Federal Industry Minister Navdeep Bains is in Winnipeg this week to, among other things, financially backstop a number of Manitoba economic development organizations to help them develop the western Canadian clean technology sector.

Bains, who is also the minister responsible for Western Economic Diversification Canada, announced funding totalling close to $7 million for five organizations: Composites Innovation Centre, North Forge Technology Exchange, Information and Communication Technologies Association of Manitoba (ICTAM), Life Science Association of Manitoba Inc. (LSAM) and Genome Prairie.

Winnipeg Free Press 8/1/2018