B.C. oil tanker ban motion passes in Commons

Resolution non-binding, likely to be ignored
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/oil-tanker-motion.html

Cancun climate talks to hear Canada's message

Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/baird-cancun-climate-change-talks.html

Video fitness games get researchers' support

Dec 7, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/calgary-university-video-games-exergaming.html

Rare birds face danger after N.B. windstorm

Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/nb-mary-majka-dovekies-139.html

Charest slams Canada's climate policy in Cancun

Que. premier takes shot at federal environmental policy at global climate conference
Dec 7, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/07/charest-climate-change.html

Jean Charest again calls out Harper government on climate change

Dec 6, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/jean-charest-again-calls-out-harper-government-on-climate-change/article1826816/

Conservative MPs filibustering climate change bill at House Environment Committee, say opposition MPs

‘It’s pretty clear what they’re doing, they’re trying to block my bill,’ says NDP MP Linda Duncan about her private member’s bill, C-469.
Dec 6, 2010
Tim Naumetz
The Hill Times
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/dailyupdate/view/41

B.C. scientists map out the ocean’s destiny

Dec 6, 2010
MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-scientists-map-out-the-oceans-destiny/article1827565/

China world’s best hope, worst fear regarding climate crisis

Dec 6, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/china-worlds-best-hope-worst-fear-regarding-climate-crisis/article1827521/

Canada among top climate-change culprits: report

Germanwatch rates Brazil among best environment-improving countries
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/tech-climate-change-ranking.html

Lancaster Sound to be Arctic park

Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/lancaster-sound-marine-conservation.html

Bears to blame for Nfld. caribou decline: minister

Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/nl-coyote-caribou-1206.html

Ad mocks Alta. oilsands at UN climate meeting

Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/edmonton-cancun-renner.html

Over-wintering fly threatens B.C. cherry crops

Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/bc-cherries-spotted-wing-drosophilia.html

B.C. spaceport campaign launched

Dec 6, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/bc-spaceport-muslim.html

Tree-needle riddle solved by Quebec researchers

Christmas trees could retain their needles for months with treatment
Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/christmas-trees.html

Oil sands players join forces on tailings cleanup

Dec 6, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-players-join-forces-on-tailings-cleanup/article1827425/

Ottawa moves to protect Serengeti of the Arctic

Dec 6, 2010
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-moves-to-protect-serengeti-of-the-arctic/article1827418/

NASA's arsenic microbe science slammed

Dec 6, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/06/arsenic-microbe-dna-nasa-wolfe-simon.html

Expert says New Brunswick’s MS ‘liberation’ fund has political motives

Dec 5, 2010
Kevin Bisset
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/expert-says-new-brunswicks-ms-liberation-fund-has-political-motives/article1825738/

Canada gets ready to walk away from Kyoto Protocol

Dec 5, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-gets-ready-to-walk-away-from-kyoto-protocol/article1825976/

Ted Turner urges global one-child policy to save planet

Dec 5, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ted-turner-urges-global-one-child-policy-to-save-planet/article1825977/

Without government push, companies losing interest in carbon investment

Dec 5, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/without-government-push-companies-losing-interest-in-carbon-investment/article1825831/

On climate change, Canada (finally) comes clean

Dec 4, 2010
Norman Spector
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/spector-vision/on-climate-change-canada-finally-comes-clean/article1825385/

With emission cuts stalling, scientists look to geoengineering

Dec 4, 2010
Charles J. Hanley
The Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/with-emission-cuts-stalling-scientists-look-to-geoengineering/article1825426/

Rejecting Kyoto extension threatens climate talks: developing nations

Dec 4, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/rejecting-kyoto-extension-threatens-climate-talks-developing-nations/article1825499/

Who will pay for the environmental mess we’re in?

