Science Canada: December 2010

The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, in collaboration with Open Policy Ontario’s John Stapleton and research consultant from Toronto Public Health, Brian Cook, releases its report recommending initiatives to help low income families overcome challenges in consuming a nutritious diet
Dec 21, 2010
Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity
http://www.competeprosper.ca/index.php/media/press_releases/the_poor_still_pay_more/

Government of Canada Investment in Oat Research to Benefit Prairie Growers

Dec 21, 2010
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Investment-in-Oat-Research-to-Benefit-Prairie-Growers-1372504.htm

Visions of emissions trading fading in puff of smoke

Dec 20, 2010
GARY MASON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/gary_mason/visions-of-emissions-trading-fading-in-puff-of-smoke/article1845336/

Oilsands water monitoring to change

Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/edmonton-water-monitoring-alberta-system.html

Alberta steps up oil-sands oversight

Dec 20, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY and JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/alberta-steps-up-oil-sands-oversight/article1845347/

Genetically modified fish lawsuit threatened

Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/pei-trout-unlimited-aquabounty-584.html

Natural disasters took a toll in 2010

Dec 20, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/tech-disasters-earthquakes-heat-waves.html

Polar bear surveys planned for North

Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/north-polar-bear-count.html

Chronic fatigue virus study tainted: scientist

Dec 20, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/20/chronic-fatigue-xmrv-contamination.html

Government of Canada Invests in Alberta's Forest Industry

Dec 20, 2010
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Albertas-Forest-Industry-1371875.htm

Maternal health: Harper’s helping hand

Dec 19, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/909078--maternal-health-harper-s-helping-hand

Minister Clement Announces Investment to Strengthen the Economy and Create Jobs in the Nipissing-Timiskaming Region

Dec 19, 2010
Industry Canada and FedNor
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Announces-Investment-Strengthen-Economy-Create-Jobs-Nipissing-Timiskaming-1371294.htm

Ottawa kept in dark on abnormal fish found in oil-sands rivers

Dec 17, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-kept-in-dark-on-abnormal-fish-found-in-oil-sands-rivers/article1841714/

Suncor, Total team up on oil sands

Dec 17, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/suncor-total-team-up-on-oil-sands/article1841763/

On the move in a warming world: The rise of climate refugees

Dec 17, 2010
Geoffrey York
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/on-the-move-in-a-warming-world-the-rise-of-climate-refugees/article1843024/

Climate-change migration around the world

Dec 17, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change-migration-around-the-world/article1843086/

Culturomics: Reading by numbers

Science invades the humanities
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17730198

California approves incentives to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Dec 16, 2010
Jason Dearen
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/california-approves-incentives-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions/article1841661/

U.S. fuel economy proposal would hit auto industry hard: study

Dec 15, 2010
GREG KEENAN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/us-fuel-economy-proposal-would-hit-auto-industry-hard-study/article1839640/

Cancun summit no solution to global warming

Dec 15, 2010
Jeff Rubin
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/jeff-rubins-smaller-world/cancun-summit-no-solution-to-global-warming/article1837443/

Oil-sands report criticizes all stakeholders

Dec 15, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/oil-sands-report-criticizes-all-stakeholders/article1838315/

Monday, December 20, 2010

If you are a BC entrepreneur or Scientist on the brink of a new discovery, Daily Planet wants to hear from you!

Dec 20, 2010
Erica Foley
The Daily Planet

The Daily Planet, a daily science show that delivers a fascinating mix of documentaries and features on the Discovery Channel Canada, is looking for exciting stories from British Columbia. If you are on the brink of an interesting development, new invention or are somebody doing something pretty incredible, please contact Researcher Erica Foley (contact information listed below).

In particular, she’s looking for local BC stories regarding new machinery, research breakthroughs or backyard inventors.

Erica Foley
erica.t.foley@gmail.com
250-683-8131

The Daily Planet
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=13287
http://twitter.com/DiscoveryCanada

The Daily Planet has been running for 16 years and its 7pm nightly broadcast attracts about 1 million viewers. It airs in Canada, and is repackaged for international viewers.

