Science Canada: 12/17/10

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

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