Science Canada: 05/04/09

Scientist expects to double his budget; hopes U.S. move will be wake-up call for Ottawa
May 4, 2009
ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.waids04/BNStory/National

Chemicals nixed in war on weeds
May 4, 2009
Derek Spalding
Daily News
http://www.canada.com/Critics+question+pesticides/1561366/story.html

China bans imports - prompting fears U.S. will follow suit - after Alberta quarantines 2,200 pigs
May 4, 2009
PATRICK WHITE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.FLUPORK04ART2249/TPStory/National

Mostly a cough is just a cough, not swine flu, a top Canadian psychologist says
May 4, 2009
Jim Gibson
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/Health/Perspective+quells+fears/1561219/story.html

'Level 6 does not mean, in any way, that we are facing the end of the world:' WHO chief
Margaret Chan
May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/04/swine-flu-world-health119.html

Education Greater emphasis on information technology in high schools is key to reversing trend, expert says
May 4, 2009
Brett Bundale
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/655580

Industry and government must move fast to embrace a new generation of mobile network access. Here's how
May 4, 2009
SARA DIAMOND
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.RAGENDADIAMOND04ART1931/TPStory/Business

Alberta's oil sands producers are hopeful a rollback in labour and material costs will breathe new life into a sector struggling with the freefall in crude prices
May 4, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.ROILPATCH04ART1939//TPStory/National

Environmentalists vow to stop a plan to build a garbage dump in Ontario's Tiny Township, famed for water as clean as any on Earth
May 4, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.wwater04art2147/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future
May 2, 009
PETER HADEKEL
Special to The Gazette
http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/saturdayextra/story.html?id=a186d59c-8de6-4b46-be71-919ef88f0795

Scientist claims to have antidote, Health Canada has yet to approve
May 1, 2009
Nelson Bennett
Richmond News
http://www2.canada.com/richmondnews/news/story.html?id=5c511e45-fba5-41d6-8559-266b62167fd8

Canada's auto sector contributed about 2% to GDP in 2006
May 1, 2009
Alia McMullen
Financial Post
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Clean+technologies+moving+mainstream/1554876/story.html

One hundred years after discovery, fossil beds are still teaching us about diversity of life on Earth
May 3, 2009
Valerie Berenyi
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Celebrating+Burgess+Shale/1558063/story.html

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