Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Science and technology key to recession-proof Canada

Stimulus Minister of State tells Moncton Chamber of Commerce science and technology is Canada's future
July 25, 2009
GILEAN WATTS
Canadaeast News Service
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/740112

Canada's biotech challenge

July 27, 2009
Andrew McConaghie
Pharmafocus
http://www.pharmafocus.com/cda/focusH/1,2109,22-0-0-0-focus_feature_detail-0-493032,00.html
Softens hands-off stance under growing pressure to protect wireless assets from foreign ownership
Jul 28, 2009
Les Whittington & Rob Ferguson
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Article/672695
July 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/27/ericsson-nortel-lte-technology-ontario.html
Intervention would signal nation's loyalty to iconic Canadian firms
Jul 28, 2009
David Olive
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/672623

Nortel too important to lose

Jul 28, 2009
James Travers
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/672694
July 28, 2009
Dr. Jean-Pierre Labrie
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/28/dount-count-on-maple-for-medical-isotopes.aspx
July 27, 2009
Roger Collier
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/27july09_isotopes.shtml
No guidelines to protect front-line workers, group says
Jul 28, 2009
Gloria Galloway and Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cities-slam-ottawa-for-poor-pandemic-planning/article1233027/
Lack of agreement has impact on both health, economy
July 27, 2009
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/ordinated+pandemic+plans+feds+provinces/1832175/story.html
As medical ethicists confront the difficult issues around swine flu, experts say ordinary Canadians should get in on the debate
Jul 27, 2009
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/in-a-pandemic-wheres-the-moral-ground/article1231853/
In preparing for a possible autumn wave of influenza, we should prepare our health-care infrastructure to meet a worst-case scenario
Jul 27, 2009
Mark Humphries
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/lesson-from-the-1918-pandemic-focus-on-treatment-not-prevention/article1230854/
July 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/27/swine-flu-vaccine.html
July 28, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/28/cigarette-packaging-smokers846.html

The choice to eat less salt

Jul 27, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-choice-to-eat-less-salt/article1232070/
By screening infected blood, researchers hoping to find new ways to fight the virus
Jul 27, 2009
Martin Mittelstaedt
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/health-agency-to-test-link-between-flu-vitamin-d/article1231852/

G8 emissions plan is meaningless

July 27, 2009
Sophia Dore & Andrew Laursen
METRO CANADA
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/comment/article/268656--g8-emissions-plan-is-meaningless
July 27, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/agency+warns+Canadian+drug+giant+serious+deficiencies/1834199/story.html
July 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/27/mb-monsanto-construction-man-sask.html

Is Google good for Canada?

As the U.S.-based Web giant extends its reach around the world, its effect on Canadian tech policy is growing
July 25, 2009
Matt Hartley And Jamie Sturgeon
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/technology/Google+good+Canada/1826864/story.html
July 27, 2009
Monique Muise
Montreal Gazette
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Earth+bears+scars+human+destruction+according+Thirsk/1833138/story.html
Ottawa, Alberta may have to spend billions per year to develop commercial carbon capture technologies
Jul 27, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/672157
Jul 25, 2009
MARKUS ERMISCH
SUN MEDIA
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/alberta/2009/07/25/10257701-sun.html

Apocalypse Soon

Flooding. Drought. Wildfires. Mass migrations of desperate people. Mike Blanchfield explains why security experts fear climate change will lead to war on a scale we have yet to see on this planet.
July 25, 2009
Mike Blanchfield
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Apocalypse+Soon+Cimate+change+lead+world+worst+wars/1827484/story.html
Friday, July 24, 2009

Seasonal flu shot may be mismatch

Samples of the emerging new strain of H3N2 viruses show substantially reduced response to antibodies generated by the corresponding virus in the vaccine, raising the possibility of significantly reduced protection
Helen Branswell
Jul 24, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/seasonal-flu-shot-may-be-mismatch/article1228824/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate means about twice the number of people who usually get sick in a normal flu season would be affected, and hundreds of thousands could die
Jul 24, 2009
Mike Stobbe
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/swine-flu-could-strike-40-in-us/article1230000/
July 24, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/24/swine-flu-h1n1-who-pandemic.html
Commitment made by company, not federal government
Jul 24, 2009
Caroline Alphonso and Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/20-per-cent-of-canadas-flu-vaccine-headed-to-developing-nations/article1227827/
July 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/23/swine-flu-inspector072309.html