Friday, December 17, 2010

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2010

Dec 2010
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9210051E.PDF

Canada's decline in research spending criticized in new report

U.S., Germany, Korea, Sweden receive praise
Dec 14, 2010
Peter O'Neil
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+decline+research+spending+criticized+report/3975296/story.html

Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program: Addressing the Innovation Pre-Commercialization Gap

Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02158.html

Canadian Intellectual Property Office Business Plan 2010-2011

Dec 2010
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06128.html

Working Together to Drive Innovation at the Atlantic Research Forum

Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ich-epi.nsf/eng/02163.html

African Innovation: New Hope for Local Health Issues

Dec 2010
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
http://www.mrcglobal.org/projects/african_innovation

Dr. Howard Alper Reappointed as Chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council

Dec 16, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Dr-Howard-Alper-Reappointed-as-Chair-Science-Technology-Innovation-Council-1370536.htm

Dr. Lorna Marsden to Serve as Chair of the Expert Panel on Women in University Research

Dec 2010
Council of Canadian Academies
http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?EtsV--5rAu-Tx3tu5

Scrapping innovation awards latest sign that Ontario Liberals are running scared

Dec 14, 2010
ADAM RADWANSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/scrapping-innovation-awards-latest-sign-that-ontario-liberals-are-running-scared/article1838107/

Our choice: Spend the money or lose the brightest

Accepting strong foreign students is immigration policy at its best; shunning them is emigration policy at its worst
Dec 15, 2010
CLIFFORD ORWIN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/our-choice-spend-the-money-or-lose-the-brightest/article1837977/

U of T computer prof wins Steacie Prize

Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/uoft-hertzmann-steacie-prize.html

Science centre will enthrall a geek near you

Dec 16, 2010
JEREMY NOLAIS
METRO CALGARY
http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/local/article/721297--science-centre-will-enthrall-a-geek-near-you

Universities must embrace change: expert

Institutions will have to adapt to changing demographics, economic conditions
Dec 14, 2010
MARY-ELLEN SAUNDERS
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1350839

Making the grade

Dec 14, 2010
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Making+grade/3973239/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

It’s time to transform undergraduate education

For real change, we need to radically rethink the teaching and learning process
Dec 6, 2010
Pierre Zundel & Patrick Deane
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/its-time-to-transform-undergraduate-education.aspx

Embryonic stem cells: Testing science

The law continues to threaten stem-cell research in America
Dec 9, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17672816

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In The Sudbury Region

McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Dec 17, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121710.asp

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In Durham Region

McGuinty Government Supporting Entrepreneurs, Bringing Local Ideas To Life
Dec 16, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121610.asp

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In Guelph Region

McGuinty Government Helps Local Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas To Life
Dec 14, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE121410.asp

Alberta to fund study on Zamboni MS treatment

Dec 17, 2010
Karen Kleiss
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Alberta+fund+study+Zamboni+treatment/3992749/story.html

Filtering out the climate-change BS

Dec 17, 2010
Norman Spector
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/spector-vision/filtering-out-the-climate-change-bs/article1842438/

Climate role helps national image: memo

Dec 17, 2010
MIKE DE SOUZA
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Climate+role+helps+national+image+memo/3990564/story.html

Environment Canada lobbied to stay on global warming panel

Dec 17, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Environment+Canada+lobbied+stay+global+warming+panel/3990896/story.html

U.S. to step up fight against Asian carp

Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/tech-carp-asian-great-lakes.html

Canada must ensure prescription drugs that pass testing heal rather than harm

Dec 17, 2010
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Editorial+Canada+must+ensure+prescription+drugs+that+pass+testing+heal/3991518/story.html

Unnecessary surgeries costing $180 million, health study says

Dec 17, 2010
Carmen Chai
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Unnecessary+surgeries+costing+million+health+study+says/3992767/story.html

Mackenzie pipeline OK'd, but will it be built?

