"On March 27 and 28, a group of experts and 100 young people convened at Toronto's Metro Hall for a two-day conference hosted by Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada (YSEC), in partnership with social innovation advisory service MaRS.The goal of the re:Vision conference was to leave participants with "practical know-how, new lenses for project design, and a wealth of earned knowledge that can be applied to their initiatives." Cheryl May, advisor and practice lead of social innovation at MaRS, describes her views on Vision."

The 2010 Canada Gairdner Awards honour groundbreaking medical research behind cancer, epilepsy and heart disease and malaria treatments. Dr. Calvin Stiller, Chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Co-Founder and Board Member of MaRS Discovery District and past chair of Genome Canada is a recipient for the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.

Calvin Stiller, chairman of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, won the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award for his work on the use of cyclosporine as a treatment for organ transplant rejection, but also for his role as a scientific entrepreneur, and a rainmaker for major scientific projects. Dr. Calvin Stiller is the Chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Co-Founder and Board Member of MaRS Discovery District and past chair of Genome Canada.

Dr. Calvin Stiller, Chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Co-Founder and Board Member of MaRS Discovery District and past chair of Genome Canada is a recipient for the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.

MD-entrepreneur Cal Stiller, noted for advocating commercial development of research, wins Gairdner Award and hall of fame berth. Dr. Calvin Stiller is the Chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Co-Founder and Board Member of MaRS Discovery District and past chair of Genome Canada.

The 2010 Canada Gairdner Awards honour groundbreaking medical research behind cancer, epilepsy and heart disease and malaria treatments. Dr. Calvin Stiller, Chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Co-Founder and Board Member of MaRS Discovery District and past chair of Genome Canada is a recipient for the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.

Dr. Calvin Stiller, Chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Board Member of MaRS Discovery District and past chair of Genome Canada is a recipient for the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.

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.

Northern Lights, a CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 student up-start company, has taken developments in solid state LEDs and come up with novel designs for fixtures that hold those LEDs to create effective lights.

MyCharityConnects Conference will happen during Net Change Week June 7 & 8, 2010 at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. Topics include "social media, community building, etc.

A clip re: the Autism Genome Project that the Centre for Applied Genomics is undertaking.

Mark Cullen, Canada AM gardening expert, blogs about the new products and concepts that appeal to Canadian gardners. Light From A Stone, a MaRS Client is featured.

On April 1, to commemorate the 3rd United Nations-sanctioned World Autism Awareness Day will be taking place at the MaRS Centre in Toronto.

Canasia Solar Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canasia Power Corp. announced they are pleased to welcome Mr. Tom Rand as Special Advisor to their Board.

Vincent Cheung, owner of Shape Collage Inc. and full time PhD student at the University of Toronto, has been named the 2010 Student Entrepreneur Regional Champion by national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and proud program supporter, CIBC.

Type A Events is proud to be part of the coordination team for the Nitric Oxide Symposium presented by MaRS Discovery District and NeurAxon taking place on May 27th and 28th, 2010.

SIG@MaRS partners with YSEC for their inaugural conference.

Wireless upstarts face a daunting task: Finance and build a network of their own, while taking on the big incumbents. Krista Jones, MaRS Lead in ICT, shares her views on the challenges telecom start-ups face.

Brothers Marc Kielburger and Craig Kielburger, co-founder and founder respecitively, of the Free The Children Foundation. They also launched another project a for-profit company called Me to We, which sells socially responsible products and offers young people trips abroad, channeling most of the proceeds back to Free the Children. Allyson Hewitt, Director of SiG at MaRS, provides her perspectives on the challenges that social entrepreneurs encounter.

Science journalism is in decline. Science reporting is being left to general assignment reporters, who may lack the expertise to present science in an informative and engaging fashion. The Science Media Centre of Canada is a proposed remedy and will host their launch event at the MaRS Centre on April 20th with Jay Ingram, co-host of Discovery Channel's Daily Planet.