Kerry and Jordan talk about the ICBA Open and our latest featured course. Leading and Managing Organizational Change August 13-14, 2024 | 8:30AM – 12:30PM Daily | Live Online...
WELLNESS WEDNESDAY #160: Olympian Mental Health Challenge
This weekend, the Summer Olympics get under way in Paris. In recent years, superstar athletes like Simone Biles and Michael Phelps have spoken out about mental health and their challenges. The U.S. Olympic Committee believes half their American athletes struggle with...
ICBA ECONOMICS: A Mix of Canadian Construction Industry Statistics
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist Construction is a big and unusually visible segment of our economy, one that in some of the industry’s busiest years accounts for more than 8% of economic output (GDP) and for a similar share of all jobs in Canada. It is a major...
TRAINING THURSDAY: Bluebeam Revu – Managing Drawing Revisions & Hyperlinks
Kerry and Jordan talk about ICBA Training’s latest featured course, and say goodbye to a member of our Training team. Bluebeam Revu – Managing Drawing Revisions & Hyperlinks July 23-24, 2024 | 8:30AM – 12:30PM | Live Online...
ICBA ECONOMICS: A Look Under the Hood of the B.C. Business Community
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist If one listens closely to what provincial government ministers and many other politicians have to say about the place of business in British Columbia, they often seem to harbour a distorted understanding of the true situation....
ICBA Kitchen Talk with Jock #1
Jordan Bateman gets 3% smarter every time he talks economics in the ICBA kitchen with our Chief Economist Jock Finlayson. So why not let everyone in on our conversation? Today, we talk inflation, interest rates, energy and productivity....
WELLNESS WEDNESDAY #159: Calgary’s Wellness Desk
ICBA Wellness has been running for more than three years now, and our commitment to our award-winning program has kept us very busy. But there are many other organizations and groups doing amazing things in mental health, and worth noting. Recently, I heard about the...
ICBA OP/ED: Energy Takes its Place as B.C.’s Leading Export Sector
The following op/ed, co-written by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson and Business Council of B.C. Chief Economist Ken Peacock, was first published in Business in Vancouver on July 17, 2024. The provincial government recently published data on the value of exports in...
ICBA ECONOMICS: Energy exports continue to fuel the Canadian economy
This piece, by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson, was first published by the Fraser Institute on July 12, 2024. Energy sits at the heart of Canada’s export economy, even though some federal policymakers and provincial governments appear...