The crumbling case for green

Mar 11, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=cf078462-ef7a-48c9-979a-e979a7dde1a1

Quicker battery charge holds promise for plug-in cars

Mar 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/11/tech-090311-battery-recharge.html

Low salmon run expected on Yukon River again this year: DFO

Mar 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/10/yukon-salmon.html

Canada will fail if there's no tar sands plan, say experts

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff shouldn't play politics with oil sands, says Andrew Nikiforuk.
Mar 9, 2009
Bea Vongdouangchanh
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2009/march/9/tar_sands_plan/&c=2

Government MPs form caucus on higher ed

Mar 9, 2009
Nick Taylor-Vaisey
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/government-mps-form-caucus-on-higher-ed.aspx

Advocacy agenda: universities must be strategic with their requests

Mar 9, 2009
Univerisity Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/advocay-agenda-universities-must-be-strategic-with-their-requests.aspx

Is green procurement right policy for Ontario?

Mar 9, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/598634

A letter to the Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities

Mar 7, 2009
Carolyn Steele
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/blog.aspx?id=5512&blogid=1836

Obama's doomed carbon plan should please Ottawa

Mar 7, 2009
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/598053

Carbon capture and storage: Trouble in store

Politicians are pinning their hopes for delivery from global warming on a technology that is not quite airtight
Mar 5, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13226661

Obama's policy on science sends signal to world

Mar 11, 2009
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Obama+policy+science+sends+signal+world/1375896/story.html

Martin blasts deficit, cuts to research

Former prime minister criticizes Ottawa's handling of recession and calls on Harper to be more 'consistent'
Mar 11, 2009
PAUL WALDIE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090311.wPOLmartin0311/BNStory/politics/home

Neuroscientists fear brain drain as crucial funding disappears

Mar 11, 2009
ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090311.wresearch11/BNStory/National/home

Montreal's wood stove ban: a lot of hot air

Mar 11, 2009
NEIL REYNOLDS
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090310.wreynolds0311/BNStory/robColumnsBlogs/home

Use of carbon monoxide in packaging ground beef would extend shelf life: study

Mar 10, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hh6PGvhSQF7w7eUQBf8yIr9LxkBg

Canada warned: We're far behind on mental health

Hearings today in Montreal: Patchwork services, no national policy and too little funding, commission finds
Mar 10, 2009
Aaron Derfel
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1373828

Protecting polar bears

Canada has two-thirds of the world's polar bears -- and a sorry record of ensuring their survival. Bears are at risk in the face of rapidly melting Arctic sea ice
Mar 10, 2009
Ed Struzik
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/Protecting+polar+bears/1373877/story.html

AUCC welcomes quick delivery of Knowledge Infrastructure Funding

Mar 10, 2009
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2009/10/c7626.html

Minister of Industry launches $2-billion knowledge infrastrucure program

Mar 9, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Industry-Canada-959046.html

Canada’s innovation woes

Mar 10, 2009
DAVID CRANE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1110569.html

Climate scientists gather, and the news is not good

Mar 10, 2009
AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixeie7WvUNajfJtN3iImDQ_MUhhQ

Universities promised stimulus flexibility

Mar 10, 2009
BRIAN LAGHI and ELIZABETH CHURCH AND OLIVER MOORE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090310.wclement10/BNStory/politics/home

More money for higher education

$2-billion fund to help universities with refits, construction
Mar 10, 2009
JOHN GILLIS
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1110575.html

Dreams of clean energy centre dashed

Innovation Documents reveal how N.B. tried to land millions of research dollars
Mar 10, 2009
Brett Bundale
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/597999

Trans-fat ban is on its way

B.C. will regulate the food additives across the province Oct. 1
Mar 10, 2009
Darrell Bellaart
Daily News
http://www.canada.com/Trans/1373092/story.html

Researchers wary over cuts to councils

Turk: Canada will lose top scientists
Mar 10, 2009
Jared Lindzon
Western Gazette
http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/article.cfm?section=FrontPage&articleID=1330&month=03&day=10&year=2009

Ban based on politics, not science, say pesticide companies

Mar 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2009/03/10/pe-pesticide-companies.html

Free-range ruling leaves Metro with egg on its face

Mar 10, 2009
Harvey Enchin
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/Free+range+ruling+leaves+Metro+with+face/1372862/story.html

Sanity on stem cells

Mar 10, 2009
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Health/Sanity+stem+cells/1373022/story.html

Obama's stem cell decision raises Canadian cheers - and brain drain worries

Mar 9, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jSqRWkdgymJn6ITbk96KKM-NrDxQ