Canada lagging on vaccine trials

Jul 23, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/670448

Britain starts swine flu hotline

July 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/23/swine-flu-uk.html
July 23, 2009
Paul Webster
Canadian Medical Association Journal
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/23july09_aboriginals.shtml
July 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/23/nunavut-panflu.html
July 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/23/tamiflu-infants.html
July 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/23/bruce-power-cancelled-reactors.html
July 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/23/ottawa-ragweed-war-gatineau-allergy.html
July 23, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/23/warm-oceans-less-cloud-cover.html
In every product studied, foods contained significantly higher levels of sodium than the same products sold in other countries
Jul 23, 2009
Carly Weeks
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/as-canadian-as-salt-study-finds-more-in-our-food/article1227967/
July 23, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/23/electronic-cigarette.html
July 19, 2009
Amy Minsky
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/Government+should+reform+food+labelling+policy+report/1809551/story.html
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

PhDs can get lost in sterotypes

Jul 20, 2009
Carolyn Steele
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-sense/phds-can-get-lost-in-sterotypes/
July 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/22/swine-flu-tamiflu-resistance.html
Jul 22, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/669706

Public-private calamity

Jul 22, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/public-private-calamity/article1226667/

Public protection

July 22, 2009
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Public+protection/1814197/story.html

A troubling report

July 22, 2009
Edmonton Journal
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/troubling+report/1815573/story.html
July 22, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/669858
Analysis catalogues succession of failures that led to troubling tragedy
Jul 22, 2009
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/669868
July 21, 2009
Sarah Schmidt and Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Listeriosis+report+calls+greater+role+public+health+officer/1812091/story.html
July 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/21/listeriosis-report.html
July 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/21/fish-vegetables-aquaponics.html
July 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/22/cod-recover-722.html
Fishermen are competing in limited space for a vulnerable resource
Jul 21, 2009
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/as-crab-stocks-collapse-tensions-rise-on-the-waterfront/article1223981/
Jul 22, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hmr7yEWbqJMPBRvGESnzWr1EUPPA

Doing the right thing for whales

July 22, 2009
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
CanadaEast.com
http://www.canadaeast.com/progress/article/736755
Two biotechnology companies have started injecting adult volunteers in Adelaide and the government has ordered 21 million doses if tests are proven to work
Jul 22, 2009
Tanalee Smith
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/australia-starts-first-h1n1-vaccine-trials/article1226829/
Latest flu outbreak is shaping up as fourth pandemic dud in the past six years
Jul 22, 2009
Dr. Richard Schabas
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/669727
July 21, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/21/swine-flu.html
July 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/20/nb-swine-flu-schools-1109.html
July 22, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/22/radon-homes-lung-cancer.html
Jul 21, ,2009
GEOFFREY YORK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/treatment-as-prevention---a-once-ridiculed-idea-whose-time-has-come/article1225364/
Jul 21, 2009
Ralph Pentland
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/669138

No such thing as free water

Jul 21, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/no-such-thing-as-free-water/article1225407/

Too much faith in mass screening

Does all this testing for cancer make a difference?
Jul 21, 2009
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/too-much-faith-in-mass-screening/article1225114/
July 20, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/20/aids-south-africa-vaccine-trial.html
July 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/20/heart-disease-hypertension-diabetes-obesity.html
July 20, 2009
Carrie Tait
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/Pincher+Creek+lessons+science+wind/1809937/story.html
July 22, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Genetically+modified+rice+crucial+drought+battle/1816058/story.html
July 20, 2009
Slim Allagui
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Greenland+shark+become+source+biofuel/1809275/story.html
Jul 21, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/medical-pot-operation-leaves-flin-flon/article1225441/
July 21, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Obama+pledges+backing+space+program/1812427/story.html
Commitments to staff space station and return to the moon by 2020 make Martian expedition too daunting a task, says Charlie Bolden
Jul 21, 2009
Irene Klotz
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/status-quo-wont-get-nasa-to-mars-agencys-chief-says/article1226281/
Monday, July 20, 2009

How do we get young Canadians to reach for the stars?

