May 19, 2009
James L. Turk
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/19/james-l-turk-scientists-need-more-money.aspx
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The art of research
If Canada wants to be a leader in R&D, the solution isn’t more government money; it’s a smarter approach
May 19, 2009
Jack Mintz
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/19/jack-mintz-the-art-of-research.aspx
May 19, 2009
Jack Mintz
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/19/jack-mintz-the-art-of-research.aspx
Meet - and eat - the modified Atlantic salmon
FDA to approve Aqua Bounty's new fish tweaked with genetic material from chinook salmon and eel-like species called ocean pout
May 20, 2009
OLIVER MOORE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090520.wfish20islart2249/BNStory/Science/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail
May 20, 2009
OLIVER MOORE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090520.wfish20islart2249/BNStory/Science/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail
'Patients will suffer' from Chalk River shutdown: medical imaging industry
4 out of 5 medical isotope reactors in the world currently out of service
May 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/19/tech-nuclear-chalk-river-medical-isotopes-shortage-shut-down.html
May 19, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/19/tech-nuclear-chalk-river-medical-isotopes-shortage-shut-down.html
Canada to fall in line with U.S. car fuel rules
May 20, 2009
Paul Vieira and Carrie Tait
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/Cars/Canada+fall+line+with+fuel+rules/1612340/story.html
Paul Vieira and Carrie Tait
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/Cars/Canada+fall+line+with+fuel+rules/1612340/story.html
Canada to match U.S. car fuel rules
Tailpipe-emissions curbs aim for same goal as Obama's new standards, Prentice says
May 20, 2009
BRIAN LAGHI AND SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090520.FUEL120ART22102/TPStory/Environment
May 20, 2009
BRIAN LAGHI AND SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090520.FUEL120ART22102/TPStory/Environment
Obama's fuel home run
May 20, 2009
Diane Francis
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2009/05/20/obama-s-fuel-home-run.aspx
Diane Francis
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2009/05/20/obama-s-fuel-home-run.aspx
Fuelish policy
The fuel saved by new mileage standards won’t improve energy security or affect the Earth’s climate
May 19, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/19/peter-foster-fuelish-policy.aspx
May 19, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/19/peter-foster-fuelish-policy.aspx
Mileage standards: Deadlier than Iraq
Obama’s new mpg standard will cost $35-million per day in human lives to save $1-million in gas
May 19, 2009
Steve Milloy
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/19/mileage-standards-deadlier-than-iraq.aspx
May 19, 2009
Steve Milloy
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/19/mileage-standards-deadlier-than-iraq.aspx
Renner downplays impact of cuts on Alberta well monitoring
May 20, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/News/Renner+downplays+impact+cuts+Alberta+well+monitoring/1612077/story.html
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/News/Renner+downplays+impact+cuts+Alberta+well+monitoring/1612077/story.html
Oilsands the wrong whipping boy
May 20, 2009
Deborah Yedlin
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/Oilsands+wrong+whipping/1612119/story.html
Deborah Yedlin
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/Oilsands+wrong+whipping/1612119/story.html
Keeping an eye out for alien invaders
May 20, 2009
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
The Citizen
http://www.canada.com/Keeping+alien+invaders/1610697/story.html
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
The Citizen
http://www.canada.com/Keeping+alien+invaders/1610697/story.html
Look out 'cause this stuff is TOXIC
Beware the rubber duck: According to a new book, our bodies are soaking in harmful chemicals every day
May 19, 2009
ZOSIA BIELSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wltoxic19art1832/BNStory/Front/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
May 19, 2009
ZOSIA BIELSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wltoxic19art1832/BNStory/Front/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
Green gadget promises savings for the power hungry
Spanish invention offers relief for the environment and the wallet by cutting down on standby power use
May 19, 2009
CONNIE FAN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wgtgreen0519/BNStory/Technology/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
May 19, 2009
CONNIE FAN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wgtgreen0519/BNStory/Technology/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
Don't panic, prepare
Employers have obligation to protect workers
May 19, 2009
Jim Middlemiss
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=ab787da5-115a-46f5-a50d-ad09a874ebb8
May 19, 2009
Jim Middlemiss
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=ab787da5-115a-46f5-a50d-ad09a874ebb8
47-million-year-old fossil may provide link to human ancestors -- or not
Scientists differ on significance of new find
May 19, 2009
MICHELLE NICHOLS
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wmonkey19/BNStory/International/home
May 19, 2009
MICHELLE NICHOLS
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090519.wmonkey19/BNStory/International/home
High-tech hunting expedition makes no sense
CT scans might find all kinds of things lurking in our bodies, but most will never go on to hurt us
May 18, 2009
Alan Cassels
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/Health/High+tech+hunting+expedition+makes+sense/1606027/story.html
May 18, 2009
Alan Cassels
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/Health/High+tech+hunting+expedition+makes+sense/1606027/story.html
Addiction: Could it be a big lie?
A Harvard psychologist's new book argues that addiction isn't really an illness, infuriating the medical establishment. We examine his incendiary hypothesis
May 16, 2009
Daniel Dale
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/635237
May 16, 2009
Daniel Dale
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/635237
The myth of the Danish green energy ‘miracle’
May 11, 2009
Michael Trebilcock
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/11/the-myth-of-the-danish-green-energy-miracle.aspx
Michael Trebilcock
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/11/the-myth-of-the-danish-green-energy-miracle.aspx