Canadian cancer stem cell Dream Team announced

A headline in today's Globe and Mail: "Canadian ‘dream team’ to probe stem-cell link to brain cancer". The article, by Ivan Semeniuk (@ivansemeniuk), is available online here.

Nothing for Genome Canada

Budget 2009: A very dark day for big science by Dale Kirby, Macleans OnCampus, January 29, 2009. News item about an article: Budget erases funding for key science agency by Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2009. Excerpts from the article:

For the first time in nine years, Genome Canada, a non-profit non-governmental funding organization, was not mentioned in the federal budget and saw its annual cash injection from Ottawa - $140-million last year - disappear.

"We got nothing, nothing, and we don't know why," said a stunned Martin Godbout, Genome Canada president and CEO. "We're devastated."

The news spread like a virus through the research community yesterday as the country's top scientists wondered whether the oversight was a mistake. ...

Genome Canada is a pivotal member of the Cancer Stem Cell Consortium (CSCC).