Toward a Next Generation Canada?

Dec 10, 2008
ANDREA WOOD
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081209.lawwebcommentary1209/BNStory/robLawPage/home

Canada adopts melamine standards set by WHO

Decrease in levels allowed in infant formula
Dec 10, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/12/10/melamine-canada.html

B.C. health critic calls on government to regulate sale of candy-flavoured cigars

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jmu9Wp_ezzfOYU-n6tCD28OM1oaA

Scientists hope Poland treaty can mitigate climate change effects

Dec 10, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/10/poznan-climate.html

U.S. nanotechnology safeguards inadequate: report

Dec 10, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/10/nanotechnology-safety.html

St. John's addicts caught shoplifting to lose methadone access

Decision vindictive, medical ethicist says
Dec 10, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/10/addicts-shoplifting.html

Medical schools urge limits to drug makers' influence on students

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/10/medical.html

Medical regulator to gain right to watch Ont. clinic procedures

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/10/ot-081210-clinic.html

Canada's Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice Responds to European Union Scientific Review Group Decision on Polar Bear Imports

Dec 10, 2008
Environment Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Canadas-Minister-Environment-Jim-Prentice/story.aspx?guid=%7B738E5E0B-6287-44C3-AD98-6686B0D17608%7D

20% of coral reefs gone, climate group says

Dec 10, 2008
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/551531

Canada ranked near bottom in list of climate change fighters

Saudi Arabia ranked higher in Climate Action Network Europe survey
Dec 10, 2008
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1058777

Canada has bad rep at UN climate talks

Dec 10, 2008
Colleen Kimmett
The Tyee
http://www.thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2008/12/10/CanadaRep/

Canada accused of blocking progress at UN climate summit

Dec 10, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/12/10/7698106.html

All eyes on EU as UN climate talks stumble on

Dec 10, 2008
Simon Sturdee
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1058374

New Science museum top priority for new CEO

Partnership with private firm probable way to go, says longtime public servant
Dec 10, 2008
Paul Gessell
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1054536

Health committee ‘re-postpones’ debate over fluoride in water

Dec 10, 2008
Tim Foran
Milton Canadian Champion
http://www.miltoncanadianchampion.com/news/article/224975

Diabetes drugs may raise fracture risk in women

Dec 10, 2008
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081210.wldrugs10/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Many Americans turning to unconventional medicine

Dec 10, 2008
Will Dunham
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=3fae960c-67a9-4995-95e5-bcf0008e4b4b

Drugmakers to note actors, make other ad changes

Dec 10, 2008
Susan Heavey
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=ab70263b-fbf4-4abb-b095-bff35cf876ce

Prostate cancer sufferers should delay treatment: Research

One way to delay or avoid side effects of incontinence and impotence
Dec 10, 2008
Michelle Magnan
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1058898

Ireland's food crisis spreads to beef

Dec 10, 2008
Carmel Crimmins
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1057163

Is fear of food allergies creating hysteria?

Dec 10, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081210/food_allergies_081210/20081210?hub=Health

The trouble with tar sands

Dec 10, 2008
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Canoe.ca
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/Suzuki/2008/12/10/7698041-ca.html

Cheap food products come with a price

Dec 9, 2008
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081208.wcofood09/BNStory/specialComment/home

P.E.I. households greenest in the country

Dec 9, 2008
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081209/StatsCan_households_081209/20081209?hub=SciTech

Young graduates struggle for Silicon Valley jobs

Dec 9, 2008
Reuters
http://ctv.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081209.wgttechjobs1209/tech/Technology/techBN/ctv-technology

Chemicals feminizing males, study suggests

Dec 9, 2008
Diana Zlomislic
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/550470

Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says

Dec 9, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/09/who.html

Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak

Dec 9, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/09/hk-bird-flu.html

Climate change not imminent danger, UN panel chief says

But governments should reconsider emissions cuts
Dec 9, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/09/climate-meeting.html

Nuclear engineering on the rise at McMaster

Dec 9, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/09/mcmaster-nuclear.html

Asian grade-school students rule math, science: study

Dec 9, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/09/math-students.html

China takes action on food safety

Dec 9, 2008
Duncan Mavin
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=1051874

Caution on 'cures,' please

Dec 9, 2008
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=90cf39ca-e9a7-4c27-b1b7-a84f645b7ea3

