Number of Indigenous businesses growing rapidly in Sask. – CBC

May 11, 2022

Spending by Indigenous businesses has also tripled in past decade, says industry official

Ally Hrbachek completes the final yellow and pink icing flower on a new batch of sugar cookies as her four-year-old daughter, Addilyn, looks on.

Hrbachek enjoys baking for her husband and three kids, but it’s also how the Saskatoon woman makes her living. She was training to be a psychologist before she had children. Baking began as an attempt to busy herself while at home coping with post-partum depression.

“I just decided I needed to do something for myself. I just started baking. It turned from a hobby, into a passion and now into my profession,” she said.

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