Top AIDS researcher lured away by Florida

Scientist expects to double his budget; hopes U.S. move will be wake-up call for Ottawa
May 4, 2009
ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.waids04/BNStory/National

Critics question ban on pesticides

Chemicals nixed in war on weeds
May 4, 2009
Derek Spalding
Daily News
http://www.canada.com/Critics+question+pesticides/1561366/story.html

Researchers flag increasing levels of fresh water in Labrador Sea

May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/04/labrador-sea-504.html

No more free rides for the mining industry

May 4, 2009
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/more+free+rides+mining+industry/1560198/story.html

Pork industry in panic as pigs catch the flu

China bans imports - prompting fears U.S. will follow suit - after Alberta quarantines 2,200 pigs
May 4, 2009
PATRICK WHITE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.FLUPORK04ART2249/TPStory/National

Human-to-swine transmission escalates mutation risk

May 4, 2009
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.FLUMAIN04ART22282/TPStory/National

Researchers seeking `smoking pig' in flu virus outbreak

May 3, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Researchers+seeking+smoking+virus+outbreak+with+word+optional/1560562/story.html

Perspective quells fears

Mostly a cough is just a cough, not swine flu, a top Canadian psychologist says
May 4, 2009
Jim Gibson
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/Health/Perspective+quells+fears/1561219/story.html

More than 1,000 swine flu cases worldwide: WHO

'Level 6 does not mean, in any way, that we are facing the end of the world:' WHO chief
Margaret Chan
May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/04/swine-flu-world-health119.html

Canada on verge of IT student shortage

Education Greater emphasis on information technology in high schools is key to reversing trend, expert says
May 4, 2009
Brett Bundale
Telegraph-Journal
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/655580

Will Canada miss the next wireless revolution?

Industry and government must move fast to embrace a new generation of mobile network access. Here's how
May 4, 2009
SARA DIAMOND
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.RAGENDADIAMOND04ART1931/TPStory/Business

U.S. list tarnishes Canada's digital reputation

May 4, 2009
Michael Geist
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/628419

Falling costs revive oil sands

Alberta's oil sands producers are hopeful a rollback in labour and material costs will breathe new life into a sector struggling with the freefall in crude prices
May 4, 2009
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.ROILPATCH04ART1939//TPStory/National

Too many cooks in cancer kitchen

May 4, 2009
EMILE THERIEN
The Examiner
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1551904

The battle over the world's purest water

Environmentalists vow to stop a plan to build a garbage dump in Ontario's Tiny Township, famed for water as clean as any on Earth
May 4, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.wwater04art2147/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

The answer's still blowin' in the wind turbine

May 2, 2009
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/627747

CANADA: Open access - promises and challenges

May 3, 2009
Leslie Chan
University World News
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20090430200134133

The Steady Erosion of Science Journalism

May 1, 2009
Tom Price
Miller-McCune.com
http://www.miller-mccune.com/mediator/the-steady-erosion-of-science-journalism-1194

Knowledge: the Most Important Renewable Resource

May 1, 2009
Tom Price
Miller-McCune.com
http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/knowledge-the-most-important-renewable-resource-1191

What's ahead?

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future
May 2, 009
PETER HADEKEL
Special to The Gazette
http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/saturdayextra/story.html?id=a186d59c-8de6-4b46-be71-919ef88f0795

Flu remedy or snake oil?

Scientist claims to have antidote, Health Canada has yet to approve
May 1, 2009
Nelson Bennett
Richmond News
http://www2.canada.com/richmondnews/news/story.html?id=5c511e45-fba5-41d6-8559-266b62167fd8

Companies tout health products for profits in wake of flu outbreak

May 2, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j1lgxjjUcsLbZgO3hzVc2lxHioew

Clean technologies moving mainstream

Canada's auto sector contributed about 2% to GDP in 2006
May 1, 2009
Alia McMullen
Financial Post
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Clean+technologies+moving+mainstream/1554876/story.html

Celebrating the Burgess Shale

One hundred years after discovery, fossil beds are still teaching us about diversity of life on Earth
May 3, 2009
Valerie Berenyi
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Celebrating+Burgess+Shale/1558063/story.html

Canada enhances pork inspections to quell swine flu fears

Egypt begins slaughter of entire pig population
Apr 29, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/29/pork-imports-restrictions465.html

An R&D machine in need of direction

What are Canada's priorities? Where does the money go? And how to strengthen the 'innovation chain'?
May 1, 2009
HARVEY WEINGARTEN
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090501.wcoessay0502/BNStory/specialComment/home

Is Canada losing the lab-rat race?

