The Construction Record – Episode 30

Daily Commercial News managing editor Vince Versace and daily editor Lindsey Cole start the podcast this week with breaking news, as the Canadian government blocked takeover of Aecon by a state-owned Chinese company, mulling the company’s role in the industry and how the federal government will respond to push back from the construction industry.

Daily Commercial News staff writer Don Wall has an interview with Andrew Bowerbank of EllisDon on building the region’s first net zero  energy institutional building at Mohawk College’s Joyce Center for Partnership, and Journal of Commerce digital media editor Warren Frey participated in a media scrum at the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association’s annual Outlook Forum, which featured former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall speaking about the Canadian government, the energy industry and recent opposition from British Columbia regarding Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project.