Yosuke Mino and Alanna McAdie in Nutcracker Photo Samanta Katz (Larah Luna’s conflicted copy 2016-05-28)

Product packaging is important. It helps communicate the value proposition of a product and speaks volumes to customers while the product is on a shelf.

Olena Kozel and Erin Ahl have created a modern business with roots in the past. Sherbrook Street’s Public General Store is a place that’s more mercantile than shopping mall.

Joanne Toupin and Beau Burton opened Sleepy Owl Bread on Wall Street in 2013, with baked goods that highlight flavours of local ingredients, from prairie berry Danish pastries to round rustic loaves of whole wheat sourdough miche.

Dr. Hajra Mirza opened the Rossmere Pharmacy in North Kildonan in 2005. “Fate brought me here,” she says.

Mark Turner doesn’t look like the person you may picture when you conjure up an image of a tea room proprietor – and the Amsterdam Tea Room is no dusty cliché either.

Swimming has health benefits, it boosts a child’s confidence, and it can provide kids with future jobs, says the founder of a charity dedicated to ensuring all young Winnipeggers can learn how to swim.