Posted: Jul 22, 2021 6:12 PM CT | Last Updated: July 22
In a year, Jessie Pruden went from learning how to bead to supporting herself with her new beading business, Bead ‘n Butter. (Submitted by Jessie Pruden)
Jessie Pruden learned how to bead because she was very bored during her COVID-19 quarantine.
In June 2020, she was stuck at home attending virtual classes at the University of Winnipeg she d gone back to school after a knee injury ended her nearly 20-year career in the restaurant industry. Looking for something to do and hoping to reconnect with her Métis roots by learning the craft, she ordered a beading kit.
Winnipeg Free Press
In 1994, the Women’s Enterprise Centre of Manitoba was one of the first if not the first organization of its kind in Canada specifically supporting women entrepreneurs.
In 1994, the Women’s Enterprise Centre of Manitoba was one of the first if not the first organization of its kind in Canada specifically supporting women entrepreneurs.
Sandra Altner, its CEO since 2007, said while it used to be engaged almost exclusively in helping women start businesses, now it’s just as likely to be assisting clients in growing their businesses.
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Sandra Altner, CEO of the Women’s Enterprise Centre of Manitoba, says the organization’s role is expanding.
After embarking on a whirlwind in-person visit to Montreal yesterday,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returns to the virtual meeting circuit today, starting with an online chat with representatives from
Conquer COVID-19, which his official itinerary describes as a “grassroots, volunteer-driven organization providing assistance to communities across Canada.”
Later this afternoon, he’ll join
New Brunswick MP Wayne Long for a video chat with front line workers at Saint John retirement home.
Back in the precinct, the newly created
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CANADA-U.S. ECONOMIC RELATIONS will hear from
Enbridge vice-president Vern Yu, whose company has a mid-May deadline to shut down the Line 5 pipeline on the order of
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 18
Aspiring female entrepreneurs should think about their credit history
CBC News Manitoba3 months ago
8:09Priti Mehta-Shah remembers what building her corporate finance business was like in the early days and wants to share lessons that she learned with other women, like Lourdes Still who owns a flower farm in La Broquerie. This is the fourth in a series of conversations between iconic female leaders and the emerging entrepreneurs in Manitoba.8:09
Banks, government agencies and capital investors generally agree that women approach financing their business ventures differently from men.
The greatest difference is confidence with debt. The Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub released a report in 2020 that says 83 per cent of women-owned businesses use personal sources of funding, and the are less likely than men to obtain other forms of financing, such as loans or investors.