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Spiring moving on from CEO role

Dayna Spiring is stepping down as CEO of Economic Development Winnipeg after leading the organization for the past seven years.

SkiptheDishes announces new CEO

Four months after it appointed a new CEO, SkipTheDishes has installed a brand-new interim CEO.

Manitoba’s new venture capital fund makes first investment

Manitoba’s newly formed venture capital fund — Manitoba First Fund — has made its first investment of $25 million with the veteran Saskatchewan venture capital money manager, WestCap Management Ltd.

Mission Overland holding its own as premium brand RV trailer

A couple of years ago Mackow Industries, one of those successful Winnipeg contract manufacturers that’s been around for almost 40 years that no one has heard of, started doing some work for the Alberta founders of a high-end, off-road RV trailer company, called Mission Overland.

Inflation top concern: poll

Scott MacKay figures if there’s one word to describe the mood of respondents in Probe Research’s 2023 Manitoba Business Leaders Index, it’s grumpy.

Business leaders embrace Manitoba budget tax moves

Manitoba Finance Minister Cliff Cullen has signalled to the business community his government’s big-spending budget will make the province more competitive.

Post-pandemic labour market a surprise, Rogers says

A day after the Bank of Canada announced its pause on interest rate hikes, its senior deputy governor, Carolyn Rogers — who grew up in Winnipeg and graduated from Brandon University — was in Winnipeg to explain the bank’s strategy.

Chamber still going strong after 150 years

When James Ashdown, Andrew Bannatyne, Andrew McDermot and others got together to form the Winnipeg Board of Trade on March 8, 1873 it was hardly anything to take issue with that the founders were all middle-aged white men.

Manitoba delegation touts province as spot for mining investment

For the second year in a row, Manitoba is trying to make its presence known in front of the 30,000 international attendees at the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference on this week in Toronto.

Pilot shortage causing headwinds for northern airlines

At the beginning of May, seven northern Indigenous pilots will start their commercial pilot training program in Thompson.

Founder of Princess Auto dies

Harvey Tallman, the founder of Princess Auto, died recently, four months shy of his 100th birthday.

Merit Functional Foods closes

Merit Functional Foods, a home-grown high-tech producer of pea and canola protein, has closed and is in receivership.

Hiring more Indigenous people a focus at job fair

Cherika Bergsma was part of a pretty exclusive job fair this week.

MicroTraffic acquired by Kitchener firm

MicroTraffic, a Winnipeg company that develops technology to accurately predict dangerous traffic scenarios, has been acquired by a Kitchener traffic hardware and software company that it has already been working with.

Mining company set to invest $176M in new concentrator

THE owners of the only producing lithium mine in the country are preparing to invest $176 million to build a new concentrator in Manitoba, which may be a precursor to an even larger investment in the province.

Co-op reports another good year as cheques sent out

Red River Co-op members will be receiving a total of 42 per cent more in equity returns this year compared to the mid-pandemic returns of 2021.

Window, door group still open under monitor

A group of window and door companies based in Winnipeg, including Polar Windows and Accurate Dorwin, has been declared insolvent and a court-appointed monitor is in place while a restructuring plan is worked out.

PrairiesCan contributes $1.3M to program connecting Indigenous students with employers

As a young Metis student at the Asper School of Business 20 years ago, Richard Marchetti felt thrilled and honoured to receive a scholarship from the Business Council of Manitoba that covered about 85 per cent of the tuition cost for a year.

Path to finer farming

When Mark Lepp launched FarmLink Marketing Solutions 17 years ago he was pioneering the business of providing personalized marketing recommendations for Western Canadian farmers.

This week the Winnipeg company launched a new digital product called GrainFox that, through a combination of artificial intelligence, input from its own analytical teams, current and historical market data and regional aggregate data provides up-to-date, personalized crop sales recommendations to producers.