Project threatened by low gas prices
Dec 17, 2010
Dan Healing
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Mackenzie+pipeline+will+built/3989427/story.html

Mackenzie pipeline's value diminished by new North American shale gas resources

Dec 17, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/17/mackenzie-pipeline-s-value-diminished-by-new-north-american-shale-gas-resources.aspx

BC and Canada sharing joint program to report GHG emissions

Dec 17, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/17/bc-and-canada-sharing-joint-program-to-report-ghg-emissions.aspx

Emissions cut rules OK'd by California

Dec 17, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/calif-climate-law.html

Supreme Court to rule on control of country's fertility industry

Dec 17, 2010
Janice Tibbetts
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Supreme+Court+rule+control+country+fertility+industry/3995261/story.html

Tobacco firm to pay $151M to smoker's estate

Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/tobacco-lawsuits.html

Nunavut TB infections break record

Dec 17, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/17/nunavut-tuberculosis.html

Mummified forest offers glimpse of a warmer Arctic

Melting glaciers on Ellesmere Island reveal branches and trunks from millions of years ago, when the North was a temperate zone
Dec 17, 2010
Randy Boswell
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Mummified+forest+offers+glimpse+warmer+Arctic/3993837/story.html

Mining and Related Support Industries Offer the Greatest Economic Potential for Northern Canada

Dec 17, 2010
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/17/c6195.html

Alberta to study controversial MS therapy

Dec 16, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE and CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/alberta-to-study-controversial-ms-therapy/article1840990/

Alberta to study vein therapy for MS

Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/12/16/edmonton-zamboni-ms-alberta-study.html

Mackenzie pipeline approved

Dec 16, 2010
Nathan VanderKlippe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/mackenzie-pipeline-approved/article1841156/

Mackenzie Valley pipeline: 37 years of negotiation

Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/12/16/f-mackenzie-valley-pipeline-history.html

Debate rages over Canadian aerospace subsidies

Dec 16, 2010
BRIAN DALY
QMI Agency
http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/12/16/16581961.html

Climate Change Adaptation Must be Higher on Canadian Agenda

Dec 16, 2010
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Climate-Change-Adaptation-Must-be-Higher-on-Canadian-Agenda-1370100.htm

Alberta's Fight to 'Clean' Its Oil Sands

Dec 16, 2010
CHRISTA MARSHALL
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/16/16climatewire-albertas-fight-to-clean-its-oil-sands-95308.html

Government comes off worse than oilsands in scientists' report

Dec 16, 2010
Don Braid
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Braid+Government+comes+worse+than+oilsands+scientists+report/3985427/story.html

Society's oilsands report pulls no punches

Dec 16, 2010
Deborah Yedlin
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Society+oilsands+report+pulls+punches/3985485/story.html

Nikiforuk Pores Over Royal Society's Oil Sands Study

What the scientists got right, and missed, in their high-profile, largely damning report
Dec 16, 2010
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Tyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/12/16/RoyalSocietyStudy/

Rightful rebukes

Oilsands report slays myths and scolds government
Dec 16, 2010
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/Rightful+rebukes/3985449/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

The oil industry gets a do-over

Dec 16, 2010
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/industry+gets+over/3984581/story.html

Lo and behold, updated Canadian industrial emissions data arrives in time for Xmas

Dec 16, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2010/12/16/lo-and-behold-updated-canadian-industrial-emissions-data-arrives-in-time-for-xmas.aspx

Radon in tap water worries Chelsea residents

Dec 16, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/ottawa-chelsea-radon-125.html

Paris to launch electric car-sharing program

Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/tech-paris-car-sharing-bikes-electric.html

Monitoring forests: Seeing the world for the trees

An international deal on deforestation makes it ever more important to measure the Earth’s woodlands
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17730208

Gene markers may aid prostate cancer test

Dec 16, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/16/prostate-cancer-psa-genetic.html

