Misadventure capitalism

A byzantine cross-border investment regime is killing the Canadian venture-capital and technology industries
Apr 30, 2009
Stephen A. Hurwitz
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/04/30/misadventure-capitalism.aspx

A primer for global warming deniers

Nuclear, wind and solar are uneconomic for the same reason: They are inflexible technologies that cannot be dispatched
Apr 30, 2009
Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/04/30/lawrence-solomon-a-primer-for-global-warming-deniers.aspx

Government spending on bottled water is money down the drain, says advocacy group

Apr 30, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hetldQWgvXNx694GnNLAA_Mahgrg

Inspection report of Maple Leaf meat plant not altered: food agency

Apr 30, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/30/listeria-cfia-reports043009.html

Drug effects lead seniors to the ER

Apr 29, 2009
Pauline Tam
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Drug+effects+lead+seniors/1543580/story.html

R&D spending to get a 'big' boost

Energy Umoe Solar AS tight-lipped, but excited, about deals in the works with UNB and government
May 1, 2009
REBECCA PENTY
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/653215

Ignatieff waiting on science to decide asbestos export position

Apr 30, 2009
Andrew MacLeod
The Tyee
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2009/04/30/AsbestosExport/

Research play games to study pandemics

Apr 30, 2009
Vito Pilieci
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/Life/Research+play+games+study+pandemics/1551047/story.html

Science fair will generate more than $2.5M: organizers

Volunteers, sponsors sought
May 1, 2009
BRENDAN WEDLEY
THE EXAMINER
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1548783

Canada's timid approach to science funding will bring diminishing returns

Apr 30, 2009
JOHN POLANYI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090429.wcoscience30/BNStory/specialComment/home

Evolution classes optional under proposed Alberta law

Apr 30, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/04/30/cgy-bill-evolution-law-alberta-classes-teachers.html

Scientists fear end of brain gain

Canadian funding dwindles, while U.S. launches new research
Apr 30, 2009
Joanne Laucius
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health/Scientists+fear+brain+gain/1547235/story.html

Province's carbon tax rated the top climate policy in Canada

Apr 30, 2009
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090430.BCELECTIONCARBON30ART0001/TPStory/National

Ottawa's coal plan 'unrealistic'

Apr 30, 2009
SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090430.RCOAL30ART1941/TPStory/Business

Landmark Report on Canada's Innovative Economy

Apr 30, 2009
Science, Technology and Innovation Council
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2009/30/c6952.html

Canadian companies slow to innovate, study says

Apr 30, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/30/innovation-canada.html

Ministers Welcome Council of Canadian Academies Report on Business Innovation in Canada

Apr 30, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2009/week18/Thursday/043005.htm

Ottawa's inaction could result in extinctions

Apr 30, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090430.wsnail0430/BNStory/National

Arctic nations must act at UN climate change conference: ministers

Apr 30, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/30/arctic-council-climate.html

Canada should avoid the worst of swine flu, experts believe

Disease exists in far larger numbers than we know, but isn't making people sick enough to see a doctor
Apr 30, 2009
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/626639

Soot new culprit in Arctic's rapid melt

Blanket of carbon particles may speed thaw of sea ice, scientists say
Apr 30, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/626662

Engineers to test city structures for earthquake vulnerability

Apr 30, 2009
Andrew Duffy
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Engineers+test+city+structures+earthquake+vulnerability/1547272/story.html

U.S. can't keep up with China on clean energy

Country tops out globally in several industries
Apr 30, 2009
Gary Lamphier
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Opinion+keep+with+China+clean+energy/1549811/story.html

Deep emission cuts needed to limit global warming: scientists

Apr 29, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/29/nature-climate-temperature.html

$825 million on tap to fuel innovation

Caisse, Solidarity Fund ante up: Teralys Capital created to encourage investment in Quebec technology firms
Apr 28, 2009
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Business/million+fuel+innovation/1540435/story.html

