Business – Page 2 – Nipawin News

11 AUG

K&J Northern Furstretchers; A Family of Entrepreneurs

K&J Northern Furstretchers

10 AUG

Nipawin’s newest business, Art On Main, is now open

Spotlight on Nipawin – 30 Businesses – 30 Days

From Carmen Drapeau, owner of Art on Main – Nipawin’s newest business, Art On Main is now open at 316 1st Avenue East, Downtown Nipawin. We have spent the past 18 months doing major renovations to our building, and have transformed the former glass/auto-body shop, into a Gallery & Arts retail space, a classroom for art instruction and an office for graphic design services.

08 AUG

Nipawin Computer Solutions Bringing Many New Options to Nipawin Area Shoppers

Spotlight on Nipawin – 30 Businesses – 30 Days

From Debbie and Barry Chessall, owners of Nipawin Computer Solutions; We purchased Nipawin Computer Solutions in January of 2016. Prior to 2016 the business was providing the town of Nipawin and the surrounding area with computer and computer peripheral sales and service along with stationary, printers, ink and toner and we continued to carry on with the same business model to begin with.

01 AUG

FIELDS.ca Launch to Offer Convenient Online Shopping for Rural Communities

Spotlight on Nipawin, 30 Businesses – 30 Days

VANCOUVER, June 1, 2019 – FIELDS, a historical Canadian retailer serving many rural communities, has announced the launch of its newly revamped website. This new website is fully transactional and allows customers to shop online with ease and affordability.

25 JUL

Spotlight on Nipawin, 30 Businesses – 30 Days

Beginning Thursday, August 1st, until Friday, August 30th, 2019, Nipawin News is extending an invitation to businesses in Nipawin and surrounding communities an opportunity to participate in our Spotlight on Nipawin; 30 Businesses – 30 Days promotion.

29 JUN

Sherry Richards: Making our own medicine from wild plants empowers us

Local artist, Lori Bradford , will be hosting a hands on workshop featuring Herbalist, Sherry Richards of Big River, SK – See below for details

By Sherry Richards, Herbalist, Big River, SK – Plants are food, and plants are medicine. Wild plants have been my biggest passion for 25 years. It all started with a book that I bought on a whim called “Useful Wild Plants of Saskatchewan” by Kahlee Keane. I took it to our cabin and left it there for another year. One day it asked me to pick it up and look inside. That little book changed my life’s path.

18 MAR

Liberals Block Minister of Foreign Affairs Appearance at Committee on Restoring Chinese Market Access for Canola

Randy Hoback, MP-Prince Albert, March 17, 2019 Media Release –Ottawa, Ontario – Today, members of the Standing Committee on International Trade members amended a Conservative motion inviting the Ministers of Agriculture and Agri-Food and International Trade Diversification to appear before Canadians and outline what the Liberal government is doing to restore market access to China for Canadian canola.

21 JAN

CRTC’s promise of high speed, unlimited internet for rural Canadians falls short

Since December 2016, the CRTC has been sitting on a $750 million commitment to invest in actual physical infrastructure which is suppose to provide more “rural” Canadians (meaning small communities, sorry farmers) with super high speed internet, speeds up to 50 mbps upload and 10 mbps download (compare to most of us who are lucky to get 5-10 mbps upload)?

18 JAN

Petition launched on Canadian Parliament website in favour of federal standards for truck drivers

An E-petition has been launched on the Government of Canada web site petitions.ourcommons.ca, calling for the federal government to make changes that will standardize Class 1 drivers skills, training and licensing requirements across Canada, as opposed to the current province by province system.