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Recruitment missions and campaigns Each year, we plan a series of in-person and virtual missions and campaigns. Throughout 2021, we reached out to businesses that could benefit from our planned recruitment missions in several key markets. We leveraged our expertise across EDW to conduct labour markets assessments to identify and attract needed talent to Winnipeg. In 2021, we focused on attracting national talent from across Canada, as well as finding international talent to fill jobs in technology, agriculture and aerospace. Retrain Manitoba program launched November 2021 Manitoba Chambers of Commerce and EDW launched Retrain Manitoba, a $12.5 million fund for training and professional development that provides eligible Manitoba businesses with a skills development grant program. The program provided $2,500 per employee (maximum of $75,000 per company) for retraining and upskilling to adapt to the changing needs of businesses. Experiential Learning project Businesses expressed some challenges to our team about how complicated and time consuming it can be to hire youth attending post-secondary institutions. Local businesses want to engage with post-secondary institutions to gain access to youth talent and influence youth skills development. As students are registered in institutions across Manitoba or Canada, businesses need to build relationships with many contacts, follow different processes and struggle to identify which schools or faculties have students with the right skills. We worked with the University of Manitoba on a proposal for an Experiential Learning (EL) / Work Integrated Learning (WIL) engagement project. As a result, we were awarded funding through the Business Higher Education Roundtable to develop collaborative, quality EL experiences. It had two main goals: to enhance students' career development, while simultaneously meeting the talent needs of the business community. Real Y E S ! W I N N I P E G C A M P A I G N 2 0 2 5 IMPACT Changemaker $50,000 Canada Life Winnipeg Airports Authority Influencer $35,000 Johnston Group Manitoba Hydro The Megill-Stephenson Company Leader $20,000 6P Marketing Air Canada Leger Palliser Price Industries Princess Auto Ltd. Probe Research Inc. RBC Royal Bank Winnipeg Free Press Xplornet Enterprise Solutions Collaborator $10,000 Bell MTS CIBC Corporate Source Deloitte FWS Group of Companies Ironclad Developments Inc. KPMG Canada Ladco Company Ltd. NFI Group PCL Constructors Canada Inc. Pinnacle PSB Integration Qualico ROBINSON Rogers Sports & Media Scotiabank Shaw Shelter Canadian Properties Ltd. SkipTheDishes TD Bank The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP MNP LLP Tripwire Media Group Ubisoft Winnipeg Visual Lizard Inc. Wellington-Altus Private Wealth WestJet Supporter $5,000 American Express AMIK Architecture49 Art Metz Contract Interiors Avenir IT BDO Canada LLP BentallGreenOak BMO Bockstael Construction Ltd. Business Council of Manitoba Colliers Concord Projects Conviron Cushman & Wakefield Stevenson CWB Financial Group Efficiency Manitoba Ellement Consulting Group Fillmore Riley LLP Gallagher GARDON Construction Ltd. GFIT Wellness GHY International Harvard Developments Inc. HSBC Bank Canada HUB International Launch Coworking Space Legacy Bowes Group MacDon Industries Ltd. Magellan Aerospace Maple Leaf Construction Ltd. M.D. Steele MLT Aikins LLP MMI Asset Management Ltd. Neptune Properties Norima Consulting Northwest Properties Ltd. Online Business Systems People First HR Services Pitblado Law Private Pension Partners PwC Canada Scatliff+Miller+Murray Staffmax Staffing & Recruiting Stretch Construction Taylor McCaffrey LLP The Eastside Group of Companies Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd. VanHack Winnipeg Insurance Brokers Investors in 2021 20 2021 ANNUAL REPORT