by Doug Cook | Mar 8, 2026
March 8, 2026 IF YOU STOOD AT THE TIP of False Creek in 1981 and looked out over the water, the sight would be nearly unrecognizable compared to today. Downtown would still be there, but key pieces of today’s iconic skyline would be missing — chief among them, a...
by Doug Cook | Feb 6, 2026
February 6, 2026 ON A DRIZZLY WINTER MORNING in 2005, Raul Aguilar balanced on the edge of a high-rise, a suction cup gripped to the pane of glass he was lowering into place. He was 19 years old and a recent immigrant from the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. New to the...
by Doug Cook | Jan 9, 2026
January 9, 2026 I WAS PLEASED TO JOIN the Prime Minister in Edmonton earlier this fall when he announced that the first series of projects would be referred to the Major Project Office (MPO) for consideration. The MPO was created to streamline regulatory assessment to...
by Doug Cook | Dec 9, 2025
December 9, 2025 WHEN PHIL VENOIT FIRST SET FOOT in a shipyard, he was barely out of high school. At just 18 years old, Venoit’s work experience had been as a manager of a McDonald’s. “I’m not going to call it a rude awakening. It was simply an awakening to an...
by Doug Cook | Nov 21, 2025
November 21, 2025 YOUTH ACROSS THE PROVINCE are finding new pathways to get involved in the trades, thanks in part to a new hands-on program. The Youth Trade Sampler program, run as a partnership between the UA Piping Industry College of BC College of the BC Building...
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