Canada Signs Agreement for the Safe Management of Harmful Chemicals in North America

Dec 9, 2008
Environment Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Canada-Signs-Agreement-Safe-Management/story.aspx?guid=%7BF5B6B723-3285-4C57-887C-725D408F0F82%7D

Deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions not in the cards: Prentice

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/prentice-climate.html

B.C. backs Science World with $10.5M

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/bc-science.html

Prostate cancer: When women nag, men get screened

Dec 8, 2008
ZOSIA BIELSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081208.wlnag08/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Climate change - unlike the financial meltdown - is a long-haul crisis

Dec 8, 2008
James Ford, Lea Berrang Ford and Tristan Pearce
The Gazette
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=900b78cb-dbb4-4e1a-ba12-fdfe8ef55dcb

Green energy our best shot

Dec 8, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/549945

Watch more streams

Dec 8, 2008
editorial
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081207.wefish08/BNStory/specialComment/home

Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people

Dec 8, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/pills.html

Ontario to set standards for electric car

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/08/electric-car.html

Tests find toxin in 75% of plastic children's toys

Additive linked to reproductive harm in kids
Dec 8, 2008
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1046315

Half-dose flu shot may suffice for healthy young adults: U.S. researchers

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/08/flu.html

Canadian Inuit at greatest risk of lung cancer: study

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/08/inuit.html

Malaria vaccine shows promise in babies and youngsters: clinical trials

Dec 8, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/08/vaccine.html

Climate change: Sci-fi solutions no longer far-fetched

Dec 8, 2008
Richard Ingham
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1048002

U.S. state laws fail to curb teens' indoor tanning

Dec 8, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081208/tanning_laws_081208/20081208?hub=Health

Ont. needs to improve food safety regulations: AG

Dec 8, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081208/AG_foodsafety_081208/20081208?hub=Toronto

Women twice as likely to die from severe heart attack

Dec 8, 2008
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081208/heartattacks_women_081208/20081208?hub=Health

Tories open door a crack on climate talks

Dec 7, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iYqQ99R0q6gEnCCIF4YJcCzwkGdA

Lawsuit filed against Bayer over drug risks

Dec 7, 2008
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/trasylol_study_081203/20081207?hub=Health

Plan to bury nuke waste based on outdated science: report

Dec 7, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081207/nuclear_waste_081207/20081207?hub=SciTech

Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herds

Dec 7, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081207/caribou_herds_081207/20081207?hub=SciTech

The war to beat the flu bug

Modern medicine has tools to fight this age-old malady. The question is, why don't they always work?
Dec 6, 2008
Diana Zlomislic
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/547330

Expect vaccine to inhibit HIV within 5 years: Nobel winner

Dec 6, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/06/hiv-vaccine.html

Our smog is worse than we thought

Research behind city's new emission-reporting bylaw finds high levels of suspected carcinogens
Dec 6, 2008
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/549457

WHO panel sets melamine limit for food

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/12/05/melamine-who.html

Natural Resources Canada: Minister Raitt Unveils Design of Government of Canada Research Lab in Hamilton

Dec 5, 2008
Natural Resources Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Natural-Resources-Canada-Minister-Raitt/story.aspx?guid=%7BDE513B82-165A-4640-8FE5-376142619260%7D

Ontario Government Investment Supports R&D Expansion at Purdue Pharma Canada

Dec 5, 2008
Government of Ontario
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Ontario-Government-Investment-Supports-RD/story.aspx?guid=%7BEC1B9304-4046-4B8F-A678-56FD3A98597D%7D

Focus on Earth

Europe is rightly pioneering the systematic appliance of science in space to societal needs
Dec 4, 2008
Editorial
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7222/full/456546a.html

The cost of silence?

