Monday, December 19, 2011

Federal Government provides funding to local agencies

The federal government is giving a helping hand to a couple of regional agencies that deal with small business.

The Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre has been promised 320 thousand dollars.

Centre Manager Judy Sander says the money will be used to provide 5 thousand dollar grants to help get business projects off the ground

As part of the same FedNor announcement, the Northern Ontario Enterprise Gateway get 450 thousand dollars