Science Canada: 03/07/11

Monday, March 7, 2011

Let’s ‘Own the Podium’ in health research

Unless there is a major infusion of new funding, Canada could lose it’s competitive position.
Mar 2, 2011
Reinhart Reithmeier
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/947633--let-s-own-the-podium-in-health-research

Harper Government Highlights Canadian Commercialization Success

Research and development investments strengthen economy, improve quality of life
Feb 28, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402868.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402887.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402900.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402897.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1402988.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Canadian-Commercialization-Success-1403052.htm

Sask. spending $30M on nuclear research centre

Mar 2, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/02/sk-nuclear-money-1102.html

Silicon Valley: A big bright heat lamp for startup incubation

In his book, The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada’s Productivity Challenge, Tom Brzustowski, RBC professor for the commercialization of innovation at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, talks about the “social contract between science and society in the U.S.” that arose in the late 1940s and gave rise to that unique ecosystem we know today as Silicon Valley.
Mar 2, 2011
Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.obj.ca/Technology/2011-03-02/article-2294254/Silicon-Valley%3A-A-big-bright-heat-lamp-for-startup-incubation/1

CRKN National Agreement for Elsevier SciVerse ScienceDirect Assures Broadest Access to Critical Research Content

National collaboration among libraries keeps Canada's universities at the forefront of innovation despite tough economic times
Mar 4, 2011
Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/04/c8036.html

Mapping Canada’s math skills reveals huge disparities

Mar 4, 2011
JAMES BRADSHAW
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mapping-canadas-math-skills-reveals-huge-disparities/article1931149/

Vaccine giant's expansion may be a prescription for a better economy

Mar 4, 2011
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/globe-to/vaccine-giants-expansion-may-be-a-prescription-for-a-better-economy/article1930980/

We've Come a Long Way, Baby: New Video Highlights Canadian Women Excelling in Science

Mar 2, 2011
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Weve-Come-a-Long-Way-Baby-New-Video-Highlights-Canadian-Women-Excelling-in-Science-1405010.htm

Best, brightest must be wooed

Role models will draw women to professions in engineering, geoscience
Mar 3, 2011
Kim Farwell
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Best+brightest+must+wooed/4376576/story.html

UNB seeking female computer science students

Lack of women in the program a 'big concern' says professor
Mar 1, 2011
STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
CanadaEast News Service
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/1384427

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In Southwestern Ontario

Southwestern Ontario’s TechAlliance External link is now part of the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE)
Mar 4, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE030411.asp

Government of Canada Supports Manufacturing in Cambridge

Mar 4, 2011
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Supports-Manufacturing-in-Cambridge-1406260.htm

Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway Project Release of a Final Agreement and Availability of Participant Funding

Mar 4, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/04/c8077.html

$1-billion federal outsourcing bill raises spectre of ‘shadow public service’

Mar 3, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/1-billion-federal-outsourcing-bill-raises-spectre-of-shadow-public-service/article1928390/

The Shadow Public Service

The swelling ranks of federal government outsourced workers
Mar 3, 2011
David Macdonald
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2011/03/Shadow_Public_Service.pdf

Intelligence testing: Who are you calling bird-brained?

An attempt is being made to devise a universal intelligence test
Mar 3, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/18276224

N.L. to monitor caribou herds

Mar 3, 2011
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/nl-caribou-census.html

Green agenda gets top billing in China’s 5-year plan

Mar 3, 2011
MARK MacKINNON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/green-agenda-gets-top-billing-in-chinas-5-year-plan/article1929300/

India on the front lines in the battle to eradicate polio

Mar 3, 2011
STEPHANIE NOLEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/india-on-the-front-lines-in-the-battle-to-eradicate-polio/article1929578/

Human activity creates 'refuge' for prey: study

Mar 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/calgary-university-study-predator-prey.html

Canada warned not to follow U.S. tough-on-crime ‘mistakes’

Mar 3, 2011
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-warned-not-to-follow-us-tough-on-crime-mistakes/article1929448/

Hydrogen bus experiment on P.E.I. ends

Mar 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/pei-hydrogen-bus-experiment-584.html

Nuclear hub for U of S

Province earmarks $30 million for campus research centre
Mar 3, 2011
Jeremy Warren
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/health/Nuclear/4375571/story.html

Ont. electric car charging network launched

Mar 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/03/technology-better-place.html

