ICBA50 #50: Growing With Open Shop
ICBA celebrates 50 years of serving open shop construction this year, and we are looking back every week at some of the significant moments, milestones, and people who helped ICBA become Canada’s largest construction association. Today, we look at ICBA’s...
OP/ED: Eby Lit the DRIPA Fire – Now He Wants Credit for Talking About Putting It Out
The following op-ed, written by ICBA President and CEO Chris Gardner, first appeared in Northern Beat on December 12, 2025. Like an arsonist giving a heartfelt speech about the importance of fire safety, while the building he lit is still burning behind him, Premier...TRAINING THURSDAY: Construction Sales: Stop Competing on Price – Start Winning on Value
Kerry and Jordan talk about ICBA’s latest featured course. Price pressure, discounts, and chasing clients have become “normal” in construction – but they don’t have to be. On Thursday, January 22, 2026, ICBA Training is hosting a powerful full-day workshop in...
Contractors Need Work: ICBA Advocacy on the economy, DRIPA & pipelines
KEY POINTS ICBA’s Wage and Benefit Survey is out – and, in yet another sign of the struggling economy, contractors have switched from seeking workers to seeking work. Following another disastrous court decision, ICBA has called on the NDP Government to change its...Tweet ICBA!
The Bank of Canada calls the 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 productivity gap a national "emergency." RBC calls the last decade a "capital recession."
That's not bad luck. That's bad policy.
ICBA's 2026 federal priorities to fix it: