An R&D machine in need of direction

What are Canada's priorities? Where does the money go? And how to strengthen the 'innovation chain'?
May 1, 2009
HARVEY WEINGARTEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090501.wcoessay0502/BNStory/specialComment/home

Is Canada losing the lab-rat race?

May 2, 2009
ERIN ANDERSSEN AND ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090502.wcover02/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090502.wcover02

Minister of State Goodyear Delivers Canada's Message at International Science Conference

May 1, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Industry-Canada-983433.html

New Trent degree combines science, environmental policy

FIRST IN CANADA: 'It's a difficult degree'
May 2, 2009
ANDREA HOUSTON
THE EXAMINER
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1550680

Natural causes cited for drop in Lake Huron's water levels

May 2, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090502.LAKE02ART2053/TPStory/Environment

Arctic centre can build but can't keep lights, heat on

Apr 28, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Arctic+centre+build+keep+lights+heat/1542613/story.html

Tech new engine of Central Canada

May 2, 2009
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1555633

Tories try to cut through `green' fog

May 1, 2009
Jim Coyle
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/627128

The Dark Lord

Sir Nicholas Stern says there will be ‘no powerful carbon policemen.’ Don’t bet on it
May 1, 2009
Peter Foster
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/01/peter-foster-the-dark-lord.aspx

Ottawa `ducking its own laws' on protecting wildlife, study says

May 1, 2009
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/627154

Pigs, viruses and politics

May 2, 2009
Thomas Walkom
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/627748

Lessons of 1976: flu, fear, wasted millions

Governments scrambling for solutions to current outbreak risk repeating mistakes of a decades-old health-scare fiasco
May 2, 2009
LES PERREAUX
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090502.FLUSEVENTYSIX02ART2134/TPStory/National

Swine flu roots traced to Spanish flu

May 1, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/swine-flu-spanish-origin.html

Did pandemic-watchers miss the signs online?

May 1, 2009
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/tech-090501-online-tools-pandemic.html

Not as deadly as flu season, but virus takes toll on the economy

May 1, 2009
Harvey Enchin
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/deadly+season+virus+takes+toll+economy/1552515/story.html

Health officials express cautious optimism

Genetic analysis of H1N1 virus done in six countries, including Canada, does not show the markers for virulence seen in 1918 outbreak
May 2, 2009
GLORIA GALLOWAY AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090502.FLU02ART2152/TPStory/National/

More cases of swine flu confirmed across Canada

May 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/01/swine-flu.html