Ontario's Electric Vehicles Plan Revs Up

Ontario's vision to have one out of 20 vehicles to be electrically powered by 2020 is moving forward.
Mar 3, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
http://news.ontario.ca/medt/en/2011/03/ontarios-electric-vehicles-plan-revs-up.html

Three MaRS cleantech clients secure angel financing with help from the MaRS angel program

100% of presenting companies funded after company CEOs pitched to angel investors in November 2010
Mar 3, 2011
MaRS Discovery District
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/03/c7628.html

Food research crucial

Mar 2, 2011
C. Don Palmer
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Food+research+crucial/4369570/story.html

Politicians who reject science are not fit to lead

Mar 2, 2011
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
CANOE.ca
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/Suzuki/2011/03/02/17466646.html

Five steps to lower hydro bills — and votes

Advice for Premier McGuinty on solving a vexing political problem.
Mar 2, 2011
Andy Frame
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/947632--five-steps-to-lower-hydro-bills-and-votes

Let us eat cake, without the fat tax

Mar 2, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/let-us-eat-cake-without-the-fat-tax/article1925788/

An international food reserve would calm markets – and donors

Secret talks that begin this week for a new treaty to replace the Food Aid Convention will be overshadowed by the fear of price fluctuations
Mar 2, 2011
STUART CLARK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/an-international-food-reserve-would-calm-markets-and-donors/article1925782/

Full-Day Kindergarten To Be Offered In 900 More Schools

Almost half of Ontario's four-and-five-year olds will benefit from full-day kindergarten in September 2012.
Mar 2, 2011
Ontario Office of the Premier
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2011/03/full-day-kindergarten-to-be-offered-in-900-more-schools.html

Growing debate over fat tax

Mar 1, 2011
Christina Frangou
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Growing+debate+over/4365189/story.html

Environment, culture face cuts as Ottawa turns off stimulus taps

Mar 1, 2011
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/environment-culture-face-cuts-as-ottawa-turns-off-stimulus-taps/article1924899/

Climate change could spark cholera return

Mar 1, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/01/water-conference-cholera.html

U.S. funding for open education materials a “game changer”

Mar 1, 2011
Michael Geist
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/funding+open+education+materials+game+changer/4363933/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

Refusing to take 'no' for an answer

Innovation: PhD student ignored university's rejection, went on to found two million-dollar firms
Mar 1, 2011
Jennifer Campbell
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1384312

Two provinces moving on follow-up care for MS liberation therapy

Mar 1, 2011
KAREN HOWLETT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/two-provinces-moving-on-follow-up-care-for-ms-liberation-therapy/article1925266/

Ensuring The Best Possible Care For MS Patients

Ontario is establishing an expert advisory group to provide advice on follow-up care and treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who return to Ontario after undergoing the experimental Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) procedure outside of Canada.
Mar 1, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2011/03/ensuring-the-best-possible-care-for-ms-patients.html

"Get Checked Now" campaign launched to help combat type 2 diabetes

Mar 1, 2011
Canadian Diabetes Association
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/01/c6893.html

Canada's drinking water vulnerable: report

Feb 28, 2011
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/28/pol-cdhowe-water-report.html

Agent Orange used widely in Ontario over decades, Minister says

Feb 28, 2011
MARIA BABBAGE
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/agent-orange-used-widely-in-ontario-over-decades-minister-says/article1924512/

Mercury consumer goods ban proposed

Feb 28, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/28/environment-mercury-ban.html

Ban spells the end of the mercury glass thermometer

Feb 28, 2011
TAMARA BALUJA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ban-spells-the-end-of-the-mercury-glass-thermometer/article1923471/

U.S. approves first deepwater well in Gulf

Feb 28, 2011
Chris Kahn
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/us-approves-first-deepwater-well-in-gulf/article1924149/

Canada ‘in position to be listened to’ in secretive world food-aid talks

Feb 28, 2011
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-in-position-to-be-listened-to-in-secretive-world-food-aid-talks/article1922934/

Bring poor nations to the food aid discussion table

Canada should include recipients of food aid in discussions where life-and-death matters are decided
Feb 28, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/canada-should-bring-poor-nations-to-the-food-aid-discussion-table/article1922937/

Commercialization Day PatientCare Solutions: Speaking Points for the Minister of State (Science and Technology)

Feb 28, 2011
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, PC, MP, Minister of State (Science and Technology)
Industry Canada
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06341.html

MaRS client MMB Research closes angel financing

MMB's technology enables home appliances and devices to communicate on smart grid connected home area networks
Feb 28, 2011
MaRS Discovery District
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2011/28/c6540.html