The purpose of one of Canada’s oldest literary awards is to encourage the study and interpretation of the history of Manitoba. In its celebration of one of Winnipeg’s most colourful and distinctive areas, Russ Gourluck’s The Mosaic Village, An Illustrated History of Winnipeg’s North End certainly accomplished this. Congratulations Russ on receiving one of the 2010 Margaret McWilliams Awards!
The Manitoba Children’s Museum is closed until April 2011 – renewing and refreshing the exhibits and galleries in the historic CN train repair building with a $10M Capital Campaign. Visit the campaign website to see the new project and watch the progress of the new galleries.
Continue reading ‘Capital Campaign’
Take one slaughtered cow, a murdered Mountie, toss in a washing machine and a broken piano and what do you get? Well, the 21st season of Theatre Projects Manitoba, of course. Two dynamic plays, Almighty Voice and His Wife, a Native Earth Performing Arts production written by Daniel David Moses, and The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, written by Manitoba author Armin Wiebe, are on deck.
Continue reading ‘Prarie Plays’
We are! For a bunch of misfit, out-of-shape paper pushers – 11th place is a awesome place to be amongst 38 teams – many seasoned rowers. The proceeds of this years festival got to HSC Foundation – and we are super happy about that too.
Winnipeg – Volunteers and supporters of the national NGO Beyond Borders, were thrilled to learn today that the organization’s co-founder, Rosalind Prober, has been appointed to the Order of Canada.
Beyond Borders is Canada’s global voice against child sexual exploitation. It is the Canadian national group of ECPAT International, a global network of more than 80 groups in 75 countries. The organization’s other co-founder, Mark Eric Hecht feels very proud of Prober’s achievement. “Roz has been a dedicated and passionate advocate for the rights of children for many years and children in Canada and abroad are safer as a result,” he says. “Protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation is demanding and often frustrating work. I am pleased Roz is being recognized for her ability to overcome these challenges, achieving success for her cause.”
The chair of ECPAT International, Maureen Crombie, offers her congratulations as well. “Rosalind’s vigorous activism to protect children and make visible in Canada the issues surrounding children exploited in prostitution, child sexual abuse images, sex tourism and sex trafficking is very worthy of this outstanding recognition.”
Prober states that news of the recognition took her by complete surprise and that she feels truly honoured to be receiving it. “I will continue, alongside the Beyond Borders national team, to work to protect children at home and abroad from this terrible crime,” she says.
For more information about Beyond Borders and ECPAT visit beyondborders.org and ecpat.net.
For more information on the Order of Canada visit http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=72
Contact:
Mark Hecht – 1.613.220.6362, profhecht@csr-csec.info
Rosalind Prober – 1.204.793.7080, rprober@beyondborders.org
Which Manitoba book, by a Manitoba author, do you think should get Manitobans On the Same Page this year? You can vote by going to http://www.wpgfdn.org/programsprojects-otsp.php. We are please to see Jake MacDonald, one of our favourite authors and his book Juliana and the Medicine Fish on the short list. He got our vote – now go cast yours!
Juliana and the Medicine Fish, by Jake MacDonald
While spending the summer trying to deal with her parent’s divorce, Juliana, with the help of her Ojibway friend, uncovers an ancient secret that helps her reconcile with her father and, at the same time, acquire a new appreciation for the dangerous beauty of Canada’s north country. Now in its fourth printing, this bestselling young adult novel is becoming a Canadian classic.
Jake MacDonald is an award-winning author of six books, a short story writer and a journalist. His memoir, Houseboat Chronicles, won three awards, including the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize. His feature articles have been published in Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and Canadian Geographic, among others. He divides his time between Winnipeg and Toronto and a rustic retreat in Minaki, Ontario. His most recent book was Grizzlyville: Adventures in Bear Country.
A number of recent studies have pointed out that women have become more adept at starting businesses but the likelihood of them growing their businesses beyond the micro stage is less than that of the business population at large. There are many reasons for this lag, among them socio/psychological factors, the nature of the industry sectors in which women are more likely to start a business, and their managerial/technical experience.
These aspects of women-owned business inspire and challenge the team at the Women’s Enterprise Centre of Manitoba. While our focus has been on delivering training, advising and financing services to help women to start and sustain successful businesses, we also seek out opportunities where we can provide special supports that will address the challenges women encounter when pursuing business growth.
The connection between the desire to expand or grow one’s business and the use and adoption of new technologies has been proven in a number of studies. Similarly, the advent of technological adoption is tied to increases in revenues and in productivity overall.
The Women’s Enterprise Centre has designed a program that addresses the need for technological support for women-owned businesses. These supports primarily concern women’s adoption and use of technology to make their businesses more productive, efficient and profitable. The program will help participants:
The project has the potential to increase the profitability and productivity of the businesses as well as increasing the self-confidence and technology acumen of the women business owner and her staff.
The WEC–Tech Project will include various components, some or all of which will be applicable to the participants:
Orientation sessions will provide information about the project and help to identify women entrepreneurs who would benefit from the assessment.
Seminars will be offered to provide information and encouragement to women entrepreneurs to increase their technological capabilities.
Technology assessments or audits for eligible women-owned businesses will be carried out by fully competent technology experts using proven techniques.
A special Technology Lending program will be available for women who participate in the individual assessments. These loans will cover the hardware and software requirements and will have flexible collateral requirements and repayment terms including longer terms of repayment than are normally available for hardware and software purchases.
A highly subsidized follow-up program will provide the participants with the assistance of a technical advisor to help with installation and integration of systems.
In-person and on-line training will be provided through WECM for a variety of software systems and analysis of results.
Business analysts (in conjunction with technical advisors where necessary) will conduct follow up ‘aftercare’ consultations to ensure that the new systems are used in a manner that is aligned with the entrepreneur’s strategic objectives.
Monitoring will provide women participants with the opportunity to provide on-going feedback that will enable program modifications to be implemented immediately.
Relish was pleased to participate in the Women’s Enterprise Centre Technology In The 21st Century conference at the Hotel Fort Garry. The event showcased 4 internationally renowned speakers that discussed how technology applications can better business. Relish was represented at the tech trade show.
