New NSERC Program Helps Colleges Work With Local Businesses

Feb 25, 2009
NSERC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29394946/

National Geographic oilsands portrayal "fair": environment minister

Feb 25, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/National+Geographic+oilsands+portrayal+fair+environment+minister/1328569/story.html

Directing grants to select research bad public policy

Feb 23, 2009
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Health/Directing+grants+select+research+public+policy/1319304/story.html

Ottawa universities announce research chairs, extend funding

Feb 24, 2009
Joanne Laucius
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health/Ottawa+universities+announce+research+chairs+extend+funding/1321460/story.html

Canada dragging heels on polar bear issue

Feb 24, 2009
Ed Struzik
Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/technology/Canada+dragging+heels+polar+bear+issue/1324034/story.html

Small consumer tech not always green, U of C researcher says

Feb 24, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Small+consumer+tech+always+green+researcher+says/1324229/story.html

Nunavut MLAs make pitches to host high Arctic research station

Feb 24, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/24/research-reax.html

BPA may pose greater threat to newborns

Toxic substance that mimics estrogen may linger longer in babies than in adults, researchers find
Feb 24, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090224.wlbpa24/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Acrylamide: fried food's unwelcome ingredient

Feb 24, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/24/f-acrylamide.html

Health group asks Ottawa to pump $700-million into heart strategy

Feb 24, 2009
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090224.wheart0224/BNStory/Front/home

Folic acid: good for cells, so-so as a disease-fighter

Feb 24, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/24/f-folic.html

Government of Canada Provides Support to Canada Research Chairs at 37 Universities

Feb 23, 2009
Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29349808/

Government of Canada announces new research networks in Montréal

Business-Led Networks of Centres of Excellence solve problems, advance innovation and create jobs
Feb 23, 2009
NETWORKS OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE OF CANADA
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2009/23/c2908.html

Cutting research money is a false economy

Feb 22, 2009
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Business/Cutting+research+money+false+economy/1316494/story.html

World of Science on the move

Feb 22, 2009
BILL BROOKS
Calgary Sun
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2009/02/22/8482826-sun.html

Environmental heroes

Speaking up for what's right can mean imprisonment -- or worse
Feb 22, 2009
VIVIAN SONG
Edmonton Sun
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2009/02/22/8482206-sun.html

Canadians asked to prescribe health care improvements

Feb 22, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Health/Canadians+asked+prescribe+health+care+improvements/1317610/story.html

Australia to press Canada on environment

Feb 21, 2009
Jennifer Campbell
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Australia+press+Canada+environment/1316097/story.html

Scarcity of R&D driving top minds from Canada

Organization promoting advanced research makes it a mission to show the urgency of integrating innovation into business plans
Feb 21, 2009
GARY MASON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090221.BCMASON21/TPStory/National/columnists

Charles Darwin casts a giant shadow, 200 years after his birth

Feb 21, 2009
Rod Charlton
Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1446348

A man’s world no more

Number of women in university science programs has risen sharply
Feb 21, 2009
BRIAN HAYES
Chronicle Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Science/9010861.html

Environment minister says carbon capture already a proven technology

Feb 20, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gAPgmwTaO2FjlVltI-zspjQM0n6Q

Read no evil

Trevor Herriot, the naturalist and author, on writing about things people, and governments, don't want to face
Feb 20, 2009
TREVOR HERRIOT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090220.wbkherriot_essay21/BNStory/globebooks/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail

Canada willing to leave climate policy to Obama

But there's a downside to letting U.S. president set agenda on cutting greenhouse emissions
Feb 18, 2009
Clare Demerse
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/588974

Researchers struggle as Ottawa scales back funding

Experts frustrated as other countries pour money into science
Feb 17, 2009
ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090217.RESEARCH17/TPStory/National

Arctic research centre scrambles to survive

Feb 17, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Arctic+research+centre+scrambles+survive/1298267/story.html

Study warns against emissions deal for oilsands

Feb 17, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090217/oilsands_deal_090217/20090217?hub=SciTech

Embattled Pharma Review Panel Works Well: Top Scientists

Ministry's push to disband Therapeutics Initiative 'lacks substantive evidence'
Feb 17, 2009
The Tyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/02/17/PharmaInitiative/

Take climate change off the agenda

Canadians and Americans place climate change near bottom of priorities
Feb 17, 2009
Christopher Horner
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/02/17/take-climate-change-off-the-agenda.aspx

A bad time might be a good time to invest

Feb 17, 2009
DAVID CRANE
Chronicle Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1106848.html

Obama leaving Canada in the dust on environment: groups

Feb 17, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ghcdvx0OX03kJuya8FvZObPbTLPg

Isotope shortage expected after shutdown of Chalk River reactor

Feb 17, 2009
Krista Erickson
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/17/isotope-shortage.html

EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN

Universities are investing as never before in new environmental programs and strategies
Feb 17, 2009
PHILIP FINE
Special to the Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090217.SRENVIRONEWPROGS17/TPStory/Environment

Scientists quitting Canada as climate funding dries up

Feb 15, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Scientists+quitting+Canada+climate+funding+dries/1295395/story.html

From green to gold

Discovery Place has come up with a 'flagship' design that will earn it a gold-standard certification as one of B.C.'s most eco-friendly buildings
Feb 14, 2009
Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/From+green+gold/1290472/story.html

Energy security calls for a continental vision

Feb 16, 2009
PIERRE ALVAREZ
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090210.wagenda16/BNStory/robAgenda/home

Aging population may affect public health

Older people using less water will hurt infrastructure: Study
Feb 16, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Aging+population+affect+public+health/1294743/story.html

US calls for treaty on mercury reduction

Feb 16, 2009
Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjEHXtGOtiZbKdW-N6hBmp5vCl9gD96CPBTO0

Prentice says environment and energy issues linked for Canada, U.S

Feb 15, 2009
Jason van Rassel
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Prentice+says+environment+energy+issues+linked+Canada/1292689/story.html

Climate change: 'Feedback' triggers could amplify peril

Feb 15, 2009
AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jSNt_lHYXJe_qFDI4kbvz1LlMI6w

Culture of innovation attracts startups

Canadian firms turn to Silicon Valley for success
Feb 15, 2009
John Shmuel
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/business/Culture+innovation+attracts+startups/1286696/story.html

The impotency of Canada’s fertility laws

Feb 13, 2009
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1288389

Alberta issues 20-year plan for enviro-friendly oilsands

Image-building document light on specifics
Feb 12, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/12/cgy-oilsands-plan.html

Federal trans-fat report prompts call for regulation

Heart and Stroke Foundation says voluntary reduction efforts are failing
Feb 12, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/12/trans-fat.html

Great Lakes not enough to quench water shortage: Report

Feb 12, 2009
Bradley Bouzane
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Great+Lakes+enough+quench+water+shortage+Report/1282988/story.html

Chocolate: It's just not that good for you

Feb 12, 2009
CARLY WEEKS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090212.wchocolate12/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Measles vaccine not to blame for autism case, U.S. court rules

Feb 12, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/12/autism-vaccine.html

The war against superbugs

Feb 12, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/12/f-superbugs.html

2nd case of avian flu turns up in Fraser Valley

Feb 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/11/bc-fraser-avian-flu.html

New deal with U.K. boosts Canadian access to Antarctic research stations

Feb 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/11/tech-arctic-antarctic-deal.html

Minister confirms $500M for electronic health records

Feb 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/11/e-health-records.html

Ontario could be coal-free by 2010 with aggressive conservation: report

Feb 10, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/10/ont-coal.html

More Canadians saving energy and water at home: StatsCan

Feb 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/10/energy.html

New law will keep NIMBY-ism from stopping green projects: Ont. premier

Feb 10, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/10/ont-green-energy.html

NDP reintroduces greenhouse gas reduction bill

Feb 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/10/layton-climate.html

Federal budget gets mixed reviews

Infrastructure spending welcome but research story less rosy
Feb 9, 2009
Peggy Berkowitz
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/federal-budget-gets-mixed-reviews.aspx

Space agency head pleased with robotics funding

Feb 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/09/space-robotics.html

Attempted suicide, chronic disease rates higher among poor: Ont. report

Feb 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/09/poverty-health.html

Italian woman at heart of euthanasia debate dies

Feb 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/09/italy-euthanasia.html

Support our scientists

Feb 11, 2009
Marc Garneau
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1275357

Weak link found between smoking pot, testicular cancer

Feb 9, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/09/pot-cancer.html

Massive study casts doubt on health benefits of multivitamins

Feb 9, 2009
Sharon Kirkey
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Health/Massive+study+casts+doubt+health+benefits+multivitamins/1270772/story.html

A new direction for science in the U.S.

Feb 7, 2009
Rod Charlton
Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1425631

Should we do it just because science can?

