Science Canada: 07/17/11

Jul 13, 2011
PAUL DAVIDSON
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Letters/1253182.html

Jul 12, 2011
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/07/12/stic-series-the-production-of-phds-and-what-do-we-do-with-them/

Jul 16, 2011
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/07/16/notch-2-in-the-stic-federal-rd-spending-direct-vs-indirect-funding/

Call to arms: Greater emphasis needs to be placed on bringing findings to decision makers: chairman
July 11, 2011
Adam Huras
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1422474

Jul 15, 2011
Canada Science and Technology Museum
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2011/15/c5292.html

Jul 13, 2011
STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/1423119

Grow GM fish in closed containers on land to minimize risk, researchers urge
Jul 15, 2011
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/07/15/science-salmon-gm-transgenic.html

Apex canines repopulating Yellowstone Park since the 1990s provide a healthy boost to local ecosystem
Jul 15, 2011
MARGARET MUNRO
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Wolves+return+howling+success/5105802/story.html

Ontario is helping Teva Canada Limited - a leading pharmaceutical company - expand its production while creating 20 new jobs and protecting 182 jobs at its Stouffville, Markham and Scarborough plants.
Jul 15, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
http://news.ontario.ca/medt/en/2011/07/ontario-supports-pharmaceutical-sector-creates-jobs.html

Open letter to prime minister; Animal depicted on Canada's quarter will soon be 'on the road to extinction'
Jul 14, 2011
RANDY BOSWELL
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Scientists+call+Ottawa+save+caribou+habitat/5099690/story.html

Jul 14, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/07/14/asthma-placebo.html

Other land ecosystems have no effect on CO2, study suggests
Jul 14, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/07/14/science-forests-co2-fossil-fuels.html

A mission to the asteroid belt will visit leftovers from the solar system’s formation
Jul 14, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/18956114

Jul 14, 2011
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2011/14/c5327.html

Ontario is reminding hospitals to take advantage of all the resources available to help them combat hospital-acquired infections.
Jul 14, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2011/07/ensuring-patient-safety-in-ontarios-hospitals.html

A provincewide ban on all products is not justified because strict regulations based on scientific research already protect our health
Jul 13, 2011
Lorne Hepworth
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Pesticides+Canada+safe/5094168/story.html

A continuum across a range of hospital and community-based services, including in the non-profit sector, is crucial
Jul 13, 2011
Heather Menzies
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/patient-centred-care-its-about-relationships/article2094754/

The province needs to do what other countries are doing and reassess the role of nuclear in its long-term energy strategy.
Jul 13, 2011
Mark Winfield
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1024567--ontario-s-power-priorities

Grand Challenges Canada Announces Funding for Innovative Proposal to Help Curb Deadly Disease
Jul 13, 2011
Grand Challenges Canada
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/288228/2295813ed6/1380027233/0170ed12a3/

One of the economic models informing our climate-policy debate is called DICE. This model is fatally flawed
Jul 12, 2011
TOM RAND
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/reducing-the-risk-of-climate-catastrophe/article2091394/

When the time does come to discuss the way forward on health care, there may not even be a negotiating table
Jul 12, 2011
Chantal Hébert
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1023198--hebert-health-care-s-next-chapter-will-be-a-tough-one

Canada-Japan Partnership Supports Technology Commercialization and Research
Jul 12, 2011
National Research Council Canada-NRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/edmonton-becomes-north-american-microscope-leader-1537378.htm

Asbestos industry says asbestos can be used safely, but critics say it's time the governing Conservatives let it die a natural death.
Jul 11, 2011
BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH, LAURA RYCKEWAERT
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/asbestos-07-11-2011

To its credit, the Canadian business world has overcome its dread of anything with a name resembling that of the national energy program of the 1980s
Jul 11, 2011
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/to-get-to-a-national-energy-plan-co-operate-first/article2093956/

The tar sands are the temptation that will define Canada's soul
Jul 11, 2011
Bill McKibben
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/keep-albertas-oil-in-the-ground/article2089908/

Ontario is helping researchers in St. Catharines make new discoveries that will protect jobs by helping the province's wine industry with changes in weather and climate.
Jul 11, 2011
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
http://news.ontario.ca/mri/en/2011/07/support-for-research-in-st-catharines.html

Lessons learned on campus may help larger urban centres solve the problems they're facing
Jul 9, 2011
Don Cayo
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/does+more+than+study+green+initiatives+immersed+them/5077743/story.html

Jun 7, 2011
Will Falk
Longwoods.com
http://www.longwoods.com/content/22424

May 31, 2011
Will Falk
Longwoods.com
http://www.longwoods.com/content/22416

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