Canadian changes in the air

Aug 12, 2009
Virginia Gewin
Nature
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2009/090813/full/nj7257-920a.html

Parks Canada cuts scientific research budget in Banff

Aug 12, 2009
Cathy Ellis
For The Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Parks+Canada+cuts+scientific+research+budget+Banff/1884125/story.html

Canada’s R&D spending will stagnate this year, likely remain weak in 2010

Aug 12, 2009
JOHN CLINKARD
Journal of Commerce
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id34885

Solving (almost) Canada's productivity puzzle

Study examines why Canada lags in competitiveness
Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/08/10/f-productivity-statistics-canada-study.html

A summer of discontent over Ottawa's flu plan

Aglukkaq blasts opposition as government doles out $926,600 to develop strategies that businesses can use to get through pandemic
Aug 13, 2009
Caroline Alphonso and Bill Curry
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/a-summer-of-discontent-over-ottawas-flu-plan/article1249561/

Millions of missing fish signal crisis on the Fraser River

More than nine million sockeye have vanished from B.C. river. How it happened remains a mystery
Aug 13, 2009
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/millions-of-missing-fish-signal-crisis-onthefraserriver/article1249976/

Quebec seeks federal compensation for isotope costs

Isotope shortage could cost province $10M by end of year: Bolduc
Aug 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/13/isotope-shortage.html

Doctors worry about long-term isotope supply

Idled Chalk River reactor won't restart until 2010
Aug 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/13/chalk-river-isotope-reactor081309.html

Injection site for Toronto under study

Aug 12, 2009
Megan Ogilvie
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/679845

Singapore, China find Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 viruses: WHO

Aug 12, 2009
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ga4fc-CuD_2uVK_dOPlbPaGheujw

NASA can't track dangerous asteroids: report

Aug 13, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/13/asteroid-threat-earth-collide-detect-nasa.html

Doer, Prentice meet on climate change

Aug 12, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/12/manitoba-prentice-climate.html

DNA research in N.W.T. sparks genetic sampling concerns

Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/11/nwt-dna-research.html

Our medicine review board is broken

The government should undertake a comprehensive review of the Patented Medicine Review Board
Aug 11, 2009
Jeffrey Graham and Alissa Raphael
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/11/our-medicine-review-board-is-broken.aspx

GM’s electric clunker

The Volt would not exist but for ‘energy independence’ mania
Aug 11, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/11/peter-foster-gm-s-electric-clunker.aspx

Will the Chevy Volt really go 230 miles per gallon? That depends

Aug 12, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/12/national-post-editorial-board-will-the-chevy-volt-really-go-230-miles-per-gallon-that-depends.aspx

No need to panic on Tamiflu

Aug 12, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/12/national-post-editorial-board-no-need-to-panic-on-tamiflu.aspx

Ottawa says it won't block Nortel sale

Aug 12, 2009
STEVEN CHASE AND SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ottawa-says-it-wont-block-nortel-sale/article1249058/

PM stands firm on Nortel

Harper says foreign asset sale will be examined, but Tories won't support increased protectionism
Aug 12, 2009
Les Whittington
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/679841

West Nile has likely stricken 20,000 Albertans

Aug 11, 2009
Michelle Lang
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/plus+Albertans+West+Nile/1880204/story.html

More E. coli in sand than water

Study suggests beach sand contains far more E. coli and parasites than beach water does, and could cause gastrointestinal illness
Aug 12, 2009
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/more-e-coli-in-sand-than-water/article1248992/

Benefits of mammograms, PSA tests overestimated: study

Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/11/mammogram-psa-screening.html

Inuit fear Canadian flu plan won't work

Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/11/inuit-newfoundland-811.html