to Canadian research post

Nov 27, 2008
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=543e9b45-2945-4e9a-b5f1-e55ede157038

Outlook 'bleak' for another Atlantic cod stock

Nov 27, 2008
Ken Meaney
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1005321

Atlantic hurricane season blows away records

Nov 27, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081127/hurricane_season_081127/20081127?hub=SciTech

Two degree rise could spark Greenland ice sheet meltdown: WWF

Nov 27, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1000501

Trace levels of melamine in formula safe, Health Canada says

Nov 27, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/27/melamine-formula.html

Acid rain has lingering impact on Canadian lakes: study

Nov 27, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/27/calcium-lakes.html

Province accused of impeding habitat protection

Refusal to safeguard habitat putting species at risk, groups charge
Nov 27, 2008
Judith Lavoie
Times Colonist
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=999491

Author applauds New Brunswick's uranium policy

Nov 27, 2008
Adam Huras
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/493943

City waiting for verdict on climate change program

Nov 27, 2008
HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/rss/article/494056

Saskatchewan's a potential spud powerhouse, scientist says

Nov 26, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2008/11/26/potato-potential.html?ref=rss

Prentice to hold round table on polar bear conservation in January

Nov 26, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/11/26/pbear-meeting.html?ref=rss

Feds 'shred' former R&D tax credit process

Advocates welcome reduction in 'onerous' paperwork; others uncertain of implications
Nov 26, 2008
Peter Kovessy
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/293186486890605.php

Pressure mounts for infant formula recall in U.S.

Nov 26, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/26/formula-recall.html

Schools cut back on sex education

Enhanced programs not available in all schools due to cost
Nov 26, 2008
Paul Walton
The Nanaimo Daily News
http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/story.html?id=d6447e71-daad-4ec1-b19a-41dee089e926

US ready to climb into hot seat on climate change

Nov 26, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081127/usa/un_climate_warming_us_1

Health Canada moves to ban 'legal ecstasy'

Nov 26, 2008
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=993467

Get going on dusty mental health report, moms say

Nov 26, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/11/26/mothers-mental-health.html?ref=rss

Abbott Laboratories spent nearly $1.8 million lobbying on health care in third quarter

Nov 26, 2008
Canadian Business
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D94MN8I80&utm_source=markets&utm_medium=rss

U.S. groups want longer period to comment on oil pipeline from Alberta

Nov 25, 2008
The Associated Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081125/business/us_cda_keystone_pipeline_1

Poor more likely to be hospitalized: Report

Nov 25, 2008
DONNA CASEY
SUN MEDIA
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/11/25/7524121-sun.html

Climate change makes economic meltdown look like picnic: May

Nov 25, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081125/national/may_climate_change_1

World on cusp of clean tech revolution: Merrill Lynch

'History shows that technology revolutions occur about every 50 years . . . Clean tech is at the beginning of a high-growth period'
Nov 24, 2008
John Morrissy
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=f13ee042-1bb7-4d8f-b1da-8c5a2b15dbe1

Nunavut health problems most challenging in country, report says

Nov 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/11/24/nti-health.html?ref=rss

'An electric vehicle revolution'

Task force sets ambitious clean-car goal
Nov 24, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=c5973cf4-701f-4d9f-b531-ada74c37549c

Foes of stem cell research now face tough battle

Nov 24, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081124/stemcell_foes_081124/20081124?hub=Health&s_name=

Cities must curb emissions to meet goals: report

Nov 23, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=6f7c2ae8-0d1f-4f1e-aaf1-e513cb211765

Zero-carbon community planned near Edmonton

Nov 22, 2008
Hanneke Brooymans
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=c71125fe-0b67-419c-93f7-4aca837f5541

Leading by example on climate change, says P.E.I.