Dec 3, 2010
Shawn McCarthy
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/who-will-pay-for-the-environmental-mess-were-in/article1825157/

Making forests pay in a warming world

Dec 3, 2010
David Fogarty
Reuters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/making-forests-pay-in-a-warming-world/article1823945/

A simple way to stave off infirmity

It is a terrible irony that humankind’s efforts to engineer a delay to the aging process may consume vast quantities of time, money and hope, while an answer – exercise – is already before us
Dec 3, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/a-simple-way-to-stave-off-infirmity/article1824780/

China, India, Brazil must pull weight in climate change accord, Baird says

Dec 2, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/china-india-brazil-must-pull-weight-in-climate-change-accord-baird-says/article1823097/

Heat is on Canadian Arctic as temperature rises, sea ice melts

Dec 2, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/heat-is-on-canadian-arctic-as-temperature-rises-sea-ice-melts/article1823096/

Election preparations reveal fissures in unity of Ontario environmentalists

Dec 1, 2010
ADAM RADWANSKI
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/election-preparations-reveal-fissures-in-unity-of-ontario-environmentalists/article1821461/

Green energy development will hit wall as subsidies dry up

Nov 30, 2010
CARL MORTISHED
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/carl-mortished/green-energy-development-will-hit-wall-as-subsidies-dry-up/article1818067/

Canada's transgenic Enviropig is stuck in a genetic modification poke

Nov 25, 2010
JESSICA LEEDER and WENCY LEUNG
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/global-food/canadas-transgenic-enviropig-is-stuck-in-a-genetic-modification-poke/article1812708/

MS treatment trials getting under way in Newfoundland

Nov 25, 2010
SIRI AGRELL
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/ms-treatment-trials-getting-under-way-in-newfoundland/article1812849/

New Brunswick is offside on MS

Nov 24, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/new-brunswick-is-offside-on-ms/article1812463/

Father of ‘liberation’ treatment calls on Ottawa to help MS sufferers

Nov 23, 2010
SIRI AGRELL
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/father-of-liberation-treatment-calls-on-ottawa-to-help-ms-sufferers/article1811061/

Fellow MS sufferer’s death no deterrent, Ontario woman says

Nov 22, 2010
BERTRAND MAROTTE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/fellow-ms-sufferers-death-no-deterrent-ontario-woman-says/article1808077/

Government accused of lobbying against action on climate change

Nov 22, 2010
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/government-accused-of-lobbying-against-action-on-climate-change/article1809399/

Canada boosts university research funding

Nov 24, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/24/tech-chair-funding.html

Today’s innovation, tomorrow’s prosperity

November 2010
Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress - Ninth annual report
http://www.competeprosper.ca/index.php/work/annual_reports/annual_report_todays_innovation_tomorrows_prosperity/

Biotech sector seeking to go with the flow

Asking for same opportunities as energy companies
Dec 3, 2010
Barry Critchley
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Biotech+sector+seeking+with+flow/3921479/story.html

Quebec struggles to keep pharma R&D jobs

Province supports industry despite shrinking R&D investments
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/01/que-government-increase-pharma-subsidies.html

Media Advisory: INNOVATION 2010-Canada's R&D Partnership Conference

December 5-7, 2010 at the Westin Hotel, Ottawa, ON
Dec 3, 2010
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Media-Advisory-INNOVATION-2010-Canadas-R-D-Partnership-Conference-1363551.htm

New POST notes from the U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Nov 24, 2010
U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)

Biofortification of Foods
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn367_biofortification.pdf

UK Indoor Air Quality
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn366_indoor_air_quality.pdf

Linking Innovation & Investment: TRRA 2010 Annual Report

Nov 19, 2010
Toronto Region Research Alliance
http://issuu.com/torontoresearch/docs/trra_ar10_final_web

NSERC on hunt to help smaller firms do research

Dec 1, 2010
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/nserc-on-hunt-to-help-smaller-firms-do-research/article1821354/

Perimeter investments show it’s good to be smart

Nov 29, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/perimeter-investments-show-its-good-to-be-smart/article1818116/

New Initiative Encourages Young People to Discover Careers in Science and Tech

FedDev Ontario Invests in Southern Ontario's Future Leaders
Nov 29, 2010
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Initiative-Encourages-Young-People-to-Discover-Careers-in-Science-and-Tech-1360325.htm

New International Competition Focuses on Early Career Scientists

Dec 1, 2010
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/news/intlearlycareer20101201.html

Well, there’s your problem...

