Canada's reckless carbon habit

May 9, 2009
ANDREW NIKIFORUK
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090509.BKCARBON09ART1454/TPStory/Entertainment

Bridging accreditation gap

Canada-EU barriers being reduced
May 8, 2009
Derek Sankey
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/Bridging+accreditation/1577176/story.html

Teen scientist wins top prize for 'designer wheat'

May 9, 2009
Mark Milner
Special to CTV.ca
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090507/designer_wheat_090509/20090509?hub=SciTech

Inventive teen wins $95,000 in scholarships

Solar energy system gains wide recognition
May 10, 2009
Sarah McGinnis
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Inventive+teen+wins+scholarships/1581554/story.html

Fickle Gods of Global Warming

May 9, 2009
REX MURPHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090508.wcomurphy09/BNStory/specialComment/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Canada ready for pandemic, CMAhead says

May 8, 2009
Sharon Kirkey
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Canada+ready+pandemic+CMAhead+says/1580709/story.html

'Knowledge' jobs alone are not enough

May 8, 2009
Carol Goar
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/630818

VENTURE CAPITAL BREAKDOWN

Canada's challenged system forcing entrepreneurs to turn to the U.S. for cash
May 8, 2009
MATT HARTLEY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090508.RVCFUNDING05ART1940/TPStory/Business

'Sound science' only raises more questions

May 8, 2009
K. Jean Cottam
The Daily News
http://www.canada.com/Sound+science+only+raises+more+questions/1576517/story.html

Canada can influence U.S. climate change legislation

May 7, 2009
Claudia Cattaneo
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/energy/story.html?id=1573673

U.S. to start making plutonium again to fuel space missions

May 7, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/07/tech-plutonium-fuel-shortage-nasa.html

River protection research fails to persuade P.E.I. environment minister

May 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/08/pei-buffer-zone-stream.html

The wrong direction

May 7, 2009
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/wrong+direction/1570792/story.html

Bioelectricity gives better mileage than ethanol: study

May 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/07/tech-bioelectricity-biomass-ethanol-cars.html

Honeybee colonies not declining worldwide, study says

May 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/07/honeybee-population-pollinator-current-biology-harden.html

Stephen Hawking's visit to Waterloo on hold

May 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/08/hawking-stephen-waterloo-perimeter-visit-delay-postpone.html

Oil spill on Burnaby mountain contained

May 7, 2009
Graeme Wood
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/spill+Burnaby+mountain+contained/1572740/story.html

Save the birds? Save their habitat

May 8, 2009
BRIDGET STUTCHBURY and JEFFREY WELLS AND CAROLINE SCHULTZ
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090507.wcobird08/BNStory/specialComment/home

Alberta woman who died had swine flu, health officials confirm

May 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/08/edmonton-swine-flu-death.html

Experimental swine flu vaccine expected in weeks

May 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/07/swine-flu-winnipeg-virus-lab.html

Canada says pork safe to eat despite WHO warning

May 7, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jewAnZvLTJi9A6Za8PQgUt3x6B9g

Experts fear swine/bird flu mix

May 8, 2009
Margie Mason
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/631295

Climate change may put northern shrimp in peril

May 8, 2009
Richard Foot
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Climate+change+northern+shrimp+peril/1576511/story.html

Shrimp like canaries in coal mine, indicating health of stocks, water temperature

May 7, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hsTv11HlKkP-c0gnhjCax2ICUF2w

Government should support innovation in the fishing industry

May 8, 2009
Keith Vickers
Miramichi Leader
http://miramichileader.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/660341

University, Vineland research centre ink new partnership

May 8, 2009
THE STANDARD
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1559404

Toronto student wins NASA competition

May 7, 2009
John Goddard
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/630642

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