AUCC supports Science, Technology and Innovation Council’s call for Canada to aim higher

May 5, 2009
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/media/2009/s_t_innovation_council_05_05_e.html

Academe is a choice not a life sentence

May 6, 2009
Carolyn Steele
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-sense/academe-is-a-choice-not-a-life-sentence/

Scoop: Stephen Harper's assault on science isn't quite what it appears

May 5, 2009
Kelly McParland
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/05/scoop-stephen-harper-s-assault-on-science-funding-fails-to-ruin-science.aspx

Funding frenzy hits bottom line

May 5, 2009
Carson Jerema
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/Funding-frenzy-hits-bottom-line-44316557.html

Gene grant just shuffling money: Critics

May 5, 2009
JONATHAN JENKINS
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/05/05/9351421-sun.html

Plugging the brain drain

May 5, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/628891

QP Tuesday: Science, the Stone Age and EI revisted

May 5, 2009
Steven Chase
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090505.WBwbureaublog20090505161905/WBStory/WBwbureaublog

Ontario gears up for 1 in 3 falling ill

Flu pandemic scenario based on 4.5 million cases
May 5, 2009
Theresa Boyle
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/629032

Eastern Arctic bowhead whales no longer threatened: federal committee

May 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/05/cosewic-listings-bowhead.html

Livestock main source of E. coli: study

DNA fingerprinting shows human sewage only a tiny fraction of the problem
May 5, 2009
Tom Spears
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Livestock+main+source+coli+study/1563371/story.html

Great Lakes action plan urged

May 6, 2009
BRYN WEESE
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/05/06/9366411-sun.html

Canola meal could be headed for new U of S research facility

May 6, 2009
Laura Keil
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/News/Canola+meal+could+headed+research+facility/1567791/story.html

Japan still leading the world in innovation – Canada loses ground

May 5, 2009
John Clinkard
Journal of Commerce
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id33662

Obama sets example for endangered species protection

May 5, 2009
David Suzuki & Faisal Moola
Georgia Straight
http://www.straight.com/article-219001/david-suzuki-us-sets-example-endangered-species-protection

Ease regulations to make Canada 'energy superpower': Industry

May 5, 2009
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Business/Ease+regulations+make+Canada+energy+superpower+Industry/1565891/story.html

B.C. forest industry launches broadside against NDP in final week of campaign

May 6, 2009
JUSTINE HUNTER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090506.BCELECTIONMAIN06ATLART2124/TPStory/National/

How safe are hog farms?

May 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/04/f-hogs.html

Innovate or perish, Canada warned

We have the knowledge, but aren't converting it to wealth, experts say
May 5, 2009
Bruce Campion-Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/628994

Business innovation essential if Canada is to survive in future

May 5, 2009
DAVID CRANE
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1120297.html

Proposed Alberta law doesn't make evolution classes optional: minister

May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/04/cgy-evolution-alberta-human-rights.html

The future of graduate education

May 4, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/the-future-of-graduate-education

Canada's businesses 2nd-last in research spending among G7: report

May 5, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/05/tech-090505-research-funding-report.html

Harper to fight with EU over climate change

May 5, 2009
Allan Woods
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/628974

B.C. parties square off over power production

Election sees heated debate as NDP opposes Liberal plan for privately owned and operated run-of-river and wind projects
May 5, 2009
DAVID EBNER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090505.RBCPOWER05ART1934/TPStory/Business

U of A gets $100M chunk of stimulus funds

May 4, 2009
Keith Gerein
Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/gets+100M+chunk+stimulus+funds/1562258/story.html

New independent food inspection agency needed: Expert

May 4, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/independent+food+inspection+agency+needed+Expert/1562489/story.html

Lack of Vitamin D in kids linked to risks later in life

May 4, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.wlvitamin04art1806/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

Ottawa may start WTO action on pork ban

May 5, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Ottawa+start+action+pork/1564654/story.html

Co-operation only effective tool to fight pandemic

May 5, 2009
The StarPhoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Health/operation+only+effective+tool+fight+pandemic/1563838/story.html

Severe form of swine flu appears in Canada

17 new cases of H1N1 in Ont.
May 4, 2009
Sharon Kirkey
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Health/Severe+form+swine+appears+Canada/1561558/story.html

Contradictions abound as world braces for possible swine-flu pandemic

May 4, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5icMndDXMex6nRN0kb7Xpo6EvtHSw

Toxic mercury levels in seal meat linked to melting Arctic ice

May 4, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/04/tech-090504-seal-meat-mercury.html

Canada loses top AIDS researcher to sunny Florida

May 4, 2009
Peggy Curran
Montreal Gazette
http://www.canada.com/Health/Canada+loses+AIDS+researcher+sunny+Florida/1562704/story.html

Top AIDS researcher to leave Montreal for U.S. institute

May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/04/sekaly-aids.html

Ontario to award $100M for genomics research

May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/04/ontario-research-competition.html

Gene research gets $100 million boost

Scientists applaud new funding, saying it will help keep Ontario at forefront of biomedical advances
May 5, 2009
Megan Ogilvie
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/628996

Back to future for Liberals on carbon tax

May 2, 2009
Juliet O'Neill
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Technology/Back+future+Liberals+carbon/1557950/story.html

Ontario to provide major new research funding

$100-million to keep top scientists from departing for U.S.
May 4, 2009
ANTHONY REINHART
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090504.wontscience04art2220/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Ontario to announce $100M fund for scientists

May 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/04/ontario-research-competition.html

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