H1N1 shots possible by October

May 28, 2009
Mike Stobbe
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/642008

Robots with fins, tails offer new insights into evolution

June 1, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/01/robots-fins-evolution874.html

Canada faces crisis in caring for elderly: researcher

May 31, 2009
Teresa Smith
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Canada+faces+crisis+caring+elderly+researcher/1648566/story.html

Researcher uses pulp residue to replace fertilizer

June 1, 2009
John Shmuel
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/684819

Canada just doesn't get it

May 31, 2009
CARL DUIVENVOORDEN
SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2009/05/31/9629836-sun.html

Spreader of manure

Rondeau playing Manitobans for fools with claim province can hit Kyoto targets
May 31, 2009
KEVIN ENGSTROM
Winnipeg Sun
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/columnists/kevin_engstrom/2009/05/31/9629381-sun.html

We're anything but green

May 31, 2009
PAUL RUTHERFORD
Winnipeg Sun
http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/editorial/2009/05/31/9629246-sun.html

Green shift: Green going mainstream as businesses, governments look to the future

May 29, 2009
Sarah Staples
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/news/Green+shift+Green+going+mainstream+businesses+governments+look+future/1641998/story.html

Russia likely `winner' in Arctic resource dispute: Study

May 28, 2009
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Russia+likely+winner+Arctic+resource+dispute+Study/1639856/story.html

Burning crops darken Arctic sky, speed polar melt

May 27, 2009
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Technology/Burning+crops+darken+Arctic+speed+polar+melt/1635692/story.html

Our mental-health-care system needs fixing

Here's how
May 27, 2009
Hartinder Nijjar
Special to the Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/mental+health+care+system+needs+fixing/1635448/story.html

Ontario adds to post-secondary spending spree

May 29, 2009
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/642620

Greenhouse gas enforcement could take 6 years: Prentice

May 28, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/28/prentice-greenhouse.html

Canada hedges on 2010 start for emissions rules

May 28, 2009
Allan Dowd
Reuters
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE54R6XB20090528?sp=true

Biggest polluters closer to climate deal: Canada

May 28, 2009
Peter Griffiths
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE54R51U20090528

$22M for upgrades to McMaster University's nuclear reactor

May 29, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/29/mcmaster-reactor-clement-funding029.html

Energy reserves north of Arctic Circle mapped in detail for first time

May 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/28/oil-gas-arctic.html

Arctic holds 13 per cent of world's undiscovered oil

Figures come as Canada and its polar neighbours pursue competing claims to vast areas of continental shelf
May 29, 2009
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/arctic-holds-13-per-cent-of-worlds-undiscovered-oil/article1158726/

Conference Board recalls controversial copyright reports

May 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/28/conference-board-copyright-geist.html

Canada eyes sale of stake in AECL reactor business

May 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/28/aecl-future-sale.html

Ottawa sanctions Atomic Energy overhaul

Employees fear partial privatization of Candu could wipe out years of Canadian innovation
May 29, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/642209

Ottawa can sell the CANDU

May 29, 2009
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=e77fa89c-b477-4950-b56d-355015eec4c0

Manager sought for troubled reactor

Ottawa looks for private firm to run Chalk River nuclear research facility
May 29, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/642328

Follow Canada's lead on cigarette warnings, says WHO

May 29, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/29/who-smoking-warning549.html

Alarming uncertainty

May 29, 2009
editorial
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/alarming-uncertainty/article1159005/

U.S. urged to shed energy-wasting image

‘We have to get in the race now – and win it,' top environment official says
May 28, 2009
Angela Charlton
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/us-urged-to-shed-energy-wasting-image/article1158743/

Ont. health agency scrutinized for contract tendering practices

'Taxpayers are really getting ripped off': PC leader
May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/27/ehealth-ontario.html

British scientists closer to swine flu vaccine

Development called ‘crucial step' toward large-scale production of vaccine
May 28, 2009
Kate Kelland
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/british-scientists-closer-to-swine-flu-vaccine/article1158794/

Nunavut confirms 1st swine flu case

May 29, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/29/nunavut-swine-flu.html

Provincial, national gas emissions climbing higher

May 29, 2009
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/breakingnews/Gas-emissions-climbing-higher-46480147.html

Kingston's innovation hub

May 28, 2009
DON CURTIS
Whig-Standard
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1587015

Youth smoking rate has flatlined

May 29, 2009
Johanna Weidner
WATERLOO RECORD
http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/543332

In search of a `green plastic' solution

May 29, 2009
Shelagh McNally
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/news/national/search+green+plastic+solution/1641996/story.html

Boys not making cut at national science fair

May 28, 2009
Don Crosby
The Sun Times
http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1588552

Payette to join fellow Canadian Thirsk in space on 'historic' mission

May 28, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/28/payette-space-astronaut.html

Aspirin's risks outweigh benefits for healthy people: review

May 28, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/28/aspirin-heart.html

Manning to Harper: Clarify how government divvies up research cash

May 27, 2009
Susan Lunn
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/science-funding-preston-manning-federal-government.html

