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A total of 50 Canadian technology companies are being honoured in the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM, a ranking of the fastest-growing North American technology, media, telecommunications and life-sciences companies, based on percentage revenue growth over five year.MaRS is a program sponsor for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50TM. Oct 20, 2009

Business leaders discuss strategies for achieving a healthy balance between environmental sustainability and economic growth at Creating Business Value with Integrated Sustainability, hosted by The Conference Board of Canada. Event takes place Oct 29-30, Tom Rand, MaRS Clean Tech Practice lead will be speaking at the event. Oct 27, 2009

Creative Places and Spaces: Collaborative City Conference, day two was held at the MaRS building. Participants heard about the difference between invention and innovation. A strategy for implementation needs to be the next steps. Oct 30, 2009

Tom Rand is listed as one of Canada's formost authorities on cleantech. The Cleantech Group's Cleantech Index tracks the world's leading cleantech companies across a broad range of industry sectors. Fall 2009

A website for entrepreneurs. U.S. and networking focussed. Share your insights, ideas, and experiences with the community. Submit an article and once reviewed and accepted it will be published within the community.

Shawn Micallef from Eye Weekly find the MaRS Discovery District on College Street between Elizabeth and University is composed of old and new. The most dramatic change is in the atrium. Nov 4, 2009

Traffic congestion is taxing the city's productivity, but OECD says road tolls would help reverse drain. OECD findings include that governments should invest in more initiatives like Toronto's MaRS Discovery District. Nov 10, 2009

"The Winnipeg Parking Authority is testing a prototype version of a GPS gadget called a Skymeter, which pings orbiting satellites to determine where it is and how long it's been there." Nov 25, 2009

MaRS is working with its partners across Ontario to take a delegation of six leading tech companies to Silicon Valley to the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 2009, next week, to showcase their products for influencers and investors. July 21, 2009

MaRS Innovation (MI) and the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaborate on projects of mutual interest with a goal to advance and commercialize early-stage health-related discoveries. Dec 15, 2009

T. the City Blog features articles about -- surprise, surprise -- the city of Toronto. Captures the innovations, the news, the culture, the people.

Better Ballots aims to fix a broken voting system that results in low turnout, under-representation and apathy. The coalition launched at Tuesday's Toronto City Summit Alliance's Emerging Leaders Network conference at MaRS. Dec 16, 2009

Julia Moulden states that MaRS Discovery District is one of five organizations that can help you become a New Radical in 2010.

Tom Rand, Practice Lead, Cleantech and Physical Science Venture Group, MaRS, talks about the January 29, 2010, Green Energy Act Finance Forum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, designed to educate the financial community about new renewable energy investment opportunities, recorded from Toronto on January 7, 2010.

Design and technology visionary Bill Buxton will outline the challenges facing news media and the opportunities they present in the closing keynote at a trailblazing conference in Toronto on Jan. 30. The event is geared for journalists, decision makers and members of the public.The conference is being held at the MaRS centre.

Idea Couture and MaRS Discovery District, two companies at the forefront of innovation, have successfully partnered to remodel and reinvigorate the MaRS online experience.

Elisa Birnbaum blogs about Manon Barbeau's dream: giving young people from First Nations communities an opportunity to express themselves using video and music, promoting a sense of healing, empowerment, and community engagement.As Barbeau's story attests, when it comes to Canada's Aboriginal people, social enterprises can be a strong force of change.former Prime Minister, the Rt. Honourable Paul Martin spoke at an Event that was co-sponsored by SiG and MaRS and announced the launch of a $50 million fund to promote Aboriginal business and entrepreneurship.

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."

"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."