Deadline coming for crumbling colleges, universities

Federal fund about to end: Minister
Mar 9, 2009
Mike De Souza
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Deadline+coming+crumbling+colleges+universities/1371048/story.html

Evaluating Ontario's green energy program

Mar 7, 2009
Rod Charlton
Recorder & Times
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1468157

Sand Storm

The U.S. government is changing its environmental policy. Now Canada may have to rethink its policy as well.
Mar 9, 2009
HYUN YOUNG LEE
The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123620661145533445.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Company hopes to put cod on more tables

Aquaculture Genome Atlantic receives federal funding for cod genomics project
Mar 9, 2009
Matt McCann
THE TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/596679

Canada's Earth scientists need funding: scientists

Mar 9, 2009
Bill Mercer
The Hill Times
http://www.hilltimes.com/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2009/march/9/letter8/&c=1

Birth-control pills, low birth weight linked

Early Research; May pose risk in month before conception
Mar 9, 2009
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1369394

Green Energy Act good news for economy and environment

Mar 9, 2009
DAVID RAMSAY
Northern News
http://www.northernnews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1468710

Cold reality of climate change

Mar 9, 2009
MONTE SOLBERG
Winnipeg Sun
http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/columnists/monte_solberg/2009/03/09/8677191-sun.html

B.C. first province to regulate trans fats in restaurants

Mar 8, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/first+province+regulate+trans+fats+restaurants/1366445/story.html

Southern Canadians now more active than northerners: new study

Mar 8, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gmjeCLTRKxJuz2ewkhtIJwWUkigA

Canada puts the squeeze on science

Experts warn research lacks adequate funding and the government a coherent vision. While the U.S. invests heavily in science as an key part of its economic revival, Canada is spending less and putting scientists out of work, reports Mohammed Adam.
Mar 7, 2009
Mohammed Adam
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Business/Canada+puts+squeeze+science/1364117/story.html

Ottawa wants say over school funds

Universities, some provinces protest Tories' insistence that infrastructure cash be earmarked for science
Mar 7, 2009
BRIAN LAGHI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090307.UNIVERSITIES07/TPStory/National

Prentice sees promise in clean energy talks

Minister says U.S.-Canada environment policy needs work
Mar 7, 2009
MARKUS ERMISCH
SUN MEDIA
http://calsun.canoe.ca/Business/2009/03/07/8662001-sun.html

Will tougher green laws be enforced?

Mar 7, 2009
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Business/Will+tougher+green+laws+enforced/1365267/story.html

'You are known as energy superpower,' envoy says

China's ambassador to Canada says we could increase trade by pushing our science, technology
Mar 7, 2009
Tony Wong
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/598212

Ontario's war on carbon

This corrupt energy initiative is turning Ontario into a green police state
Mar 6, 2009
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=c2171861-e003-40bd-ba4c-ae05a0e36c8f

Federal government wants regulation of printer pigment, solvents

Mar 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/03/06/batch3-regulate.html

Universities use all the tricks in the book to lure students

Mar 6, 2009
ELIZABETH CHURCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090306.RECRUITING06/TPStory/National

Plagiarists beware - cybersleuths are on the case

An online program can scan medical databases for cases of copying, helping journal editors ferret out dubious reports
Mar 6, 2009
PAUL TAYLOR
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/GAM.20090306.LDOSES06/TPStory/TPComment

A (superficial) study in smoking

Mar 6, 2009
Colby Cosh
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/03/06/colby-cosh-a-superficial-study-in-smoking.aspx

The nuclear option

Mar 5, 2009
Armand Laferrère
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/03/05/the-nuclear-option.aspx

Health Canada further restricting access to information

Documents must be OK'd by minister's office
Mar 5, 2009
Glen McGregor
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/News/Health+Canada+further+restricting+access+information/1357988/story.html

New federal act would boost fines for corporate polluters

Mar 5, 2009
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090305.wenvirobill0305/BNStory/politics/home

Ontario to sue big tobacco for health costs

Proposed law would let province seek billions to recoup money spent on smoking-related illness
Mar 5, 2009
Rob Ferguson
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/596884

Flushing away valuable energy

Mar 5, 2009
CAROL MAAS AND NANCY GOUCHER
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/2009/03/05/8634521-sun.html

Government of Canada announces new centre for surgical innovation in Hamilton

New Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research will create jobs, improve the quality of life for Canadians and strengthen the economy
Mar 5, 2009
NETWORKS OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE OF CANADA
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2009/05/c6278.html

Alberta government adds cancer drug Avastin to its coverage list

Mar 5, 2009
Jodie Sinnema
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Health/Alberta+government+adds+cancer+drug+Avastin+coverage+list/1357904/story.html

Bisphenol A found in canned soft drinks

Mar 4, 2009
CTV.ca News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090304/bpa_090304/20090304?hub=Health

Maple Leaf CEO denies talking Listeria with Feds

Mar 4, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090304/maple_leaf_090304/20090304/?hub=TorontoNewHome

The budget's message to medical science: Quick! Get a shovel!