Canada's failure to protect intellectual property hinders innovation: Conference Board

May 27, 2009
Gillian Shaw
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Canada+failure+protect+intellectual+property+hinders+innovation+Conference+Board/1636134/story.html

Canada 'very close' to inking nuclear deal with India, Day says

May 27, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/canada-india-nuclear052709.html

Zealots can't dominate debate

May 28, 2009
Gerry Klein
The StarPhoenix
http://www2.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/columnists/story.html?id=6bf73957-e7ec-4fca-8b20-6ab75c3b4b60

Oilsands companies must report contents of waste ponds

May 27, 2009
Hanneke Brooymans
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Business/Oilsands+companies+must+report+contents+waste+ponds/1636791/story.html

1 in 5 breast cancer hormone tests wrong, Quebec pathologists fear

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/27/breast-cancer-quebec-hormone-tests.html

Breast cancer testing in Quebec ‘botched'

‘To put it bluntly this could be an explosive situation,' says president of the Quebec pathologist association as study finds treatment of hundreds of women in question
May 28, 2009
Rhéal Séguin
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/breast-cancer-testing-in-quebec-botched/article1156500/

Breast cancer study "very worrying": Quebec health minister

May 28, 2009
KEVIN DOUGHERTY
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Breast+cancer+study+very+worrying+Quebec+health+minister/1639383/story.html

Electronic health records: potholes on the road to eHealth

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/27/f-electronic-health-records.html

Cap-trade on the way

Ontario, Alberta look for deal on environment
May 28, 2009
JONATHAN JENKINS
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/05/28/9594776-sun.html

Ontario emissions plan faces 2-year delay

Law gives province power in 2012 to apply cap-and-trade system
May 28, 2009
Rob Ferguson
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/641632

Cap, trade charade

Canada unfazed by fact that scheme is a costly failure in Europe
May 28, 2009
LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Edmonton Sun
http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/05/28/9595706-sun.html

Loophole lets drug companies advertise in Canada, but not in the U.S.: UBC study

May 27, 2009
Pamela Fayerman
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/Loophole+lets+drug+companies+advertise+Canada+study/1636615/story.html

Canada's swine flu cases exceed 1,000

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/27/swine-flu-h1n1.html

Chalk River reactor shutdown to last at least 3 months: AECL

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/isotopes-reactor-shutdown.html

Ottawa vows to ban cigarillo 'kiddie packs'

Federal Health Minister promises to ban candy-flavoured cigarillos and tighten restrictions on advertising
May 28, 2009
André Picard
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/ottawa-vows-to-ban-cigarillo-kiddie-packs/article1154737/

Recession benefit: Alberta can pause and rethink the oil sands

Any new approach should be based on the simple premise that reducing emissions is the cost of doing business
May 26, 2009
Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/recession-benefit-alberta-can-pause-and-rethink-the-oil-sands/article1154307/

Cabinet tweaks medical marijuana rules after losing court case

May 26, 2009
Tim Naumetz
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5g4Mn1zqhAPsjTQR0xmwiZXbhmztA

Northeast U.S. coast at risk from sea-level rise, report warns

Researchers' findings suggest melting ice from Greenland mean oceans could rise as much as 20 inches by 2100
May 27, 2009
Randolph E. Schmid
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/northeast-us-coast-at-risk-from-sea-level-rise-report-warns/article1156117/

Greece extends ban on genetically modified corn

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/greece-corn-monsanto-987.html

The North loses mining innovation to Toronto

May 27, 2009
Andrew Low and Kelly Louiseize
Sudbury Northern Life
http://www.northernlife.ca/News/LocalNews/2009/innovation260509005.asp?NLStory=innovation260509005

Students, Thirsk's friends turn out to marvel at launch

Calgary Astronaut Begins Six-month Space Odyssey
May 28, 2009
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Students+Thirsk+friends+turn+marvel+launch/1638402/story.html

The origin of swine flu: Putting the pieces together

A better understanding of how the new strain of influenza arose
May 28, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13726722

The behavioural effects of video games: Good game?

Playing video games can make you a better person
May 28, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13726738

The National Ignition Facility: On target, finally

A machine for testing nuclear weapons opens for business
May 28, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13726730

U.S. wants to paint the world white to save energy

May 27, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/wants+paint+world+white+save+energy/1635588/story.html

International connections could boost parasites, study suggests

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/parasite-selection-wild.html

Glowing monkeys promise to further medical research: scientists

May 28, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/28/monkeys-genes-transgenetic-glowing-marmoset.html

Climate change: "World's destiny at stake"

May 26, 2009
Jerome Cartillier
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Climate+change+World+destiny+stake/1631925/story.html

Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'

May 25, 2009
Guy Newey
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Voyage+centre+Plastic+Vortex/1628237/story.html

Carbon offsets: It really isn't easy being green

B.C. learns that it's hard to navigate the murky world of offsets
May 20, 2009
Gary Mason
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/carbon-offsets-it-really-isnt-easy-being-green/article1147597/

