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Canadian (Montreal) start-up! Web based software that helps you schedule meetings with people on different calendaring systems.

Visitors to the Ontario Pavilion at the Vancouver Winter Olympics will be able to control live light shows on Toronto's CN Tower, the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, and Niagara Falls, using only their thoughts. BNN speaks to Trevor Coleman, COO, InterAxon."

The latest federal budget removes tax barriers and stimulates flow of capital across Canadian border - great news for Canada's innovative companies!

Shawn Lesser, author and president and founder of Atlanta-based Sustainable World Capital, identified critical characteristics of successful clean-tech clusters, including a region that has a thriving technology base, abundant entrepreneurial and management talent, access to capital, and a proactive environmental public policy. MaRS is listed as one of the other clean-tech organizations.

Chris Atachison from the Globe and Mail reveals how Octane Medical Group, a biotechnology firm that makes regenerative medical products, analyzed an astronaut's health problem which led to their discover on how to help him med.

Laurie Orlov's blog about the Business of Aging Conference that was held at the MaRS Centre on Dec 1 and 2 and sponsored by MaRS and the Ontario Government. The conference was less about business, much more about the social 'phenomenon' of aging and its implications for where and how we live. Dec 6, 2009

Toronto's Baycrest centre is staking a claim to a piece of the booming brain fitness market with a new company, Cogniciti, and a new generation of brain games aimed at helping baby boomers keep their minds sharp and boost their productivity in the workplace well into old age. Alvaro Fernandez, a researcher on aging, says the new games are designed to keep older brains nimble. Hon. Milloy states "The McGuinty government is proud to support the work that both MaRS and Baycrest are doing to improve quality of life and tackle the challenges of an aging population. Ontario is supporting innovators across the province to ensure this kind of success is the rule, not the exception." Dec 2, 2009

The Canadian Association of Journalists and the CAJ Education Foundation are kicking off the decade with a groundbreaking conference where news staff and management can learn about emerging techniques, technologies and models to transform journalism for the 21st century. The conference focuses on skills, strategies and tactics that news organizations can start implementing immediately. It will be held on Jan. 30 at the MaRS Centre, a major innovation hub a stone's throw from Queen's Park in Toronto.

An article in OSBR by Lisa Torjman, Associate, SiG@MaRS and Jon Worren, Advisor, MaRS. The article talks about the factors contributing to the weak culture of entrepreneurship in Canada.

The Scientist spoke with researchers who are automating and commercializing the latest technologies to aid life science work. Ameer Taha, founder, Certo Labs, Toronto and Veronika Litinski, health-care and life sciences practice lead at the MaRS Centre, a Toronto-based innovation cluster that engages researchers in commercializing their inventions were interviewed. Litinski states that "Before people start spending money on [developing] a product, we want them to think about the value chain and how the industry ecosystem is organized."

A group of investors is in Washington to push for passage of a bill that they say would make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs to stay-and create jobs-in the U.S.

A group of investors is in Washington to push for passage of a bill that they say would make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs to stay-and create jobs-in the U.S.

Echologics, a MaRS client in the Water IT space is included in the Lux Innovation Grid

CIBC has become the first major Canadian bank to form an investment team focused on green energy and clean technology markets, forging a path that industry experts say is likely to be followed by its big-bank rivals.

The story about the MaRS Discovery District as a super-incubator.