Around the province.MOOSE JAW Moose Jaw, city (1991 pop. 33,593), S central Sask., Canada. It is a railroad and distribution center, with oil refineries, meatpacking and dairy-processing plants, flour, lumber, and woolen mills, stockyards, and Canada's largest jet-training base. The Temple Gardens Mineral Spa Mineral Spas were naturally occurring mineral spring locales which grew a reputation in the nineteenth century on into the late middle-twentith century for healing or healthful benefits to those wealthy enough to partake of their waters. reports that profits were up by 158 per cent for their last fiscal year end. The spa's annual report shows that profits for the year were $809,256, compared with $312,592 in the previous year. 1 KINISTINO The Melfort Pharmasave announced it would open a location in the Kinistino Co-op building. 2 ST. BRIEUX Bourgault Industries announced a major expansion at its manufacturing facility. Bourgault will add a full acre of manufacturing area to accommodate recent additions to its product line. 3 PRINCE ALBERT Prince Albert, city (1991 pop. 34,181), central Sask., Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River. Prince Albert is a commercial and distribution center for a lumbering, gold- and uranium-mining, and mixed-farming area. There are wood-products and meatpacking industries. Industry and Resources Minister Eric Cline officially opened the temporary home of the Forest Centre in February The plant has grown from two to 20 staff members, and offers a diverse selection of library and staff expertise in the forestry sector. 4 GRENFELL Stone Printing and Publishing Company Ltd., owned by Dwayne and Suzette Stone, celebrates 20 years in business in 2003. 5 HUMBOLDT Big Sky Farms Inc. of Humboldt, working with Union Securities Ltd. of Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , organized a newly incorporated company
called Big Sky Finishers No. 1 Inc. The new company will own three
finishing barns in the Ogema and Rama areas. 6
COWESSESS The Cowessess First Nation Economic Development Committee unveiled plans to boost tourism to the area through snowmobile trails. Currently, 100 km of trail is groomed, and the EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. anticipates 200 km of trails will be ready to use next year. 7 REGINA Venture Energy, a junior oil and gas company headquartered in Regina, was officially launched in February. The company received an initial investment of $7 million from Working Ventures Capital Fund. 8 SASKATOON Claude Resources will spend $2 million in 2003 to extend the vertical mine shaft at Seabee Gold Mine. The extension will provide up to five more years of working life for the mine. 9 SWIFT CURRENT Swift Current city council approved $50,000 in funding to Action Swift Current to begin the selection of a new logo and brand identity for the city. 10 REGINA Great-West Life announced the acquisition of Canada Life for $7.3 billion in February Great-West president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Raymond McFeetors stated that Canada Life's western regional headquarters and its 900 staff would remain in Regina for at least two years. SASKATOON: Pic 'n' Del Systems Inc., a Saskatoon-based online grocery service, signed a deal with the Calgary Co-op that will introduce the online shopping service to that city. The Co-op has 18 stores in Calgary. Pic 'n' Del recently sold its online ordering system to independent retailers in Winnipeg and Edmonton. MELVILLE Babcock and Wilcox announced that it has signed a $26-million contract to do boiler fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. work for the SaskPower Boundary Dam. 11 SASKATOON SED Systems was chosen as the primary contractor to build another $33-million deep space antenna for the European Space Agency European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. . YORKTON The Yorkton branch of the Bank of Montreal “BMO” redirects here. For the mathematics competition, see British Mathematical Olympiad. Bank of Montreal/Banque de Montréal (TSX: BMO, NYSE: BMO) is Canada's fourth largest bank[1], and is classified as a Domestic Chartered Bank (Schedule I). celebrated its 100th anniversary in February 12 WHITEWOOD whitewood, common name for numerous unrelated trees having light-colored wood, e.g., the tulip tree (see magnolia), the linden, and the cottonwood (see willow). Whitewood town council will provide a tax break to existing businesses in town looking to expand. The new policy gives an expanding business a 50 per cent tax break in the first year, a 40 per cent break in the second year, and a 25 per cent break in the third year. Meanwhile new businesses in Whitewood continue to be offered a 100 per cent tax break for their first year and a 50 per cent break for their second year. 13 |
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