The new space race is a golden opportunity to inspire a new generation of space explorers
Jul 20, 2009
Sumitra Rajagopalan
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/how-do-we-get-young-canadians-to-reach-for-the-stars/article1222910/
Growing importance of space makes it imperative to have a long-term strategy
Jul 20, 2009
Anthony Salloum
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/668158
Moon could be stepping stone to Martian moon Phobos, Mars and asteroids, says Aldrin
Jul 20, 2009
Seth Borenstein
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/668852
Jul 19, 2009
Peter Rakobowchuk
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ha8yJspQni8LpCLr9bGRu9KQX49g
Bold experiment has scientists planting trees in areas they don't belong in a pre-emptive strike on climate change
Jul 19, 2009
Alicia Chang
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/should-humans-dictate-nature-in-the-name-of-conservation/article1224103/
My friends would be horrified to learn their convictions are keeping children hungry
Jul 20, 2009
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/enviro-romanticism-is-hurting-africa/article1222806/
Activists warn potential partnership could lead to commodified water nationwide
Jul 20, 2009
PATRICK WHITE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/winnipeggers-battle-city-proposal-to-privatize-water-system/article1224306/
July 17, 2009
NINA LEX
Reuters
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Quebec+could+make+year+selling+water+report/1801145/story.html
July 20, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/20/listeriosis-report-ritz856.html
July 20, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/20/pei-slaughterhouse-bacteria.html
Jul 17, 2009
Tyler Hamilton & Catherine Porter
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/667681
Let's create a bank to guarantee supplies to countries that need nuclear fuel for their power reactors
Jul 17, 2009
Mohamed ElBaradei
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/its-all-in-the-low-enriched-uranium/article1222913/
July 20, 2009
Kenyon Wallace & Theresa Boyle
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/668771
July 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/17/health-minister-canada-swine-flu.html
July 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/17/first-nations-swine-flu-help.html
July 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/17/who-swine-flu-counting.html
Unique deal with supplier means Canadians will get the shot – and there will be excess supply for countries in need, health officer says
Jul 17, 2009
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-will-have-enough-vaccines-to-share/article1221498/

No surge for the Volt

Jul 20, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/no-surge-for-the-volt/article1224268/
Jul 20, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/668699
McGuinty's plan to give Volt buyers $10,000 each is electrifyingly dumb
July 19, 2009
Randall Denley
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Ontarians+built+cars/1805587/story.html
Jul 17, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/667565
July 17, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1799597
Jul 17, 2009
Dennis DesRosiers
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/667581

U.S. protectionism in green garb

July 17, 2009
David Wilkins
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/17/david-wilkins-congress-tramples-on-trade.aspx
July 17, 2009
Laura Isensee
Reuters
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/company+converts+onion+juice+electricity/1800746/story.html
July 17, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/17/nwt-bathurst-caribou.html
July 17, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/17/climate-satellite-crash-report.html
Environment Computers help generate as much greenhouse gas as airline industry
July 20, 2009
CHELSEA MURRAY
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/733861
Canada will continue contributing to the world’s advanced communications networks
July 14, 2009
Sue Spradley
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/trading-desk/technology/story.html?id=1790506
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Innovation is alive and well in Canada

Entrepreneurs are spending on R&D: survey
July 14, 2009
Rick Spence
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1787664
July 16, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/jobs+risk+biotech+group+warns/1796456/story.html
Our industrial and scientific competitiveness is threatened, but there's still hope
Jul 15, 2009
Thad Harroun
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/why-the-reactor-shutdown-is-really-bad-news-for-neutron-research/article1218141/
Jul 15, 2009
Amy Fuller
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hwRCaO58bZXXTX6G-FrUmmUbH8OQ
July 16, 2009
Carolyn Steele
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-sense/predicting-the-future-of-academe-dont-bank-on-it
July 16, 2009
John Moore
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/16/john-moore-one-world-government-and-global-warming-climate-change-whatever.aspx
Jul 15, 2009
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h2jihLIeMPbBdWhfkkrU599zl0WQ
Dozens of projects, billions in investment at risk, energy group says
Jul 15, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/666309

A plan must engage the public

It is good that Canada has a plan for the H1N1 pandemic. But it involves choices, which need discussion
Jul 16, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/a-plan-must-engage-the-public/article1219950/

A world of competing sorrows

There's a flu pandemic and health-care resources are scarce. How do we decide who lives and who dies?
Jul 16, 2009
Margaret Somerville
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-world-of-competing-sorrows/article1219511/
Amid flu pandemic and isotope crisis, Leona Aglukkaq tells The Globe: ‘You always expect that you will be on the hot seat for something'
Jul 16, 2009
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/a-busy-time-for-rookie-health-minister/article1219866/
July 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/15/ont-electric-cars511.html

Sparks fly over electric cars

Premier offers rebates to ease sticker shock, but critics call plan a misguided 'bribe'
Jul 16, 2009
Tanya Talaga
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/667057
July 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/16/manitoba-swine-flu.html
July 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/15/sask-premarin.html
July 14, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/14/mental-health-ontario.html
Jul 15, 2009
Cherise Burda
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/666293
Jul 15, 2009
Andy Frame
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Article/666292

Why so much noise about wind?

