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9 stories exploring rural development across the city.
When Lena O’Hara opened Prairie Loom in downtown Brandon, she didn't just start a business — she stitched together training, jobs, and a digital hub that resists rural decline and reimagines community wealth.
A new grassroots entrepreneurship program in Westman is helping farmers, artisans, and young professionals turn modest ideas into viable businesses, creating jobs, reviving Main Streets, and reshaping how rural communities imagine economic futures.
A century of rail lines, grain elevators, and university classrooms reshaped Westman. This retrospective traces Brandon's evolution from railway outpost to regional centre, highlighting human stories, Indigenous history, economic shifts, and a forward-looking sustainability agenda.
In Westman, a grassroots entrepreneurship initiative connects mentors, microgrants and shared workspace to help farmers, artisans and young graduates launch businesses—reweaving the local economy while keeping talent, services and pride in the region.