Archive for category Research & Development
CRTC warns against foreign control of telecoms
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Research & Development, Science & Technology on April 14, 2010
Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press, Published April 13, 2010 in The Toronto Star
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal regulator has come out strongly against foreign control of the country’s telecom sector, saying doing so risks turning Canada’s communications industry into a “branch plant.” Read on »
Innovation out of our hands in a branch-plant economy
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Liberals, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 23, 2010
By David Olive, Business Columnist, The Toronto Star, March 23, 2010
Nortel Networks Corp. on Friday quietly shed the last of its remaining major businesses, selling its optical and ethernet networking operations to U.S.-based Ciena Corp. for $774 million (U.S.). Read on »
Tory budget ‘walks away’ from renewable energy, environmentalist says
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Energy, Environment, Jobs, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 13, 2010
Gloria Galloway, Ottawa — From The Globe and Mail, Mar. 10, 2010
The new federal budget is titled “Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth,” but environmentalists say it fails badly when it comes to creating new employment in fields that deliver energy from renewable sources like sun, wind and water.
Even before the new fiscal plan was released last week, the U.S. federal government was outspending Ottawa by a per-capita ratio of 14 to 1 on the technologies that many believe will be the energy sources of future generations. Read on »
Federal green strategy goes from bad to worse
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 9, 2010
By Tyler Hamilton, Energy and Technology Columnist, The Toronto Star, March 8, 2010
Thud.
You hear that sound? That’s the sound of nearly half a billion taxpayer dollars landing on the doorstep of Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. Read on »
Canadian climate scientists fight for renewed research funding
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Environment, Research & Development, Science & Technology on February 23, 2010
BY MARGARET MUNRO, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE, from The Vancouver Sun, FEBRUARY 23, 2010
The Harper government is under mounting pressure to save an endangered climate program in next week’s budget.
A petition, signed by close to 1,400 graduate students and researchers, is demanding new funding for the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, which will die without a cash infusion. Read on »
AIDS-vaccine project officially cancelled
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Health & Safety, Health Care, Research & Development, Science & Technology on February 21, 2010
By ELIZABETH CHURCH, The Globe and Mail, Feb. 20, 2010
Three years less a day after Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood beside Bill Gates and pledged $111-million toward the search for an AIDS vaccine, the federal government has officially cancelled the centrepiece project of that partnership, saying a manufacturing plant is no longer needed and Canadian researchers were not up to the job anyway. Read on »
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