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Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada provides free up-to-date access to local and global market reports (via subscription only). Market reports on the following industries are included: manufacturing, materials, aerospace and defense, agriculture (technology and food), arts, automotive, bio-tech, building products, chemicals, consumer products, electric power, environment, fish and seafood, forest, health, IT, metals, ocean tech, oil and gas, plastics, rail and urban transit, space, and tourism.

A Web 2.0 focused resource site for entrepreneurs, Virtual Handshake provides links to industry blogs, wikis, and discussion groups. Links to informative social networking sites, software (freeware), and other virtual communities can also be found, as is a comprehensive directory of other online networking/social software companies.

CVCA - Canada's venture capital & private equity association's press release Nov. 10, 2009. Activity in Canada's venture capital (VC) market continued to fall in the third quarter of 2009, according to the industry's statistical report released today by the CVCA-Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association and research partner Thomson Reuters.

Maclean's magazine features Canadian cleantech start-up and MaRS client, Morgan Solar in their story about a lack of Canadian CEOs. MaRS CEO, Ilse Treurnicht talks about the gap.