Nortel's slide into oblivion

Nortel has concluded it is too small to compete. The sale of major assets is set to begin—and Ottawa's nearly 4,000 workers are bracing for the outcome.
Apr 21, 2009
James Bagnall
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Nortel+slide+into+oblivion/1508771/story.html

Obama's research pledge shows contrast in scientific dreams

Apr 28, 2009
JOHN IBBITSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090428.IBBITSON28ART2306/TPStory/National

Obama's vision to boost science poses challenge

Apr 29, 2009
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/fp/Obama+vision+boost+science+poses+challenge/1544091/story.html

Planet Harper baffles top scientists

Apr 29, 2009
Carol Goar
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/625938

Flat fee for tuition passes vote at U of T

Apr 28, 2009
Louise Brown
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/625639

Antarctic ice shelf crumbling into icebergs

Apr 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/28/tech-090428-wilkins-ice-shelf-antarctica.html

Canada's greenhouse gas emissions soared to new high in 2007

At 26 per cent above 1990 levels, emissions in violation of Kyoto Protocol pledge; rates far worse than in United States
Apr 28, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090428.wemissions0428/BNStory/National

Canada against EU entry to Arctic Council because of seal trade ban

Apr 29, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/29/cda-eu-arctic-seal.html

Swine flu edges closer to pandemic: WHO

European cases increasing; 13 confirmed in Canada
Apr 29, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/29/health-swine-flu-world285.html

Keep fear-o-meter on low for now

Apr 29, 2009
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090429.wflupicard29art2238/BNStory/National

'Inappropriate' to use antivirals now, public health chief says

Apr 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/28/antivirals-swine-flu.html

Canadian swine flu cases double as tourists come home

Health Minister points to 'mild' nature of illness in Canadians so far; Ottawa warns against travel to Mexico but stops short of ban
Apr 29, 2009
GLORIA GALLOWAY , CAROLINE ALPHONSO , KAREN HOWLETT and DAWN WALTON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090428.wflumain0428/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Seasonal workers raise swine flu fears on farms

Temporary foreign help could be at greater risk
Apr 29, 2009
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/Article/626077

Pork industry braces for fallout

Pig farmers cry foul, insist the influenza should not be linked with pigs and argue the name be changed
Apr 28, 2009
JOHN MINER
LONDON FREE PRESS
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/CanadaWorld/2009/04/28/9272836-sun.html

Pork exports hit by panic

Hogs from Canada, U.S., Mexico targeted despite public health assurances
Apr 29, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/626076

Act fast on 'old clunkers,' city urged

Critics slam 5-year shift to greener equipment
Apr 29, 2009
Paul Moloney
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/626055

U.S. government revokes rule limiting species protections

Apr 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/28/tech-090428-endangered-species-obama.html

Global warming key topic for Arctic Council meeting

Apr 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/28/arctic-council.html

Ont. government backs down on plan to require energy audit on home sales

Apr 28, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/28/energy-audits.html

Ontario government uncovers huge illegal drug rebate scheme

Apr 28, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Ontario+government+uncovers+huge+illegal+drug+rebate+scheme/1541544/story.html

Charges laid, legal action taken in Ontario drug resale scheme

Apr 28, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jPBmM7-Os_Zas_xaqNLMfm4BodHQ

Groups discuss hazards to local environment

Apr 28, 2009
CAROL CHRISTIAN
Fort McMurray Today
http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1543989

Activists, experts mindful of water quality in Ontario

Apr 28, 2009
BOB MIHELL
Sault Ste. Marie This Week
http://www.saultthisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1543420

Obama vows 3% of GDP for science research

Apr 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/27/obama-research.html

Key players implicated in scheme to boost generic drug profits

Apr 28, 2009
KAREN HOWLETT AND KATE HAMMER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090428.DRUGS28ART22023/TPStory/National

