Science Canada: 03/17/11

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Flattening the World: Building the 21st Century Global Knowledge Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2012 Annual Meeting: 16-20 Feb 2012 in Vancouver, Canada
- Call for Symposium Proposals: Submission deadline 26 April 2011
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2012/program/symposia/submit/

In the new model of innovation people matter

Mar 7, 2011
Chad Gaffield
Canadian Government Executive
http://cge.itincanada.ca/index.php?cid=312&id=13982

The internal war on innovation

Mar 4, 2011
Glen Milne
Canadian Government Executive
http://cge.itincanada.ca/index.php?cid=312&id=13975

Accelerating innovation

Mar 1, 2011
Tony Dean
Canadian Government Executive
http://cge.itincanada.ca/index.php?cid=312&id=13962

Assimilating science into decision making

Jan 7, 2011
Claire Dansereau
Canadian Government Executive
http://cge.itincanada.ca/index.php?cid=312&id=13782

Harper Government Celebrates Economic Action Plan Investments in Canada's Knowledge Economy

Government of Canada Celebrates Canada Research Chairs at the University of Windsor

Chairs program brings best and brightest researchers to Canada's universities
Mar 14, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Celebrates-Canada-Research-Chairs-at-the-University-of-Windsor-1410727.htm

Is our energy superpower vision slipping away?

Mar 16, 2011
Keith W. Hipel and C.W. (Clem) Bowman
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/955245--is-our-energy-superpower-vision-slipping-away

Saskatchewan, Alberta near agreement on sharing oilsands emissions info

Mar 16, 2011
Jennifer Graham
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/environment/saskatchewan-alberta-near-agreement-on-sharing-oilsands-emissions-info-118133324.html

Canada urged to protect water in boreal forests

Mar 16, 2011
Margaret Munro
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canada+urged+protect+water+boreal+forests/4449692/story.html

City lowers fluoride in drinking water

Mar 16, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/03/16/man-flouride-drinking-water-winnipeg.html

Pickering nuclear plant reports water leak

Risk to public is 'negligible,' says Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Mar 16, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/16/pickering-nuclear-leak.html

Important funding for nanomedicine research to improve diagnosis and treatment

Mar 16, 2011
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
http://smr.newswire.ca/en/canadian-institutes-of-health-research-cihr/important-funding-for-nanomedicine-research

Harper Government Supports Social Sciences and Humanities Research on Cyber Scholarship

Mar 16, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Supports-Social-Sciences-Humanities-Research-on-Cyber-Scholarship-1412959.htm

Government of Canada Works with Nunavut to Help Prevent Young People from Taking Illicit Drugs

Mar 16, 2011
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Works-with-Nunavut-Help-Prevent-Young-People-from-Taking-Illicit-Drugs-1412828.htm

Government of Canada Invests in Research to Enhance our Understanding of Societal Change

Mar 16, 2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Invests-Research-Enhance-our-Understanding-Societal-Change-1412773.htm

Government of Canada Invests in Research on Official Languages

Mar 16, 2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Research-on-Official-Languages-1412754.htm

Government of Canada Invests in Canada's Judicial System

Mar 16, 2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Canadas-Judicial-System-1412753.htm

Infrastructure gap could be closed by more productive use of existing networks

Mar 16, 2011
Conference Board of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/16/c3362.html

Government of Canada Delivers More Transparency on Food Safety Enforcement

Mar 16, 2011
CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Delivers-More-Transparency-on-Food-Safety-Enforcement-1412684.htm

Government of Canada Renews Funding for Geospatial Initiative

Mar 16, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Renews-Funding-for-Geospatial-Initiative-1412586.htm

Canada Foundation for Innovation: Finding Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Mar 16, 2011
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canada-Foundation-for-Innovation-Finding-Early-Diagnosis-of-Alzheimers-Disease-1412488.htm

Harper Government Highlights Renewed Investment in Small Business Internship Program During Year of the Entrepreneur

Canada's Economic Action Plan supports job creation by investing in small businesses and students
Mar 16, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Renewed-Investment-Small-Business-Internship-Program-During-1412811.htm

Government won't act on all sodium recommendations, despite costly panel

Mar 15, 2011
Sarah Schmidt
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Government+sodium+recommendations+despite+costly+panel/4438486/story.html

Celebrities recruited to raise awareness of world agriculture crisis

Mar 15, 2011
JESSICA LEEDER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/celebrities-recruited-to-raise-awareness-of-world-agriculture-crisis/article1943558/

Sask. joins spinal cord research initiative

Mar 15, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/03/15/sk-hansen-research-11315.html

Canada launched nuclear safety review before meltdown panic in Japan

Mar 15, 2011
Carmen Chai
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+launched+nuclear+safety+review+before+meltdown+panic+Japan/4440890/story.html

The science behind the nuclear crisis: The Japan syndrome

What is actually going on in the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant
Mar 15, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/03/post-earthquake_nuclear_crisis

Critics cry foul over Tory pick for top post

The appointment of a well-known Conservative to head the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is drawing criticism from the Opposition Liberals.
Mar 15, 2011
Quentin Casey
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1388645

Seal pups suffer poor ice conditions again

Mar 15, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/15/pei-seals-ice-hammill-584.html

Fresh evidence for expanding universe

Mar 15, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/15/tech-hubble-universe-expansion.html

