Daily Commercial News
It’s the first podcast of the new year, and national editor Vince Versace and daily editor Lindsey Cole start things off with a look at the issue of pot on the worksite, developments with the Lien Act in Ontario, and the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Canadian Construction Association.
Daily Commercial News staff writer Angela Gismondi also has an interview with Ontario General Contractors Association president Clive Thurston (with a guest appearance from director of government relations David Frame), who takes a look at what he saw as the biggest stories of the year, and some of the issues on the horizon for 2018. Staff writer Don Wall also has an interview with Bob Blakely, the COO of Canada’s Building Trades Unions, who has his own take on the biggest construction stories of 2017.
Digital media editor Warren Frey also has the second part of his interview with Fiona Famulak, the president of the Vancouver Regional Construction Association, and she gives a west coast perspective on the looming issues of 2018.