Alberta Capital Investment 2026: Construction Up, Machinery Down vs BC
Alberta plans C$80.6B in non-residential capital investment in 2026: construction +8.8%, machinery -2.1%. B.C. shows the opposite pattern. Here is why the allocation matters more than the total.
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Alberta Labour Market: 5 Critical Signals for Construction
The Alberta labour market moved against Canada’s national trend in September 2026, highlighting why local employment conditions matter for construction and business planning. While Canadian employment declined by approximately 68,000, Alberta recorded a net increase of 23,100 employed people. Quebec’s employment fell by 49,400, while British Columbia recorded a decline of 20,200. These provincial figures..
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Canada’s Productivity Super Deduction: What It Means
Canada just made its biggest capital-investment tax change in a generation — and most companies evaluating a manufacturing or industrial footprint in North America haven’t fully priced it into their numbers yet. On September 15, 2026, the federal government expanded the Productivity Super Deduction introduced in Budget 2025 into what officials are now calling the..
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Development Charges by City: The Full Canadian Ranking
About $1,600 at one end. About $134,400 at the other. Those are municipal charges on a single high-rise unit, across the 23 municipalities the Canadian Home Builders’ Association benchmarked with Altus Group. Development charges by city is not a marginal line in a Canadian pro forma. It is frequently the largest single variable in it,..
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Calgary vs Edmonton Building Permits: The $128,000 Gap
The number nobody publishes The average Calgary building permit was worth $476,000 last year. In Edmonton, $348,000. Three hours up Highway 2. That figure is not published anywhere. It comes from dividing two numbers that are: total permit value, and permit count. Calgary recorded $7.4 billion across 15,559 permits in 2025. Edmonton recorded $4.9 billion..
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Alberta Fixed-Price Procurement: Who Carries Escalation Risk
Most of the debate about construction procurement in Canada is framed as a question of efficiency. It is more useful to frame it as a question of allocation. Every delivery model assigns escalation risk to someone. Fixed price does not eliminate that risk — it hands it to the party that signed the bid. That..
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Alberta Construction Cash Flow: What Q2 2026 Insolvency Data Shows
Alberta Construction Cash Flow: What the Q2 2026 Insolvency Data Actually Says Alberta is the fastest-growing economy in Canada. It also just posted a 35.6% year-over-year jump in business insolvencies. Both statements are true, and the gap between them is where the Alberta construction cash flow story lives. Nationally, business insolvencies were essentially flat last..
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European Construction Is Growing Again. That’s Bad News for Alberta.
The European construction forecast 2026 points to something the market has waited two years for: growth. Investment across Europe is set to rise by 2.7% in real terms, after contracting 2.5% in 2024 and a further 2.1% in 2025. For European contractors, that’s relief. For developers and project managers building in Alberta, it’s a countdown..
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Alberta Rural Entrepreneur Stream 2026: Who Qualifies and Where Capital Can Land
The Alberta Rural Entrepreneur Stream is one of the smallest immigration programs in the province, but it has an outsized effect on where new businesses and private capital can land. It offers a path to permanent residence to foreign business owners who invest in and run a business in rural Alberta. Because of how eligibility..
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Canada Start-Up Visa 2026: What the Pause Really Costs
The Canada Start-Up Visa 2026 pause is the most important immigration decision almost no one is talking about. On December 31, 2025, Canada closed its flagship entrepreneur programme to new applicants. The replacement — a “targeted entrepreneur pilot” promised for 2026 — still has no criteria and no launch date. At the same time, the country..
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Eros belotti
Construction project manager with over 20 years of experience in Europe and the Canary Islands. Specialized in modular housing, container construction, real estate development and international project management. Founder of Reforma Vivienda Tenerife and Donkey Lab.
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