Alberta Capital Plan: $28.3B Scheduled, 3 Nomination Spots Left for Construction Talent
Alberta’s Budget 2026 capital plan schedules $28.3B over three years, but the AAIP priority-sector stream had only 3 of 619 spots left by October 7. What the gap means for contractors planning 2027 crews.
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Construction Immigration Draws 2026: BC Invited 791, Alberta 53 in One Draw
British Columbia issued 791 construction-trades invitations in six monthly draws in 2026. Alberta ran five small construction draws in nine months, with a 65-point cut-off in July. Here is what it means for workforce planning.
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478,182 Impressions in 90 Days: How I Managed My LinkedIn Content Strategy Like a Project
A LinkedIn content strategy that generates 478,182 impressions in 90 days is not the product of luck, perfect timing or one post that happened to go viral. In my case, it came from something I have practiced for more than 20 years on construction sites and real estate projects: I managed it like a project…
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Alberta Prompt Payment Adjudication: 2026 Data & Guide
Getting paid on time is one of the biggest risks in construction. In Alberta, the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act (PPCLA) created a fast, statutory way to resolve payment disputes without going to court: adjudication. Three years into the regime, the first detailed annual data shows that Alberta prompt payment adjudication is being used..
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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 Business Insolvencies Rose 35.6%. The Rest of Canada Went the Other Way.
Business insolvencies across Canada fell 9.7% over the twelve months to 30 June 2026. In Alberta, they rose. That divergence is the single most useful thing in the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy’s second-quarter release, and it is almost entirely absent from the coverage — because the national headline reads like a recovery, and..
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Alberta Construction Market 2026: Why Growth Is Shifting, Not Slowing
If you only read the residential headlines, you might conclude that the Alberta construction market in 2026 is cooling. Housing starts are down from the record set in 2025, and both Calgary and Edmonton are building fewer homes than a year ago. But the data behind those headlines tells a more useful story. Construction activity..
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Alberta Construction Labour Shortage: Who Will Build the Pipeline?
When Meta confirmed its $13 billion data centre near Edmonton in July 2026, the headlines focused on investment. Few asked who is going to build it. That one project needs more than 3,000 construction workers at peak. It will compete for the same electricians, pipefitters, ironworkers and equipment operators as hospitals, schools, energy projects and..
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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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