airdrielife Magazine
Celebrating the Good Life in Airdrie
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As local champions of business and community well-being, we know that quality of life, passion and profit can co-exist. We’ve got a full suite of financing and business supports to help rural entrepreneurs.
Airdrie Economic Development recently completed the 2018 Business Satisfaction Survey and was told that 86 per cent of respondents are happy doing business in Airdrie. Quality of life, location, community growth and access to customer bases were listed as the top benefits of doing business here.
Airdrie’s SMARTstart program offers tools, training, mentorship and business planning to a new group of entrepreneurs each year. One of the biggest benefits of SMARTstart is the mentorship – participants are matched with a local business volunteer.
The Academy of Learning Career College in Airdrie is preparing for growth as it moves into a new technology program that will help students achieve their goals.
Meet three men with very different reasons for being successful, but all passionate about their career and community.
Nikki Nordick has turned a passion for dogs into a thriving business in Airdrie. Airdrie Puppy Pals, which was incorporated in 2015 with the daycare opening in October of that year, actually started just as an online community.
More Canadians than ever are purchasing second homes. No longer just for the wealthy, second-home ownership has gone mainstream. For many Canadians, it’s the dream of a summer cottage, golf retreat or a winter chalet.
If you’re a beer drinker, you might not realize it, but a 2013 change in Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) licensing policies opened a whole new world of beers to you. That very same law also helped Airdrie lay claim to its first microbrewery.
An Airdrie-based company is gaining international recognition for its work to help slow global warming by removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere and sequestering carbon in farmland where they use no-till farming.
Being born and raised in Airdrie I’ve seen our city grow and change in more ways than I can count. From the first traffic light to traffic circles, the rat hole to highway interchanges, the SAAN store to Wal-Mart, Airdrie is always on the move, getting bigger and better.
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