Ontario Helps Thunder Bay Clean Energy Plant Expand

AbitibiBowater will soon be providing more clean power for Northwestern Ontario and adding 56 permanent jobs
Mar 15, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Energy
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2011/03/ontario-helps-thunder-bay-clean-energy-plant-expand.html

Government of Canada Helps Producers Boost Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Mar 15, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Helps-Producers-Boost-Energy-Efficiency-and-Sustainability-1412094.htm

Economic Action Plan Invests in Jobs and Growth in Stratford

Mar 15, 2011
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Economic-Action-Plan-Invests-in-Jobs-and-Growth-in-Stratford-1411651.htm

Government of Canada Invests in Geoduck Clam Industry

Mar 15, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-Geoduck-Clam-Industry-1411633.htm

The secret’s in: Open data is a foreign concept in Canada

Data that inform Health Canada’s regulatory decision-making processes in such areas as drug reviews are also kept under tight control, often in the name of protecting industry interests, experts say.
Mar 14, 2011
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/14mar11_open-data-is-a-foreign-concept-in-canada.dtl

Next census gathering has begun, passed 'point of no return,' says new StatsCan chief

New Statistics Canada Chief Wayne Smith says it's unrealistic to expect it will gather equal data without the long-form mandatory census.
Mar 14 2011
JESSICA BRUNO
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/census-03-14-2011

The nuclear risk merits actions, but not global shutdowns

The situation at the Fukushima reactors is serious, even dire, but it ought not to sound the death knell of nuclear power, or delay the construction of new nuclear facilities
Mar 14 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-nuclear-risk-merits-actions-but-not-global-shutdowns/article1941822/

Nuclear 2.0: Japan Shouldn't Stop Us From Embracing It

Mar 14 2011
Ford Vox
The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/nuclear-20-japan-shouldnt-stop-us-from-embracing-it/72422/

Nuclear hubris played a role in Japanese disaster

Mar 14, 2011
Peter Goodspeed
National Post
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/14/peter-goodspeed-nuclear-hubris-played-a-role-in-japanese-disaster/

Yellowknifers vote down geothermal heating plan

Mar 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/14/yellowknife-con-geothermal-referendum.html

U.S. sued over syphilis tests in Guatemala

Mar 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/14/syphilis-guatemala-obama-lawsuit.html

Economic Action Plan Supports Innovative Green Energy Research and Development in New Brunswick

Atlantic Hydrogen developing greener hydrogen-rich energy
Mar 14, 2011
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Economic-Action-Plan-Supports-Innovative-Green-Energy-Research-Development-New-Brunswick-1410839.htm

Harper Government Supports Health Sciences Career Training at St. Clair College in Windsor

Mar 14, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Supports-Health-Sciences-Career-Training-St-Clair-College-Windsor-1410856.htm

Harper Government Invests in Canada's Forest Sector

Statement by the Honourable Christian Paradis, P.C., M.P., Minister of Natural Resources on the International Year of Forests

Mar 14, 2011
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Statement-Honourable-Christian-Paradis-PC-MP-Minister-Natural-Resources-on-International-1410481.htm

Route 167 North Project in the Direction of the Otish Mountains

Federal Funding Allocated to Participate in the Environmental Assessment
Mar 14, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/14/c2468.html

Jackpine Mine Expansion Project and Pierre River Mine Project - Availability of $300,000 in Participant Funding

Mar 14, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/14/c2543.html

Government of Canada Plants Seeds to Help Floriculture Industry Bloom

Mar 14, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Plants-Seeds-to-Help-Floriculture-Industry-Bloom-1410764.htm

Asian carp threat prompts crisis exercise

Federal, Ont. experts practice emergency response to possible carp invasion in Great Lakes
Mar 11, 2011
Sharon Oosthoek
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/11/tech-asian-carp-emergency-invasive-species.html

No N.B. hydro-fracking moratorium: Northrup

Mar 11, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/11/nb-northrup-hydrofracking-741.html

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research welcomes announcement of renewal of funding for the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Mar 11, 2011
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/11/c2244.html

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In Halton Region

Halton Region’s HalTech is now part of the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE)
Mar 11, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ONE031111.asp

Chair Named To Lead Independent Panel On Herbicide

Dr. Leonard Ritter has been named the chair of the Independent Fact-Finding Panel on Herbicide 2,4,5-T to look into its past use in Ontario in the 1950s, 60s and 70s and possibly the 80s.
Mar 11, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
http://news.ontario.ca/mnr/en/2011/03/chair-named-to-lead-independent-panel-on-herbicide.html

Harper Government Highlights Renewed Investment in Small Business Internship Program During Year of the Entrepreneur

Canada's Economic Action Plan supports job creation by investing in small businesses and students
Mar 11, 2011
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-Highlights-Renewed-Investment-Small-Business-Internship-Program-During-1409916.htm

Made-In-Canada Technology: Virtual Brain Surgery Centre Launched in Toronto

Government of Canada investment revolutionizes medical training, reduces risks from brain surgery
Mar 11, 2011
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Made-In-Canada-Technology-Virtual-Brain-Surgery-Centre-Launched-in-Toronto-1409910.htm

Marathon Platinum Group Metals and Copper Mine Project

Funding Awarded for Participation in the Environmental Assessment
Mar 11, 2011
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/11/c2102.html