{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"ICBA Coffee & Construction","title":"C&C #9: Hidden Fees in Every New Home — Ottawa Might Finally Show the Receipt","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/b48c01ca\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":458,"description":"Every new home comes with a stack of hidden fees. Nobody shows you the receipt. Ottawa might finally make them.\nEpisode 9 of ICBA Coffee & Construction — the news that matters to the people who build British Columbia and Alberta, with ICBA's Jordan Bateman. On today's show:\n☕ THE BIG ONE: Bill C-287, the Housing Cost Transparency Act — ICBA backs MP Brad Redekopp's push to make the building code system show its work: real dollar costs, published before they land in your mortgage\n⚡ Shovels go in this month on the North Coast Transmission Line — and Ksi Lisims LNG keeps stacking milestones on the road to a $20-billion final investment decision\n🚆 Where the work is: all eight Surrey Langley SkyTrain stations are under construction, and crews are welding rail\n🏥 Kamloops gets a win — the new acute treatment area opens at Royal Inland Hospital's emergency department\n🏗️ Bird Construction lands roughly $1 BILLION in new work in one announcement — nuclear, mining, energy and seven new Alberta schools\n📊 Get the ICBA Economics briefing — the most helpful email you'll get all week: https://icba.ca/economics","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cbYnPby-34WwINekPZoHv9aYI0-XpmtKJrtNbyowe78/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81NThm/ZGE3NTk0NmVmNTFj/MjNjZmIwOGRjM2Vm/YzMwOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}