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Canadian tech goes to Mars
Ottawa Citizen
Lundi, Novembre 14th, 2011
In less than a month, NASA will launch Curiosity, a minivansized rover that will use a Canadian-made sensor to look for signs that Mars at some point had the conditions to support life.
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Canadian-led research pushes back date of earliest life on Earth
Ottawa Citizen
Lundi, Octobre 24th, 2011
A Canadian-led team of scientists has turned the clock back by 100 million years on the emergence of oxygen-breathing life on land, shedding fresh light on a moment when Earth's earliest and most primitive organisms — including the microbes that would eventually develop into more complex creatures, including humans — took a major evolutionary step forward.


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Huge hole opens in Arctic ozone layer
Ottawa Citizen
Lundi, Octobre 10th, 2011

A massive Arctic ozone hole opened up over the Northern Hemisphere for the first time this year, an international research team reported last week. The hole covered two million square kilometres — about twice the size of Ontario — and allowed high levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation to hit large swaths of northern Canada, Europe and Russia this spring, the 29 scientists say.



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Health-care insiders accused of eroding system
Ottawa Citizen
Mardi, Octobre 4th, 2011
"Political advisers laying groundwork for profit-driven firms, group argues." Around Liberal Premier Dalton Mc-Guinty's cabinet table and Conservative leader Tim Hudak's inner circle is an influential cadre of advisers and patrons with close ties to forprofit health-care providers. The Ontario Health Coalition, a pro-medicare group, argues these insiders are eroding the province's public health-care system by laying the groundwork for profit-driven companies to play a bigger role.
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Yellow Arctic snow could help detect life on Jupiter moon
Ottawa Citizen
Mardi, Septembre 27th, 2011

A patch of yellow snow in one of the most remote corners of Arctic Canada has supplied fresh insights into an exceedingly rare natural phenomenon that could help scientists detect life — if it exists, as some experts suspect — on one of Jupiter's moons.

Physicist pushes basic science
Ottawa Citizen
Mercredi, Juin 15th, 2011

The boss of the world's most famous particle physics lab was in Ottawa on Tuesday, one day after filling a 1,000-seat auditorium to explain CERN and its work to ordinary Canadians.

He gave a packed public lecture in St. John's, N.L., Monday and will be in Victoria today. With a free day Tuesday he stopped in to visit Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (the two had met once at an economics summit in Davos, Switzerland) and the National Research Council.

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Iceberg
Canadian Arctic research gets a $33 million boost
Ottawa Citizen
Jeudi, Juin 24th, 2010
QUEBEC — A group of researchers at Laval University in Quebec will receive $33 million over seven years to study how ecosystems react to climate change in the Canadian Arctic.
Indentured servants, with lots of degrees
Ottawa Citizen
Samedi, Avril 24th, 2010
The long, hard road to becoming a research scientist in Canada -- one that takes roughly 15 years after high school -- is getting a little harder. The new federal budget wants to hit young scientists with new income tax.
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