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The Official Business Magazine of the Regina & District Chamber of Commerce
SMALL BUSINESS LOANS ASSOCIATION (SBLA)
Wheelhouse Cycle Club's Kyle Gibson and Kali Bourhis,
the Regina Chamber's SBLA representative.
Wheelhouse Cycle Club is the recipient of a Small
Business Loan through the SBLA program.
Photo: Aimee Sudom
In This Issue
Chair's Inauguration
Gala Photos
From The Dean
Hill School Builds Profile
February 2015
Volume 17
Issue 2
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February 2015 Volume 17, Issue 2
ChamberLink, the official business magazine
of the Regina & District Chamber of Commerce, is published ten
times a year. ChamberLink is distributed to all chamber members,
their representatives and approximately 1,300 non-member businesses. Total circulation is 4,000 copies.
2015 Board of Directors
Nadia Williamson, Chair
Content
4 CHAIR'S MESSAGE
6 FROM THE DEAN
Hill School Builds Profile
8 HELP FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Bob Taylor, Vice-Chair
Michelle Hunter
Bob Kasian
Marc Kelly
Randy Lear
Ahmed Malik
Larry Mything
12 CHAIR'S INAUGURATION PHOTOS
14 NEW MEMBERS
* Views expressed in ChamberLink are those of
contributors and
individual members and are not necessarily endorsed by, or policy
of, the Regina and District Chamber of Commerce.
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Chair's Message
by her watchful eye. Craig Farrell of CTV
is another individual with incredible vision
and this is plain to see with the thoughtfully
arranged production he debuts the night of
the event. Of course one of the most stress
inducing roles, the Master of Ceremonies,
was handled masterfully by the ever talented
and engaging Victor Thomas.
Nadia Williamson, 2015 Chair
Regina & District Chamber of Commerce
W
ow!
What an amazing evening.
The 2015 Chair’s Inauguration was truly a
spectacular event and I hope everyone had
as fine a time as I did.
I would like to personally acknowledge a few
individuals but thank you very much from
the bottom of my heart to anyone who
helped out during the Gala.
The Regina Chamber’s Events Manager, Jeanette Tonita, always does an exceptional job
and this gala was no different. Every piece
of this production was carefully managed
The individual whose melodic notes seamed
the evening’s pauses with rich and vibrant
guitar music was Regina born musician Benjamin Knorr. Ben graduated from Campbell
Collegiate (my Alma Mater) last June and is
heralded as one of the greatest musicians to
graduate from Campbell’s music program.
With a newly launch Small Business Loans
Association program administrated by the
Regina Chamber’s Kali Bourhis and chaired
by myself, we at the Chamber look to continue to position ourselves as the premiere
business organization in Regina and a fount
of businesses services that truly benefit our
Last year, I was very honoured when the members.
Campbell Collegiate Business Club chose me
as their 2014 distinguished business alumni.
Jordan McFarlen and Carissa Holinaty, the
teachers who facilitate this program, have
Your's Truly,
done an exceptional job in coaching students
towards achieving greatness in the field of
business.
In Jordan's words, "Students are encouraged to CREATE something meaningful in
each course. All courses have a strong emphasize on building COMMUNICATION
skills both in person and through the use
of technology. Lastly, the program is always
attempting to COLLABORATE within the
school and with the outside business community to better enhance learning opportunities,” (Create, Communicate, and Collaborate is their motto).
Mission Statement
Vision Statement
The Regina & District Chamber of Commerce
is an independent member driven organization
dedicated to fostering an environment in which our
community prospers.
To be one of Canada’s most respected, influential
and innovative business organizations.
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Saskatchewan Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs or as it is colloquially known,
SYPE, is another organization that I will lend
my support to as Chair of the Regina Chamber. Yaya Wang, this year’s President, is a dynamic individual as well as a friend of mine
and I look forward to collaborating on the
ways our organizations can mesh with a goal
of a stronger business community.
Nadia Williamson
Value Statement
The Regina & District Chamber of Commerce
is a member centric business organization whose
goal is to provide members with professional
calibre services which are conducted and
provided in an environment where honesty,
integrity, credibility, openness, and transparency
are foundational principles. In addition, the
organization seeks to embody global market
principles while at the same time embracing
innovative, strategic reasoning.
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From The Dean
The Hill School Builds on its National and International Profile!
The Hill JDC West team also came first in participation for its high calibre of sporting behaviour and positive character throughout the event.
The JDC West competition also includes charity activities conducted by the students. The Hill
students logged more hours of volunteer work
for their local community than any other school,
as well as collected the most donations for their
designated local charity, Hopes Home. Their
generous efforts earned the Hill School JDC
West team the awards for Most Volunteer Hours
and Most Monetary Donations competition.
