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[...] the Public Health Agency of Canada simultaneously issued a press release claiming the researchers in Winnipeg were the first to "decode the genetic makeup of H1N1 flu virus." "This program is modernizing our laboratories and will quickly bring economic stimulus to this region," he said.While improved lab conditions are nice, many in the scientific community are still alarmed at the government's policies on basic scientific research.
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... leadership role in addressing both pressing challenges and new opportunities in the Arctic tod... mapping work with the international scientific community. While these initiatives are directed to...The result was the June 2000 release of The Northern Dimension of Canada's Foreign Poli...
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... offshore wind projects until further scientific research is completed. The press release circulat...
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..., with climate change becoming a scientific reality, the region with its melting ice caps has ... official discourses such as speeches, and press releases. At the same time, one needs to explain t...
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It was inevitable. Architects of the previous government's Kyoto policy and beneficiaries of the billions of dollars wasted on the file have sent their own open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper contradicting the open letter signed by 61 climate experts who asked for open consultations on the underlying science. In their counter attack, sent April 18, the 90 'establishment' scientists, many of them civil servants, magisterially proclaimed, "The scientific views we express are shared by the vast majority of the national and international climate science community ... There is increasing unambiguous evidence of a changing climate in Canada and around the world.
The letter is full of holes, scientifically. The claim that there is consensus in the scientific community about the cause...
... convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse ga...
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... (1) the provisions' effect on funded scientific publications, (2) the provisions dealing with fals... to false inference constitutes a pressing and substantial objective, and prohibiting such fo..., Ont.: Carswell, 1992 (updated 2007, release 1). Hogg, Peter W., Allison A. Bushell Thornton an...
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Eat to be lean, limit red meat consumption, avoid processed meat, drink sparingly, be physically active, avoid fatty, sugary, salty, highly-processed foods, and eat more fruits, vegetables and plant-based proteins.
The American Meat Institute lashed out almost immediately, saying the recommendations "reflect WCRF's well-known anti-meat bias and should be met with skepticism because they oversimplify the complex issue of cancer, are not supported by the data, and defy common sense." It cited its own research and said the science is inconclusive.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that consuming red meat, as part of a healthy balanced diet, increases the risk of cancer," the Canadian Meat Council, Canadian Pork Council and Beef Information Centre said in a joint release, also t...
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...And few feel real pressure to improve their performance--especially that of t... data from Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory). Every year, wastewater facilities dump...NWRI Scientific Assessment Report Series No. 1. Ottawa: Environmen...
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... of circumpolar co-operation; its scientific and bureaucratic expertise; and its relative milit... chairmanship that reflects the most pressing environmental, security, and economic concerns of ... of the Arctic Marine Environment), released an Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment (AMSA) at the...
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...Once released, they sprang back to their original size whereuponn they pressed themselves against the vessel wall by elastic expa...