Impact investing growing but more effort needed: report - The Globe and Mail - 0 views
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Tara Perkins, Globe and Mail reporter states "The Canadian Task Force on Social Finance says there is evidence that impact investing is growing as an asset class in this country.... more effort is require to make progress though." Ilse Treurnicht, the CEO of MaRS Discovery District is a member of the Task Force.
Environmental group rocks out for change - The Globe and Mail - November 4, 2011 - 0 views
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Jay Somerset, Globe and Mail reporter states "McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto is hosting an international conference and DEW Line Festival exploring art, media and culture... November 5th." The article discusses how change is better conveyed through emotions within art rather than science. MaRS Discovery District is an innovation hub that promotes innovation in social innovation, cleantech, life sciences and health care, and in ICE.
Science City - The Globe and Mail - 0 views
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This is Toronto's research district, a maze of concrete and glass where the finest minds collaborate, turning the city into a global centre of biomedical discovery.
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Nine research institutes employing 5,000 university faculty members, 2,000 graduate students and 1,100 postdoctoral and clinical fellows lie within a 20-minute walk of each other. This biomedical cluster at the heart of Toronto is one of the largest on the continent, and is one of the 10 largest in the world.
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Tom Hudson from Montreal; cell biologist Ben Neel from Boston; and stem-cell biologist Gordon Keller, who came to Toronto in 2006, just months after New York magazine named him one of the scientists that city could not afford to lose. Toronto is also home to Tak Mak, who discovered the "key to the immune system" T-cell receptor, and John Dick, who discovered the first cancer stem cell in 1994 and last year grew a human cancer in a lab mouse for the first time.
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Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail features the MaRS Centre and meets 12 of its' "best specimens." MaRS is one of the 10 largest biomedical clusters in the continent.
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Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail features the MaRS Centre and meets 12 of its' "best specimens." Bonoguore states "MaRS Centre is one of the 10 largest biomedical clusters in the continent." Jan 5, 2008
Small business owners looking up in March - The Globe and Mail - April 4, 2012 - 0 views
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According to Katherine Scarrow, Globe and Mail reporter, "small business sentiment is up, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business's latest business barometer index." MaRS Discovery District is hosting a Business of Aging summit on April 30th at the MaRS Centre to discuss practical strategies to improve health and productivity for aging employees and those caring for aging parents.
Which city's residents report having the best quality of life? - The Globe and Mail - J... - 1 views
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According to an Angus Reid public opinion poll, Calgary is reported to have the best quality of life out of Canada's four largest cities. Acording to Jane Switzer, a report from The Globe and Mail, the "Angus Reid poll was commissioned for CityAge Media's The Innovation City summit." The summit will take place at the MaRS Centre, July 18 and 19th and will explore the new ideas, technologies and partnerships that will build the 21st century city, and why - and how - Metro Toronto and Canada will be a leader in this urban century.
What's wrong with Ontario - and how to make it right - The Globe and Mail - February 18... - 1 views
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Adam Radwanski, Tim Kiladze and Tara Perkins, reports of the Globe and Mail state "Don Drummond's report caused a stir with its cost cuts and gloomy forecasts. But one positive result was that it spurred a serious examination of how to reinvent the economy." Ilse Treurnict, CEO, MaRS Discovery District, states that the "health care sector is growing."
'Techno' program gives birth to startups - The Globe and Mail - June 20, 2012 - 0 views
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Cynthia Goh, guest columnist, Globe and Mail states that the path of commercializing research is a "painfully gradual and meandering." Cynthia Goh, created "a lecture series to train scientist-entrepreneurs that later evolved into Entrepreneurship101 at Toronto's MaRS Discovery District - possibly the largest training program in Canada with about 1,500 registered participants each year. "
Jumping on the accelerator bandwagon - The Globe and Mail - June 7, 2012 - 0 views
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Tracy Hanes, reporter from the Globe and Mail, states that "accelerator programs ... are fast becoming a hot phenomenon, offering advice, support, mentoring and seed capital to emerging tech companies in a quick fashion." "The level of disruption and rapid transformation of the tech sector are another reason more accelerators are entering the market, says Susan McGill, executive director of JOLT, a newly launched spin-off from the MaRS Discovery District."
Why artists in the c-suite can drive business - The Globe and Mail - June 7, 2012 - 0 views
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According to James Martin, reporter, The Globe and Mail, "businesses looking to become innovators might even consider hiring an MFA instead of an MBA.". "David Dobson, Director of business development for Victoria-based StarFish Medical, art school gives him a simple business edge: "It changed the way I think." "Dobson often travels to Toronto and to the MaRS Discovery District."
Physician melds research and entrepreneurship - The Globe and Mail - April 9, 2010 - 0 views
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Carly Weeks, a Globe and Mail reporter interviews Dr. Calvin Stiller. "Dr. Stiller was named a recipient of a prestigious Canada Gairdner Award and always had a dire need to fix the imbalance of research and commercial development in the country's life sciences. He says he has always had an entrepreneurial spirit, which inspired him to work with colleagues to create centres such as the Toronto-based MaRS Discovery District."