Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

Last weekend I attended the very successful first annual Canary Derby in Victoria, BC. The Canary Derby was put together as a fundraiser for the Canary Foundation BC (an initiative to support the early detection of cancer in the Province). By accounts it was an incredibly successful event, raising just a touch under $50,000 for Cancer research. A big congratulations to all the teams and volunteers involved.

I blogged a couple months back about the Canary Foundation itself, basically it’s an effort put forth by one Don Listwin (ex. Cisco SVP and Canadian to boot) to encourage and support scientific efforts in the area of early detection. To date it’s primarily been an American initiative but we’ve (GenoLogics) have done our best to open the lines of communication between the BC Cancer Agency and the Canary Foundation. It’s proven successful, with Don announcing a donation of $1,000,000 just last month to fund some very important local research labs.