A cold reality check can be the greatest gift

June 8, 2009
Carolyn Steele
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-sense/a-cold-reality-check-can-be-the-greatest-gift

Fraud in science: Liar! Liar!

Scientists are not quite as honest as might be hoped
Jun 4, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13776974

Canada "bullying'' developing countries over Kyoto: environmentalists

June 8, 2009
Juliet O'Neill
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/Canada+bullying+developing+countries+over+Kyoto+environmentalists/1674007/story.html

Publisher Elsevier to revise journal sponsorship rules

June 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/05/elsevier-journal-sponsorship.html

Alberta memo reveals climate change rift with Ottawa

Ignatieff doing more for oil sands: memo
June 8, 2009
Jason Fekete
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1675635

Debate on growing GM wheat rises again, but experts say issues are the same

Jun 7, 2009
Jennifer Graham
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5g1sTby8vqtu8x9MyPUV5MSGZK7dA

'Digital nation' key to economic recovery, academics say

Canada 3.0 conference seeks to help make digital media a part of the country's economic plan
Jun 8, 2009
Elizabeth Church
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-nation-key-to-recovery-academics/article1172651/

H1N1 spreading across Canada, doctors warn

Jun 8, 2009
LISA PRIEST
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/h1n1-spreading-across-canada-doctors-warn/article1172090/

Severe flu cases surge in Manitoba aboriginal community

June 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/08/mb-influenza-winnipeg.html

Lyme disease spreading in Canada, researchers find

June 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/08/lyme-disease-canada.html

Get out of the nuclear business

June 8, 2009
The Vancouver Sun
http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=d6085f40-4acd-4ad0-9280-c7446651bf0b

Reactor experts carry $29M price tag: watchdog

Jun 7, 2009
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jOsssWIxDNjFHZdZ1jTZqq11EmLw

Raitt calls isotope crisis 'sexy,' criticizes Aglukkaq on audiotape

June 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/08/raitt-injunction.html

Alternative medicine goes mainstream in U.S. hospitals

June 8, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/08/alternative-medicine.html

Storage plan a key piece of renewable puzzle

Jun 8, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/647034

Wood stoves blamed for worsening air quality

June 6, 2009
Jan Ravensbergen
The Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/fp/Wood+stoves+blamed+poor+quality/1670602/story.html

Seeking the face of climate change

Crew will sail through the Arctic to document phenomenon's toll on northern residents
Jun 8, 2009
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/647085

N.B. naturalists cry foul over impact of Canada geese invasion

June 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/08/nb-canada-geese-invasion-1149.html

Global garbage swamping world's oceans: UN report

Canada on the right track: Minister
June 8, 2009
Steven Edwards
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Global+garbage+swamping+world+oceans+report/1675356/story.html

Filmmaker fears for the Great Lakes

Kevin McMahon, in talking about his documentary Waterlife: ‘I was surprised how bad things are'
Jun 8, 2009
Jennie Punter
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/filmmaker-fears-for-the-great-lakes/article1172520/

What we do to the oceans we do to ourselves

Jun 7, 2009
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Special to LondonTopic.ca
http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=14625

Expedition to study forests coral off B.C.

June 7, 2009
Rebecca Tebrake
Canwest News Service
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Expedition+study+forests+coral/1672499/story.html

Labs to re-examine samples from 2,100 Quebec breast cancer patients

June 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/05/cancer-tests.html

Warfare, culture and human evolution: Blood and treasure

People are altruistic because they are militaristic, and cultured because they are common. At least that is the message of a couple of new studies
Jun 4, 2009
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13776964

UN recognizes climate change as possible security threat

Non-binding resolution a symbolic victory that may push climate change onto Security Council's agenda
Jun 4, 2009
Claudia Parsons
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/un-recognizes-climate-change-as-possible-security-threat/article1169251/

Science looks to re-forest Alberta oilsands

June 5, 2009
Hanneke Brooymans
Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Life/Science+looks+forest+Alberta+oilsands/1666369/story.html

U.S., Canadian groups gear up to halt oil sands development

June 4, 2009
MICHAEL BURNHAM
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/04/04greenwire-us-canadian-groups-gear-up-to-halt-oil-sands-d-53217.html

Carbon capture no 'silver bullet'

Minister acknowledges what critics have said all along: Technology has limited use in bitumen mining
Jun 5, 2009
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/carbon-capture-no-silver-bullet/article1170007/

Energy minister dismisses talk of N.B. nuclear storage site

'I don't care,' Keir says about early debate
June 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/05/nb-nuclear-waste-unb-520.html

Numbers don't measure full swine flu impact, says Ontario health official

June 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/04/ontario-flu.html

Ottawa announces $10.8 million to aid pandemic flu research initiative

June 5, 2009
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iebwUcoU-MqSUpUUY4lLukUKSxZA

Funding for influenza vaccine research announced

June 5, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1666597

How much fertilizer can a river take? P.E.I. asks

June 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/05/pei-nitrates-rivers.html

3-month Chalk River reactor repair estimate called 'optimistic'

June 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/04/isotopes-reactor-shutdown060409.html

Scientists use sex hormone to stop destructive beetle in Halifax

June 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/05/beetle-research.html

$17M applied science centre announced for P.E.I.'s Holland College

June 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/04/pei-education-infrastructure.html

3 Nunavut communities vie for High Arctic research station post

June 3, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/03/nunavut-research-station.html

Inuit village blames climate change for strange events

June 4, 2009
Alexander Panetta
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hewptQHTBRsfHlPy3woJJRWo93rA

Diesel spill from derailment won't affect Ottawa water supply, officials say

June 5, 2009
Brendan Kennedy
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Diesel+spill+from+derailment+affect+Ottawa+water+supply+officials/1666269/story.html

UdeM gets $24M to expand

Total of $178M in gov't money announced for N.B. post-secondary institutions
June 5, 2009
Stephanie Kukkonen
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/front/article/690149

ABU gets $12M for expansion

Officials say funding will help turn dream into a reality
June 5, 2009
ALAN COCHRANE
TIMES & TRANSCRIPT
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/front/article/690154

Norway shows our Pacific salmon in peril

June 5, 2009
Alexandra Morton
Courier-Islander
http://www.canada.com/Norway+shows+Pacific+salmon+peril/1664485/story.html

Lyme disease: Tiny tick, big problem

June 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/04/f-lyme-disease-ticks.html

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