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Turning up the heat

Story by Stacie Gaetz

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Photos by Sergei Belski

Summer 2021

Local businesspeople are discovering the key to staying relevant in today’s unpredictable world is changing things up and doing what they are passionate about.

Airdrie Canvas Inc. has been leading by this example for years.

Tony Gize, owner of Airdrie Canvas Inc., says the shop that was established by Tom Barker as a custom sewing shop for commercial/industrial businesses in 2003 has come a long way since then.

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