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Weaknesses ............................................................................................................................................ 87!
Opportunities .......................................................................................................................................... 89!
Threats .................................................................................................................................................... 90!
Appendix D: Complete Ideas and Opportunities List ................................................................................... 93!
Appendix E: Funding Programs ................................................................................................................... 95!
1. The Ontario Trillium Foundation......................................................................................................... 95!
2. FedNor’s Community Economic Development Fund ........................................................................... 95!
3. The Culture Development Fund .......................................................................................................... 96!
4. Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports’ Celebrate Ontario ................................................................. 97!
5. MTCS’s Ontario Cultural Attraction Fund (OCAF) ............................................................................... 97!
6. Ontario Arts Council ........................................................................................................................... 98!
Aboriginal Artists in Schools................................................................................................................ 98!
Artists in the Community/Workplace ................................................................................................... 98!
7. Youth Internship Program Funding ...................................................................................................... 98!
FedNor Youth Internship Program ....................................................................................................... 98!
Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation Ontario Internship Program .......................................... 99!
8. MCTS Tourism Development Fund ................................................................................................... 100!
9. NOHFC’s Strategic Economic Infrastructure Program ........................................................................ 100!
10. Northern Business Opportunity Program - New Investment Projects ............................................... 101!
11. MTCU’s Ontario Targeted Wage Subsidy ........................................................................................ 101!
12. Youth Employment Fund (YEF) ........................................................................................................ 102!
13. NEOnet’s BEAM Program ................................................................................................................ 102!
14. Ministry of Economic Development and Employment and Infrastructure’s EnAbling Change Program
............................................................................................................................................................. 103!
15. Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors ................................................................................................ 104!
16. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs’ Local Food Fund ....................................... 104!
17. The Sustainable New Agri-Food Products Fund ............................................................................... 104!
18. The Frog’s Breath Foundation.......................................................................................................... 104!
Appendix F: Preliminary Analysis of the Brick Manufacturing Business........................................................ 106!
Appendix G: Encouraging SME Adoption of E-Business Operations .......................................................... 115!
Appendix H: Little Bear and Polar Bear Ridership Statistics 2007-2014 ..................................................... 126!
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