BrightLane is a community resource for Toronto entrepreneurs. Through shared workspaces, BrightLane allows entrepreneurs and small businesses to work together out of a historic brick and beam building in the cool location of King Street West in Downtown Toronto, Ontario. After successfully graduating from an incubator or accelerator, businesses come here to grow their business to…
The Strategic Aerospace and Defense Initiative (SADI) is a Canadian government funding program that provides repayable contributions for projects that advance the Aerospace and Defence (A&D) industry in Canada. The program has three main objectives: To encourage strategic R&D that will result in innovation and excellence in new or improved products, services, and processes. To…
FedDev Ontario Minister of State, Gary Goodyear, and the local MP in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, Cheryl Gallant, announced an investment of up to $3 million which helped the local manufacturer reopen for business. Increasing Domestic and International Demand Helped the Plant Reopen after being Dormant for 6 Years A pick-up in demand both at home and abroad…
The Waterloo-based business has received a $713,000 grant from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) through Growing Forward 2’s AgriInnovation Program to help scale up its production. With over 700 acres in production, and located in the heart of Ontario’s apple growing region, Martin’s Family Fruit Farms have been family owned and operated since 1971. Martin’s…
Mitacs Elevate is a two-year collaborative R&D program that offers small and medium-sized businesses the opportunity to benefit from the work of postdoctoral fellows that choose to undertake an industrially relevant research project. In return, postdoctoral fellows receive experiential training in R&D directly through their industry-academic research collaboration as well as leadership training and business…
The Canada-Ontario Job Grant (COJG) provides small business grants to businesses for training initiatives focusing on both existing employees or new hires. The Canada-Ontario Job Grant is funded through a partnership with the Provincial and Federal Canadian governments. This program will receive $192 million in funding and will run until 2020. What training topics are…
The Canada Job Grant (CJG) is finally here! As a business owner myself, I want to help other business owners and managers understand what it is, how it works and what they need to do to make it a reality for their businesses. Canada Job Grant and “the Jobs Paradox” Canada has a Jobs Paradox…
In addition to engaging audiences at several conferences, seminars, and workshops each month, Mentor Works executives make their way to close to a dozen different events as attendees as well. This month, Mentor Works’ Founder and President, Bernadeen McLeod, Business Development Executive Alexandra (“Alex”) Barlow and Director of Business Development, Jill Schoolenberg will travel to…
By Ewan Roy, Marketing & Communications, Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) In a June 2014 CGA-FITT-Nanos survey, 97.7 percent of trade professionals responded that international trade is important or somewhat important to their company. Meanwhile, 71.4 percent agreed opportunities for Canadian companies to engage in international trade are increasing. This combination of necessity and…
The honorable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, marked Halloween with a visit to Winnipeg-based OMG’s Candy Inc. OMG’s Candy was launch last year by Chris Emery and Larry Finnson who operate a 12,000-square-foot plant in St. James run by 15 employees. OMG’s is well-known for its delicious chocolaty treats which are a mix of…