Government of Canada Invests Over $2 million in Arctic Environment Response Equipment

Dec 16, 2010
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-Over-2-million-in-Arctic-Environment-Response-Equipment-1370513.htm

Oilsands not boosting cancer levels: scientists

Dec 15, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/oilsands-scientists.html

Impacts of Canada's oil-sands operations 'exaggerated'

Report rebuts cancer claims and recommends changes to oversight and monitoring
Dec 15, 2010
Hannah Hoag
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/news.2010.676.html

Oilsands report welcomed by Alta. minister

Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/edmonton-oilsands-report-alberta-reaction.html

Hope for polar bears

Greenhouse gas reduction could save northern mammals, study suggests
Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-polarbears-study.html

Arctic hybrids not a good sign, warn scientists

Dec 15, 2010
Sharon Oosthoek
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-arctic-hybrids.html

Inuit object to government ban on sales of valuable narwhal tusks

Dec 15, 2010
Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/inuit-object-to-government-ban-on-sales-of-valuable-narwhal-tusks-111962719.html

Health Canada “passes the buck” on diabetes drug, researcher charges

Laura Eggertson
Dec 15, 2010
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/15dec10-HC-passes-the-buck.dtl

Biodiesel plant to open in Toronto’s port lands

Dec 15, 2010
ARI ALTSTEDTER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/biodiesel-plant-to-open-in-torontos-port-lands/article1839711/

Put an end to transplant tourism

Dec 15, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/put-an-end-to-transplant-tourism/article1839716/

Canadian leads revamp of periodic table

Dec 15, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/science-periodic-table.html

New Year’s Resolution: Go Online to Help Future Generations

Ontario Health Study turns festive season into something more socially directed
Dec 15, 2010
Ontario Health Study
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/15/c5389.html

The greener image awaiting oil and gas

The forest products industry got ahead of policy, discovered savings and stopped playing defence
Dec 15, 2010
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-greener-image-awaiting-oil-and-gas/article1837973/

Climate progress doesn't only come at summits

Regional plans like cross-border hydro hold great green promise, and it's business that will deliver
Dec 15, 2010
OLEG DERIPASKA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/climate-progress-doesnt-only-come-at-summits/article1837953/

Selinger sticks with climate-change goals

Pollution target would be equal to car-free society
Dec 15, 2010
Mychaylo Prystupa
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/15/man-climate-change-selinger.html

Anti-smoking groups fight for larger warning labels on cigarettes

Dec 15, 2010
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/anti-smoking-groups-fight-for-larger-warning-labels-on-cigarettes/article1839947/

Minister Clement Welcomes Extension of Historic Partnership with European Space Agency

Dec 15, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Clement-Welcomes-Extension-Historic-Partnership-with-European-Space-Agency-1369683.htm

Government of Canada, Assembly of First Nations Continue Joint Task Group on First Nations Health

Dec 15, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Assembly-First-Nations-Continue-Joint-Task-Group-on-First-Nations-1369873.htm

Harper Government's Consumer Product Safety Act Receives Royal Assent

Dec 15, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Receives-Royal-Assent-1369840.htm

Calif. to set up electric car infrastructure

Dec 14, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/14/con-electric-cars.html

Great news from Cancun!

Dec 14, 2010
MARGARET WENTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/great-news-from-cancun/article1836376/

Feds, industry happy with new consumer safety law

Dec 14, 2010
LAURA PAYTON
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/12/14/16547396.html

Harper Government's Consumer Product Safety Act Passes Parliament

Dec 14, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Governments-Consumer-Product-Safety-Act-Passes-Parliament-1368703.htm

Conquer TB, don’t just control it

Dec 13, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/conquer-tb-dont-just-control-it/article1836273/

TB once again stalking the Arctic

Dec 13, 2010
PATRICK WHITE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tb-once-again-stalking-the-arctic/article1834983/

Why is there no national vaccination strategy?

