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The Sustainability Leadership Exchange will take place on April 1st in Toronto. This event will create an interactive exchange of ideas and practices between business leaders, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and investors. MaRS Discovery District will be presenting at the event along with Green Enterprise Ontario and InCourage.

The Federal Budget has been released on March 4th. Flaherty points to all, Ottawa has already done for city, while economist says era of fiscal restraint makes for 'very few winners.' Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District said "the federal government's renewed cash promises for science and technology innovation allows research-heavy Toronto to "punch above its weight" when it comes to taking advantage of those funds, including money for the genome project."

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.

Bitstrips for Schools is a web-based comic-generating platform and a client of MaRS Discovery District. Bitstrips reached its one millionth strip in Ontario. The program is used in Ontario schools to promote literacy.

Google announces an addition to Google Labs - the Public Data Explorer. The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab's page, "The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate

Clean energy was mentioned in the Speech from the Throne. Tom Rand, MaRS Discovery District Clean Tech Practice Lead shares his views on what it means to marry jobs and the environment.

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.

In 2009, the Chinese central government spent $18.75 billion on healthcare up 50 percent year over year. For 2010, spending is forecast at $20.36 billion, which would be an 8.8 percent increase year over year

The Canadian Space Commerce Association will be holding its annual meeting in Toronto on Tuesday, March 16th with the theme "The Growing Canadian Commercial Space Sector" at the MaRS Centre.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. plans to install rooftop solar panels on its Innes Road store in Orleans as part of a pilot project that could see the grocery chain outfitting up to 136 of its Ontario locations with the renewable energy technology.

March 12, at the MaRS Centrer Mr. Bob Dechert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Erindale, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), will present a Canadian Innovation Leader certificate to Intrafinity Inc. - an innovative company from Toronto that provides software services and products to create, publish and manage digital content and online learning.

Dr. Tom Hudson, President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) announced an investment of $1 million towards the development of two new promising cancer therapies. OncoTek Drug Delivery Inc (a subsidiary of Receptor Therapeutics) is one of the recipients.

Blog review of the principal difference between the Expo and Mesh and why the Mesh experience is more advantageous than the more established US counterpart.

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

On April 5, 2010 MobileMonday Toronto invite you to listen to the insights of Alex Nicolaou and Punit Soni of Google who will be discussing the increasing utility and usage of mobile devices at the MaRS Centre.

Bering Media is offering digital direct mail marketing with a unique privacy-protection service.The company has attracted both investors and clients in its first 18 months of operation. Bering Media has received business development assistance from MaRS Discovery District.

Karl Martin turned a pure research project into a commercial venture set to change how we interact with the emerging "surveillance society" by improving personal privacy. U of T's Innovations and Partnerships Office and the MaRS Centre came on board to help these researchers patent their work and attain funding opportunities.

On April 5, 2010 MobileMonday Toronto invite you to listen to the insights of Alex Nicolaou and Punit Soni of Google who will be discussing the increasing utility and usage of mobile devices at the MaRS Centre.