Science Canada: 11/14/08

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science Canada

Friday, November 14, 2008

Panel picks clean energy as innovation opportunity

Raising a glass to stem cell research

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

Students protest debt load

Canada leads world in astronomical discoveries

Stewards of the Arctic?

Environmentalists seek boreal forest protection

Modern cancer drugs more likely to get to market

Halton moves to ban fluoride from water

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

Brown clouds over Asia pose new threat to planet: UN

Nuclear curbing alternatives?

Traffic pollution makes asthma symptoms worse in children: study

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

Health care spending to reach record $171B: report

Newborns test positive for MRSA

Reduce overcrowded housing to slash TB rates, native leaders urge

HPV vaccine prevents genital warts in men: study

A new age of statins?

FDA slaps sweeping hold on foods from China

Victoria leads Canada in green transport

Evidence linking pesticides to cancer not strong enough: expert

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

Urgent regulation needed for nanomaterials: experts

Southern Ocean close to acid tipping point, researchers say

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

Fewer Canadian tech companies growing quickly: Deloitte

Earth would be heading to a freeze without CO2 emissions

Cancer society turns sights to farm pesticides

Top court rules for Navy in whales-sonar case

More growers turn to coal

Misunderstood oil sands

Atlantic sharks at risk due to over-fishing: study

Tories warned of biofuel risks

Vatican cautions Obama against changing Bush's policy on stem cells