About The Artery Community Roasters and our Mission

We love two things at The Artery Community Roasters, helping people with disabilities find worthwhile employment, and freshly roasted speciality coffee. Oh, and we also love pizza and our shop dog Artie, but mostly helping the community and roasting some amazing and unique coffees. 

All our employees are people  with disabilities. Our main mission is to provide stable employment and work experience, paid at a living wage, for people living with disabilities. Wages start at $23 an hour, increase steadily, and we promote from within. 

In most provinces, people with disabilities earn between 70 and 75 percent of the income earned by people without disabilities. Many also face significant barriers to finding meaningful employment at all. We want to play a small part in helping to change this.

We also want to show other businesses that not only is hiring people with disabilities the right thing to do, but it's also good for business! Consumers want to support companies that give back, and don't just take. 

Oh, and did I mention we also produce some of the best specialty coffee around. Freshly roasted on an innovative fluid bed roaster, we sell direct trade coffee that we source through our friends at Semilla Coffee, who are coffee advocates and small-scale importers who care. This allows us to source from the same farmers every year, and build genuine relationships with them. 

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Our Mission

1) Employ people living with disabilities and pay them a living wage. 

2) Inspire other business to hire people with disabilities and pay them, and their other employees, a living wage. 

3) Roast ethically sourced specialty coffee with care and kindness.