Canada's progress in science, innovation mediocre, study finds

May 6, 2009
ELIZABETH CHURCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090506.RESEARCH06ART2119/TPStory/National

Council says Canadian businesses weak in R&D

Feds should focus more funding on priority research areas: report
May 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/05/tech-090505-research-funding-report.html

The state of science and innovation in Canada

May 5, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/the-state-of-science-and-innovation-in-canada

Canada lagging in research: Tech council

May 5, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/Canada+lagging+research+Tech+council/1566110/story.html

Canadian innovators told to heed the circus

Ottawa's big thinkers say Cirque de Soleil a role model for others
May 6, 2009
Bruce Campion-Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/629674

Canada a laggard in business R&D: report

May 5, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5grS92EJCsEgnPuHscLxjtmuBKw1A

Report Gives Canadian Research a Middling Grade but Hails Work at Universities

May 6, 2009
Karen Birchard
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/news/article/6429/report-gives-canadian-research-a-middling-grade-but-hails-work-at-universities

Canada private investment in R&D lags

May 5, 2009
Ashleigh Patterson
Reuters
http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE5444H120090505?sp=true

Ministers Welcome Report by Science, Technology and Innovation Council

May 5, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ministers-welcome-report-science-technology/story.aspx?guid=%7BAC0E2DA3-2F20-42B2-A4D4-BB75DF82D891%7D&dist=msr_1

Rx&D Applauds STIC Report and Agrees that Canada Must "Aim Higher" to Reap the Rewards of Innovation

May 5, 2009
Rx&D
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2009/05/c8630.html

AUCC supports Science, Technology and Innovation Council’s call for Canada to aim higher

May 5, 2009
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2009/s_t_innovation_council_05_05_e.html

Academe is a choice not a life sentence

May 6, 2009
Carolyn Steele
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-sense/academe-is-a-choice-not-a-life-sentence/

Scoop: Stephen Harper's assault on science isn't quite what it appears

May 5, 2009
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/05/scoop-stephen-harper-s-assault-on-science-funding-fails-to-ruin-science.aspx

Funding frenzy hits bottom line

May 5, 2009
Carson Jerema
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/Funding-frenzy-hits-bottom-line-44316557.html

Gene grant just shuffling money: Critics

May 5, 2009
JONATHAN JENKINS
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/05/05/9351421-sun.html

Plugging the brain drain

May 5, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/628891

QP Tuesday: Science, the Stone Age and EI revisted

May 5, 2009
Steven Chase
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090505.WBwbureaublog20090505161905/WBStory/WBwbureaublog

Ontario gears up for 1 in 3 falling ill

Flu pandemic scenario based on 4.5 million cases
May 5, 2009
Theresa Boyle
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/629032

Eastern Arctic bowhead whales no longer threatened: federal committee

May 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/05/cosewic-listings-bowhead.html

Livestock main source of E. coli: study

DNA fingerprinting shows human sewage only a tiny fraction of the problem
May 5, 2009
Tom Spears
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Livestock+main+source+coli+study/1563371/story.html

Great Lakes action plan urged

May 6, 2009
BRYN WEESE
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/05/06/9366411-sun.html

Canola meal could be headed for new U of S research facility

May 6, 2009
Laura Keil
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/News/Canola+meal+could+headed+research+facility/1567791/story.html

Japan still leading the world in innovation – Canada loses ground

May 5, 2009
John Clinkard
Journal of Commerce
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id33662

Obama sets example for endangered species protection

May 5, 2009
David Suzuki & Faisal Moola
Georgia Straight
http://www.straight.com/article-219001/david-suzuki-us-sets-example-endangered-species-protection

Ease regulations to make Canada 'energy superpower': Industry

May 5, 2009
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Business/Ease+regulations+make+Canada+energy+superpower+Industry/1565891/story.html

B.C. forest industry launches broadside against NDP in final week of campaign

May 6, 2009
JUSTINE HUNTER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090506.BCELECTIONMAIN06ATLART2124/TPStory/National/

How safe are hog farms?

May 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/04/f-hogs.html