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+ Anna Murray to Sr. Managing Dir., Global Head of Sustainable Investing @ Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

+ Cynthia Pachovski to CEO, Canada @ IPSOS

+ Harry Taylor, Exec. VP Finance & CFO @ WestJet Group, retiring

+ Jacki Detablan to VP, Specialty & Risk Managed Casualty @ CAN Canada

+ Jean-Sebastien Charest to Chief Information Officer @ BDC

+ John Roggeveen to Leader @ Alberta Liberal Party

+ Jorge Fonseca to CFO @ NG Energy International Corp.

+ Julien Lacoste to Mgr. Business Dev. @ Accord Financial

+ Kady Srinivasan to Chief Marketing Officer @ Lightspeed Commerce

+ Lisa Giannone to COO @ BFL Canada

+ Melissa Howatson to CFO @ Vena

+ Naomi Stefura to Trustee @ Melcor REIT

+ Richard Young to Pres., CEO & Director @ Argonaut Gold Inc.

+ Robert Pockar to CEO @ Canadian Discovery Ltd.

+ Stephen Laster to Pres. @ D2L Inc.

+ Terri Wilson to VP Securitization @ Geminus Acquisition & Management Inc.

~ Note: links in this section are to LinkedIn profiles where available and otherwise to a relevant posting of the appointment. -  [ send us your appointment notices  kolke@facilitycalgary.com ]

Gather with your facility management community on December 14th at 4:00 - 5:30 pm at Tailgunner Brewing Company. Gather and spread some holiday cheer as we get ready for the season.

The first round is on us as well as some appetizers, the rest is up to you! We’re expecting a good time networking with our favourite members. This is a special free, networking event for our facility management community to say thank you for supporting us through the first half of this year.

~ Canadian banks and life insurance companies got approval to do their 2023 annual meetings virtually

+ Dec. 15; CloudMD Software & Services Inc., Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders, Vancouver

+ Dec. 16; Summit Industrial Income REIT, Special Meeting of Unitholders, Toronto

+ Dec. 19; TAAL Distributed Information Technologies Inc., Special Meeting of Shareholders, Toronto

+ Dec. 21; Fintech Select Ltd., Annual General Meeting, Toronto/virtual only

+ Dec. 30; NextPoint Financial Inc., Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Hurst, TX

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2023

+ Jan. 20; Liminal BioSciences Inc., Special Meeting of Shareholders, virtual only

+ Mar. 28; Slate Office REIT, Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders, Toronto

[ please send your event notices and AGM notices to  kolke@facilitycalgary.com ]

+ Corus Entertainment Inc. published its inaugural 2022 Sustainability Report

+ KPMG published 2022 Our Impact Plan: Canada

+ PwC study of ESG reporting of Canada’s top public companies

+ ATCO Electric Yukon and Copper Niisüü Limited Partnership agreed to build a 1.9MW solar facility for the White River First Nation

+ Desjardins Group is partnering with Export Development Canada to provide up to $1.0 billion over the next three years to finance projects that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

+ Calgary Cancer Centre primary construction completed; $1.4 billion project at the Foothills Health Campus was turned over to AHD for a year-long fit up for readiness to receive patients

+ Enmax Power Corporation to replace Substation No. 1; Calgary’s oldest substation; $200.0 million/35,000 sq. ft. replacement project will take two years to complete

+ PCL Construction expands in solar

+ Equiton Residential Income Fund Trust acquired Park Square Apartments in Edmonton for $23.75 million

+ Calgary Cancer Centre primary construction completed; $1.4 billion project at the Foothills Health Campus was turned over to AHD for a year-long fit up for readiness to receive patients

+ Odd Burger Corporation opened it’s first store in western Canada in Calgary

+ Suncor sponsored Shaw Charity Classic last August – the final 2022 numbers are in; the 10^th Anniversarty PGA Champions Tour event contributed $17,489,219 for Alberta Kids Charities – WOW ..that’s big news! … this tournament has contributed $93 million for charities in it’s 10 years

+ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

+ Two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein

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+ ATCO Electric Yukon and Copper Niisüü Limited Partnership agreed to build a 1.9MW solar facility for the White River First Nation

+ Athabasca Oil Corporation announced its 2023CapEx Budget is $145.0 million

+ Bank of Canada – interest rates bump; 50 basis points (0.5%) bump to 4.25% on December 7^th; prime rate increases announced by BMO Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Equitable Bank, Desjardins Group, National Bank, RBC Royal Bank, Scotiabank, TD Canada Trust,

+ Bank of Montreal completed its acquisition of Radicle Group Inc.

+ Baytex Energy Corp. announced its 2023CapEx Budget is $575.0 million

+ Blackstone Industrial Holdings Ltd. acquired Roteq from Sintemar

+ Calgary Cancer Centre primary construction completed; $1.4 billion project at the Foothills Health Campus was turned over to AHD for a year-long fit up for readiness to receive patients

+ Crescent Point Energy Corp. acquired a portfolio of Kaybob Duvernay assets for $375.0 million from Paramount Resources Ltd.

+ Crew Energy Inc. announced its 2023CapEx Budget is $45.0 million

+ CRTC ruling: Telus’s efforts to charge extra to customers who pay their regulated home telephone services bill by credit card was disallowed.

