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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.
Local entrepreneur Kristine Russell joins us to discuss building an online business and leveraging social media to work for you. Russell built her business, children's clothing line Rustic Pickle, online. She found her market using Facebook and Instagram, and began filling orders from countries including Australia, the United States and Saudi Arabia. She operates her business in Medicine Hat while Rustic Pickle is manufactured in Toronto.
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Medalta, a Medicine Hat-based not-for-profit, is investing nearly $1 million to redevelop a portion of a former brick factory into artist accommodations. Aaron Nelson, executive director of Medalta, joins us to talk about how the reuse of this mid-century modern gem is becoming an important part of programming for artists and visitors alike.
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Cultural Development Medalta is spending nearly a million dollars to redevelop a portion of a brick factory into an artist lodge.
Medalta Located within national historic site, the studio and cultural centre has an artist in residency program.
Invest Medicine Hat helps new, expanding and relocating businesses access markets and business resources in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
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This episode, Ryan Jackson, investor and real estate developer, is here to answer your questions on business. We’ll talk about Medicine Hat’s economic strengths and weaknesses, agriculture processing opportunities, behind the scenes at Invest Medicine Hat, and turning your side-hustle into a business.
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Hemp processing opportunity
Invest Medicine Hat
[City of Medicine Hat](https://www.medicinehat.ca]
[City Centre Development Agency](https://downtownmedicinehat.com]
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This episode, we sit down with Medicine Hat’s mayor, Ted Clugston, and discuss how the city attracted a cryptocurrency company and a cannabis producer to the city. We’ll also talk about how to demonstrate community acceptance of new industry and showing what advantages your city can bring to the table other than utility rates.
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Aurora Cannabis lands in Medicine Hat
The economic impact of cannabis production in Medicine Hat
Moving dirt
Medicine Hat Real Estate Board
Medicine Hat Municipal Development Plan
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This episode, we sit down with Sandra Moore to talk about the opportunities that exist in the growing renewable energy industry. Moore is the lead consultant for the Southeast Alberta Energy Diversification Symposium (SEEDS), which has published four reports detailing the industry, workforce requirements, supply chain, and how best to move forward. Through her work, Moore has established herself as an authority on the global renewable energy industry and shares her thoughts in this insightful interview.
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Southeast Alberta Energy Diversification Symposium (SEEDS)
Wind Energy Opportunities
Solar Energy Opportunities
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We look at Aurora Cannabis’ expansion into Medicine Hat and the economic impact of the new business on the city. We’ll catch up with Stringam LLP, a fast-growing law firm that is building a new office to accommodate future growth, and visit Temple Fitness, a locally-owned gym that is celebrating 10 years in business.
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Developer Chelsea Siggelkow takes us behind the scenes of the renovation of the former Fire Hall No. 2, real estate associate Adam Andrews gives a commercial market update and Shanna Mawer and Mark Normoyle take us inside Scene Fab's Artist Hub.
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This episode, we'll go behind the curtain of one of Alberta's smallest breweries. We’ll take a tour of Travois Ale Works, a nanobrewery that’s playing a role in downtown development, and hear from partner Todd Wiebe on why the 1930s era building will make the perfect location.
Resources:
Downtown Development Incentive Program
Rise of the Nanobreweries
Craft Beer’s Big Impact on Small Towns and Forgotten Neighbourhoods
Medicine for the Hat’s downtown
Medicine Hat Real Estate Board
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This episode looks at the year ahead for Medicine Hat, Alberta.
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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.