Dec 13, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/why-is-there-no-national-vaccination-strategy/article1830159/

The post-Cancun climate challenge: putting words into actions

Dec 12, 2010
SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/the-post-cancun-climate-challenge-putting-words-into-actions/article1834808/

NDP, Liberals call outcome of climate talks positive

Dec 12, 2010
JANE TABER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ndp-liberals-call-outcome-of-climate-talks-positive/article1834809/

Ottawa met with cigarette maker months before postponing bigger warning labels

Dec 9, 2010
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-met-with-cigarette-maker-months-before-postponing-bigger-warning-labels/article1831673/

Canadian Immunization Conference: Children’s rotavirus vaccine all but wipes out U.S. cases

Dec 8, 2010
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canadian-immunization-conference-childrens-rotavirus-vaccine-all-but-wipes-out-us-cases/article1830657/

$3.6-million spent on cigarette warnings that weren’t implemented

Dec 7, 2010
ADRIAN MORROW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/36-million-spent-on-cigarette-warnings-that-werent-implemented/article1829166/

Monday, December 13, 2010

R&D spending in Canada retreats for third straight year

Dec 9, 2010
BARRIE MCKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20101209.RBRESEARCHSPENDINGMCKENNAATL/TPStory/TPBusiness/

The future of research spending

Dec 4, 2010
Sheila Pratt
Edmonton Journal
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/future+research+spending/3929823/story.html

Online flu resources

Dec 13, 2010
Ontario Newsroom & Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-term Care

Video: Take the "Flu U" IQ Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_QZNjV4p1w

Video: How is the flu vaccine created?
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/publichealth/flu/flu_videos.aspx

Census changes may see professors clamouring for more government funding

Dec 5, 2010
Mark Brownlee
The Canadian Press
http://news.therecord.com/article/825455

Businesses cut R&D spending in Canada

Dec 8, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/08/research-development-business-industrial.html

Canadian R&D spending continues downward spiral: StatsCan

Dec 8, 2010
Rebecca Lindell
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canadian+spending+continues+downward+spiral+StatsCan/3947668/story.html

Open innovation spurs entrepreneurship: expert

Dec 9, 2010
Rebecca Penty
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/1344050

$26M boosts stem cell research

New U of A facility, first in Western Canada, will take ideas from lab to patient
Dec 10, 2010
Jodie Sinnema
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/boosts+stem+cell+research/3956465/story.html

The trouble with university rankings

It’s Maclean’s magazine time again
Dec 6, 2010
Paul Axelrod
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/the-trouble-with-university-rankings.aspx

Turning science into cash

Dec 9, 2010
Sheila Pratt
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/TURNING+SCIENCE+INTO+CASH/3951304/story.html

Announcement of New Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research

Dec 6, 2010
The Honourable Tony Clement, PC, MP
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06136.html

Wavefront named Canada's centre of excellence for wireless R&D

Dec 6, 2010
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Wavefront+named+Canada+centre+excellence+wireless/3934668/story.html

Minister of State Moore Highlights Government Support for Small Businesses at Innovation 2010

Dec 7, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-State-Moore-Highlights-Government-Support-Small-Businesses-Innovation-2010-1365306.htm

Minister Goodyear Outlines Plan for Jobs, Growth and Innovation in Southern Ontario

Dec 7, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Goodyear-Outlines-Plan-for-Jobs-Growth-and-Innovation-in-Southern-Ontario-1365190.htm

Petition: The CIHR Individual Grants Program

Deep concern about the funding of biomedical research in Canada
Dec 2010
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cihrfunding/

The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE) to launch short science and engineering briefing notes for parliamentarians

Oct 26, 2010
The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)
http://www.sciencepages.ca/PressReleaseSP_en.pdf

SciencePages Oct 2010 Issue: Biodiversity

Oct 2010
Tomasz Kasprzycki, Barbara Kubica, and Edith Lamoureux
The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)
http://www.sciencepages.ca/oct2010_en.pdf

UBC gets Gates Foundation grant to prevent maternal deaths

Dec 4, 2010
Gerry Bellett
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/gets+Gates+Foundation+grant+prevent+maternal+deaths/3928223/story.html

Women scientists must speak out

Female researchers still battle sexism. The media gives them an opportunity to be heard alongside male colleagues
Dec 8, 2010
Jennifer Rohn
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/468733a.html

Nice Gals Finish Last: Sexist Reference Letters or Skewed Value Systems?

