3 Manitoba businesses get $4.5M boost through federal investment

Three businesses in Manitoba received a big boost on Saturday after the Government of Canada handed out a $4.5 million investment. The companies received the financial support under the Western Innovation Initiative, a program providing $100 million in repayable contributions to small- and medium-sized companies in Western Canada. "That's how the good jobs for middle class Canadians and those working hard to join it will be created," said federal Minister of Small Business and Tourism Bardish Chagger at the announcement in Winnipeg on Saturday. Complex Games, which makes online games for mobile devices; Sightline Innovation, a machine-learning company; and GORP, an energy bar company, received the funding to push their products to broader markets. When they told me, I was speechless," said Colleen Dyck, CEO of The Great GORP Project Inc. "I was really honoured that they really saw the potential in my company."