MaRS Discovery District

MaRS, located in Toronto, is the largest urban innovation hub globally, assisting startups in various sectors including health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise. When MaRS was established in 2005, the idea of urban innovation was still new and unproven. Today, it is transforming cities across the globe. MaRS leads a movement that influences cities like Melbourne, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, Medellín, Los Angeles, Paris, and New York. These cities are working to develop their own innovation districts similar to what we have in Toronto, where universities, startups, corporations, and investors coexist in a vibrant environment. In this highly competitive environment, having scale is crucial – top talent is drawn to the most dynamic innovation hubs.

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How to help homegrown companies succeed in Canada

1 week ago | marsdd.com | Leah Golob

As tariffs undermine trade with the United States, Canadian ventures looking to do business at home face interprovincial roadblocks. But there are simple ways to tackle this problem. Over the past few months, trade tensions with the United States have caused disruptions across sectors.
How NorthMiRs made the jump from academia to entrepreneurship

2 weeks ago | marsdd.com | Janey Llewellin

Founded: 2022Sector: HealthProgram: HealthServices: Product Development, Marketing Intelligence, Intellectual Property, General AdvisoryThe biotech venture has refined its product development plan, crafted a business model and secured $250,000 in funding. Sam McWhirter is out to catch a killer. The researcher turned entrepreneur has set her sights on sepsis, a severe medical condition that causes a person’s immune system to attack their tissues and organs.
Hire Learning: Carbonhound helps companies keep emissions on a short leash

4 weeks ago | marsdd.com | Steve McCann

At the purpose-driven startup, staff enjoy sustainable perks like tree-planting excursions and DIY mending workshops. Tracking greenhouse gas emissions is pivotal to the climate change fight. In Canada, companies and organizations that generate 10,000 or more tonnes of GHGs annually must report their CO2 data to help the government make cross-sector assessments and determine whether overall emissions are trending downward — a key step in the effort to achieve net zero by 2050.
Solving healthcare’s emissions problem

1 month ago | marsdd.com | Caitlin Stall-Paquet

The medical system currently accounts for close to 5 percent of global greenhouse emissions. But new strategies suggest it’s possible to clean up our act. When you think of climate change, hospitals and care clinics may not be the first things that come to mind. But if global healthcare were a country, it would be the fifth largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter in the world, the Canadian Medical Association has found — which somewhat undercuts the sector’s presumed focus on good health.
Hire Learning: Diversio helps other companies level up their employee experience

2 months ago | marsdd.com | Steve McCann

The Toronto-based firm specializes in building positive office culture — which, in its own case, includes homemade cookies. The average person spends at work, so it makes sense that they’d want that environment to be one where they feel happy and valued. But diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices are more than just feel-good gestures to give people warm fuzzies — taking action to ensure workplaces support the needs of employees across the board is good for business.
New initiatives aim to improve medical support for Black communities

2 months ago | marsdd.com | Daniel Reale-Chin

“Trusting and caring are reciprocal — it is difficult to truly care for those you do not know or trust. And it is difficult to trust people if you believe they don’t care about you.”Two days after school started in September 2023, six-year-old Moses was admitted to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) with excruciating pain. He was experiencing a vaso-occlusive crisis, which happens when cells become lodged in a blood vessel, blocking blood flow to part of the body.
Boss Moves: How to resolve co-founder conflict

2 months ago | marsdd.com | Rebecca Gao

Expert advice on working with a business partner who actively undermines you. In this series we tackle some of the thorniest questions facing business leaders today. After university, I launched a tech startup with a classmate. In the first few years, we made tremendous progress. But now that we are starting to scale, our views of where the company should go have diverged. This is especially worrisome because my co-founder keeps undermining me in board meetings.
Upping your game: Tips from highly productive people

Jan 22, 2025 | marsdd.com | Daniel Reale-Chin

Leaders from the innovation community share advice on how to get it all done — without burning out. Work smarter, not harder. Create a better work-life balance. Land that promotion. As we slide further into the new year and our to-do-lists and inboxes fill up, those aspirational commitments we optimistically made at the turn of the clock on January 1 can suddenly seem much harder to pull off.
The long reach of AI

Jan 13, 2025 | marsdd.com | Dominique Ritter

How AI and other emerging technologies are poised to change our productivity, physical wellness and power grids in 2025. While the sheer number of new innovations has been dazzling us for decades, the adoption of AI has greatly accelerated the pace of change. With 2025’s rate of innovation set to stun, we reached out to four experts for their forecasts on the tech trends that will influence the way we work, the care we receive and how we will power it all in the year ahead.
How to solve Canada’s productivity crisis

Jan 8, 2025 | marsdd.com | Caitlin Walsh Miller

The country is lagging behind its OECD peers when it comes to economic growth — and the threat of tariffs will only make things worse. Here, experts weigh in on the best ways to tackle this issue. “You’ve seen those signs that say, ‘In emergency, break glass,’ Well, it’s time to break the glass.” Those words were spoken by Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, during a speech in Halifax last spring, sounding the alarm on the country’s decades-long productivity crisis.