Health research/awareness

There are community-based health charities whose mandate includes providing health awareness. In addition, may of these organizations provide research grants and awards for the purpose of scientific research.

Q In 2003 you gave a speech at the opening of MaRS where you pointed out how disappointing Canada's spending on R&D was and how we had to end the old pattern of "invent in Canada and produce elsewhere." Five years later how are we doing?
A I think there's been an acceptance of the importance of these issues by everyone - government, academia and the business community. And this has made things better. For example, MaRS has turned into a wonderful strategic initiative for bringing people and ideas together. And we're making progress also in the venture capital area with new pockets of dollars like the Ontario Venture Capital Fund in which RBC is a partner. But I guess everything has to have a "but". There clearly is more work to be done.
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Between 1997 and 2008, The Ontario Innovation Trust, alongside the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and institutional partners, invested over $2 billion dollars in research infrastructure in the province of Ontario. This investment was made in all regions of our province in areas of research ranging from the arts to the life sciences.