Nov 21, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/11/21/pe-energy-plan.html?ref=rss

J.D. Irving Ltd. slams Environment Canada over armed raid

Nov 21, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2008/11/21/nb-irving-raid.html?ref=rss

Garneau's next mission: bring science to politics

Nov 26, 2008
Paul Jay
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/25/f-garneau-qa.html

Europe reaches deal on space spending

Nov 26, 2008
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLQ52014720081126

Climate change still a concern despite economy: poll

Nov 26, 2008
CTV.ca News http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081126/climate_change_081126/20081126?hub=SciTech

Fishing the fish stocks to extinction

Nov 26, 2008
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wcosimp26/BNStory/specialComment/home

Patient-led drug trials defy medical establishment

Nov 26, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081126/patient_study_081126/20081126?hub=Health

Study says HIV could be eliminated in a decade

Nov 26, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081126/hiv_study_081126/20081126?hub=Health

Experts call for global network to prevent asteroid disasters

Nov 26, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=997111

FDA finds traces of melamine in U.S. infant formula

Nov 26, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/26/melamine-formula.html

Trouble in Toyland report warns against phthalates, lead

Nov 26, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/26/toys-lead.html

Environmentalists want Ottawa to burnish its image

Nov 26, 2008
STEVE RENNIE
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wcosimp26/BNStory/specialComment/home

David Suzuki: Leadership crucial to forestall looming crises

Nov 25, 2008
David Suzuki and Faisal Moola
Georgia Straight
http://www.straight.com/article-172271/david-suzuki-leadership-crucial-forestall-looming-crises

Opponents, supporters argue over proposed wind project

Nov 25, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/25/wind-farm.html

Minister of State for Science and Technology celebrates official launch of Centre for the Commercialization of Research

Investment by federal government to help move discoveries out of the lab and into the global marketplace
Nov 25, 2008
NETWORKS OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE OF CANADA
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2008/25/c4042.html

Try the catch quota - and save the fisheries

Nov 25, 2008
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081125.COSIMP25/TPStory/Environment

Pharmacists shouldn't prescribe smoking drugs: critics

Nov 25, 2008
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wldrug25/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Conservation groups challenge owl recovery plan

Nov 25, 2008
JEFF BARNARD
Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOIl4eHuVn0GmiY4YGDokffLbpEgD94LSA4O0

Rate of new cancer cases drops in U.S. for first time

Nov 25, 2008
Reuters, special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/25/cancer-rates.html

More competition in generic drugs could offer $800M in savings: study

Nov 25, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/25/generic-drugs.html

Greenhouse gases hit record highs: UN

Nov 25, 2008
ELIANE ENGELER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/542963

OPG testing biomass fuel in coal-fired power plants

Nov 24, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/542152

The rankings that rankle

Nov 24, 2008
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/blog.aspx?id=4762&blogid=86

AFMC urges Canadian Government to increase funding for CIHR as strategy for economic prosperity

Nov 24, 2008
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
http://afmc.ca/news-whats-new-details-e.php?id=84

Political and strategic consequences of climate change: wars, epidemics

Gwynne Dyer says if the world hasn't reached zero GHGs by 2050, it's not going to be pretty
Nov 24, 2008
Kate Malloy
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/november/24/qa_gwynne_dyer/&c=2

B.C. researchers tout stem-cell link to cancer

Nov 24, 2008
Steve Mertl
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/542377

Some breast cancers may clear up without treatment: study

Nov 24, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/24/breastcancer-study.html

Risks higher for Avandia than similar diabetes drug: study

Nov 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/24/diabetes-drugs.html

Canada's largest wind farm to be set up in southern Manitoba

Nov 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/24/wind-farm.html

Secret advice to politicians: oilsands emissions hard to scrub

Briefing document is pessimistic on carbon storage and capture
Nov 24, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/24/sands-trap.html

What amount of nature should nations preserve?

Some scientists want Canada to protect at least 50 per cent of its boreal forest and argue other countries should follow suit
Nov 24, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081124.BOREAL24/TPStory/Environment

Computing gender differences

Nov 24, 2008
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=39aa820f-0dfb-4c92-a597-216d8528101c

Possible listeria exposure in Ontario jails

Nov 23, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/22/listeria-prisons.html

Broken windows theory boosted by new study

Nov 21, 2008
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=3aae70ed-59c7-4892-a8f8-a9703be9ae2d

Good riddance to Green Shift

Nov 20, 2008
editorial
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=974740

Climate change spurs fevers, report says

Nov 20, 2008
MICHAEL PERRY
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081120.wdisease1120/BNStory/Science/home

Science in the meltdown

The research enterprise faces many uncertainties in the looming global recession — but it also has many strengths that may help it weather the storm.
Nov 12, 2008
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081112/full/456155a.html

