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“I’m not sure why, because it’s a commercially reasonable request,” said Brandt owner and CEO Shaun Semple in an interview Tuesday morning.
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Those circumstances, Semple said, are two-fold: A delay in construction of the new CNIB head office as Brandt works its way through a 38-step development process laid out by the Provincial Capital Commission (PCC) last year, and pandemic restrictions that have further delayed that process.
The PCC is the regulator of land in Wascana Centre where the site is located.
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Ottawa is tossing a financial line to Saskatchewan today, announcing it’s to fund 11 businesses here with a total pot of $11.5 million, distributed unevenly among them.
The feds are using monies from the Business Scale-up and Productivity program, which falls under Western Economic Diversification Canada.
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Among the 11 businesses, two in the Regina area are to receive the largest amounts. Brandt Industries is to receive $4,269,889 to purchase and use new, automated laser metal-cutting equipment; oat and pulse milling company Avena Foods is to receive $2.5 million to start a new oat processing line at its Rowatt mill, just south of Regina’s bypass highway.
The Regina-based Brandt Group of Companies has announced plans to hire more than 1,000 new employees this year, including hundreds in Regina and Saska.