Canadian health officials warn against travel to Mexico

WHO says travel restrictions not needed
Apr 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/28/health-canada-mexico865.html

Rookie minister praised for quick, open response

SARS experience serves Aglukkaq well
Apr 28, 2009
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090428.wfluminister28art2243/BNStory/Front

WHO raises alert level as virus spreads its reach

Move to phase 4 signals sustained human transmission
Apr 28, 2009
CAROLINE ALPHONSO AND GLORIA GALLOWAY
With a report from Joe Friesen and The Canadian Press
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090428.FLU28ART22412/TPStory/National/

Canada will monitor, not bar Mexican farm workers

Doctors to help border authorities process migrant workers during flu outbreak
Apr 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/04/27/montreal-migrantworkers-swine-0427.html

End asbestos support now

Apr 28, 2009
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/business/fp/asbestos+support/1541219/story.html

Fredericton company hopes carbon is the new black

Apr 28, 2009
STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
Daily Gleaner
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/649481

Technology fund takes shape in Quebec

Apr 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/27/quebec-technology.html

Scientists take a page from online journalists

Apr 27, 2009
Stephen Strauss
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/21/f-strauss-science-blogs.html

No consensus on climate change document at indigenous summit

Apr 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/27/indigenous-climate-summit865.html

Not all research deserves public funding

Apr 27, 2009
GWYN MORGAN
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090421.wagenda_morgan27/BNStory/robColumnsBlogs/home

Flu fear spreads as cases confirmed in Canada

Canadian sufferers showing milder symptoms, but health official says virus could mutate and warns Ottawa to brace for severe cases
Apr 27, 2009
TU THANH HA AND BRIAN LAGHI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090426.wflumain27/BNStory/International

Public health still vulnerable after SARS

Upgraded system suffers from funding gaps
Apr 27, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090427.wfluprepared27art2121/BNStory/National/home

No need to panic ... yet

Ontario officials are worried swine flu could be pandemic, killing thousands
Apr 26, 2009
MICHELE MANDEL
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/2009/04/26/9248411-sun.html

World governments race to contain flu outbreak

Apr 27, 2009
RAY LILLEY
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090427.wfluworldreax0427/BNStory/International

PM's pal gets government job

Appointment to board of directors is geologist's third posting to be criticized for favouritism
Apr 27, 2009
Richard J. Brennan
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/624802

Legal battle over Vancouver's supervised injection site starts Monday

Apr 27, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Legal+battle+over+Vancouver+supervised+injection+site+starts+Monday/1538132/story.html

New California fuel rule may violate NAFTA: lawyer

Apr 27, 2009
Scott Haggett
Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN2446164120090427?sp=true

Losing the war on climate gases

Apr 27, 2009
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/Business/Losing+climate+gases/1537732/story.html

Arctic researchers struggle to complete projects as costs rise

Apr 26, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Arctic+researchers+struggle+complete+projects+costs+rise/1537022/story.html

CANADA: Is brain gain going down the drain?

Apr 26, 2009
Philip Fine
University World News
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20090424130258237

Legal policies steer direction of stem cell research

Amy Zarzeczny
May 1, 2009 issue
The Lawyers Weekly
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&volume=28&number=48&article=3

An action plan to save Canada's forest industry

Apr 27, 2009
AVRIM LAZAR
Globe and Mail
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090427.wagendalazar0427/BNStory/robAgenda/home

MP pushes for national pesticide ban

Apr 27, 2009
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/624694

Experts prefer tap water

Our water is safer, more eco-friendly than bottled, local scientists say
Apr 27, 2009
Eric McGuinness
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/555450

Winnipeg lab working on swine flu vaccine

Apr 26, 2009
Jen Skerritt
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Health/Winnipeg+working+swine+vaccine/1536602/story.html

Carbon copy in Ottawa

Apr 26, 2009
Editorial
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1118702.html

Do not read this column ...