Danger and opportunity

The response to the financial crisis needs to go beyond the immediate pressures. Policy-makers must seize this moment to solidify the science and innovation required for sustained economic growth.
Nov 12, 2008
Editorial
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7219/full/456141a.html

Throne Speech Recognizes Role of Research and Innovation as Economic Drivers

Nov 19, 2008
BIOTECanada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Throne-Speech-Recognizes-Role-Research/story.aspx?guid=%7BB0FBFFC6-E1D5-4892-BBC5-1C39D78A8429%7D

Science, technology funding to drop in 2008-09: StatsCan

Nov 20, 2008
Paul Jay
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/20/science-funding.html

Automakers detail electric car plans at L.A. show

Nov 20, 2008
Reuters, special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/20/electric-car.html

Lawyers, CEOs named to run Alberta's health services

Nov 20, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/20/alberta-health-services-board-named.html

Fast-food ad ban could cut child obesity: U.S. study

Nov 20, 2008
Reuters, special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/20/fast-food-ads.html

Lung disease must become provincial priority: former health minister

Nov 20, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/20/nb-copd-day.html

Leaks prompt CFIA to investigate juice boxes

Nov 20, 2008
Ana Maria De La Fuente
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/19/iunit-drinkboxes.html

Rapid treatment best for infants infected with HIV: study

Nov 20, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/20/hiv-infants.html

Who Will Click With President 2.0?

Nov 20, 2008
MATT HARTLEY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081120.IBOBAMA20/TPStory/Business

Saving Canada's polar bears: Unbearable pursuits

A clash between environmentalists and Inuit rights
Nov 20, 2008
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12652176

Ontario must hire medical officers of health: Report

Nov 20, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/540490

Ottawa pledges better food, toy safety

Independent probe of listeria outbreak listed among priorities
Nov 20, 2008
Kevin Donovan
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/540220

PM looks to fall in with U.S. on climate

Nuclear power, Arctic energy also touted
Nov 20, 2008
Tonda Maccharles
http://www.thestar.com/Article/540222

When it comes to statins, don't believe the hype

Nov 20, 2008
ANDRE PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081120.wpicard20/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

A toke a day keeps memory loss at bay

Small doses of marijuana improve the function of aging brains, scientists find
Nov 20, 2008
HEATHER SOKOLOFF AND JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081120.wdope20/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

More research needed into foodborne diseases: WHO

Nov 20, 2008
Stephanie Nebehay
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=b9122592-7706-435f-a678-f5cdcce7acd8

Polluters liable, even if they follow the rules, top court says

Nov 20, 2008
Janice Tibbetts
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=0826ef18-35a7-4bc6-9122-168361b62a39

'Applause' for B.C.'s carbon tax at California speech

B.C. joins initiative to cut greenhouse gases
Nov 20, 2008
John Bermingham
The Province
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=b00f5459-b65b-4dd0-81d2-0619f97610e8

Africa looks to closer cooperation on climate change

Nov 19, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081119/world/africa_environment_climate_1

Food agency admits silence a mistake

Nov 19, 2008
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/539478

Rae, Ignatieff, LeBlanc ditch Green Shift

Nov 19, 2008
Juliet O'Neill
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ad7d56c4-8eae-42ec-b374-7259afd86312

Melting ice now main driver of rising sea levels: study

Nov 19, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=976858

Environmentalists promote 'green stimulus'

Governments can save the economy and the planet, they say, by spending on mass transit, renewable energy and fuel-efficient cars
Nov 19, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081119.wgreen19/BNStory/National/home

Doctors allege intimidation in raising drug warnings, investigation shows

Nov 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/19/avandia.html

Lead contamination levels drop in Canadians : StatsCan

Nov 19, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/19/lead-blood.html

Canada wants North America cap-and-trade system

Nov 19, 2008
David Ljunggren
Reuters
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081119/canada/canada_us_politics_environment_2

Telus to invest $100 million over three years in new health technology unit

Nov 18, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081118/health/health_telus_health_1

Dangerous bacteria on rise, expert warns

Nov 18, 2008
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081118.wsuperbug1118/BNStory/Science/home