Life is full of choices, four doctors argue, and wind turbines are more healthy than the alternatives
Jul 13, 2009
John Howard, Warren Bell, Alan Abelsohn and Cathy Vakil
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/why-so-much-noise-about-wind/article1216749/

Shake the MAPLE tree

Isotope panel should look at the cancelled MAPLE project
July 15, 2009
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/07/15/terence-corcoran-shake-the-maple-tree.aspx
The MAPLE reactors faced challenges. But they did work
July 15, 2009
Jill Chitra
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/07/15/how-to-solve-the-medical-isotope-crisis.aspx
July 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/16/cancer-newfoundland-716.html
July 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/15/pathologists-best-practice-butany.html
July 16, 2009
Reuters
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/667058
July 15, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/15/pei-charlottetown-loosestrife.html
July 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/14/edmonton-pine-beetle.html
July 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/14/sask-gypsy.html
As the world's oldest mother to give birth leaves behind twin sons in death, experts are again debating who should be allowed to undergo infertility treatments
Jul 15, 2009
Dave McGinn
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/woman-who-gave-birth-at-66-dies-reigniting-ivf-debate/article1219661/
July 16, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/15/f-calorie-restriction-lifespan-extension.html
July 14, 2009
William Ickes
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Experts+hail+Sahara+Europe+solar+plan/1790305/story.html
July 16, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Greenlight+given+first+British+towns/1796957/story.html
Nanoscience could provide an alternate method of diagnosis, in some cases, to the nuclear technology required for current medical imaging
Jul 16, 2009
Anne McIlroy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-small-help-in-easing-the-isotope-crisis/article1219825/
Tool could allow customers to measure how green or sustainable a product is
Jul 15, 2009
Nicole Maestri
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/wal-mart-creating-environmental-index-for-its-goods/article1219519/
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The summer of student discontent

Students face the coldest summer-job market in more than a decade but schools have less money bursaries
Jul 14, 2009
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-summer-of-student-discontent/article1217086/
July 14, 2009
John Moore
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/14/john-moore-climate-skeptic-arguments-don-t-hold-ice.aspx
Wealthy countries have agreed to limit the world's temperature to a two-degree increase, requiring aggressive cuts to emissions Canada's oil industry calls 'incredible'
Jul 11, 2009
Brian Laghi and Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/target-found-in-g8s-climate-fight/article1211478/
Climate change could ignite wars in the world's most volatile regions
Jul 13, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14025366
Jul 10, 2009
Mary Simon
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/663693

Gas pains

Harper refuses to recognize the urgent need for action to reduce greenhouse gases
July 10, 2009
JANET BAGNALL
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/pains/1776662/story.html
After years of inflamed global warming alarm, we are beginning to see a period of sobering-up
July 10, 2009
Benny Peiser
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/07/10/benny-peiser-g8-stalemate-shows-it-s-time-for-climate-cool-down.aspx
July 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/07/13/north-health-congress.html
July 13, 2009
Mike Barber
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canada%2Balready%2Bplugged%2Belectric%2Bcars/1782389/story.html

Turn off the lights

Dark sky is better for the environment and for our health
Jul 9, 2009
Robert Dick
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/turn-off-the-lights/article1212771/
July 10, 2009
Ray Grigg
Courier-Islander
http://www.canada.com/Science+Scientists+Salmon+Farming/1776704/story.html
July 13, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/13/medical-isotopes.html

Get moving on isotopes

Jul 10, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/663663
Loss of its biggest customer could doom Canada's struggling industry already hit by Chalk River shutdown, nuclear watchers say
Jul 13, 2009
Gloria Galloway and Karen Howlett
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/isotope-industry-in-peril-as-us-moves-to-make-its-own-supply/article1213096/
July 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/14/swine-flu-vaccine.html
July 13, 2009
Helen Branswell
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/665233
July 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/13/pei-mosquito-pesticide-rules.html
We need to ensure that our funding is sufficiently flexible to explore long-shot ideas that might yield big benefits for both Canada and African farmers
Jul 10, 2009
Parker Mitchell
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/its-worth-the-risk-ottawa-set-up-an-agriculture-innovation-fund-for-africa/article1214423/
July 10, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/10/ontario-fish.html
Websites are selling unauthorized goods or making false claims
July 9, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health+Canada+hunt+swine+scams/1774239/story.html
July 13, 2009
Steve Mertl
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hTPK_iaTpTD0ucwVGYGEGtEU2chA
July 13, 2009
Amy Minsky
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Young+Canadians+missing+benefits+vitamin+Study/1787214/story.html
July 13, 2009
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iEGQBccjUxRMkPzznkdZFFxChvpw