As it quietly melts away, Struzik charts the North

Most of us ignore the largest part of Canada
May 2, 2009
Todd Babiak
The Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/quietly+melts+away+Struzik+charts+North/1557027/story.html

Moving Forward: A Greenhouse Gas Cap and Trade System for Ontario

May 27, 2009
Government of Ontario
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/env_reg/er/documents/2009/010-6740.pdf

Hope lies in the scientific method

May 27, 2009
John Polanyi
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/hope-lies-in-the-scientific-method/article1152473/

Don't expand universities: upgrade, demographer says

David Foot questions wisdom on spending stimulus money on bricks-and-mortar projects
May 26, 2009
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/dont-expand-universities-upgrade-demographer-says/article1154472/

Congress ’09 – the looming decline in university enrolment

May 27, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/congress-09-the-looming-decline-in-university-enrolment

Policy Briefing: Innovation

Apr 6, 2009
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/policy_briefings/040609_pb.pdf

The Bioeconomy to 2030: Designing a Policy Agenda - Main Findings and Policy Conclusions

Apr 15, 2009
OECD
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/24/42837897.pdf

Ontario to move on cap-and-trade emissions plan: McGuinty

May 27, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/cap-trade.html

CEMI still not part of federal plans

May 27, 2009
HAROLD CARMICHAEL
THE SUDBURY STAR
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1585652

Mac, Mohawk await funding news

More coming Friday after $1.2b given out yesterday to colleges, universities
May 26, 2009
Wade Hemsworth
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/571999

Communities in NWT call for slowing of oil sands development

May 27, 2009
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/communities-in-nwt-call-for-slowing-of-oil-sands-development/article1154761/

Canada: petro-state or rich nation?

May 27, 2009
David Suzuki and Faisal Moola
Special to The Citizen
http://www.canada.com/Canada+petro+state+rich+nation/1635053/story.html

No end in sight to isotope crisis

Shutdown of reactor could lead to worse shortage than in 2007, says former head of nuclear watchdog
May 27, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/640991

650,000 cancer deaths avoided over 15 years: U.S. report

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/27/cancer-deaths-us.html

New FDA chiefs stress science, better food safety

May 26, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/26/fda-food-safety.html

More research needed to develop successful swine flu vaccine: WHO

May 26, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/26/swine-flu-vaccine.html

Transport Canada agrees to release results of child car seat tests

May 26, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/26/child-car-seat-safety987.html

No-smoking signs a toothless threat

City has no jurisdiction to enforce bylaw at federal buildings
May 27, 2009
Hugh Adami
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health/Public+Citizen+smoking+signs+toothless+threat/1633316/story.html

Aklavik residents, scientists hopeful antibiotics curb cancer-causing bacteria

May 26, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/26/aklavik-pylori.html

Bee population feels sting of cold, parasites as N.B. population drops

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/nb-bee-population-614.html

Conservation groups look to get Atlantic salmon into Petitcodiac River

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/nb-peticodiac-atlantic-salmon-1142.html

Whooping cough risks higher among unvaccinated children: study

May 26, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/26/whooping-cough-vaccination.html

Cormorant debate: Which part of the ecosystem to protect?

May 27, 2009
Sharon Oosthoek
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/25/f-cormorants-environment-lake-erie-cull.html

Bad news, and good news, in our emptying oceans

Global study finds dramatic drops in marine life over the centuries, but it also finds hope that some depleted populations can recover
May 25, 2009
Anne McIlroy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/bad-news-and-good-news-in-our-emptying-oceans/article1150951/

Canadian astronaut Thirsk starts 6-month mission in space

May 27, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/27/thirsk-soyuz-space-mission338.html

Congress ’09 - Scholarship of teaching and learning ‘not good enough’

May 26, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/congress-09-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-not-good-enough/

Congress ’09 - educational leaders as activists

May 25, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/congress-09-educational-leaders-as-activists/

Science North gets kudos for promoting science in Canada

May 27, 2009
SUDBURY STAR
http://www.saultstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1585532

Genome research takes next step for blood test to replace transplant biopsy

May 26, 2009
Terri Theodore
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hFnjppsVAUM91dHwfCfVwVpFGYOA

Sixties radical Bill Ayers denied entry to Canada

May 21, 2009
Joanne Laucius
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Sixties+radical+Bill+Ayers+denied+entry+Canada/1616544/story.html

Bird-killing pesticide facing a ban in Canada

U.S. regulator announces crackdown on carbofuran, and Canadian health authorities are considering whether to follow suit
May 20, 2009
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/bird-killing-pesticide-facing-a-ban-in-canada/article1145925/

Animal activists win small battles, but not the war

Sealing industry will continue, foie gras is still on store shelves
May 10, 2009
Richard Foot
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/Animal+activists+small+battles/1584261/story.html

Research funds to flow again from Ottawa, scientists told

Minister says he has received overwhelming support for the recent budget, which included cuts to three funding bodies, as well as billions in new investments in infrastructure
May 26, 2009
Daniel Leblanc
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/research-funds-to-flow-again-from-ottawa-scientists-told/article1152683/