Although an identical number of women get a PhD in the life sciences, only 15-20% of tenured positions are secured by women
Dec 9, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/12/09/nice-gals-finish-last-sexist-reference-letters-or-skewed-value-systems/

Photocopied Education

Dec 4, 2010
Kenyon Wallace
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/Photocopied+Education/3927482/story.html

Universities team up to relaunch aerospace research in Canada

Dec 11, 2010
Sherri Gallant
LETHBRIDGE HERALD
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/front-page-news/universities-team-up-to-relaunch-aerospace-research-in-canada-121110.html

Long road ahead before climate deal, Baird says

Dec 13, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/Long+road+ahead+before+climate+deal+Baird+says/3967199/story.html

Pratt & Whitney starts $1B R&D project

Ottawa contributes $300M as 'repayable investment'
Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/13/clement-pratt-whitney.html

Pratt & Whitney to get $300M in federal funds

Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/12/canada-prattwhitney.html

Harper Government Announces Major Aerospace Investment to Create Jobs and Keep Canada Cutting-Edge

Dec 13, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Announces-Major-Aerospace-Investment-Create-Jobs-Keep-Canada-Cutting-1367864.htm

Guelph-based food research network loses funding

Dec 13, 2010
Thana Dharmarajah
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/735344

Oil companies finalize pact to share tailings research

Dec 13, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/oil-companies-finalize-pact-to-share-tailings-research/article1835655/

Pacific salmon not affected by lice: study

Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/13/science-salmon-study.html

Sea lice not to blame for B.C. salmon collapse: report

Dec 13, 2010
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/sea-lice-not-to-blame-for-bc-salmon-collapse-report/article1835717/

Sea lice science raises question of advocacy

Dec 13, 2010
Robert Wager
The Daily News
http://www.canada.com/lice+science+raises+question+advocacy/3968274/story.html

Canada's caribou crisis calls for collaboration

Dec 13, 2010
David Suzuki
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1349269

Water report details morass of problems

Dec 13, 2010
Bill Donahue
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Water+report+details+morass+problems/3967722/story.html

Many Canadians' folate levels high: study

Dec 13, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/13/folic-acid-folate-canadians-fortify.html

One Billion Bottles Recycled

McGuinty Government's Bag It Back Program Reducing Waste
Dec 13, 2010
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
http://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2010/12/one-billion-bottles-recycled.html

Canada accused of ignoring TB rates on remote First Nations

Dec 12, 2010
Jen Skerritt
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canada+accused+ignoring+rates/3966051/story.html

‘The Arctic is a book of untold stories’

U of A scientist’s decades of research point to a North soon to be ‘seasonally ice free’
Dec 12, 2010
Ed Struzik
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Arctic+book+untold+stories/3964489/story.html

Global accord on climate change hailed as breakthrough

Dec 11, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/global-accord-on-climate-change-hailed-as-breakthrough/article1834216/

Climate pacts hailed as ‘first step’ by Canada

Dec 11, 2010
Mike De Souza
Postmedia News
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/World+leaders+approve+global+climate+package+fund/3963211/story.html

Climate-change reputation in tatters? Try blustering

John Baird’s aggressive message – a classic instance of throwing stones at glass houses – was designed for Canadian consumption
Dec 11, 2010
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/climate-change-reputation-in-tatters-try-blustering/article1833682/

Digging out from Cancun

Dec 11, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/905625--digging-out-from-cancun

New branch of science may build a better tree

Dec 11, 2010
Derek Abma
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/branch+science+build+better+tree/3964214/story.html

