Articles of Interest

Perspectives

• Sanitation in a World of 7 Billion
• The Need for Strong Science Journalism
• The State of Science Education in Canada: Are We Keeping Up?
• The Expanding Field of Open Science
• The Emergence of Management Science in Canada

Academic Articles and Papers

“Goals, gaps and governance: The holy grail in preserving Canada’s hidden liquid gold” in Journal of Hydrology, 380 (2010) 1–3

International Productivity Monitor, Number 18, Spring 2009

Information Rich and Attention Poor, July 2009, Peter J. Nicholson 

The Changing Nature of Intellectual Authority, January 2007, Peter J. Nicholson

Map of the Interface between Science and Policy, January 2007, Marc Saner

Mainstream Media

Profiting from Biodiversity, by Thomas E. Lovejoy, The New York Times, The Opinion Pages, October 20, 2010

Information Rich and Attention Poor, by Peter J. Nicholson, The Globe and Mail, Opinions, Globe Essay, September 11, 2009

Canada's innovation gap, Konrad Yakabuski, The Globe and Mail, August 23, 2009

Needed urgently: more creativity from the business class, Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail,  May 28, 2009

Canada's Innovation — Where Are We Today? Business News Network, April 12, 2010 (part 1 of 2)

Canada's Innovation — Where Are We Today? Business News Network, April 12, 2010 (part 2 of 2)

Videos and Speeches

Shirley Tilghman, leading researcher in molecular biology and winner of the 2010 Henry G. Friesen Prize in Health Research talks with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy about women in science. Listen here.

Watch Council president Elizabeth Dowdeswell’s speech on biodiversity from the Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) 2010 conference on September 18. Part two of the video is available here.