During the same weekend The Paul J. Hill
School was elevating its profile Internationally
out east at the final round of the Queen’s Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) in
Kingston, Ontario. Thirty-one business schools
from around the world entered 145 teams to
compete in eight categories.
Andrew Gaudes, PhD
Dean
T
he Paul J. Hill School of Business
continues to build upon its national
and international profile through
case competitions across Canada. In Victoria
BC during the weekend of January 16, the Hill
School ranked high among the twelve premier
business schools in Western Canada with a
third place finish as "School of the Year" at
JDC West 2015. The Hill team also placed
third as "Academic School of the Year” based
on academic performance through the weekend. The Asper School at University of Manitoba placed first in both categories, followed
by the University of Alberta. In addition, the
Paul J. Hill School of Business placed in three
out of eleven academic competitions:
1st place: Business Strategy – Jon Maierhoffer, Suzanne Barber, Victoria Johnson (Bruce
Anderson, coach)
1st place: Debate – Aaron Fritzler, Ahsan
Amjad, Eric Holloway, Gulraiz Tariq (Lisa
Watson, coach)
2nd place: Finance – April Pyne, Levi Lawrence, Brock Forbes (Youngsoo Kim, Arturo
Rubalcava, Helen Huang, Darryl Yasinowski,
Joe Zhang, Coaches)
2015 ICBC Team. Courtesy of the Hill School of Business at the U of R
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In late fall the Hill School was notified that it
ranked as one of the top six competing schools
and advanced three teams to the finals, along with
teams from thirteen other schools around the
world. This is the third time in four years that the
Hill school has placed in the top six in the preliminary round. Two of the Hill teams that advanced
to the final round placed:
1st place: Marketing – Brett Kitchen, Tiffany
Lougheed (Tatiana Levit, Coach)
3rd place: Debate – Kevin Chow, Robert Vancise
(Lisa Watson, Coach)
These finishes at JDC West and ICBC are incredible feats to attain year over year. Students are presented with business case situations where they
must prepare solutions under pressure of time
and present to a jury of academic and professional experts in specialized areas. The competition is
intense, and the adjudication is ruthless. Time and
time again, the Hill students enter into these com-
petitions and leave with the judges’ jaws dropped
and humble expressions of a job well done.
This consistency comes from a school comprised
of staff and faculty dedicated to the success of
their students and a program rich in experiential
learning. Two faculty members in particular who
shepherd the teams each year are Lisa Watson
(JDC West) and Sean Tucker (ICBC). Their tireless effort continues to be an inspiration to our
students, staff, and faculty at the Hill School of
Business.
The Regina community can take great pride in
knowing they have a local business school with
a growing national and international presence.
It’s a school with students who value excellent
business intelligence, alongside humility, and an
overwhelming commitment to giving back to the
community through voluntarism and charity. It’s a
school that reflects all the positive elements of the
community within which it resides.
Working
Together
Connecting job seekers
with a disability to
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2015 JDC West Team. Courtesy of the Hill School of Business at the U of R
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Support For Entrepreneurs in Regina
Chamber Initiative & Regina Support Resources
T
he Regina Chamber and Access
Communications recently had the
chance to film on location at a number of
different Regina businesses. Locally owned
and operated, these businesses gave us the
chance to go behind the scenes with them
and witness the everyday activities that
make their business work.
grams and services that will assist budding
and seasoned entrepreneurs continue to
achieve their business goals.
If you would like be part of a mentoring
partnership, please contact Amanda Baker,
Member Relations Manager, 306.757.4650.
Raj Manek Mentorship Program
The Raj Manek Mentorship Program
(RMMP) began in 1996 in memory of
Raj Manek, a Saskatoon area businessperson who was a dedicated business mentor
and volunteer. The organization’s vision
is to be, “the leading provider of business
coaching, mentorship, and complementary
tools to small and medium-sized entrepreneurs who demonstrate a strong desire and
readiness for growth in Saskatchewan and
Alberta.”
Small Business Loans Association
The Regina Chamber is also a source provider of small business loans through the
Small Business Loans Association (SBLA).
As a SBLA, the Regina Chamber is eligible
to make business loans of up to $20,000 to
new and existing businesses.
Many of these businesses were started by
entrepreneurs who have taken many large
risks in order to be able to proudly hang the
title of “business owner” after their name.
Some still work at another job, cognizant of
the need for capital to continue to flow in
while their business is taking flight. Hard at
work promoting their businesses, these local entrepreneurs take immese capital risk. The Regina Chamber is a partner of this
program and will align Regina and area
The Regina Chamber has begun a process business people with mentoring opportuof working with a number of different pro- nities to benefit their businesses.