+ Calgary Stampede and Calgary Municipal Land Corporation struck a hotel development deal to create the BMO Centre Convention Hotel; Mathews Southwest Hospitality will be the developer, no flag/operator announcement yet; 220+ room hotel construction to commence in 2024

+ current energy prices; live link to current Bloomberg energy prices / OilPrice.com; WTI @ US$74/bbl, Brent @ US$79/bbl; oil price cap on Russian oil is now in effect

+ ExxonMobil announced its 2023CapEx Budget is US$23.0 billion

+ Genesis Land Development Corp. sold 20% interest in Lewiston Development (130 acres / 915 homes – residential development land) to two home builders for $19.8 million; development expected to start in spring 2023

+ Government of Alberta – Bill 1 in the Danielle Smith premiership, Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act was passed after amendments pulling out extraordinary cabinet powers; the bill has not been proclaimed yet; Hansard record of third reading …

+ HOUSING TRUTH – residential newsletter, Calgary and area: HOUSING TRUTH – CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP for our mailing list  - stay tuned for my 3^rd qtr. report and 4^th qtr. outlook – coming soon; go to archived issues … or see our Q2 report – sign up

+ IFMA’s December networking event will be a season celebration gathering December 14th at 4:00 - 5:30 pm at Tailgunner Brewing Company ; sign-up to attend

+ Keystone pipeline leak in Kansas resulted in a shutdown, cause unknown; 14,000 bbls leaked is being cleaned up by TC Energy

+ Mullen Group Ltd. agreed to the divestiture of non-core hydrovac assets to Environmental 360 Solutions Inc; terms not disclosed

+ raising money? … new treatment of Offering Memorandum prospectus exemption

+ Raymond James Ltd. agreed to acquire Solus Trust Company Limited; terms not disclosed

+ Parkland Corporation announced its 2023CapEx Budget is $500.0 million

+ Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced its 2023CapEx Budget is $730.0 million

+ Porter Airlines took delivery of new planes for it’s fleet; adding routes from Toronto to Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal

+ PROPERTYlines - commercial real estate quarterly newsletter; my 3^rd qtr. report and 4^th qtr. outlook coming soon; sign up

+ rig activity in Canada

+ rig counts/utilization (active/working) – US: down 4 to 780 this week; Canada: up 7 to 202 this week; full breakdown and international rig counts

+ Shawcor Ltd. acquired Kanata Electronic Services Ltd.

+ Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd. announced its 2023 CapEx Budget is $425.0 million

+ Bank of Montreal is on the market to raise $3.15 billion in equity

+ Canada Energy Partners Inc. is on the market to raise $23.5 million in equity by private placement

+ Field Effect raised US$34.5 million in funding

+ GoBolt secured $75.0 million in financing

+ IsoEnergy Inc. closed $18.3 million equity raise

+ Kuber Mortgage Investment Corporation secured $80.0 million credit facility

+ Mobi724 Global Solutions Inc. is on the market to raise $1.5 million in equity by private placement

+ Newtopia Inc. is on the market to raise $1.35 million in secured non-convertible sub debt by private placement

+ Nexus Industrial REIT closed $81.3 million equity raise

+ NR Energy International Corp. closed $35.0 million sr. secured convertible debt raise

+ Open Text closed US$1.0 billion debt raise

+ Pomerleau secured $150.0 million institutional investment

+ RE Royalties Ltd. is on the market to raise $20.0 million in debt

+ Vecima Networks Inc. is on the market to raise $17.0 million in equity by private placement

+ Westbridge Renewable Energy Corp., secured $4.83 million debt financing

*editor’s note: names companies involved in arm’s length debt and equity financing transactions we report in this section are ALWAYS the borrower; we report ‘fresh raises’ and do not report secondary offerings or non-arm’s-length transactions …

+ Dec. 14; IFMA’s December networking/season celebration gathering; 4:00 - 5:30 pm at Tailgunner Brewing Company ; sign-up to attend

+ Jan. 5-8; 2023 CES / Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, NV; info/register

+ Jan. 16-20; Davos 2023 - World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, Davos/Klosters, Switzerland; details/sign-up for notifications

+ Feb, 15-26; BUILDEX Vancouver, Vancouver Convention Centre West; info/register

+ Mar. 13; 2023 Juno Awards – Rogers Place, Edmonton; tickets

+ Apr. 4 & 5; BMO Capital Markets and Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers – Annual Energy Symposium, Investors Conference – save the date

+ Apr. 23; Business Transition Forum, Alberta – Co-Chairs Kristina Williams and Cody Church – save the date; stay tuned for event registration and details

+ Apr. 23; Earth Day 2023 – theme is Invest in Our Planet

+ Apr. 25-27; Canadian Hydrogen Convention - , Edmonton Convention Centre; details/register

+ May 9-11; Canada Ga & LNG Exhibition & Conference, Vancouver Convention Center; info/register

+ May 31-June 1; Inventures Canada Conference, TELUS Convention Centre, Calgary; registration/tickets

+ June 6-7; Global Energy Transition 2023, New York, NY; agenda, information/register

+ June 7-8; Global Energy Transition 2023. New York; info/register

+ June 12-14; NeoCon 2023 – THE MART, Chicago – call for presentations deadline Jan 31, 2023

+ June 13-15; Global Energy Show, Calgary – save the date

+ Sept. 17-21; 24^th World Petroleum Congress; Energy Transitions – the path to Net Zero – save the date

+ Sept. 28; Accessible Housing Annual Fundraising Gala, Silver Springs Golf Cub, Calgary – save the date

+ Oct. 18-19; BUILDEX Alberta, 20-24; Calgary – save the date

+ Nov. 7-8; Canadian Aerospace Summit, Ottawa - save the date

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2024

+ Oct. 20-24; Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT), Telus Convention Centre, Calgary – save the date

[ please send your event notices and AGM notices to kolke@facilitycalgary.com ]

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