Lawmakers pass landmark climate change bill

Nov 18, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081118/world/britain_politics_climate_environment_1

Canadian emissions increase by 22 per cent

Nov 17, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=ee1bba83-f3c4-4c37-94fb-89eb781b3e08

Young Europeans are enthusiastic about science – but still reluctant to pursue scientific careers

Nov 14, 2008
Europa
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1711&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Politicians persuaded to save Canada boreal forest

Nov 19, 2008
Deborah Zabarenko
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4AI5IZ20081119

Text of the speech from the throne

Nov 19, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/539933

Meeting climate commitments to open new avenues of litigation

Eco Justice
Nov 19, 2008
Helen Burnett-Nichols
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/reports/legal/story.html?id=970810

Shots All Around!

The case for immunizing everyone against the flu
Nov 19, 2008
Sydney Spiesel
Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2204818/

As in town, so in country

Nov 17, 2008
editorial
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081117.wePesticide17/BNStory/specialComment/home

Algae possibly holds the secret to resolving some major problems

Nov 16, 2008
Rod Charlton
The Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1299167

Liberals, NDP name science and technology critics

Nov 18, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/17/tech-politicians.html

Raw-milk activist calls Ontario milk board an 'albatross,' wants it scrapped

Nov 18, 2008
Colin Perkel
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081118/health/health_raw_milk_2

Developing new technologies key to economic growth

Nov 18, 2008
DAVID CRANE
Herald Chronicle
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1091011.html

Safe injection may save system $14-million

Nov 18, 2008
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081118.wldrugs18/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Green-style New Deal faces major cash crunch

Nov 18, 2008
Paul Taylor
Reuters
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/538583

Obama promises to take a leading role in environmental issues

Nov 18, 2008
Liz Sidoti
The Associated Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081118/world/obama_climate_change_1

Obama vows to engage world on climate change

Nov 18, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081118/world/us_politics_obama_climate_1

B.C. adds voice to debate over climate change at California conference

Nov 18, 2008
Jonathan Fowlie
Vancouver Sun
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=8d388139-a378-488c-9afa-40704cc60386&k=96213

Schwarzenegger convenes global climate change summit

Obama: U.S. will be major player in UN treaty negotiations
Nov 18, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.thespec.com/News/article/468576

Action urged to prevent 'infectious' tooth decay in children

Nov 18, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/18/dental-children.html

B.C. doctor urged to retire because of zealous approach to Lyme disease

Licensing body's criticism of MD will make others fearful to treat disease, he says
Nov 18, 2008
Kathy Tomlinson
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/17/bc-doctorretired.html

End water fluoridation, professor says

People get enough from toothpaste, he argues
Nov 18, 2008
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/538700

Canadian university heads visit India to increase student exchanges and research partnerships

Nov 18, 2008
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2008/india_11_18_e.html

AUCC celebrates International Education Week 2008

Nov 17, 2008
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2008/iew_11_17_e.html

Quebec faculty satisfied with jobs, but not entirely

New study finds them less happy with level of institutional support for family life
Nov 17, 2008
Bronwyn Chester
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/2008/11/17/quebec-faculty-satisfied-with-jobs-but-not-entirely.aspx

The “baby gap” in academia

Nov 17, 2008
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/blog.aspx?blogid=86

Alberta contacts 954 people about dirty syringes

Nov 17, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081117/alberta_syringes_081117/20081117?hub=Health

UN climate panel says greenhouse gas emissions rose during 2000-06

Nov 17, 2008
The Associated Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081117/world/germany_climate_change_1

Injection site opponents emotional, not scientific: study

Nov 17, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081117/insite_costs_081117/20081117?hub=Health

Oil, gas industry spent $2.8B on environment: study

Nov 17, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081117/statscan_industry_081117/20081117?hub=SciTech

Continents of garbage adrift in oceans

As much as 10 per cent of plastics produced end up inside giant marine vortexes
Nov 17, 2008
Alex Roslin
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=30fae34a-c866-4f54-aed5-a0bf85810e26

Innovative start-ups catching the wind

Nov 17, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/538018

'These are strongly linked cases,' Yukon doctor says of TB's spread

Nov 17, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/17/yk-tb.html

FDA to open China offices after product recalls

Nov 17, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/17/fda-china.html

Brampton councillor wants ban on addictive poppy derivative

Nov 17, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/17/doda-opium.html

Surgeons aren't following all guidelines to lower infection risks: survey

Nov 17, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/17/surgery-infection.html

Liver, thyroid cancer rates increasing in Canada: report

Nov 17, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/17/cancer-rates.html

Canada and Brazil Sign Agreement on Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation

Nov 17, 2008
Canada News Centre
http://news.gc.ca/web/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=424099&categoryid=16

An innovation nation?