The program’s intent is to provide assistance to entrepreneurs, including those
who have had difficulty in obtaining funds
through traditional means. Applications are
generally judged on their ability to add economic diversity to the economy, create jobs
and add services to the community.
Entrepreneurs continued on page 10.
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U N I V E R S I T Y
O F
R E G I N A
peyak aski
kikawinaw
“We are one with Mother Earth”
2 0 1 5 - 2 0 2 0
S T R A T E G I C
P L A N
weetgrass has been used by the
First Nations people of the Great
Plains for millennia to cleanse, heal
and prepare for ceremony. Elders teach us
that sweetgrass is the hair of Mother Earth
and that each of the three strands of the
sweetgrass represent body, spirit and mind.
Many minds, unique in perspective but united
in purpose, envisioned our new strategic plan,
peyak aski kikawinaw.
And now, like the braided strands of the
sweetgrass, we are woven together –
one body, one spirit, one mind – with one
vision for our future.
Together we are stronger.
Our commitment to
student success
Our commitment to
research that has impact
Our commitment to
our communities
Teaching is the fundamental pillar of our
learning community. Our students matter.
We are dedicated to providing the support
required to meet our diverse students’ needs.
We are committed to embedding Indigenous
practices, ideas and principles in all our
academic pursuits. We welcome the world
to our campus, celebrate student success,
and aim to be accessible to all who want
to learn with us.
We have a thirst to know the unknown.
To our researchers, our investigation of,
and reflection upon, intellectual pursuits is
fundamental. We engage our students in these
pursuits, seeking to instil in them a lifelong
quest for knowledge and understanding. We
encourage an active and innovative research
enterprise that expands the boundaries of
knowledge, yet has a meaningful impact at
home and around the globe.
We employ our knowledge to serve each
other and society. We illuminate pressing
social problems and seek solutions. The
understanding we generate enriches our
communities. We are legitimately concerned
with all aspects of our world. We are a bridge
and an interpreter between our communities,
other people and other nations.
To learn more about the University of Regina’s new strategic plan,
visit our website at www.uregina.ca/strategic-plan.
Regina Public Library
The Regina Public Library Central Branch,
located at 2311-12th Avenue, has a comMore than $79 million dollars in loans have prehensive collection of business related rebeen issued by the program which started sources, databases, as well as the assistance of
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Entrepreneurs continued from page 8.
To apply through the Regina Chamber, please
contact Kali Bourhis, Project Coordinator, at
306.757.4645 for more information. Further
information can be found at:
reginachamber.com
Further Business Resources:
Regina Regional Opportunities
Commission
Regina Regional Opportunities Commission
(RROC) is the agency responsible for advancing economic development and tourism
in the Regina region.
reginaroc.com
Neil Squire Society
The Neil Squire Society is the only national
not-for-profit organization in Canada that
has for over twenty-nine years empowered
Canadians with physical disabilities through
the use of computer-based assistive technologies, research and development, and various
employment programs.
neilsquire.ca
Square One
Square One is a one-stop shop providing
information to Saskatchewan entrepreneurs
and small-business owners interested in starting or expanding their business.
squareonesask.ca
BizPaL
Women Entrepreneurs of
Entrepreneurs With Disabilities - South
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cence information in Saskatchewan.
Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan Inc. Living Centre
bizpal.gov.sk.ca
(W.E.) assists women considering starting a The Entrepreneurs with Disabilities program
business or operating an existing business.
helps people with disabilities or health condiBusiness Development Bank of Canada womenentrepreneurs.sk.ca
tions start businesses in Saskatchewan.
(BDC)
edpsask.ca
BDC is a financial institution owned by the
Government of Canada that promotes entrepreneurship in Canada, with many innovative
financing and consulting solutions targeting
Please contact Aimee Sudom at: [email protected] to add your
the needs of Canadian businesses.
organization to the Regina Chamber's Entrepreneur Resource list.
bdc.ca
Canada/Saskatchewan Business Service
Centre
This site will provide information about a
wide range of government programs and services offered by the Government of Canada
and the Province of Saskatchewan.
canadabusiness.ca
Centre for Business Development
This site provides information on how to set
up a business, seminars to help on business
start ups and business resources.
centreforbusiness.ca
futurpreneur
futurpreneur (formerly CYBF) is a national
program focused on providing pre-launch
coaching, business resources, start-up financing and mentoring to help young adults start
a successful business.
futurpreneur.ca
Information Services Corporation
Corporate Registry
ISC's website provides valuable information
on the steps involved in forming sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations and
other business related services.
isc.ca
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February 2015
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SMPIA is a provincial, member-based nonprofit organization that is governed by a
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