Nov 30, 2010
Rob Annan
Researcher Forum
http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/well-theres-your-problem/

Ottawa and innovation just don’t mix

It takes two years to win approval for a new technology
Nov 29, 2010
Tony Busseri
Financial Post
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/11/29/ottawa-and-innovation-just-don%E2%80%99t-mix/

Is a university education a right?

Dec 1, 2010
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/is-a-university-education-a-right/

UN forges world partnership with universities

Nov 21, 2010
Yojana Sharma
University World News
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20101120090132925

UN seeks university partners to create Academic Impact

Nov 23, 2010
Leo Charbonneau
University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/un-seeks-university-partners-to-create-academic-impact/

Science-based jobs a fast-growing field

Salaries pay almost $400 more per week than the average, statistics show
Nov 27, 2010
SCOTT SIMPSON
POSTMEDIA NEWS
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1324815

BMO gives Perimeter Institute $4M

Nov 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/29/tech-perimeter-institute-theoretical-physics-bmo.html

Trent prof receiving environmental science medal

Nov 26, 2010
THE EXAMINER
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2863758

2010 Polanyi Prize Awarded To Top Researchers

McGuinty Government Celebrates Research Excellence In Ontario
Nov 26, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
http://news.ontario.ca/tcu/en/2010/11/2010-polanyi-prize-awarded-to-top-researchers.html

Atlantic universities well placed to help create prosperity

Nov 30, 2010
PETER HALPIN
Times & Transcript
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1330224

Ontario's productivity, innovation lag, report says

Nov 23, 2010
Jennifer Kwan
Reuters
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE6AM59S20101123

Ontario needs to pull up its socks: task force

Nov 23, 2010
TAVIA GRANT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ontario-needs-to-pull-up-its-socks-task-force/article1809358/

Ontario lags behind U.S. prosperity

Nov 23, 2010
Emily Mathieu
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/895139--ontario-lags-behind-u-s-prosperity

Queen's University papers at centre of growing 'self-plagiarism' debate

Publications retract articles after author repeatedly copied own work
Nov 28, 2010
Margaret Munro
Postmedia News
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Queen+University+papers+centre+growing+self+plagiarism+debate/3896018/story.html

AUCC welcomes extension of Knowledge Infrastructure Program

Dec 2, 2010
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/02/c2068.html

Federal money helps U of G researchers lead the pack

Nov 25, 2010
Michael DeRuyter
Guelph Mercury
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/726373

Feds grant McMaster University $12 million for five new and six existing research posts

Nov 24, 2010
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/278870--feds-grant-mcmaster-university-12-million-for-five-new-and-six-existing-research-posts

Canadian and Israeli researchers team up to find new cures for spinal injuries

Dec 1, 2010
Rebecca Lindell
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Canadian+Israeli+researchers+team+find+cures+spinal+injuries/3910766/story.html

Government of Canada Celebrates the Canada Research Chairs Program

Chairs Program brings best and brightest researchers to Canada's universities
Nov 24, 2010
Canada Research Chairs & Canada Foundation for Innovation
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Celebrates-the-Canada-Research-Chairs-Program-1359146.htm

Dr. Suzanne Fortier Reappointed as President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Nov 30, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Dr-Suzanne-Fortier-Reappointed-as-President-Natural-Sciences-Engineering-Research-Council-1361402.htm

New funding for research to examine population interventions and their health impacts

Nov 30, 2010
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2010/30/c8998.html

Bonnie Schmidt takes science beyond the classroom

Dec 1, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/25/bonnie-schmidt-takes-science-beyond-the-classroom/article1819387/

Brenda Milner unlocks the mysteries of memory

Nov 30, 2010
Nick Rockel
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/25/brenda-milner-unlocks-the-mysteries-of-memory/article1817681/

Rise in flood claims tied to climate change

Dec 3, 2010
Max Paris
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/climate-change-flooding.html

