Science Canada: 11/06/09

Answers sought after about 9 million B.C. salmon disappear
Nov 6, 2009
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Ottawa+calls+inquiry+into+collapse+sockeye+fishery/2193016/story.html

Matt Ridley makes the case that humans have been doing quite well - for the past 50,000 years at least
Nov 6, 2009
Neil Reynolds
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/the-planets-lonely-optimist/article1353390/

Official says 'there is no debate' about enlisting more than one flu-shot manufacturer in future pandemics to avoid current delivery delays
Nov 6, 2009
DANIEL LEBLANC AND PAUL WALDIE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/h1n1-swine-flu/canada-needs-two-vaccine-suppliers-ottawa-admits/article1353348/

Municipalities’ representatives in Halifax for conference
Nov 6, 2009
MICHAEL LIGHTSTONE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1151365.html

Nov 6, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2191954

Canada's chief public health officer cautions against thinking worst is over, saying: ‘until people are either immunized or become ill this could go on and will go on for several months yet'
Nov 5, 2009
Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/h1n1-hospital-admissions-deaths-up-three-fold-health-officials/article1352508/

Senators critical of McGill’s stance on military research and anonymous funding
Nov 5, 2009
Stephanie Law
McGill Daily
http://mcgilldaily.com/articles/22341

School cited for grants, spending on services
Nov 5, 2009
Jennifer Yang
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/721412--oshawa-cracks-maclean-s-annual-university-list?bn=1

Even as politicians and protesters gear up for a fateful climate-change meeting in Denmark, some of their fellow citizens have little stomach for a fight
Nov 5, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14807107

The world’s wetlands are big sources of greenhouse gases
Nov 5, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14793393

Carbon nanotubes find an unusual use as fertilisers
Nov 5, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14793403

Artificial satellites are helping farmers boost crop yields
Nov 5, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14793411

Despite huge spending, it has not been proved that the human effect on the climate is significant
Nov 5, 2009
Václav Klaus
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/11/05/v-225-clav-klaus-largest-tax-increase-in-world-history.aspx

The structure of our federation means that, as with the national outbreak of swine flu, cracks form between the levels of government
Nov 4, 2009
John Ibbitson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/h1n1-swine-flu/on-h1n1-canada-is-a-jurisdictional-mishmash/article1351466/

Nov 3, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/quebecs-days-of-knowledge

When 192 countries meet in Copenhagen next month, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns it won't result in a Kyoto successor
Nov 3, 2009
Peter Griffiths
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/un-says-climate-deal-unlikely/article1349585/

Power Shift summit and Fill the Hill rally target Canada’s role at December’s Copenhagen talks
Nov 3, 2009
Toby Davine
McGill Daily
http://mcgilldaily.com/articles/22201

Nov 3, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2179050

From the beginning of the H1N1 pandemic there has been a calm, verging at times on complacency, from federal officials
Nov 2, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/urgency-from-feds-still-lacking/article1349010/

'The communications have been terrible,' says Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett
Nov 2, 2009
TIM NAUMETZ
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/tories_slammed_h1n1-11-2-2009

We are sleepwalking into some of the most disruptive and costly energy-policy misadventures since the National Energy Plan of the 1970s without the Conservatives having published a single estimate of the economic consequences
Nov 2, 2009
Ross McKitrick
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/11/02/ross-mckitrick-the-models-are-unreal.aspx

Move over Al Gore. The Canadian scientist and broadcaster is moving to the big screen, shooting a feature documentary about his life and ideas
Nov 2, 2009
Marsha Lederman
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/david-suzuki-a-man-of-science-revealed/article1347719/

Can the world stop governments from paying for the over-exploitation of fish?
Nov 2, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14788199

Stick to research or get into politics -- but not both
Nov 2, 2009
Jon Ferry
The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/health/PhDs+should+office+push+policy/2171930/story.html

We can't stop global warming if we can't agree on its main causes
Nov 2, 2009
Margaret Wente
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/are-meat-eaters-killing-the-planet-its-hard-to-say/article1348702/

In lots of countries, males get the vaccine. It’s not approved here.
Nov 2, 2009
Kate Lunau
Macleans
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/02/should-boys-get-the-hpv-shot/

Friday, November 6, 2009