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FEDERAL ADVOCACY: Canada has a building problem
ICBA just released our Federal Government Policy Priorities for 2026, and the message is blunt: stop strangling the projects that pay for everything else.
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Time to Modernize Noise Bylaws: 5 Best Practices
A generation ago, B.C. overturned the ban on Sunday shopping. Today, we’d consider it absurd to keep shops artificially closed on Sundays. But many...
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Federal Budget Submission: Make Training and Tax Dollars Work for the Whole Workforce
Canada can't build the homes, pipelines, ports, transmission lines, and clean economy projects it's promised without the people who actually swing...
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ICBA.CA EXCLUSIVE OP/ED: NDP Mismanagement of WorkSafeBC Costing Billions
By Jordan Bateman, VP-Advocacy, ICBA
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SUBMISSION: Build Canada. Build It Now.
Canada is finally talking about building again. On May 8, the federal government released a package of discussion papers that would cut major project...
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Remembering EXPO 86
Forty years ago this week, EXPO 86 opened on the shores of False Creek and the world came to Vancouver. Twenty-two million visits over five months. A...
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No Third Strike: ICBA's Submission on Federal Labour
Two years. Two summers of West Coast port shutdowns. One rail work stoppage that needed federal back-to-work intervention. Twenty-four days of...
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ICBA to Ottawa: New Federal Trades Money Must Reach the Whole Industry
SURREY – The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association (ICBA), Canada's largest construction association, is welcoming the federal Spring...