Editorial
November 24, 2008 issue of Canadian Business magazine
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/after_hours/opinions/article.jsp?content=20081124_10022_10022

Policy Briefing: Innovation

Nov 17, 2008
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/policy_briefings/111708_pb.pdf

PM's climate offer could make North America clean energy powerhouse, if he's serious

If not, Canada will be on the outs with Obama
Nov 17, 2008
Aaron Freeman
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2008/november/17/pm_climate/&c=1

The high cost of carbon capture

Everybody wants to curb emissions, but are consumers willing to pay the price?
Nov 17, 2008
Renata D'Aliesio
Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=175d7399-957a-4282-8571-b8be43bc5c17

Asthma misdiagnosed in at least a third of Canadian patients: study

Tests took place in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax
Nov 17, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/17/asthma-misdiagnose.html

British Columbia has an identity crisis

Nov 16, 2008
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Special to LondonTopic.ca
http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=11678

Vitamins C, E fail to prevent cancer: study

Nov 16, 2008
WILL DUNHAM
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081116.wcancervitamins1116/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Obama seen likely to renew funds for birth control clinics

Nov 16, 2008
AFP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081116/usa/us_politics_obama_abortion_health_1

Canada awaits Obama's word on oilsands

ENERGY POLICY: Canadian policy may be forced by the new president's choices
Nov 16, 2008
GREG WESTON
London Free Press
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Columnists/Weston_Greg/2008/11/16/7426751-sun.html

$6-million agreement to boost canola research

Nov 15, 2008
Herald Leader
http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1297851

Largest plant DNA project may lead to new medicines

Nov 15, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081115/plant_dna_081115/20081115?hub=SciTech

Got a spare Earth anywhere?

We're using the planet's resources way faster than nature can possibly replace them
Nov 15, 2008
VIVIAN SONG
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/life/greenplanet/2008/11/15/7421526-sun.html

Canadian wind industry faces delay, rising debt costs: industry financiers

Nov 15, 2008
Michael Tutton
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081115/business/wind_challenged_1

Rescue services applaud funding for defibrillators

Nov 15, 2008
Craig Pearson
Windsor Star
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=7051df15-ca80-42c1-b0e5-e1d2d3a86372&k=71291

It has become another meaningless promise

Nov 14, 2008
Lorrie Goldstein
The Recorder & Times
http://beta.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1297688

California ordered to prepare for sea-level rise

Nov 14, 2008
Reuters
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081115/us/usreport_us_california_sealevel_1

SFU biologist's theory called one of greatest since Freud's

Study could change the way science thinks about mental illness
Nov 14, 2008
Amy O'Brian
Vancouver Sun
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=21cf5e5b-2a83-4d1f-892d-dc35b12cc5c8&k=95319

Norovirus outbreak hits Edmonton

Nov 14, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/14/edm-norovirus.html

UN water-monitoring program priority for Canada: Prentice

Nov 14, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/14/water-prentice.html

Joint study needed on Baffin Bay polar bear numbers: expert

Nov 14, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/11/14/pbear-survey.html?ref=rss

Panel picks clean energy as innovation opportunity

Nov 14, 2008
Business Edge
http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/18990.cfm

Raising a glass to stem cell research

Fundraiser for new Cellular Therapy Centre
Nov 14, 2008
The Gazette
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=4ac710a1-864c-4a46-bfb4-e7e0cca37b4d

Tar sands turning Canada into ‘U. S. energy satellite’

‘Structural distortion’ kills jobs by linking loonie to oil: author
Nov 14, 2008
Richard Leitner
Mountain News
http://www.hamiltonmountainnews.com/news/article/151579

Students protest debt load

Nov 14, 2008
QUENTIN CASEY
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/481068

Canada leads world in astronomical discoveries

If world astronomy was a Star Trek movie, Canada would be co-pilot of the Enterprise
Nov 14, 2008
Don Martin
CanWest News Service
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/travel/story.html?id=21b0bdd8-030f-4f65-bbe9-b78fc8899463

Stewards of the Arctic?

