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As we prepare to flip the calendar to 2025 in the construction industry it is clear the issues that preoccupied its 2024 will continue in the new year.

How best to speed up homebuilding? What will the 2025 Canadian federal election mean for the industry? What impacts will the tariffs the incoming U.S. president threatens to wield have on construction activity? How will the newly-elected NDP government in British Columbia address construction’s needs there?

Despite these larger questions, we know, as your stalwart publications of record, that contractual issues, training, labour, improved safety, prompt payment, digital innovation and building green are all topics that do not go away with the flip of a calendar page — they require steady attention and work and we are there, through the Daily Commercial News (DCN) and the Journal of Commerce (JOC), to report the authoritative news and intelligence construction needs.

With that, from the DCN-JOC team and its national network, we hope everyone in the industry enjoys some much-deserved holiday season rest in preparation for the hard work ahead and remember, we will be with you, as we always have been, since 1911 through the JOC and 1927 with the DCN.

As our publication founders used to say, we will have “All the building news every building day.”

With that, here is a festive take, on a familiar song this time of year, as we look ahead to construction in 2025:

Should old change orders be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old tender closes be forgot
In the days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear
For construction
We’ll take prompt payment yet
For the sake of auld lang syne

And surely, you will raid a union
And surely, so will they
You’ll take a shot at adding work
For the sake of auld lang syne

�鶹��ý����ion will paddle in the political stream
For a Canadian federal election night
The seas between industry factions to roar and swell
Since the days of auld lang syne

The old acquaintance Trump to return
With possible tariffs brought to mind
How will this impact construction
For the sake of auld lang syne?

For workers will rise and toil
But will they build more homes than ever before?
Will red-tape reduction be forgot?

In the days of auld lang syne

For construction, my dear,
For construction’s importance
We will continue to tell its stories
For the sake of auld lang syne.