Alberta’s construction market, hard hit by COVID-19 and a longer-term decline in once-booming oil and gas work, is showing signs of a turnaround.
The evidence is not just in industry employment numbers that have stabilized Canada's provincial energy core after a rough few years of plunging markets followed by the pandemic, but also in the flood of workers into Edson, a town about 125 miles west of Edmonton where three major oil and gas projects, despite bumps and growing opposition, are moving forward nearby.