Nov 14, 2008
GERALD BUTTS
Special to Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081113.wcopolar14/BNStory/specialComment/home

Environmentalists seek boreal forest protection

Group says oilsands production is leaving a trail of destruction
Nov 14, 2008
Saul Chernos
Business Edge
http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/18956.cfm

Modern cancer drugs more likely to get to market

Nov 14, 2008
Ben Hirschler
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=7d1683fb-40d4-4586-aa16-ff29d66a5ab6

Halton moves to ban fluoride from water

Nov 14, 2008
HAMILTON SPECTATOR
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/536763

Tories to pull out of Canada-led water-monitoring program

Nov 13, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/13/harper-water.html

Brown clouds over Asia pose new threat to planet: UN

Nov 13, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/13/brown-clouds.html

Nuclear curbing alternatives?

Environmental groups say Ontario's atomic focus detracts from efforts to develop greener electricity
Nov 13, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/535898

Traffic pollution makes asthma symptoms worse in children: study

Nov 13, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/13/traffic-pollution.html

Separate Great Lakes, Mississippi basins to bar invasive species: study

Nov 13, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/13/great-lakes.html

Health care spending to reach record $171B: report

Nov 13, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/13/health-spending.html

Newborns test positive for MRSA

Nov 13, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/13/pe-mrsa-newborns.html

Reduce overcrowded housing to slash TB rates, native leaders urge

Officials from around the world to discuss how to cut rates in half by 2015
Nov 13, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/13/tuberculosis-meeting.html#Scene_1

HPV vaccine prevents genital warts in men: study

About 40 countries have approved vaccination for males
Nov 13, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/13/hpv-vaccine-men.html

A new age of statins?

Nov 13, 2008
Matthew Herper and Robert Langreth
Forbes.com
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/13/f-forbes-statins.html

FDA slaps sweeping hold on foods from China

Nov 13, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081113/melamine_hold_081113/20081113?hub=Health

Victoria leads Canada in green transport

Nov 13, 2008
Shannon Proudfoot
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=e80f40d1-9bd2-4396-ae39-e833c6c82328

Evidence linking pesticides to cancer not strong enough: expert

But link can't be ruled out without further testing
Nov 12, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/12/pesticides-cancer.html

GeneNews cuts two-fifths of Canadian workforce, moves R&D to Asia

Nov 12, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081112/business/genenews_1

Urgent regulation needed for nanomaterials: experts

Nov 12, 2008
Reuters, special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/12/nanomaterials.html

Southern Ocean close to acid tipping point, researchers say

Nov 12, 2008
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/12/ocean-acid.html

Green use for white snow: Ottawa probes cool potential to save energy

Nov 12, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/12/ot-snow-081112.html

Fewer Canadian tech companies growing quickly: Deloitte

Nov 12, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/12/tech-companies.html

Earth would be heading to a freeze without CO2 emissions

Nov 12, 2008
AFP
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyGeD4x6xxyooCI8A_gn-LLBF_3g

Cancer society turns sights to farm pesticides

Agency holding conference with leading scientists on hotly contested issue of restricting agricultural bug and weed killers
Nov 12, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081112.wpesticides12/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081112.wpesticides12

Top court rules for Navy in whales-sonar case

Nov 12, 2008
James Vicini
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1a5f0912-c56c-449a-9405-eff71a38fdb7

More growers turn to coal

Greenhouse operators battered by fuel costs forced to pick cheapest and dirtiest alternative
Nov 11, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/534346

Misunderstood oil sands

Nov 11, 2008
editoria
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081111.webranding12/BNStory/specialComment/home

Atlantic sharks at risk due to over-fishing: study

Nov 11, 2008
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=ee8e376b-ea55-4c15-a94d-4c1b68c7e4e8

Tories warned of biofuel risks

Internal documents show downsides of ethanol boost
Nov 11, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=c4e2bb6b-4aac-415b-bf93-4ad380ff7e60