ICBA Alberta -- advocacy, benefits, wellness, training, and more, all for open shop construction companies. https://xitter.cf/t.co/KLeFv2sOlP
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Joined February 2023
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$8 billion for Alberta's military bases.
A court challenge against the West Coast pipeline.
Same week. A tale of two Canadas. More on today's Coffee and Construction:
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A $500 million port investment brought @PremierScottMoe to town.
Canpotex broke ground Friday on a rebuild of Neptune terminal: 400 to 500 construction jobs, and 85–90% of the spending going to Canadian contractors.
Full story, plus an election update and the rest of the week's news, on today's Coffee and Construction:
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Ottawa's counter-tariffs hit ~400 construction-relevant product lines. $22 BILLION in annual imports. More than $8 billion a year in duties.
Steel. Lumber. Windows. HVAC. Cranes. Power tools.
Home building costs are already up 70%+ since 2019. Guess who pays.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson: icba.ca/economics-blog/canad…
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32 cents.
That's what a Canadian business puts into machinery and equipment for every dollar per worker an American business spends - because our tax rules made waiting cheaper than buying.
This week Ottawa changed that. Write off the whole machine, year one.
Now fix the permits and we'll be cooking with gas!
More on today's Coffee & Construction:
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It can't keep taking 15 years to approve a mine.
ICBA Economics tracks $650 BILLION in major projects across B.C. & Alberta — housing, pipelines, ports, power lines. Far too many sit in the "proposed" pile, waiting on a permit or a review that never comes.
ICBA's Chris Gardner on how Canada builds faster, cheaper and smarter:
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250 investors. $120 trillion under management. One dinner in Toronto tonight.
Ottawa's pitch book: 167 projects. Alberta's: 34, every one over $200 million.
Investors don't buy projects. They buy certainty. Can 🇨🇦 deliver?
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Canadian businesses invest just 55-60% as much per worker as their American competitors.
Ottawa wants $1 trillion in new investment over five years. ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson lays out what it would actually take to get it.
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About 400 lines on Canada's Sept. 8 counter-tariff schedule are construction inputs. $22B in annual imports. $8.8 BILLION a year in duty.
There's no Canadian supplier for most of it. The American keeps the sale — the Canadian buyer pays 50% more.
ICBA's letter to Finance Minister Champagne: tinyurl.com/59azr7yt
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Yesterday: Trump bans Canadian goods from U.S. government contracts.
Eby's response: a border sign that says "Sorry!"
October 1: the NDP's PST lands on B.C. engineers, security and architects.
We can't fix Washington. We can fix Victoria. New Coffee & Construction👇
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$650 BILLION in major projects on the books in B.C. and Alberta. Approvals that take 5 years. Mines that take 15.
ICBA's 2026 pre-budget submission to Ottawa: cut decisions to under a year — for every project, not just the ones Cabinet picks.
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Wind, solar, biofuels and waste combined: 5% of Canada's energy supply.
Fossil fuels: more than 75%.
And those shares have barely moved since the late 1990s.
New from ICBA's Jock Finlayson — the energy transition isn't a transition. It's an addition.
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$10 billion. 750 kilometres. First land construction contract: awarded.
The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project just hired Surerus Murphy — a joint venture rooted in Fort St John.
New Coffee & Construction:
TRAINING THURSDAY: The hazards that hurt you are the ones nobody mentions. Paul Pelletier on building crews that speak up early — Sept 16, 10am-Noon Mountain, live online. Members $200. 🔨
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Alberta has more than 1,000 major projects on the books — $318 BILLION in capital spending.
But not all of them are under construction yet. $240BN sits at the planned/proposed stage.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on what it will take to build them
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🏠⬆️ Alberta’s residential investment is up nearly 40% since 2021. Housing construction now supports 172,500 jobs — up from 127,000 just four years ago. Population growth is fuelling a building boom.
New from ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson: icba.ca/ab-blog/icba-economi…
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There's no shortage of management advice. The problem is knowing what actually works on a job site.
ICBA Training's Effective Tools, Techniques & Models for Project Management cuts through the noise.
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The typical Canadian household's real net worth grew nearly 140% between 2008 and 2023. That's not the story you're hearing in the media — but it's what the data says. ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson breaks it down. 👇
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Alberta leads Canada in GDP per person, weekly earnings, AND disposable income.
Not bad for a province that keeps getting told to "diversify."
ICBA's Jock Finlayson breaks down who's really winning the economic well-being race 👇 icba.ca/economics-blog/earni…
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PM Carney is in foreign capitals to diversify trade — but our Chief Economist Jock Finlayson says the real problems are right here at home: an uncompetitive tax system & a supply chain where 3 of Canada's 4 busiest ports rank near the bottom globally.
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