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+ April 5; Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Annual Meeting of Shareholders

+ April 6; CIBC North American Real Estate Equities Conference, Toronto

+ April 12; The Dominion Atlantic Railway Company, Annual Meeting of Shareholders

+ April 19; Digital Alberta, Annual General Meeting

+ Apr. 20; Encana Corporation, Calgary, Annual Meeting of Shareholders

+ Apr. 21; Calgary Airport Authority, Annual Public Meeting

+ Apr. 27; Canadian National Railway, Toronto, Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

+ April 28; TransAlta Corporation, Calgary

+ April 28; CIBC, Winnipeg, Annual Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 4; Emera Incorporated, Halifax, Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 5; Air Canada, Montreal, Annual Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 5; Manulife Financial Corporation, Toronto, Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders

+ May 9; Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc., Calgary, Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 13;  Enerplus Corporation, Calgary, Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 11; Enbridge Inc., Calgary, Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 15; Tormont Industries Ltd., Special Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 18; Sun Life Financial Inc., Toronto, Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders

+ May 18; Winstar Resources Ltd., Calgary, Annual and Special General Meeting

+ Al Norris to Pres. & CEO @ Brookfield Residential Properties

+ David Williamson to Sr. Exec. VP @ CIBC

+ Peter Semmens to Pres. & COO @ Comstock Canada Ltd.

+ Kevin Glass to CFO @ CIBC

+ Kevin Karr to Exec. VP & CFO @ Versacold

+ Sonia Baxendale, Sr. Exec. VP @ CIBC, resigned

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+ the only local action so far on the Federal Election campaign so far is Conservative MP’s arguing about the advisability of the Airport Tunnel project – Deepak Obhrai says its foolish, Devinder Shory says he supports it but won’t support Federal government funding; it’s not very exciting, but at least they are talking about it; it’s time, I think, that another Calgary MP named Harper paid attention to the issue, and, for that matter, anything relating to Calgary . . . but it seems he takes his re-election as a sure thing, it probably is, but it’s the arrogant attitude of the guy and the PMO that’s getting hard to take

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+ energy prices live link to Bloomberg.com commodities data ; prices at highest levels since 2008 on supply concerns due to turmoil in Libya and other middle eastern producing countries

+ Essential Energy Services Ltd. and Technicoil Corporation agreed to combine

+ Golder Associates agreed to acquire Marston Group of companies

+ The Blood First Nation has formed a new company, Kainai Energy along with  Native American Resource Partners to fund its portion of exploration costs to exploit lands covered under two joint ventures formed last year with Bowood Energy Inc. and Murphy Oil Corp. (they agreed to pay $50 million for two five year leases on Blook reserve lands) for Bakken formation exploitation . .

‘Fred got home from his Sunday round of golf later than normal and very tired. "Bad day at the course?" his wife asked.   "Everything was going fine," he said. "Then Harry had a heart attack and died on the 10th tee."  "Oh, that's awful!"   "You're not kidding. For the whole back nine it was hit the ball, drag Harry, hit the ball, drag Harry."

+ a bad week for retail – Scott’s REIT is reacting to the Priszm (400 KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut stores) bankruptcy filing . . and now Sbarro;s Chapter 11 filing (1,000 locations in 42 countries) which doesn’t bode well for retail sector, retail landlords, retail suppliers, retail lenders . . .

‘I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.’ – Warren Buffett

+ Barlow Trail access to Calgary International Airport is now full closed, to facilitate new runway construction

+ Brookfield Residential Properties is new name for Carma Developers following takeover/merger; headquarters in Calgary

+ Direct Energy acquired $47 million in Wildcat Hills natural gas assets from Shell Canada

+ EPCOR Utilities Inc. got Arizona regulatory approval for its $35 million acquisition of Chaparral City Water Company

+ Exalta Transport Corp. closed its sale to Manitoulin Transport

+ Homburb Canada REIT agreed to acquire 50% interest in Calgary’s Scotia Centre for $116 million

+ Sotheby’s International Realty Canada announced plans to enter the Calgary market

+ Spartan Exploration selling out to un-named buyer for $229 million; to spin off new junior exploration co.

+ TD Bank Group completed its acquisition of Chrysler Financial

+ The Bank of Canada released its Spring Business Outlook Survey and Senior Loan Officer Survey

+ Titan Oil & Gas Inc. acquired an interest in certain producing properties operated by Petrobakken Energy

+ weekly economic update from ATB Financial

+ Celtic Exploration Ltd. closed $101.5 million issue of new equity

+ Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. is on the market to raise $1 million in new convertible debt

+ Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. secured $10 million equity credit facility

+ Northern Financial Corporation closed $32. million tranche of new equity issue

+ Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. is on the market to raise $200 million in secured debt

+ Osum Oil Sands Corp. closed $40 million private placement of new equity