Article content Ottawa is tossing a financial line to Saskatchewan today, announcing it’s to fund 11 businesses here with a total pot of $11.5 million, distributed unevenly among them. The feds are using monies from the Business Scale-up and Productivity program, which falls under Western Economic Diversification Canada. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Feds fork over $11.5M for 11 Sask. businesses Back to video Among the 11 businesses, two in the Regina area are to receive the largest amounts. Brandt Industries is to receive $4,269,889 to purchase and use new, automated laser metal-cutting equipment; oat and pulse milling company Avena Foods is to receive $2.5 million to start a new oat processing line at its Rowatt mill, just south of Regina’s bypass highway.