Universities launch military-health network

Dec 3, 2010
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Universities+launch+military+health+network/3921714/story.html

Government of Canada Supports R&D to Improve Manufacturing Technologies for Aerospace and Defence

Dec 3, 2010
Industry Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-Canada-Supports-R-D-Improve-Manufacturing-Technologies-Aerospace-Defence-1363745.htm

Discovery changes scientific definition of life

Dec 3, 2010
Kerry Sheridan
Agence France-Presse
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Discovery+changes+scientific+definition+life/3921878/story.html

Microbe shows arsenic-based life possible

Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/bacteria-arsenic-dna-phosphorus-wolfe-simon.html

2010 set to be Canada's warmest year

Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/climate-change-cancun-wmo.html

Feds open to footing bill for isotope shortage

Willing to compensate provinces for costs of Chalk River reactor shutdown
Dec 2, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/02/isotopes-medical-cost.html

Gulf oil spill panel calls for new safety agencies

Dec 2, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/gulf-oil-spill-panel-agency.html

Clean tech success means picking right battles

Dec 2, 2010
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/cleanbreak/article/900603--hamilton-clean-tech-success-means-picking-right-battles

Clayoquot Sound's temperate forests among highest carbon storage areas in North America

Local activist group worries logging Flores Island will push climate change further while another study suggests that using wood products would tackle it as well
Dec 2, 2010
Stefania Seccia
Westerly News
http://www.canada.com/Clayoquot+Sound+temperate+forests+among+highest+carbon+storage+areas+North+America/3917870/story.html

Track Wi-Fi reaction reports: MPs

Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/02/wifi-cellphone-radiation-health.html

When will we follow U.S. on climate change?

Dec 2, 2010
Tyson Dyck
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/900102--when-will-we-follow-u-s-on-climate-change

Cancun and the future of climate science

Dec 2, 2010
Gordon McBean
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Cancun+future+climate+science/3915532/story.html

Genetically modified fish review flawed: economist

Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/pei-gm-salmon-review-duke-584.html

Qamanirjuaq caribou herd still strong: biologists

Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/north-qamanirjuaq-caribou-count.html

GM Volt to launch in 7 Canadian cities in 2011

B.C., Quebec and Ontario will be first to see GM electric car
Dec 2, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/con-volt-canada.html

Gamers tapped to crack DNA patterns

Dec 2, 2010
Emily Chung
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/01/video-game-genetics-phylo.html

Cosmology: Going round in circles

In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever
Dec 2, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17626874

New Wind Blade Plant Creates 900 Jobs In Tillsonburg Area

McGuinty Government Helping Build Ontario's Clean Energy Economy
Dec 2, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2010/12/new-wind-blade-plant-creates-900-jobs-in-tillsonburg-area.html

Launch of Multi-Lingual Tools to Explore and Measure Science

Dec 1, 2010
Science-Metrix
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/01/c9156.html

Climate change takes wind out of wind energy's sails

SFU researchers find wind speeds have slowed three to five per cent per decade since the 1950s
Dec 1, 2010
Derrick Penner
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Climate+change+takes+wind+wind+energy+sails/3909629/story.html

Species loss spreads infectious disease

Dec 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/01/biodiversity-infectious-disease.html

Venus clouds yield climate warning

Haze over Earth's planetary neighbour sheds light on geo-engineering theory
Dec 1, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/01/venus-clouds-sulphur-dioxide.html

Wild birds serve as 'canary in the coal mine'

Dec 1, 2010
BILL HENRY
OWEN SOUND SUN TIMES
http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2870026

World AIDS Day: No time for complacency

Dec 1, 2010
Dr. Julio Montaner
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/899394--world-aids-day-no-time-for-complacency

New Wind Tower Plant Creates 700 Jobs in Windsor

McGuinty Government Helping Build Ontario's Clean Energy Economy
Dec 1, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2010/12/new-wind-tower-plant-creates-700-jobs-in-windsor.html

What happened to the plan for an HIV-AIDS vaccine?

Nov 30, 2010
Louise Elliott
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/11/26/vaccine-canada-aids-hiv.html