+ Christina Kobi to Partner @ McLean & Kerr llp

+ David Glendinning, Pres. Teekay Gas Services @ Teekay Corporation, retiring

+ Greg Pollard, CFO @ Connacher Oil and Gas Limited, retiring

+ Jason Tuffs to CEO @ MNP LLP

+ Mark Kremin to Pres. Teekay Gas Services @ Teekay Corporation

+ Roger Chaffin to Chief @ Calgary Police Services

+ Zadie Smith to Distinguished Visiting Writer @ University of Calgary

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+ Dale Tremblay to Director @ Cathedral Energy Services Ltd.

+ Diana McQueen to Director @ MEG Energy Corp.

+ Donald Benson to Director @ Robix Alternative Fuels Inc.

+ Vivian Lau to Director @ GINSMS Inc.

+ Wanda Cutler to Director @ Robix Alternative Fuels Inc.

+ Oct. 19; Election Day across Canada

+ Oct. 22; 2015 Small Business Week Calgary Expo and Awards, TELUS Spark; info/tickets

+ Oct. 27; Calgary Real Estate Forum, TELUS Convention Centre, Calgary; info/register

+ Oct. 27 – 30; 28^th Annual Gastech Conference & Exhibition, Singapore info/registration

+ Oct. 27; Alberta Government – Provincial Budget to be tabled in the Legislature

+ Oct. 29; 2015 Economic Developers Alberta - Ministry Dinner, Matrix Hotel, Edmonton, info/register

+ Oct. 29-30; IEDC Workforce Development Strategies, Matrix Hotel, Edmonton; info/register

+ Nov. 2-3; 23^rd Annual Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships Conference, Sheraton Centre, Toronto; info/register

+ Nov. 22-25; Bioindustrial Innovations: unlocking value and tackling climate change, Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton info/register

+ Nov. 25-26; Business Transitions Forum, Vancouver; info/register

+ Dec. 1; Global Property Market, Metro Toronto Convention Centre; info/register

+ Dec. 2-3; Real Estate Forum, Metro Toronto Convention Centre; info/register

+ Dec. 4; OPEC’s 168^th Ordinary Meeting, Vienna, Austria info

+ Jan. 13-15/16; EPC Contract and Risk Management Conference, Houston; info/register

+ Feb. 26/16; BUILDEX Vancouver, Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver

+ Canadian Oil Sands Limited rejected Suncor Energy’s $6.6 billion hostile takeover bid; they’ve adopted (pending TSX approval) shareholder rights plan

+ North West Updgrading Inc. says its Redwater area refinery is on track with its budget; $5 billion invested so far, final costs still on target to be $8.5 billion

+ well, actually it’s just something funny – made me laugh: Bennett Jones ran an advertisement in the Globe & Mail last week. The caption was BOOTS ON THE GROUND. I saw basketball shoes, high heeled women’s fashion boots and lawyerly oxfords. But no cowboy boots. I guess Bennett Jones are truly a Toronto firm now …

+ AER - Alberta Energy Regulator

+BBL – barrel

+ BBLS/D – barrels per day

+ BOE – barrel of oil equivalent

+ CAPP - Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

+ CBD – Central Business District

+ COSIA - Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance

+ CREB - Calgary Real Estate Board

+ FERC – U.S. Federal Energy Regulation Commission

+ GJ - gigajoule

+ GOA - Government of Alberta

+ GTA – greater Toronto area

+ IPO – Initial Public Offering

+ JV – Joint Venture

+ KW – kilowatt (one thousand watts)

+ LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

+ MCF – thousand cubic feet

+ MCF/D – thousand cubic feet per day

+ MOU – Memorandum of Understanding

+ MW – megawatt (1 million watts)

+ NEB – National Energy Board

+ NGLs – natural gas liquids

+ P3 – Public Private Partnership

+ REIT – Real Estate Investment Trust

+ RFP – request for proposals

+ RFQ – request for qualifications

+ SAGD – steam assisted gravity drainage

+ sub – subsidiary

+ sub. – subordinated

+ tic toc – we’ll see …

+ WTI – West Texas Intermediate

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+ BC Hydro signed a contract with ATCO Two Rivers Lodging Group for design, construction, partial financing, operation and maintenance of worker accommodation at the SiteC dam site; 8-yr. contract is valued at $470 million

+ City of Vancouver announced it will spend $200 million to demolish Georgia and Dunsmuir downtown viaducts; questions about traffic re-routing remain unanswered …

+ Government of Alberta has called on the Auditor General to report on delays in capital deployment and school construction projects which are delayed beyond earlier announced opening dates … tic toc …

+ TransCanada Corporation agreed to acquire the 778 MW Ironwood gas-fired power plant in Lebanon, Pennsylvania from Talen Energy Corporation for US$654 million

+ If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? – Thomas Jefferson

+ It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

+ Oct. 14; Canadian Development Investment Corporation, Annual Public Meeting, Calgary

+ Nov. 12; Candax Energy Inc., Special Meeting of Shareholders, Toronto

+ Jan 13/16; Groundstar Resources Limited, Calgary

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+ Canadian Apartment Properties REIT closed $250.3 million equity financing

+ Cardinal Energy Ltd. closed $105 million equity raise

+ Enbridge Energy Partners LT closed US$1.6 billion sr. unsecured debt financing

+ Hydro One Limited is on the market to raise $800 million in a privatization IPO

+ Ithaca Energy Inc. closed US$66 million equity raise

+ National Bank of Canada closed $300,004,000 common share issue

+ Northern Spirit Resources Inc. closed $340,000 rights offering

+ NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT closed $50 million convertible debt financing

+ Perisson Petroleum Corporation is on the market to raise $200,000 in equity

+ Renaissance Oil Corp. closed first $6.1 million tranche of its common share & warrants issue

+ Superior Plus Corp. is on   the market to raise $144 million in equity

+ Wild Wind Petroleum Inc. closed $123 million equity financing

+ Offsetters Climate Solutions Inc. is changing its name to NatureBank Asset Management Inc. and will operate as NatureBank

+ Recycle-Logic opened another location; electronics recycling drop off location at the Market on Macleod (the old McKay Pontiac property) so you can dispose of unwanted gear; they ask for a Food Bank donation …

+ Ecohome's Edelweiss House project (passively heated, cold climate demonstration home) in Wakefield, Quebec is first project in Canada to earn LEED v4 certification, highest level possible – Platinum – making it only the second LEED v4 home in the world 

+ Blackstone Group agreed to acquire BioMed Realty Trust Inc.

+ Chicago Tribune Tower is For Sale; 36 storey 90-yr old Gothic Rivival landmark tower on Michigan Avenue is on the market for sale or partnership …

+ Ivanhoé Cambridge and partner Residential Land acquired Hamlet Gardens and 4B Merchant Square in London, UK for approximately £160 million; Hamlet Gardens, 4 buildings/122 residential units, 4B Merchant Square/60 residential units

+ Blackstone Group agreed to acquire BioMed Realty Trust Inc.

+ Canadian Apartment Properties REIT closed $250.3 million equity financing

+ Killam Properties Inc. is planning conversion to a REIT structures; will be called Killam Apartment REIT + NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT closed $50 million convertible debt financing