Vanoc reaches deal to help stage carbon-neutral Games

June 3, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/Vanoc+reaches+deal+help+stage+carbon+neutral+Games/1659349/story.html

Deal signed to stage greenest Games in history

VANOC enlists first sponsor of its kind to invest in technologies that offset greenhouse gas emissions
Jun 4, 2009
ROD MICKLEBURGH
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/deal-signed-to-stage-greenest-games-in-history/article1168031/

Staff shortage at nuclear station concerns regulator

Ontario's Pickering plant chastised for lack of preparedness to deal with serious accidents or emergencies
Jun 4, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/staff-shortage-at-nuclear-station-concerns-regulator/article1168096/

An interview with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

June 4, 2009
John Geddes
Macleans
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/06/04/an-interview-with-finance-minister-jim-flaherty/

Girls worse at math? No way, new analysis shows

June 2, 2009
Maggie Fox
Reuters
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Girls+worse+math+analysis+shows/1654917/story.html

Isotope supply OK, say feds

Jun 3, 2009
PETER ZIMONJIC
Edmonton Sun
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2009/06/03/9658691-sun.html

Megadeal goes to historic vote

June 3, 2009
Shaun Polczer
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/Megadeal+goes+historic+vote/1660070/story.html

Canada not yet ready for China

June 3, 2009
Claudia Cattaneo
Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1656706

Ethics and the oilsands

June 4, 2009
Father Raymond J. de Souza
National Post
http://www.financialpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=1660287

Government investment in aerospace industry is visionary

Programs help put our industry on a level playing field
June 3, 2009
CLAUDE LAJEUNESSE
Montreal Gazette
http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=1415c6e1-8638-4d63-9818-b312b1e2bf10

Health insurers invest in tobacco

But Sun Life says medical journal has wildly overstated value of its cigarette stocks
Jun 4, 2009
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/645344

Livestock industry fuelling destruction of Amazonia

June 3, 2009
AFP
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Livestock+industry+fuelling+destruction+Amazonia/1658650/story.html

Company hopes wind's at its back

If approved, B.C. project would become first ocean-based wind farm in North America
Jun 4, 2009
Wendy Stueck
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/company-hopes-winds-at-its-back/article1167899/

Canadian wolves thriving in U.S. cause lawsuits, controversy

Animals transferred to U.S. in repopulation experiment 13 years ago
Jun 4, 2009
Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-wolves-thriving-in-us-cause-lawsuits-controversy/article1167630/

Every day is ‘science day'

There is scarcely a single issue that is not affected by the collaborative arm of science, technology and innovation
Jun 2, 2009
Preston Manning
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/every-day-is-science-day/article1165776/

Magna wants to build electric car in Canada

June 2, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/02/magna-electric.html

China ready to step up fight on climate change

But criticizes ‘unfair' demands of rich countries in UN treaty
Jun 2, 2009
Alister Doyle
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/china-ready-to-step-up-fight-on-climate-change/article1165693/

Ombudsman faults inspection process in Quebec listeria outbreak

June 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/02/cheese-listeria.html

U.S. FDA weighs more openness on drug reviews

June 2, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/02/fda-secrecy.html

WHO says swine flu cases approaching 20,000

June 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/03/swine-flu.html

Swine flu 'getting closer' to pandemic level, WHO official says

June 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/02/swine-flu-who.html

Forestry sector wants auto-style bailout

U.S. subsidy puts Canadian companies at disadvantage
Jun 3, 2009
Patrick Brethour
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/forestry-sector-wants-auto-style-bailout/article1167677/

Investing in health key to economic recovery, senators say

June 3, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Investing+health+economic+recovery+senators/1659791/story.html

Environment law 'hostile' for business: Shipping firms

June 2, 2009
Juliet O'Neill
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Technology/Environment+hostile+business+Shipping+firms/1656095/story.html

Canadians given big, fat 'F' in youth fitness report card

Just 13 per cent meeting daily activity standard
June 3, 2009
Eva Ferguson
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Health/Canadians+given+youth+fitness+report+card/1657563/story.html

Outsourced side effects

Perils of foreign clinical trials
June 3, 2009
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1656630

We are what we breathe

June 3, 2009
JANICE HARVEY
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/687445

Poor air quality could be factor in lung cancer rates

June 3, 2009
Benjamin Shingler
Telegraph-Journal
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/city/article/687416

Environment Canada investigates raw sewage dumping in Halifax Harbour

June 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/06/03/ns-sewage-investigation.html

Clients dictated think-tank research: Former employee

June 3, 2009
Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/news/national/Clients+dictated+think+tank+research+Former+employee/1659760/story.html

People with Down syndrome oppose universal prenatal testing

June 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/03/down-syndrome.html

Expand sex ed to all grades: report

June 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/02/teen-sexual-health-survey.html