Wild relatives of common crops may hold key to future of food

Armed with $50-million in seed money, Global Crop Diversity Trust launches hunt for wild relatives of common crops, with goal of developing hardier varieties through crossbreeding
Dec 10, 2010
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/wild-relatives-of-common-crops-may-hold-key-to-future-of-food/article1832219/

Climate change, wildfires in vicious cycle

Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/climate-change-wildfires.html

Canada would honour climate deal: Harper

Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/canada-climate-cancun.html

Climate draft text signals breakthroughs

Dec 10, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/climate-draft-text-signals-breakthroughs/article1832783/

Sask. delays 'clean coal' power

Full-scale carbon-capture and storage facility waiting on regulatory details
Dec 10, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/sk-sask-power-clean-coal-101210.html

Great Lakes researchers set to expand study

Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/2010/12/10/wdr-international-joint-commission-scientists.html

Coltan: a new blood mineral

Dec 10, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/10/coltan-faq.html

MS treatment in Costa Rica: Medical miracle or just common sense?

Dec 10, 2010
Les Perreaux
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ms-treatment-in-costa-rica-medical-miracle-or-just-common-sense/article1833801/

Government of Canada and Province of British Columbia Sign Agreement on Aquaculture Management

Dec 10, 2010
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Province-British-Columbia-Sign-Agreement-on-Aquaculture-Management-1367360.htm

Canada pressured to soften Kyoto stand

Dec 9, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-pressured-to-soften-kyoto-stand/article1831219/

Canada hopes for climate progress in Cancun

Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/cancun-canada-climate.html

Canada's climate of contradiction

Dec 9, 2010
Alec Bruce
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1344213

Radioactive shipment across Great Lakes delayed

Dec 9, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/nuclear-shipment-great-lake.html

Nunavut rips U.S. move on ringed seals

Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/nunavut-us-ringed-seals.html

Anti-asbestos activists meet Que. minister

Group travelled from Asia to protest mineral's export
Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/anti-asbestos-activists-meet-with-minister.html

Summerside wants to test plug-in cars

Dec 9, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/pei-summerside-plug-in-cars.html

Ottawa accused of bowing to Big Tobacco on cigarette labels

Dec 9, 2010
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-accused-of-bowing-to-big-tobacco-on-cigarette-labels/article1831673/

‘No need’ to agree on Kyoto extension yet, Canadian envoy says

Dec 9, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/no-need-to-agree-on-kyoto-extension-yet-canadian-envoy-says/article1831219/

Carbon-rich planet may have diamond core

Dec 9, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/09/carbon-planet-diamond.html

Prairie farmers show how tech is done

Some of the most creative applications of technology are taking place in what are usually considered unsophisticated industries: Western Canada’s resource sectors
Dec 9, 2010
TODD HIRSCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/prairie-farmers-show-how-tech-is-done/article1830670/

It is a terrible irony that humankind’s efforts to engineer a delay to the aging process may consume vast quantities of time, money and hope, while an answer – exercise – is already before us
Dec 3, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/a-simple-way-to-stave-off-infirmity/article1824780/

Nov 24, 2010
U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)

Biofortification of Foods
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn367_biofortification.pdf

UK Indoor Air Quality
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn366_indoor_air_quality.pdf

FedDev Ontario Invests in Southern Ontario's Future Leaders
Nov 29, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Initiative-Encourages-Young-People-to-Discover-Careers-in-Science-and-Tech-1360325.htm

Chairs Program brings best and brightest researchers to Canada's universities
Nov 24, 2010
Canada Research Chairs & Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Celebrates-the-Canada-Research-Chairs-Program-1359146.htm

Local activist group worries logging Flores Island will push climate change further while another study suggests that using wood products would tackle it as well
Dec 2, 2010
Stefania Seccia
Westerly News
http://www.canada.com/Clayoquot+Sound+temperate+forests+among+highest+carbon+storage+areas+North+America/3917870/story.html