It's not easy being green

Those new energy-efficient bulbs contain mercury and are a nightmare to get rid of
July 14, 2009
HENRY AUBIN
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/easy+being+green/1787872/story.html
July 10, 2009
Lynn Moore
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Cellulosic+ethanol+game+changer/1779087/story.html
July 9, 2009
Anne-Marie Tobin
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hMFbcwT56Nms_msH4xHV3kBPEbAg
If you want to heal the land, it helps to be well-heeled. Let's just rethink what we eat
Jul 13, 2009
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/organic-tastes-good-but-better-for-us-no/article1214614/
July 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/09/sask-isotopes-critics.html
July 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/10/ns-vaccine-lab.html
Jul 9, 2009
Bob Weber
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/canada/2009/07/09/10080126.html
July 8, 2009
Peter O’Neil
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1771692
Jul 7, 2009
PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1131028.html
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Math interns produce private sector results

Federal program links firms with science grads
July 7, 2009
Rick Spence
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/small-business/story.html?id=1767127
Investment Capital; Advocacy group calls for loans, tax exemptions
July 8, 2009
Giuseppe Valiante
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/technology/story.html?id=1769493

G8 on climate: talk, but no plan

Jul 9, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/663071
It’s not an issue the Tories feel passionately about, and given Canada’s track record, silence might be the preferred option
Jul 9, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/ottawas-still-emitting-hot-air/article1209797/
Canada and the U.S. will feel the heat as G8 heads of government address climate-change issue
Jul 9, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/leaders-urged-to-endorse-2-degree-limit/article1209961/
July 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/09/clear-cutting-environmental.html

H1N1 and Canada's plan

Jul 7, 2009
David Butler Jones
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/h1n1-and-canadas-plan/article1206628/
July 7, 2009
Laura MacInnis & Stephanie Nebehay
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/662218
July 9, 2009
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/663400
U.S. report warns of risks when rise in temperatures lets disease-bearing mosquitoes survive in all corners of the country
Jul 8, 2009
Deborah Zabarenko
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/climate-change-may-spread-dengue-fever-across-north-america/article1211208/
A U.S. company has developed an environmentally friendly method for cooling buildings during peak summer hours using chunks of ice
Jul 8, 2009
Susan Krashinsky
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/a-green-idea-cool-enough-for-canada/article1210455/
July 9, 2009
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Ottawa+steps+fight+against+crop+eating+fungus/1775118/story.html
Innovative program run by the Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society is ending after 21 years amid allegations of mismanagement and financial improprieties
Jul 9, 2009
Robert Matas
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/landmark-needle-exchange-program-closing-down/article1210092/
Jul 8, 2009
Jennifer Graham
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hfa6SpTzeDYRtmzhDryEFcGVx3EA
July 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/08/chalk-river-nuclear-reactor008.html
July 9, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Antipsychotic+drugs+being+dispensed+more+often+study/1775229/story.html
Periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific, which can affect weather around the world, has returned, forecasters warn
Jul 9, 2009
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/el-nino-is-back-us-scientists-say/article1212321/
July 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/08/north-caribou.html
July 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/09/lantus-diabetes-cancer.html
A total of 2,730 test results called into question
July 9, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/09/montreal-breast-cancer-errors-quebec-tests.html
Second vaccine aimed at reducing cervical cancer
July 9, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/09/cervarix-vaccine.html
Six B.C. firms receive funds to boost business
July 9, 2009
Judith Lavoie, with files from Dan MacLennan
Times Colonist
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Aquaculture+gets+more+than/1773887/story.html
Jul 8, 2009
Sheryl Ubelacker
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gHmCT0otgQp0FoiOZXjtpMXF7gJA
July 9, 2009
Kate Jaimet
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Constance+gardeners+ready+fight+city+court/1771979/story.html
July 8, 2009
Lorne Gunter
National Post
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/the-little-black-box-for-grain-inspectors/article850509/
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