Rod removal begins at Chalk River

June 2, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/02/medical-isotopes-maple-mds.html

Science meets art with view to the heavens

June 3, 2009
Tom Spears
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Science+meets+with+view+heavens/1659201/story.html

Student's brain school's gain

National neuroscience tourney goes to T.O. teen
June 3, 2009
TOM GODFREY
SUN MEDIA
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/06/03/9657991-sun.html

Government of Canada Helps New Researchers Gain 21st-Century Workforce Skills

Jun 2, 2009
Government of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Of-Canada-998312.html

Don't let Canada become a high-tech have-not

June 2, 2009
John F. Tyson
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canada+become+high+tech+have/1653188/story.html

Oil sands ‘back in black,' crude nears $70

Rising prices and falling costs expected to revive stalled projects
Jun 2, 2009
Nathan VanderKlippe
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-back-in-black-crude-nears-70/article1163931/

Aerospace subsidies: canny investments or corporate welfare?

May 30, 2009
Francois Shalom
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Aerospace+subsidies+canny+investments+corporate+welfare/1646985/story.html

Court challenge aims to legalize all cannabis use

Advocates say previous rule a 'mockery'
June 1, 2009
Shannon Kari
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=1650107

Quebec cancer tests will now have outside evaluation

June 2, 2009
Kevin Dougherty
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Health/Quebec+cancer+tests+will+have+outside+evaluation/1654563/story.html

MaRS Innovation appoints President and CEO

Jun 1, 2009
MARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/01/c9601.html

Federal lawsuit says industry threatens birds in Alberta

June 2, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Travel/Federal+lawsuit+says+industry+threatens+birds+Alberta/1654230/story.html

Prescribe heroin to addicts, former Tory MP says

Jun 2, 2009
JUSTINE HUNTER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prescribe-heroin-to-addicts-former-tory-mp-says/article1164299/

Kids need to get away from TVs and run and jump more: report

Jun 2, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/02/fitness-children.html

Isotope shortage delays treatment in Saskatoon

Region to receive only one-18th of usual allotment
June 1, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/06/01/isotopes-saskatoon-shortage.html

Scientists unveil plans for online directory of life on Earth

Synthesis, aggregation of data key to the project
Jun 1, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/01/online-life-directory579.html

Step away from the car – it's bad for your health

The more you drive, the less you walk, and the greater chance you'll have a sedentary lifestyle
May 29, 2009
Matthew Bigg
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/step-away-from-the-car-its-bad-for-your-health/article1160409/

First, there was expensive oil

If indeed oil, and not subprime mortgages, lies at the heart of our current economic malaise, we may be sicker than we know
Jun 2, 2009
Jeff Rubin
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/first-there-was-expensive-oil/article1160647/

Congress ’09 - The value of social sciences and humanities research

May 29, 2009
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/congress-09-the-value-of-social-sciences-and-humanities-research/

Poll: Are social sciences and arts being underfunded?

The Globe and Mail
http://www.globecampus.ca/poll/are-social-sciences-and-arts-being-underfunded/

International Science and Engineering Fair 2009: Winner Announcement

May 15, 2009
Society for Science & the Public
http://www.societyforscience.org/intelisef09/IntelISEF09GAO.pdf

Ottawa voiceless on climate change

Jun 1, 2009
editorial
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/643329

Ottawa in court over endangered species rules

Jun 1, 2009
Bob Weber
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/643789

Trial to give free heroin to hard-core addicts in Vancouver and Montreal

The three-year medical trial will put Canada on the leading edge of international addictions research 'for a population that is in desperate need for alternate health options'
Jun 1, 2009
JUSTINE HUNTER
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trial-to-give-free-heroin-to-hard-core-addicts-in-vancouver-and-montreal/article1162530/

Ottawa asked to bring back mothballed nuclear reactors

Jun 1, 2009
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1652011

Status quo not an option

May 29, 2009
Financial Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=1640755

Sale Sign Hoisted On Candu

Ottawa to retain Chalk River research division
May 29, 2009
David Akin
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=1640719

Breast cancer study misinterpreted: Quebec health minister

May 31, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/31/cancer-study.html

'Floaties' return to Halifax waterfront

May 29, 2009
Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/floaties-return-to-halifax-waterfront/article1159232/

Climate-change disasters kill 300,000 a year

UN Secretary-General calls it the ‘greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time'
May 29, 2009
Meera Selva
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/climate-change-disasters-kill-300000-a-year/article1160362/

Flood of anger

Worried about drought, Washington State is planning to dam the Similkameen River. Opponents say the project would trigger destructive floods in B.C.
May 30, 2009
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/flood-of-anger/article1161201/

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