{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"ICBA Coffee & Construction","title":"C&C #18: A Tale of Two Balance Sheets","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e2eda384\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":591,"description":"B.C. just booked the biggest deficit in its history — $7.7 billion — and called it good news. How? One-time money, and $4 billion of hospitals and roads that simply didn't get built. Same week, Alberta swung from a $9.4-billion deficit forecast to an estimated $3.8-billion surplus. One of those is an economy. The other is an accounting trick.\nEpisode 18 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: B.C. closes the books on a record $7.7-BILLION deficit — propped up by $2.6 billion in one-time tobacco money and $4 billion of \"slipped\" capital projects. Across the Rockies, economist Trevor Tombe estimates Alberta is running a $3.8-billion surplus with oil at US$83.\n🏠 Ottawa's new housing agency gets its first board chair. The scorecard so far: 17,000 units committed, about 1,900 under construction — while private builders lay off crews.\n🖥️ Alberta launches town halls and an information hub for its data centre boom. That's what getting to yes looks like.\n🔥 Plus a check-in on Summerland: the fire's growth is slowing, power is coming back, and a staged re-entry is in the works.\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}