Science Canada: 05/19/09

Canada must stimulate R&D spending, universities argue
May 19, 2009
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/blogs/story.html?id=1607262

New brain drain to U.S. could start sapping us of our brightest minds and our innovative potential
May 17, 2009
David Olive
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/635522

The Tories have been in power for more than three years, and still don't have a plan
May 18, 2009
Bea Vongdouangchanh
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2009/may/18/legislation/&c=2

How he really can get on the right side of this long overdue debate
May 19, 2009
Murray Dobbin
TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2009/05/19/IgnatieffAsbestos/

Advisory against travel to Mexico lifted; Canada's chief public health officer says second spike still possible
May 19, 2009
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wflu19art02250/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090519.wflu19art02250

Star Jenny McCarthy's Oprah turn could spark fears
May 18, 2009
Emily Senger
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=1606853

As the world punishes polluters with carbon taxes, the price of power produced from fossil fuels can only go up, URB chairman says
May 19, 2009
JUDY MYRDEN
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/News/1122715.html

May 18, 2009
Timothy Gardner
Reuters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8513912

Draft from province contains little in the way of action or clear policy, environment groups say
May 19, 2009
Tanya Talaga
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/636025

May 19, 2009
Nigel S. Lockyer
Georgia Straight
http://www.straight.com/article-222146/angels-or-demons-physics-movies

May 18, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/635746

Genetic discovery vaults researcher onto list with Obama, Gates
May 18, 2009
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/635760

The closer the United States gets to adopting a cap-and-trade system to control greenhouse gas emissions, the more frightening it gets
May 17, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/17/national-post-editorial-board-the-cap-and-trade-con-game.aspx

“Evidence”: a scientific word—or a legal one?
May 14, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13643973

Utility-scale wind energy, critics insist, is neither as green as supporters say, nor as economical
May 12, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/632642

May 11, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/emission+reduction+2016/1585281/story.html

Alberta's 'public consultation' on nuclear power seems designed to quash any opposition to the plan
May 6, 2009
Douglas Roche
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/Business/open+honest+nuclear+debate/1568305/story.html

Science Canada

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Collaboration = innovation

Researching and developing ways to save Canada's R&D

Feds to spend $1B on clean energy

Conservatives still don't have draft regulations for environment plan three years later

Ontario's Chalk River reactor shut down

Ignatieff and Asbestos

'Still in danger zone,' for swine flu: UN chief

Worst of flu outbreak 'over' in Canada

Doctors brace for a new wave of vaccine hysteria

Obama to announce national emission standards for cars, trucks

Abandoned research station a 'toxic ghost town'

N.S. Power must cut dependence on coal

Oil sands face green investor microscope

Canada oil sands emit more CO2 than average-report

Oh, dear - caribou plan draws criticism

Winnipeg trees to be injected with trial vaccine for Dutch elm disease

Canadian scientists create powerful new lithium battery material

Lower-tar cigarettes may boost cancer risk, research suggests

As swine flu wanes, Canada lifts travel advisory for Mexico

Angels or demons: Physics in the movies

Two B.C. teens win coveted prize at national science fair

Utilities energized by the possibilities

Scientist honoured for stem-cell coup

The cap-and-trade con game

At the science fair, girls dominate the class

Government gets power to set energy standards for turned-off devices

Libel: Court behind

Quebec keen to sue big tobacco for health care costs

Sea level rise from Antarctic ice sheet collapse overestimated, scientists say

Network of multiple sclerosis research centres launches in Canada

For and against wind power

30% emission reduction by 2016

An open, honest nuclear debate