Science Canada: 08/22/09

Survey of science teachers finds most feel exams take excitement away from learning
Aug 21, 2009
Douglas Quan
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/why-science-class-has-become-a-daunting-slog/article1257894/

Aug 21, 2009
Jorge Barrera
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1917631

Aug 22, 2009
Stuart Laidlaw
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/684982

Federal Natural Resources Minister says two Maple reactors would not have prevented global isotope crisis
Aug 21, 2009
Anna Mehler Paperny
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/raitt-defends-move-to-shelve-nuclear-reactors/article1259261/

Aug 21, 2009
Patrick Brown
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/684231

Harper's 10,000 km northern tour has the feel of an election trek
Aug 21, 2009
Bruce Campion-Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/684637

From SHL Systemhouse to the Ottawa Senators, Rod Bryden has played a key role in developing and financing ideas that have been difficult to pull off. Now he's counting on municipal refuse to solve the world's energy crisis
Aug 21, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/garbage-in-energy-out/article1260457/

Better to target those likely to transmit virus, rather than the most vulnerable: researchers
Aug 21, 2009
Tom Spears
Canwest News Service
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Vaccinate+school+kids+first+slow+pandemic+study/1915684/story.html

Addicts provided with heroin rather than methadone more likely to stay in treatment, less likely to use street drugs
Aug 21, 2009
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/heroin-helps-hard-core-addicts-in-treatment-study/article1257858/

Mathematical model suggests that US experts got their priorities wrong.
Aug 20, 2009
Elie Dolgin
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090820/full/news.2009.846.html

As Canadians wait for syringes, drug will be exported to other countries in bulk
Aug 19, 2009
Gloria Galloway
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/logjam-in-vaccine-packaging-to-delay-h1n1-flu-shots/article1256528/

Australians expecting to begin carbon-trading scheme by 2011; New Zealand's plan still under review
Aug 19, 2009
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/australia-nz-mull-common-carbon-plan/article1257875/

Harper government devotes funds to studying the link between marijuana use and mental illness
Aug 19, 2009
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/mindmood/mentalhealth/article/682905

Journal calls for national leader to make tough calls as doctors cite lack of direction from Ottawa
Aug 18, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/682370

Aug 18, 2009
Janet French
Saskatchewan News Network; Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/urged+prepare+H1N1+return/1903150/story.html

Ottawa will spend $30M on facility in central Asia
Aug 19, 2009
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1902934

The university's reactor could be part of a homemade fix to the isotope crisis
Aug 18, 2009
Mo Elbestawi
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-mcmaster-solution/article1254968/

Genetically modified wheat would increase yields, cut pesticide use and give Canadian farmers a global edge
Aug 18, 2009
Rolf Penner
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/18/the-future-of-wheat.aspx

New technology has revitalized old gas exploration areas and opened new ones, putting the economic logic of northern pipelines in doubt
Aug 18, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/18/peter-foster-is-the-mackenzie-pipeline-dead.aspx

Saturday, August 22, 2009