Saskatchewan-Manitoba

In addition to the ice rental, the city benefits from a number of spin-offs from the movie business, including hotel stays, restaurant meals and other spending by the actors and crew. Locals selected to play extras in the stands get a per diem, too.

Virden and Wascada will never be mistaken for Fort McMurray but the two small towns are at the centre of an unprecedented oil boom in Manitoba.

It has become an annual ritual that southern Manitobans would much rather do without.

Winnipeg's housing market may be on the cusp of an all-time record. A 6,671-square-foot mansion in the affluent neighbourhood of Tuxedo has been listed for the second-highest selling price in the city's history at $3.9 million. The highest was a $7.

The most compelling sports story in Winnipeg these days has nothing to do with what's happening on the field of play.

The receiver of a recently mothballed resort hotel in the Interlake region is confident it will be sold and reopened even after two recent breaks in the sprinkler system caused $500,000 in damages.

Regina, along with Saskatoon, has the lowest industrial vacancy rate in Canada at 1.24 per cent, according to Colliers International.

The villlage of Wescadia has only 225 residents but, like the neighbouring town of Virden, it finds itself at the centre of an unprecedented oil boom in southwestern Manitoba.

"There is virtually no downtown or suburban office space available for tenants who want to expand or locate their businesses in [Regina]," noted Avison Young principal Dale Griesser. At 1.

Premier Brad Wall left Regina March 8 for a trade mission to India and Bangladesh. With the help of the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP), Wall's primary mission is to increasing exports to these two countries.