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Master distiller Jason Kang (right) of Capital K Distillery stands with partner and production manager Matt Patterson at their Winnipeg location.
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Craft liquor sector gets creative in strike aftermath

How small-scale manufacturers turned the Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries strike to their advantage

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Manitoba craft breweries and distilleries found new ways to reach their customers during this summer’s liquor strike. It’s been a tough summer for many local alcoholic beverage manufacturers, who lost one of their most important distributors through what is traditionally one of the busier seasons when Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries workers went to the picket
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New rule on farm transfer tax treatment put off to 2022

Farm groups protest delay

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Rule changes passed in a federal bill to standardize tax treatment for sales of family-owned farms and small businesses will be delayed to the start of 2022, to the dismay of several farm groups. Bill C-208, a private member’s bill spearheaded by western Manitoba Conservative MP Larry Maguire with amendments to the federal Income Tax
Mary MacLean is the founder of Happy Dance Hummus, based in Winnipeg.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Small processors say Food Development Centre cuts troubling

Access, cost may have already been an issue, say some sources

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Mary MacLean can’t imagine starting Happy Dance Hummus without help from staff at the Food Development Centre. “Basically everything I didn’t know I would turn to them to find out,” MacLean told the Co-operator. When she began her business, about five years ago, she took her homemade hummus to FDC in Portage for analysis. When
Tyler Kilkenny (left) and Todd Sawyer step behind the coffee bar of their giftware/coffee shop in Russell.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Small businesses face not-so-happy holiday due to pandemic

COVID-19 closures have taken a big chunk out of normal small-town holiday shopping income

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It’s been a rough few weeks for Tyler Kilkenny of Russell. Kilkenny, who owns coffee shop and gift store TinHouse Designs and Coffee Co. with his partner, Todd Sawyer, would normally expect to make enough this time of year to cover a good chunk of their first quarter in 2021. Like most retailers, November and
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Markets

Canada’s new export minister to push beyond U.S. market

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada has created a new federal cabinet position to help exporters look beyond the U.S. and there will be resources for small businesses that want to take advantage of new trade deals, the new minister for export promotion said on Tuesday. Mary Ng, who vaulted to cabinet-level last week to take
jars of mustard
Country Crossroads, Other

Passion for food behind successful mustard product company

Push doubts aside, find resources to help and go for it, young entrepreneur tells attendees at the 9th annual Take the Leap conference

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A young Manitoban who started cooking up mustard recipes at home and three years later is selling it across Canada says a favourite quote helped muster her courage to start — and keep going. “It’s ‘anything is possible if you’ve got enough nerve,” says Carly Minish-Wytinck. The quote is from J.K. Rowling. “I mean, I
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Parts run

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The road to town from my brother’s farm doesn’t vary too much from trip to trip. Depending on the season it’s rutted mud, packed snow and ice, or a dusty trail, but the scenery remains the same. One part of that scenery, just on the outskirts of town, is a small business that just celebrated

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