Mar 3, 2009
editorial
Canadian Medical Association Journal
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/180/5/485

Clinical trial participation poses ethical, practical issues

Mar 3, 2009
Ann Silversides
Canadian Medical Association Journal
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/180/5/500

Effect of oilsands on water supply to be studied

Mar 3, 2009
JIM MACDONALD
The Canadian Press
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1109275.html

Government of Canada Invests Over $35 Million for Science and Technology Projects to Enhance Canada's Safety and Security

Mar 3, 2009
Defence Research and Development Canada
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29491224/

Obama revamp of U.S. requires Canada to react

Feb 28, 2009
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/fp/Obama+revamp+requires+Canada+react/1339023/story.html

U.S. academics staying in Canada

Some who moved north in Bush presidency have no plans to return
Feb 23, 2009
Daniel Drolet
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/us-academics-staying-in-canada.aspx

Obama puts science in rightful place

Jan 30, 2009
David Suzuki With Faisal Moola
The Citizen
http://www.canada.com/news/world/Obama+puts+science+rightful+place/1233235/story.html

HPV vaccine a tough sell in parts of Canada

Mar 3, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090303/HPV_vaccine_090303/20090303?hub=Health

Why fewer women succeed in math

Innate career leanings, not inferior ability, prompt calculating females to shun calculus, study finds
Mar 3, 2009
Nancy J. White
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/595540

Feds feeling heat from insulation lawsuit

Mar 3, 2009
CHRISTINA SPENCER
Calgary Sun
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2009/03/03/8599276-sun.html

It's time for Canada's digital revolution

Mar 2, 2009
TOM JENKINS
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090226.wagenda_jenkins02/BNStory/robAgenda/home

Oilsands not focus in U.S.-Canada talks: Environmentalists

Mar 2, 2009
Juliet O'Neill
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/Oilsands+focus+Canada+talks+Environmentalists/1345718/story.html

Researchers fear 'stagnation' under Tories

Mar 2, 2009
CAROLYN ABRAHAM
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090302.wresearch02/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Climate change double-think

Mar 2, 2009
Lorne Gunter
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/03/02/lorne-gunter-climate-change-double-think.aspx

Prentice heads to Washington for crucial talks on clean-energy technology

Mar 1, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5i8kpequf3yb9-MhTXZNpyrrcgN-g

NRC cuts could affect 300 positions

Feb 23, 2009
Mohammed Adam
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/cuts+could+affect+positions/1312274/story.html

Change at the realm of Génome Québec

Feb 26, 2009
Génome Québec
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2009/26/c4048.html

Ottawa wades into oilsands debate

Mar 1, 2009
Juliet O'Neill
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Ottawa+wades+into+oilsands+debate/1342099/story.html

Canadians won't quit on the environment

Government must have 'green' focus while stimulating economy, pollster says
Feb 28, 2009
JOE FRIESEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090228.CLIMATE28/TPStory/National

Carbon capture no silver bullet for tar sands

Only a small portion of greenhouse gases could be sequestered
Feb 27, 2009
Gerald Butts
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/593781

Canada is wasting this economic crisis

Feb 27, 2009
David Anderson
Special to The Windsor Star
http://www.windsorstar.com/Business/Canada+wasting+this+economic+crisis/1334811/story.html

Government of Canada announces new green chemistry commercialization centre in Kingston

Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research solve problems, advance innovation and create jobs
Feb 27, 2009
NETWORKS OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE OF CANADA
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2009/27/c4408.html

Tories in sprint to match Obama on climate change

Fuel standards and emissions targets on harmonization agenda
Feb 26, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/593246

Universities need higher fees to get through recession: report

Feb 26, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/26/fee-hikes.html

And the SSHRC goes to ...

Harper budget attempts to control academic research
Feb 26, 2009
Ricardo Acuña
Vue Weekly
http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=11114

The not so good old days

The world of his childhood David Suzuki remembers so fondly was one of intolerance and want, rampant disease and malnutrition, killer smog and dead lakes
Feb 26, 2009
Dan Gardner
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/Health/good+days/1331552/story.html

Cure for cancer just might be prevention

New report promotes cutting back on fatty, sugary foods, exercising regularly and slimming down
Feb 26, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090226.wcancer26/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

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