North Battleford region.(Industry News)
The Battlefords is sending a trade mission to Fort McMurray to look
at workers commuting by air between the Battlefords and Fort McMurray.
Five people representing Battlefords REDA, Town of . . .
Moose jaw region.(Chaplin's upgrades its sulphate plant
)(Brief article)
Chaplin's sulphate plant is getting a $25 million upgrade to
begin immediately with completion scheduled for September 2007. The
upgrade includes replacing its current natural gas-fired burners . . .
Estevan region.(investors Ron Knox, Johnny Knox and Dave Honig
pitching to get finance)(Brief article)
Three Weyburn-based inventors are going to Toronto to take part in
a new reality show, The Dragon's Den. If they are successful at
pitching five multimillionaires for the startup capital they need, . . .
Heavy weight technology is light on traffic flow: in a global
village where transportation systems equal economic opportunities,
In July, Saskatoon-based IRD announced that it would supply
"weigh-in-motion" and traffic data collection systems at 80
sites throughout Canada. The contract is part of Transport . . .
Team Saskatchewan goes down under.(agricultural biotechnology and
investments forecast and trends)(Brief article)
Team Saskatchewan's mission to Australia and New Zealand, in
August, drummed up interest in Saskatchewan's investment
opportunities.
The trade mission was built around the Agricultural . . .
Meadow Lake Airport flies again.(Provincial Update)
Resurfacing on the runways, aprons and taxiways of the Meadow Lake
Airport is now complete and the airport has been reopened to air
traffic.
As part of the $2.5 million resurfacing project, the . . .
Precedent-setting legislation promoted in England.(Provincial
Update)
Saskatchewan is the first jurisdiction in the world to define a
framework for the long-term monitoring and maintenance of decommissioned
mining sites. Industry and Resources Minister Eric Cline . . .
David Fagan, Geronimo Farm Equipment Pty Ltd.
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Caption: (l to r) David Fagan, Geronimo Farm Equipment Pty Ltd.
located in Cowra, NSW Australia, met with Dale Botting, Saskatchewan
Trade and Export Partnership and . . .
Global trade lesson in China.(Provincial Update)
University of Saskatchewan students Yujin Gu, Angela Jansen, and
Chris Wickenhauser, and Grade 12 student Chris Stoicheff joined 28 other
Canadians for a two-week Junior Team Canada (JTC) economic . . .
Mentorship project up and running.(Business Mentorship Institute
of Saskatchewan)(Brief article)
Business Mentorship Institute of Saskatchewan (BMI) is running a
pilot project in the Battlefords region to connect local businesses and
increase business competitiveness. The project encourages . . .
Software designers passionate about Saskatoon: when business
partners Amit Gupta and Trent McConaghy needed a home for Solido De
The business partners have been through the start-up process before
with another company, Analog Design Automation that they sold to a
California investor in 2004.
"After we sold Analog Design . . .
Investing in lentils: a new lentil splitting plant in Zealandia,
90 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon, will nearly double produc
The $5 million facility will add 100 metric tonnes of production
daily--about five shipping containers' worth--to Can-India's
two existing plants. An additional nine employees will be needed . . .
Family project is now international business venture: in 1992,
Ladimer Kowalchuk invented an accessible bathtub to help his agin
Necessity truly was the mother of invention for Kowalchuk, who grew
up in Ituna, a town of about 700, near Fort Qu'Appelle.
"My dad was a big man, and a butcher. After years of carrying
heavy . . .
Of note.(DyMark Industries Inc.'s Marc Paquette wins Young
Entrepreneur for Saskatchewan award)(Brief article)
In just three and a half years, Marc Paquette, 34, has built a
structural steel supply and installation business that competes in the
same leagues as large-scale industry veterans. In recognition . . .
It's all about the people ...(FINANCIAL PLANNING)
If you own a business in Saskatchewan (or in Canada for that
matter) in almost any industry one of the biggest challenges you are
facing is finding and retaining good employees and executives. . . .
We think, therefore we are.(Action Saskatchewan, economic
forecasting)(Country overview)
Part Four of our series on the Action Saskatchewan Movement takes
us to the key foundation design principle--our attitude on success.
We are all familiar with the story of the little train . . .
Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce takes the Saskatoon story
on the road to Calgary.(OFF THE WIRE)
Each year, the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce produces
Business Showcase to provide an opportunity for Saskatoon businesses to
establish new contacts and strengthen established . . .
Saskatoon's Enterprise Zone continues to be a
success.(economic development )
The City of Saskatoon's Municipal Enterprise Zone Policy,
which was established in 2002, provides financial incentives to
encourage economic development in seven core neighbourhoods and two . . .
Leading off.(government-funded campaign 'Innovative by
Nature')
In mid-October I was one of about 200 people congregated to witness
what turned out to be the public unveiling of a national campaign to
inform Canadian business leaders about Saskatchewan's . . .
Harper seems to forget how the West was won.(BACK PAGE)
Twenty five years ago Dick Culver, the one-time leader of the
Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party, found himself marginalized
politically and created a new party that, while it didn't . . .
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