Canada is failing science

Feb 6, 2009
editorial
Ottawa Citizen
http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=bdd40e6e-a9fd-465c-8a14-f2924267760b

Lack of science funding risks brain drain, CMAJ editorial warns

Federal budget cut money for research councils, made no new invetsment in key areas
Feb 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/06/budget-cmaj-ed.html

Medical journal blasts budget's vision for science

Feb 6, 2009
CAROLYN ABRAHAM AND JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090206.CMAJ06/TPStory/National

Food inspection agency failing to screen effectively for invasive species, A-G says

Canada's crops, forests threatened as high-risk imported foodstuffs go straight to store shelves
Feb 6, 2009
DANIEL LEBLANC
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090206.wauditfood06/BNStory/National/home

Climate change is a "forever issue"

Feb 6, 2009
Ken Dryden
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/06/ken-dryden-climate-change-is-a-quot-forever-issue-quot.aspx

Canada failing on CO2 cuts: audit

Feb 6, 2009
AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iTYJ573Y_H0cDyuZDqaSAphVVOow

Drug from genetically altered goats approved by U.S. regulator

Feb 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/06/tech-genetically-modified-drug.html

Antarctic ice melt could shift Earth's rotation: Study

Feb 6, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/environment/Antarctic+melt+could+shift+Earth+rotation+Study/1261393/story.html

PIPSC: Insufficient Funding Plagues Government Science

Feb 5, 2009
Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29043441/

Statement by Minister Prentice on the 2008 Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development

Feb 5, 2009
Environment Canada
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29037266/

Feds can't prove their costly green programs work: commissioner

Gaps in reporting, accountability: report
Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/05/enviro-commissioner.html

World's fish at risk as countries flout fishing code, study finds

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/05/tech-fish-code.html

North America at greater risk from Antarctic ice sheet melt: study

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/05/sea-level-rise.html

Electronic immunization records needed: Toronto health official

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/05/tto-immunixation.html

Regulator points to loophole in U.S. food-safety laws

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/05/fda-senate.html

Poultry inspection changes could pose health risk, say veterinarians

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/05/poultryvets-cfia.html

Insulation still safe, company says despite federal order halting sales

Feb 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/04/foam-warning.html

Bird flu virus still major concern: WHO

Feb 4, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/04/flu.html

Medical isotopes the likely cause of radiation in Ottawa waste

Feb 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/04/ot-090204-isotopes.html

Obama’s climate change initiative ‘best hope’ for salmon

Feb 4, 2009
Gordon Hamilton
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Obama+climate+change+initiative+best+hope+salmon/1250091/story.html

Judge allows medicinal pot plots

Strict limits on the production and distribution of medical marijuana are unconstitutional, B.C. court determines
Feb 4, 2009
Robert Barron
Daily News
http://www.canada.com/Judge+allows+medicinal+plots/1251818/story.html

Over 800 complaints on quit-smoking aid reported to Health Canada

Feb 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/04/champix.html

Canadian fisheries management a mess: Report

Feb 4, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/environment/Canadian+fisheries+management+mess+Report/1253122/story.html

Canada, U.S. need joint approach to carbon emissions: Study

Feb 4, 2009
Paul Vieira
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/technology/environment/Canada+need+joint+approach+carbon+emissions+Study/1253123/story.html

Alberta orders oilsands giants to clean up tailings ponds or close plants

Feb 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/03/edm-tailings-ponds.html

Antidepressants lower suicide risk for adults, raise it for youths: review

Feb 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/03/ssri-suicide.html

Canada may pale to Obama’s green plan

Feb 3, 2009
Don Martin
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/03/don-martin-canada-may-pale-to-obama-s-green-plan.aspx

Professor blames private sector for lack of research funding

Feb 3, 2009
Adriana Christianson
Leader-Post
http://www.leaderpost.com/Technology/Professor+blames+private+sector+lack+research+funding/1249616/story.html

Conservatives take their eyes off importance of innovation

Blueprint fails vital test of leadership for the country's future economy
Feb 3, 2009
David Crane
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/581203

Conservatives take their eyes off importance of innovation

Blueprint fails vital test of leadership for the country's future economy
Feb 3, 2009
David Crane
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/581203

Rules surrounding medicial marijuana somewhat hazy

Feb 3, 2009
Jack Knox
Times Colonist
http://www.canada.com/news/Rules+surrounding+medicial+marijuana+somewhat+hazy/1247425/story.html

Spirit of innovation starts from corner office

Feb 2, 2009
JIRI MALY AND CAROL DEACON
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090130.wstrategymaly0202/BNStory/robAtWork/home

Antibiotic-resistant cases of gonorrhea jump in Ontario

Feb 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/02/gonorrhea-resistant.html

Rising CO2 levels acidifying oceans, threatening sea life

Feb 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/02/tech-acidic-ocean.html

Mercury levels rising in caribou, contaminants program finds

Feb 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/02/north-caribou.html

'No comparison' between Harper budget and Obama on environment

But Environment Minister Jim Prentice says budget allocates more for green spending than any budget 'in Canadian history.'
Feb 2, 2009
Harris MacLeod
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2009/february/2/environment/&c=2