Octuplets, 60-year-old new mom give rise to ethical, moral debates
Feb 7, 2009
Ian Haysom
Times Colonist
http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=d995012c-4386-4130-ad10-ea9a88d07492

Canada is failing science

Feb 6, 2009
editorial
Ottawa Citizen
http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=bdd40e6e-a9fd-465c-8a14-f2924267760b

Lack of science funding risks brain drain, CMAJ editorial warns

Federal budget cut money for research councils, made no new invetsment in key areas
Feb 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/06/budget-cmaj-ed.html

Medical journal blasts budget's vision for science

Feb 6, 2009
CAROLYN ABRAHAM AND JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090206.CMAJ06/TPStory/National

Food inspection agency failing to screen effectively for invasive species, A-G says

Canada's crops, forests threatened as high-risk imported foodstuffs go straight to store shelves
Feb 6, 2009
DANIEL LEBLANC
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090206.wauditfood06/BNStory/National/home

Climate change is a "forever issue"

Feb 6, 2009
Ken Dryden
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/06/ken-dryden-climate-change-is-a-quot-forever-issue-quot.aspx

Canada failing on CO2 cuts: audit

Feb 6, 2009
AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iTYJ573Y_H0cDyuZDqaSAphVVOow

Drug from genetically altered goats approved by U.S. regulator

Feb 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/06/tech-genetically-modified-drug.html

Antarctic ice melt could shift Earth's rotation: Study

Feb 6, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/environment/Antarctic+melt+could+shift+Earth+rotation+Study/1261393/story.html

PIPSC: Insufficient Funding Plagues Government Science

Feb 5, 2009
Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29043441/

Statement by Minister Prentice on the 2008 Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development

Feb 5, 2009
Environment Canada
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29037266/

Feds can't prove their costly green programs work: commissioner

Gaps in reporting, accountability: report
Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/05/enviro-commissioner.html

World's fish at risk as countries flout fishing code, study finds

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/05/tech-fish-code.html

North America at greater risk from Antarctic ice sheet melt: study

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/05/sea-level-rise.html

Electronic immunization records needed: Toronto health official

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/05/tto-immunixation.html

Regulator points to loophole in U.S. food-safety laws

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/05/fda-senate.html

Poultry inspection changes could pose health risk, say veterinarians

Feb 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/05/poultryvets-cfia.html

Insulation still safe, company says despite federal order halting sales

Feb 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/04/foam-warning.html

Bird flu virus still major concern: WHO

Feb 4, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/04/flu.html

Medical isotopes the likely cause of radiation in Ottawa waste

Feb 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/04/ot-090204-isotopes.html

Obama’s climate change initiative ‘best hope’ for salmon

Feb 4, 2009
Gordon Hamilton
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Obama+climate+change+initiative+best+hope+salmon/1250091/story.html

Judge allows medicinal pot plots

Strict limits on the production and distribution of medical marijuana are unconstitutional, B.C. court determines
Feb 4, 2009
Robert Barron
Daily News
http://www.canada.com/Judge+allows+medicinal+plots/1251818/story.html

Over 800 complaints on quit-smoking aid reported to Health Canada

Feb 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/04/champix.html

Canadian fisheries management a mess: Report

Feb 4, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/environment/Canadian+fisheries+management+mess+Report/1253122/story.html

Canada, U.S. need joint approach to carbon emissions: Study

Feb 4, 2009
Paul Vieira
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/technology/environment/Canada+need+joint+approach+carbon+emissions+Study/1253123/story.html

Alberta orders oilsands giants to clean up tailings ponds or close plants

Feb 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/03/edm-tailings-ponds.html

Antidepressants lower suicide risk for adults, raise it for youths: review

Feb 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/03/ssri-suicide.html

Canada may pale to Obama’s green plan

Feb 3, 2009
Don Martin
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/03/don-martin-canada-may-pale-to-obama-s-green-plan.aspx

Professor blames private sector for lack of research funding

Feb 3, 2009
Adriana Christianson
Leader-Post
http://www.leaderpost.com/Technology/Professor+blames+private+sector+lack+research+funding/1249616/story.html

Conservatives take their eyes off importance of innovation

Blueprint fails vital test of leadership for the country's future economy
Feb 3, 2009
David Crane
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/581203

Conservatives take their eyes off importance of innovation

Blueprint fails vital test of leadership for the country's future economy
Feb 3, 2009
David Crane
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/581203

Rules surrounding medicial marijuana somewhat hazy

Feb 3, 2009
Jack Knox
Times Colonist
http://www.canada.com/news/Rules+surrounding+medicial+marijuana+somewhat+hazy/1247425/story.html

Spirit of innovation starts from corner office

Feb 2, 2009
JIRI MALY AND CAROL DEACON
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090130.wstrategymaly0202/BNStory/robAtWork/home

Antibiotic-resistant cases of gonorrhea jump in Ontario

Feb 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/02/gonorrhea-resistant.html

Rising CO2 levels acidifying oceans, threatening sea life

Feb 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/02/tech-acidic-ocean.html

Mercury levels rising in caribou, contaminants program finds

Feb 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/02/north-caribou.html

'No comparison' between Harper budget and Obama on environment

But Environment Minister Jim Prentice says budget allocates more for green spending than any budget 'in Canadian history.'
Feb 2, 2009
Harris MacLeod
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2009/february/2/environment/&c=2