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Innovation reaches beyond the realm of technology. Saskatchewan is the first province in Canada to test a new form of financing called Social Impact Bonds (SIB). A SIB is a new financing model used to address difficult social problems where traditional approaches haven’t been successful. An agreement between a service delivery organization, an investor(s), and a government body encourages…

HappyHourHere: Filling Restaurants during their Quiet Times After he sold his green home business, Ronn Lepage was strolling around Honolulu in the middle of the afternoon marvelling at all of the empty restaurants. As an accountant and business consultant, he had been trained to “utilize underutilized assets for profit improvements”.  As he pondered his next business move, he…

Hyon: Buy + Sell Events, Simplified  Kristy Ehman runs and operates several successful businesses in Regina. As she was trying to streamline the operations for Kiddoz, a consignment company for kids’ items, she developed the idea for Hyon. Hyon.ca is software to streamline large sales events.  “These events operate as a huge garage sale – some take over spaces in excess…