Archive for category Science & Technology
Busy Tony Clement is alienating voters
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Science & Technology, The Economy on July 22, 2010
Carol Goar, The Toronto Star, July 21, 2010
Tony Clement is rapidly alienating large swaths of the population.
Folks in his goody-strewn riding of Parry Sound Muskoka think he’s a fine politician. But across the country, a large — and growing — segment of the electorate blames the industry minister for throttling Statistics Canada, allowing foreign acquisitors to pick off Canadian companies, chopping federal funding for dozens of tourist attractions and using last month’s world leaders’ meetings to funnel $50 million into his constituency. Read on »
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 »
Climate change: Liberals take action where Harper has failed
Posted by sitemaster in Energy, Environment, Jobs, Liberals, Science & Technology on April 13, 2010
For Immediate Release
April 13, 2010
OTTAWA – The Liberals are bringing forward an opposition motion calling on the Conservative government to take immediate and decisive action on the environment and climate change. 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 »
Internet access: Funding to stay, minister apologizes
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Rural Issues, Science & Technology on March 17, 2010
By Mia Rabson, Winnipeg Free Press, 17/03/2010
OTTAWA — Industry Minister Tony Clement apologized Tuesday for letters mailed to community groups across Canada telling them their funding for Internet access was being cut. Read on »
Cuts coming to rural Internet link funding
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Rural Issues, Science & Technology on March 15, 2010
By KATHLEEN HARRIS, PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU, The Toronto Sun, March 15, 2010
OTTAWA — Critics are panning a Conservative move to cut funds to a program that helps rural communities link to the Internet. 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 »
Canada’s broadband lag
Posted by sitemaster in Science & Technology on February 22, 2010
From The Globe and Mail, Feb. 21, 2010
In the economic race among nations, widespread Internet access, and its fast, reliable and cheap provision to the most people, is a prerequisite for success. And Canada is falling behind. If we are to compete, it will take new policies, new vision from corporations, the federal government and its regulators, and a national collective will to compete. 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 »
Where have all the policy-makers gone?
Posted by sitemaster in Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Science & Technology, The Economy on February 17, 2010
David Mitchell, The Globe and Mail, Published on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
Think hard: What were the policy and governance highlights of the past decade? It’s a short list. Our federal government avoided the military intervention in Iraq, joined the war effort in Afghanistan and, largely in reaction to the sponsorship scandal in Quebec, was preoccupied by the internal processes of accountability.
In fact, pro-active policy-making within government has atrophied. Read on »
The search for isotope answers
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Health Care, Science & Technology on February 14, 2010
From The Toronto Star, February 14, 2010
Canadians have lost their capacity for shock or anger over breakdowns, malfunctions and missed deadlines at the Chalk River nuclear facility, the country’s primary supplier of medical isotopes. The latest delay – the aging reactor will not resume production in March, as promised – might have escaped public notice if the Dutch had not announced the closing of their own reactor. Read on »
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