Saskatchewan-Manitoba

Cameco, the Saskatoon-based uranium producer, has signed a second deal within a year to supply millions of pounds of uranium concentrate to China.

Ideal location The area appears to be an ideal location for green-field projects.

Winnipeg's Exchange District is growing up into a full-fledged neighbourhood. The area has long been the home of the city's arts and cultural communities but it has never been able to attract more than the diehards to live there.

Arborg, a town of 1,617 people about an hour's drive north of Winnipeg, is on the hunt for investment dollars as immigrant workers continue to arrive in the community.

After months of speculation, the highest-profile hotel in the Interlake region has fallen into receivership.

Yes! Winnipeg, a chamber of commerce initiative designed to attract head offices and maintain existing companies in the Manitoba capital, is off and running and optimism is high.

Faced with its bottles flying off liquor store shelves like never before, Manitoba's only winery was left with no choice but to expand. Rigby Orchards Ltd. has just received a pair of new 1,000-litre tanks, bringing its total up to four.

"Some people look at us being too close to Winnipeg. I look at Winnipeg as 700,000 people that we can draw from. If we got 5 per cent coming through for a night or two and enjoying a getaway from the city, we would be successful," he said.

Thorn said an example of the "can-do" attitude is the $61 million multiplex project for which the community raised $12 million to leverage contributions from federal, provincial and municipal funds.

Norwex posted sales of $90 million last year, the product of 11 consecutive years of more than 100 per cent growth, and its goal is to pull in $200 million in two years and $1 billion in eight or nine years.