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...
by Doug Cook | Nov 21, 2025
November 21, 2025 THE LATEST FISCAL UPDATE from the provincial government shows that B.C.’s finances have seen better days. With the release of the first quarterly report, we learned that British Columbia is set to run a deficit of $11.8 billion. That exceeds previous...
by Doug Cook | Nov 21, 2025
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