May 2, 2009
ERIN ANDERSSEN AND ANNE MCILROY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090502.wcover02/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090502.wcover02

Minister of State Goodyear Delivers Canada's Message at International Science Conference

May 1, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Industry-Canada-983433.html

New Trent degree combines science, environmental policy

FIRST IN CANADA: 'It's a difficult degree'
May 2, 2009
ANDREA HOUSTON
THE EXAMINER
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1550680

Natural causes cited for drop in Lake Huron's water levels

May 2, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090502.LAKE02ART2053/TPStory/Environment

Arctic centre can build but can't keep lights, heat on

Apr 28, 2009
Margaret Munro
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Arctic+centre+build+keep+lights+heat/1542613/story.html

Tech new engine of Central Canada

May 2, 2009
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1555633

Tories try to cut through `green' fog

May 1, 2009
Jim Coyle
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/627128

The Dark Lord

Sir Nicholas Stern says there will be ‘no powerful carbon policemen.’ Don’t bet on it
May 1, 2009
Peter Foster
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/01/peter-foster-the-dark-lord.aspx

Ottawa `ducking its own laws' on protecting wildlife, study says

May 1, 2009
Moira Welsh
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/627154

Pigs, viruses and politics

May 2, 2009
Thomas Walkom
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/627748

Lessons of 1976: flu, fear, wasted millions

Governments scrambling for solutions to current outbreak risk repeating mistakes of a decades-old health-scare fiasco
May 2, 2009
LES PERREAUX
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090502.FLUSEVENTYSIX02ART2134/TPStory/National

Swine flu roots traced to Spanish flu

May 1, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/swine-flu-spanish-origin.html

Did pandemic-watchers miss the signs online?

May 1, 2009
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/tech-090501-online-tools-pandemic.html

Not as deadly as flu season, but virus takes toll on the economy

May 1, 2009
Harvey Enchin
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/deadly+season+virus+takes+toll+economy/1552515/story.html

Health officials express cautious optimism

Genetic analysis of H1N1 virus done in six countries, including Canada, does not show the markers for virulence seen in 1918 outbreak
May 2, 2009
GLORIA GALLOWAY AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090502.FLU02ART2152/TPStory/National/

More cases of swine flu confirmed across Canada

May 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/01/swine-flu.html

Canada: Innovate or stagnate

May 1, 2009
David Crane
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/627004

A green offshoot of recession

May 1, 2009
BRIAN MILNER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090501.RSTERN01ART1931/TPStory/Business

Canada placed on copyright blacklist

Apr 30, 2009
PAUL KORING
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090430.wtrade0430/BNStory/Technology

Species at Risk Act lacks teeth, conservationists say

May 1, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/species-risk-conservation.html

Canada's pandemic plan has many unknowns

Blueprint is comprehensive, 'but these things never go smoothly, U of O health policy expert says
May 1, 2009
Andrew Mayeda
Canwest News Service
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health/Canada+pandemic+plan+many+unknowns/1552043/story.html

Canada sees 34 swine flu cases - all mild

Toronto case reported; more are expected as results from swabs become available
May 1, 2009
Tanya Talaga & Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/627099

Scientists starting to believe swine flu outbreak won't be so bad

Apr 30, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/30/swine-flu-research.html

Minister of State Gary Goodyear Announces Inaugural Recipients of Canada's Highly Prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

166 of the world's leading doctoral students from Canada and abroad awarded $50,000 annually for up to three years to pursue studies at Canadian universities
Apr 30, 2009
Industry Canada
http://ca.sys-con.com/node/943915

Work on policy, research in Canada's North, not Europe's: Green critic

Yukoner blasts federal government for opening Arctic office in Norway
Apr 30, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/04/30/arctic-office-reax.html

Gene discovery could help make crops resistant to heat, drought

Apr 30, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/30/tech-090430-abscisic-acid-drought-resistant-crops.html

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