From Internship to Employment: Supporting the Next Generation

Richard Van Egmond, the project leader of the provincial Edvance OYAP Program, joins Karen Renkema to discuss how the Edvance OYAP provincial program differs from local OYAP programs, provides critical support to young people interested in the trades, and offers support and flexibility to employers…

This podcast session between PCA’s Paul de Jong and Bill Black, President and CEO of the Calgary Construction Association, unpacks the “Honour the Work” initiative. Honour the Work has been rolled out to over 950 Calgary area classrooms, in which students in grades 1-6 are provided with multidiscip…

In this episode, PCA's VP of Public Affairs, Darrel Reid, is joined by Paul de Jong, PCA's President & CEO, Dan Baxter, PCA's BC Director, and Ryan Bruce, Government Relations Director at CLAC. Together, they reflect on PCA and CLAC's recent lobby days at the BC Legislature, where they made the…

B.C. says it wants to build more infrastructure and spend taxpayer dollars wisely. So why is it still using procurement rules that shut out so many qualified contractors and workers? In this episode, Darrel Reid sits down with PCA’s B.C. Regional Director, Dan Baxter, to talk about the province’s C…