Chris and Jordan welcome Lori Ackerman, mayor of Fort St. John – and one of Canada’s most formidable supporters of responsible resource development. Lori is in Vancouver to pick up an award for FSJ, and we talked LNG, Kinder Morgan, fracking, oil and gas innovation, Site C, BC Liberal leadership, the rural-urban divide and more.
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NEW from ICBA's Jock Finlayson & @KenPeacock14:
B.C.'s private sector has shed 59K jobs this year — a 3.1% ⬇️.
That's the largest (non-COVID) 3-month drop since the late 1990s — worse than the 2008-09 global financial crisis.
Alberta's construction sector grew 19.4% from 2021 to 2025. B.C.'s grew just 5.2%.
Residential construction tells the real story — Alberta UP 18.9%, B.C. DOWN 13.4%.
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson on why he's more optimistic about Alberta than B.C. over the next two years: