{"id":255124,"date":"2025-11-01T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255124\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:03:16","slug":"manitoba-ready-to-punch-above-its-weight-premier-says-of-new-tech-report-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255124\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba ready to \u2018punch above its weight,\u2019 premier says of new tech report &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Manitoba government says it will be looking into the recommendations of a new report on technology, AI and economic innovation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761814748_447_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Premier Wab Kinew said Friday that the report, written by the Innovation and Productivity Taskforce, examines ways technology can help the province become more competitive \u2014including harnessing AI as a way to create better jobs across the province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManitoba is ready to punch above its weight when it comes to the new AI frontier. We have exciting new opportunities to harness the power of AI to create good jobs and prosperity at home,\u201d the premier said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report lays out how Manitoba can become an even more competitive and prosperous province when we invest in and protect our data, our privacy and our infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761854947_61_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The task force, headed up by Jim Balsillie \u2014 the Ontario businessman best-known as the former chair of the tech company that introduced BlackBerry devices \u2014 features a committee of data experts and leaders from the local business community.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Officials said at a press conference Friday that Manitoba has the potential to build on its successes in industries like agriculture and energy by looking to emerging sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManitoba\u2019s economic potential can and should be fuelled by thriving companies with advanced infrastructure that enhances traditional resource industries, IP and data ownership to capture more value-add,\u201d Balsillie said, \u201cand a workforce that is positioned to succeed in the modern economy, all while ensuring alignment with federal policies and strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11503169\/driver-inc-crackdown-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762023795_299_truck-industy-crackdown.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTruck driver industry crackdown coming in budget to target \u2018Drivers Inc.\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11504351\/terrorist-attack-halloween-weekend-kash-patel-fbi\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762023795_867_CP175200055.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Potential terrorist attack\u2019 over Halloween weekend thwarted: FBI director\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The province said it\u2019s looking into diversifying Manitoba\u2019s economy by investing in clean technology, critical minerals and digital infrastructure. The new strategy also includes a focus on working with Indigenous partners.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'AI reshaping many aspects of our daily lives'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI_EDUCATING_BUSINESS__OM01FGJI_thumbnail_1280x720.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:14<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAI reshaping many aspects of our daily lives\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Manitoba government says it will be looking into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,46,714,94967,64,61],"class_list":["post-255124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-politics","tag-province-of-manitoba","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}