... if all you're going to do is tell me to stop picking on that nice Al Gore and David Suzuki
Apr 26, 2009
LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/04/26/9248316-sun.html

Space goal set early

Apr 26, 2009
DEAN BENNETT
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2009/04/26/9250566-sun.html

Science nationals await

Provincial fair picks top talent
Apr 27, 2009
Carol Sanders
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/science-nationals-await-43759917.html?viewAllComments=y

Federal Court orders publication of all mining pollution data

Apr 24, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/24/court-mining-pollution865.html

Federal government's research funding scheme is wasteful: researchers

Apr 24, 2009
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/04/24/tech-090424-research-funding-caut.html

CAN SCIENCE SAVE THE OIL SANDS?

Falling oil prices and bad PR have hammered the oil sands. Out of all that bad news may rise a new era in innovation.
Apr 25, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090425.RCOVER25ART1935/TPStory/Business

Pandemic in the making

Canada raises health alarm as Mexico shuts down schools in effort to halt swine flu that has killed 20 people and possibly sickened hundreds more
Apr 25, 2009
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090425.ILLNESS25ART2116/TPStory/National/

Can we reduce our dependence on America?

Apr 25, 2009
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090425.COSIMP25ART1959/TPStory/National

Court ruling forces mining pollution to be revealed

Apr 25, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090425.MINING25ISLART2118/TPStory/Environment

Going green is sprouting financial benefits

Eco targets creating new positions, while businesses expand in traditional environmental sectors
Apr 25, 2009
DEREK SANKEY
Canwest News Service
http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/working/story.html?id=e87556dd-f350-4718-9a93-7b5be043e71e

The greener generation

Environmental consciousness already rooted in youth
Apr 25, 2009
AYOUB ANSARI
SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
http://www.torontosun.com/life/greenplanet/2009/04/25/9240716-sun.html

Guilt-free mass-market coffee - `greenwashing'?

Apr 25, 2009
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/623475

Look beyond oil and gas, says Trudeau

Apr 25, 2009
JASMINE FRANKLIN
SUN MEDIA
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2009/04/25/9241346-sun.html

The greening of the oilsands: New technologies set to eliminate tailings ponds

Apr 24, 2009
Dave Cooper
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/greening+oilsands+technologies+eliminate+tailings+ponds/1531439/story.html

Canadian lab confirms human swine flu cases in Mexico

World health agency schedules emergency meeting after 20 deaths
Apr 24, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/24/health-flu-mexico090424.html

McGuinty willing to consider standards for health effects of wind turbines

Apr 24, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/24/ont-wind.html

Wanted: tech head

In many ways, Canada's largest tech players are loath to let go of analog business models. Some think they could use a push
Apr 24, 2009
KEN HUNT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090424.ROB5PG18/TPStory/Business

Lead contamination closes parts of New Edinburgh park

Apr 24, 2009
Cassandra Drudi
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Lead+contamination+closes+parts+Edinburgh+park/1530729/story.html

Like it or not, your next car may be a hybrid

Still small, but segment poised to boom
Apr 23, 2009
Julie Beun-Chown
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Cars/story.html?id=1522691

A wide open field

Sustainability will be a big part of the new economic landscape
Apr 22, 2009
Mary Teresa Bitti
Financial Post
http://www.canada.com/technology/Sustainability+will+part+economic+landscape/1520296/story.html

While we talk, Canada's emissions go up, up and up ...

Apr 22, 2009
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090421.wcosimp22/BNStory/specialComment/home

Albertans need a climate-change reality check

Apr 21, 2009
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090420.wcosimp21/BNStory/specialComment

Canada's greenhouse emissions soaring again: UN report

After dip, output now 33.8 per cent above Kyoto commitment
Apr 21, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/Canada+greenhouse+emissions+soaring+again+report/1516915/story.html

The anti-specialists

For one group, the future of science lies outside one's area of expertise
Apr 18, 2009
Joseph Brean
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1508693&p=1