Saskatoon high school student wins national prize for research

May 7, 2009
Laura Keil
Saskatchewan News Network
http://www.leaderpost.com/Technology/Saskatoon+high+school+student+wins+national+prize+research/1570376/story.html

Green roof bylaw moves one step closer to reality

'It's just taking that quick cash grab from us'
May 7, 2009
Allison Hanes
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1570723

Don't kill Canada geese in Kelowna, group urges

May 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/06/bc-kelowna-shooting-geese.html

Canada's 'flu hunters' track a wily new virus

May 5, 2009
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090505.wxfluhunters05islart2241/BNStory/National/home

A Pressing Need: Revising academic apprenticeship

May 6, 2009
Trevor McKee
The Mark
http://themarknews.com/articles/170-a-pressing-need-revising-academic-apprenticeship

Education our only magic elixir

May 7, 2009
James Travers
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/canada/columnist/article/630362

Reverse Reaganism, reverse growth

May 7, 2009
William Watson
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=138dc53e-8bee-48d1-a83b-09df3528b562

Industry faces high cost by neglecting R&D

Internship program helps slow graduate brain drain
May 6, 2009
Marke Andrews
Canwest News Service
http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/working/story.html?id=79f41869-2ebf-4e9d-84cc-a168e410b450

Telus, Microsoft hope Canada will buy into patient-centred e-health records

May 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/06/tech-telus-health-space-microsoft-electronic-health-records.html

Run-of-river power projects breach environmental standards: documents

May 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/06/bc-environmental-inspections-private-power-projects.html

New map of Arctic could point to Canadian gas, minerals

Data could also be used to claim more Arctic waters, seabed
May 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/07/tech-geological-map-arctic-marc-st-onge.html

Britain to remove some DNA profiles from databases

Critics say changes don't go far enough to protect privacy
May 7, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/07/britain-dna-privacy.html

Pork industry scrambles to prove meat is safe

Politicians say Canadian pigs still a good food source, but some farmers suggest slaughtering infected Albertan herd
May 7, 2009
GLORIA GALLOWAY and DAWN WALTON AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20090507.FLU07ART2257/TPStory/National/

Official says H1N1 could infect third of world

May 7, 2009
DARREN SCHUETTLER
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090507.wflumain0507/BNStory/International/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Swine flu is same strain in Canada and Mexico

201 confirmed cases in Canada, 1,893 worldwide
May 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/06/swine-flu-sequencing060.html

Flu virus baffles Canadian scientists

Winnipeg lab can't find reason why Mexicans are being hit the hardest
May 7, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/630370

Green roof proposal faces withering criticism

May 7, 2009
JEFF GRAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090507.GREEN07ART2253/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

Lafarge proposes test-burning biomass fuels

Company seeks public input this time around
May 7, 2009
PAUL SCHLIESMANN
Whig-Standard
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1556811

P.E.I. ready to issue air quality warnings

May 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2009/05/07/pei-air-quality-index.html

Animal testing: Suffering for science

Europe votes for better regulation of animal experiments
May 7, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13610079

Global health: Preparing for the worst

Vaccine makers are ill-prepared for an influenza pandemic
May 7, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13609361

Electric cars and noise: The sound of silence

Sound generators will make electric and hybrid cars safer
May 7, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13606446

Take a look inside the lab at Science Rendezvous

Robots, smart homes and a GPS-outfitted rescue dog part of daylong show-and-tell
May 7, 2009
Noor Javed
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/630394

Radiation from medical tests; important information to use

May 3, 2009
Pamela Fayerman
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/medicinematters/archive/2009/05/03/radiation-from-medical-tests.aspx

What you need to read about flu pandemics

May 1, 2009
Pamela Fayerman
Vancouver Sun
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/medicinematters/archive/2009/05/01/what-you-need-to-read-about-flu-pandemics.aspx

Canada's progress in science, innovation mediocre, study finds

May 6, 2009
ELIZABETH CHURCH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090506.RESEARCH06ART2119/TPStory/National

Council says Canadian businesses weak in R&D

Feds should focus more funding on priority research areas: report
May 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/05/tech-090505-research-funding-report.html

The state of science and innovation in Canada

May 5, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/the-state-of-science-and-innovation-in-canada

Canada lagging in research: Tech council

May 5, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/Canada+lagging+research+Tech+council/1566110/story.html

Canadian innovators told to heed the circus

Ottawa's big thinkers say Cirque de Soleil a role model for others
May 6, 2009
Bruce Campion-Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/629674

Canada a laggard in business R&D: report

May 5, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5grS92EJCsEgnPuHscLxjtmuBKw1A

Report Gives Canadian Research a Middling Grade but Hails Work at Universities

May 6, 2009
Karen Birchard
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/news/article/6429/report-gives-canadian-research-a-middling-grade-but-hails-work-at-universities

Canada private investment in R&D lags

May 5, 2009
Ashleigh Patterson
Reuters
http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE5444H120090505?sp=true

Ministers Welcome Report by Science, Technology and Innovation Council

May 5, 2009
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ministers-welcome-report-science-technology/story.aspx?guid=%7BAC0E2DA3-2F20-42B2-A4D4-BB75DF82D891%7D&dist=msr_1

Rx&D Applauds STIC Report and Agrees that Canada Must "Aim Higher" to Reap the Rewards of Innovation

May 5, 2009
Rx&D
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2009/05/c8630.html

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