U.S. stem cell funding rules finalized

July 7, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/07/stem-cell-rules826.html
July 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/07/nti-pbear-reax.html
July 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/07/06/pbear-taylor-meeting.html
Jul 6, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/661246
An agreement on clear, practical goals could achieve major reductions in emissions
Jul 6, 2009
Tony Blair
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/660753

Unready for the next wave

Canada must prepare for another swine flu outbreak this fall
Jul 6, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/unready-for-the-next-wave/article1206214/

Fluoride levels in water lowered

July 7, 2009
Hanneke Brooymans
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Health/Fluoride+levels+water+lowered/1766428/story.html
July 7, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/07/heart-drug-statins-prescription-stroke-spending.html

Swine flu fight needs $1B: UN

July 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/06/swine-flu-un.html
July 6, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Health/Feds+remove+tape+obtaining+cancer+isotopes/1764815/story.html
July 7, 2009
Elaine O’Connor
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/Health/Insite+drug+injection+facility+awaits+fate+amid+controversy/1767204/story.html
July 7, 2009
Anne Chaon
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Climate+change+summit+boosts+pressure+pact/1767386/story.html
July 6, 2009
Mike Blanchfield
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/Oxfam+dubs+climate+change+greatest+threat+humanity/1764766/story.html
Increasing amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide has warmed and acidified oceans, killing coral reefs, scientists say in London
Jul 6, 2009
MICHAEL KAHN
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/reefs-may-die-off-by-end-of-century-experts-warn/article1208615/
Jul 6, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/661264
July 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/03/ottawa-wind-turbine-backyard.html
July 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/03/skin-cancer.html
Friday, July 3, 2009

Canada's innovation gap

The decline of Nortel coincides with a troubling reality: Research spending is shrinking, productivity is sliding, and we're still leaning too heavily on our resources
Jul 2, 2009
Konrad Yakabuski
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/canadas-innovation-gap/article1203108/
July 2, 2009
DAVID CRANE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1130249.html
July 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/03/hk-swine.html
Cumulative totals include at least 332 global deaths
July 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/02/swine-flu.html
July 2, 2009
Maria Cheng
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/659894
July 3, 2009
Teresa Smith
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health/Health+Canada+weighs+options+adds+black+warnings/1756296/story.html
July 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/02/health-drugs.html
Environment Minister Jim Prentice says regulations must be ‘comparable' to avoid punitive tariffs on oil sands and other big greenhouse-gas emitters
Jul 1, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/canada-to-match-us-climate-change-rules/article1202636/
Producers and their U.S. refiners face sharply higher costs
Jul 1, 2009
Shawn McCarthy and Nathan VanderKlippe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-to-take-hit-from-us-bill/article1201222/
This may be start of more than a typical dry spell, researcher says
July 3, 2009
Patrick White
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/farmers-start-to-write-off-year-as-drought-parches-prairie-land/article1203663/
Given that droughts represent a recurring reality, why does each new occurrence seem to be a surprise?
July 3, 2009
Barry Smit
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/climate-change-in-the-land-of-great-drought/article1204677/
July 2, 2009
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h7mW6f1p1eqwoibMhvtGnM1nPvMw

Canada dead last on green list

We have fallen behind other nations on climate change plan, scorecard reveals
Jul 1, 2009
Catherine Porter
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/659218
July 1, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/01/tech-climate-scorecard-wwf.html
Settlement between Humane Society, federal government means Agriculture Department must post information online
Jul 1, 2009
Mary Clare Jalonick
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/us-legal-case-opens-animal-testing-to-more-scrutiny/article1203653/
July 2, 2009
Linda Nguyen
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1752321
Unconventional new structure could lead to increased warning of deadly storms
July 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/02/science-nino-hurricane.html
July 1, 2009
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iH-wG-zD8Yn_Wxpav5Mn4ssTx5dw
July 3, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/02/flu-spread.html
July 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/03/garbage-chemicals.html
July 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/02/science-global-warming-sheep.html
Nano-engineering can produce substances with unique properties that will give renewable energy a boost
July 2, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13941135
July 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/02/ottawa-light-high-tech-bulb.html
July 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/02/water-experiment-fertilizer.html
Canada to study U.S. findings
June 30, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/30/fda-painkiller-restrictions375.html
July 2, 2009
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Special to LondonTopic.ca
http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=14938