Saskatchewan-Manitoba

Labour demand is expected to remain reasonably firm through this year, resulting in an average annual employment gain of 1.3 per cent into 2011.

The Saskatchewan government is no longer spending more money than it takes into provincial coffers.

Weyerhaeuser Co. Ltd. has reopened its oriented strand board plant in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, that it had closed in July of 2008, leaving 140 people without jobs.

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.