Analyses of AIDS deaths attributable to misguided policies in South Africa carry lessons for scientific leaders
Dec 4, 2008
Editorial
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7222/full/456545a.html

Solving the economic and environmental crises

Dec 5, 2008
TAMARA LORINCZ, GRETCHEN FITZGERALD and CHERYL RATCHFORD
Chronicle Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1094164.html

Alberta to bear brunt of climate policies

Report urges faster emissions cuts
Dec 5, 2008
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=592043ec-4084-4c58-a2c3-2c913dce0e82

Human rights court says U.K. DNA database violates rights

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/05/dna-database.html

Nunavut wildlife board to hold bowhead whale hearing in February

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/05/nwmb-bowhead.html

Cancer rates in industrial area no higher than rest of Alberta: study

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/05/edm-cancer-study.html

Risks of new asthma drugs vary, U.S. federal officials say

Dec 5, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/05/asthma-laba.html

Global measles deaths plummet: reports

Dec 5, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/05/measles.html

Hunger, HIV/AIDS hit Africa with double punch: WFP

Dec 5, 2008
Pascal Fletcher
Reuters
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/health/story.html?id=2d25195e-52c9-402c-9d20-a3a2b5903404

No link found between abortions and later mental-health problems

Dec 5, 2008
PAUL TAYLOR
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081205.wldoses05/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

NASA to delay costly Mars mission until 2011

Dec 5, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081205/nasa_mars_081205/20081205?hub=SciTech

Study weighs lifetime cancer risks from repeated CT scans

Procedure may soon account for two per cent of all cases
Dec 4, 2008
Reuters
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1031449

EU still not united on climate change package

Dec 4, 2008
Paul Harrington
AFP
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=1032241

Cancer, heart disease leading causes of deaths for Canadians: report

Dec 4, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/causes-death.html

Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in autism lawsuit

Dec 4, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/autism-court.html

Study says Canada can meet gas target

Dec 4, 2008
Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=bfd88ad1-4330-4076-be53-a941127e4f09

Research suggests children's brain function affected by poverty

Dec 4, 2008
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/brain-income.html

Study sheds light on breast cancer drug failure

Dec 4, 2008
Reuters, special to CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/tamoxifen.html

Watching and waiting

The search for dangerous asteroids is about to begin in earnest
Dec 4, 2008
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12719347

University infrastructure investment can boost economy

Dec 3, 2008
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2008/infrastructure_12_03_e.html

Ontario adds 6 new drugs to coverage list

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/03/drugs-ont.html

Canadians eating less lunch meat after listeriosis outbreak: study

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/03/listeria-outcome.html

Potential World Heritage boreal forest valued at $130M annually: study

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/03/world-heritage.html

Avian cholera threatens Arctic eider duck colonies: scientists

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/03/avian-cholera.html

Crackdown urged on 'rogue' stem cell clinics

Treatment benefits exaggerated, risks underestimated, researchers warn
Dec 3, 2008
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1031389

End of P.E.I. needle exchange worries health officer

Dec 3, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/03/pe-needle-exchange.html

Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?

Dec 3, 2008
Malcolm Ritter
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/scientists_technology_081203/20081203?hub=SciTech

Multitasking canola: A California miracle crop?

Dec 3, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/conola_water_081203/20081203?hub=SciTech

Greenhouse gas emissions increased in U.S.last year

Dec 3, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081203/gge_us_081203/20081203?hub=SciTech

Canada's growing list of wildlife at risk

Snapping turtles join species at the brink
Dec 3, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081203.wspecies03/BNStory/Science/home

Generic heart drugs measure up to branded versions: review

Dec 2, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/02/generic-drugs.html

Common heart surgery drug may be more dangerous than cheaper alternatives: study

Dec 2, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/02/aprotinin.html

Millions of birds could die from oilsands development: report

Dec 2, 2008
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/02/edm-birds-oilsands-report.html

Fuel cells for portable gadgets inch closer to market

Dec 2, 2008
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/02/tech-fuelcell.html

New chapter in Apotex legal battle

Dec 2, 2008
ELIZABETH CHURCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081202.wacademic02/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081202.wacademic02

HIV+ and looking to conceive

When a permanent, quarantined laboratory opens at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital this spring, the barriers to reproductive services may start to disappear for couples living with HIV. But there's still a long way to go
Dec 1, 2008
HAYLEY MICK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081201.wlhivaids01/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Canadian Immunization Conference highlights Innovation, Education and Partnership

Nov 30, 2008
Public Health Agency of Canada
http://news.gc.ca/web/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=425899&categoryid=1&category=News+Releases

Canadian universities may curtail hiring, scholarships

Losses in endowment and pension funds from economic slide put pressure on universities
Dec 1, 2008
Rosanna Tamburri
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/2008/12/01/schools-may-curtail-hiring-scholarships.aspx