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International financial experts meet in Toronto to encourage local investment in renewable power at The Green Energy Act Finance Forum on January 29, 2010.

The Relentless Foundation is starting up an entrepreneur's website and are looking for donations to support it. NetSquared writes about the ask.

An article in OSBR by Lisa Torjman, Associate, SiG@MaRS and Jon Worren, Advisor, MaRS. The article talks about the factors contributing to the weak culture of entrepreneurship in Canada.

Watch MaRS cleantech advisor and practice lead, Tom Rand, as he appears on a panel on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin. The issue: the Samsung deal - good for Ontarians or not? Other panelists on the Feb 2, 2010, show include: Randall Denley from the Ottawa Citizen; Kristopher Stevens from the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association; and Norm Rubin from Energy Probe.

With Steve Pakin host of The Agenda, Norm Rubin, Director of Nuclear Research, Randall Denley, Columnist with the Ottawa Citizen, Tom Rand, Cleantech Lead at the MaRS Discovery District, and Kristopher Stevens, Executive Director of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association discuss the harnessing nature to boost Ontario's economy--what the Samsung deal means for Ontario.

SCM Risk Management Services (RMS) officially unveiled its new insurance-to- value (ITV) indexing technology at a reception at the MaRS Innovation Centre.

Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) at the MaRS Centre in Toronto Saturday Feb 6, 2010.

Daryl Copeland will be speaking at MaRS, at 2:00PM on the 29th of January at the offices of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health on the 4th floor.

Five architectural teams face the challenge of reinventing a site considered to be Toronto's birthplace. Adamson Associates Architects is on the short listed firms. Mention of Adamson being responsible for the restoration and renovation of the MaRS Centre at College and University. The project included the reformation of the College Wing of the historic Toronto General Hospital and stitching that into contemporary buildings and public atrium space.

MaRS and MaRS tenant OICR were two of many locations for a great video promoting businesses and sectors across Canada. It's being shown to international media and visitors during the Olympics. See us at time index 00:54.

Advice for the Starbucks CEO ... or anyone in a start-up. If Starbucks can learn, so can you.

Visualize a global positioning system (GPS) device that knows where you've parked, and for how long. Imagine it can send this information directly to a company that will bill you, without allowing that company to spy on you. Skymeter, a MaRS client and tenant, is profiled in IT Business in a video interview.

Skymeter has developed a GPS-enabled device that's in direct communication with a satellite orbiting the Earth. The GPS enables drivers to conveniently (and accurately) make good their bills for services such as parking, toll road use, and pay-as-you-go insurance.

"Ontario's lucrative Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) program for renewable energy will mean the development of new and highly efficient energy technologies that will secure the Province's clean energy supply for generations. Tom Rand, head of the clean technology practice at MaRS Discovery District and co-organizer of the renewable energy financing conference held in Toronto last month, said that under the province's feed-in-tariff program, the investments are as safe as a 20-year government bond that pays 8 to 12 per cent per year, and guarantees quick connection to the grid.

Visitors to the Ontario Pavilion at the Vancouver Winter Olympics will be able to control live light shows on Toronto's CN Tower, the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, and Niagara Falls, using only their thoughts. BNN speaks to Trevor Coleman, COO, InterAxon."

March 1st, MobileMonday Toronto will open the floor for prospective mobile entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to some of Canada's leading Venture Capital companies. The event is focused on raising capital for mobile ventures.The event will take place at the MaRS Centre.

Canadians want to remain in their homes as they age, and that could mean a motherlode for entrepreneurs. According to Jane Barratt, secretary-general of the Toronto-based International Federation on Ageing, "aging is the largest growing business in the world." Peter Evans, an ICT Advisor for companies at Toronto Based MaRS agrees that the "opportunity is huge."

On April 1, 2010, The Sustainability Leadership Exchange (SLX) will take place at the MaRS Discovery District. The SLX will bring Canadian business leaders, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and investors together to explore what sustainable business means in practice.

Dr. Shaf Keshavjee of Toronto General Hospital has pioneered use of a mechanical lung and a system that keeps harvested lungs from deteriorating. Dr.Keshavjee has a lab at the MaRS Centre.

Global Heart Hour is a new grassroots global initiative to make a better world. This new concept was launched on Valentine's 2009 in Toronto. This year's event was held at the University of Toronto on Tuesday February 9th, 2010, with the theme "Think Haiti and Rethink the World.