+ Alain Bergeron to Exec. VP & Chief Investment Officers @ iA Financial Group

+ Alida Visbach, Pres. & CEO @ Heritage Park Society, retiring

+ Beverly Yee to Board Chair @ Alberta Energy Regulator

+ Brendan McCracken to Exec. VP Corp. Dev. & External Relations @ Encana Corporation

+ Bruno Keller to Pres. @ Kraft Heinz Canada

+ Carol Kitchen to VP Energy and Logistics @ Growmark Inc.

+ Casey Richards to Sr. VP, Marketing & Innovation @ Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

+ Catriona Le May Doan to Pres. & CEO @ Sport Calgary

+ Coltier Crierie to HR Generalist @ Startec Compression & Process

+ Daryl Sands, Exec. VP & CFO @ Stuart Olson Inc., left the company

+ David Bailes to National Account Mgr. @ ADT Security Services Canada

+ David Benson to VP @ Sport Calgary

+ David Goldie to Director @ Alberta Energy Regulator

+ Dean Beacon to Interim CFO @ Stuart Olson Inc.

+ Dexton Blackstock to Managing Dir., Head of Canadian Bus. Dev. @ SEI Investments Canada Company

+ François Joseph Poirier to VP Business Development @ SSQ Insurance

+ George Van Noten to COO @ Minto Apartment REIT

+ Georgette Habib to Director @ Alberta Energy Regulator

+ Glen MacMullin to Chief Investment Officers @ Minto Apartment REIT

+ Grant Sprague to Director @ Alberta Energy Regulator

+ Greg Givens to COO @ Encana Corporation

+ Irv Witte to VP, 5G Program @ TeraGo

+ James Brown to Pres., Smart Process Industries @ Universal mCloud Corp.

+ Jennifer Maki to Director @ Baytex Energy Corp.

+ John Csaszar to Canadian Equity Portfolio Mgr. @ SEI Investments Company

+ John Young to Director @ The Caldwell Partners International Inc.

+ Joseph Fernandez to Acting Exec. Dir. @ Real Estate Council of Alberta (RECA)

+ Kenric Tyghe to Managing Dir., Consumer & Retail @ AltaCorp Capital Inc.

+ Léo Grépin to Pres, Sun Life Asia @ Sun Life Financial Inc.

+ Martine Daraiche to Pres. @ NATIONAL Public Relations

+ Massimo Bergamini, Pres. & CEO @ National Airlines Council of Canada, resigned

+ Michael McAllister to Pres. @ Encana Corporation

+ Michael Quigley to Exec. VP & Head of Institutional Markets @ Fiera Capital Corporation

+ Mike Stickney to Exec. VP & Chief Growth Officer @ iA Financial Group

+ Miranda Fisher to HR Generalist @ Kinder Morgan Inc.

+ Murray Sigler to Executive Advisor @ Sport Calgary

+ Nicholas Bell to Pres. & CEO @ Glenbow Museum

+ Nick Cristiano, CFO & Corp. Secretary @ Hyduke Energy Services Inc., resigned

+ Ola Malik to Pres, Alberta Branch @ The Canadian Bar Association

+ Patrick Kelly to Dir., Solutions Business Development @ Universal mCloud Corp.

+ Prince Abdulaziz to Energy Minister @ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

+ Rick Headrick to Pres., Canada @ Capital Group

+ Rob Peters, Director @ Big Rock Brewery Inc., resigned

+ Robert Burchett to Controller @ SPoT Coffee (Canada) Ltd.

+ Sandra Turgeon to VP @ Pacesetter Homes

+ Sherri Brillon to Director @ Alberta Energy Regulator

+ Stacy Mowbray to Director @ Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc.

+ Stephanie Terrill to National Leader, Management Consulting @ KPMG

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+ Canada’s 25 hottest startups

+ Inter Pipeline Ltd. investing $580,000.0 in Women Building Futures Journeyman Start program for employment in Alberta’s Heartland area

+ The Future of Work is Human – 2019 International Employee Survey Report/32 page PDF download

+ workplace financial stress costs the Canadian economy $16 billion annually – so cut it out, eh!

+ to Bianca Andreescu, winning the U.S. Open Women’s Championship – a first for her, a first for a Canadian and a testament to grit and hard work – congratulations!

+ to Shaw Classic organizers and volunteers – and to Wes Short Jr. who won the PGA Champions Tour event - $200,000.0 for Calgary children’s charities!

+ Sept. 12; Empire Company Limited, Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, New Glasgow, NS

+ Sept. 17; Calgary Council of Voluntary Organizations (CCVO), Annual General Meeting, Calgary

+ Sept. 18; Pure Multi-Family REIT LP, Special Meeting of Unitholders, Vancouver

+ Sept. 24; Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Annual General Meeting, Calgary

+ Oct. 3; Great-West Life Assurance Company, London Life Insurance Company and Canada Life et al, Special Meeting to approve amalgamation, Winnipeg

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Stay tuned for some great interviews coming soon:
- Dan Elrod, President @ Wallace & Carey Inc. - running Sept. 17th
- Marcello Di Cintio - two time W. O. Mitchell Book Prize winner - running Sept. 24th 

+ Oxford Properties announced it will install 1.0 million sq. ft. of rooftop solar panels atop retail and industrial properties in North America by 2022

+ this one is for the ‘you’ve got to be kidding/drop in the bucket’ department; Mr. Trudeau’s Western Economic Diversification Canada is ‘helping’ communities in Alberta disadvantaged by transition from coal to natural gas-fired power generation; dubbed a ‘just and fair coal energy transition’, the helping hand is offering $693,500 to Hanna, $2,739,917 to The County of Paintearth and $200,000 to the United Steel Workers; Minister Navdeep Bains ought to be embarrassed but the likely won’t win any seats here so it isn’t the same as helping car manufacturing communities in Ontario or cod-fishin’ in the Maritimes.

+ Suncor Energy Inc. announced it will invest $1.4 billion to replace its coke-fired cogeneration units at its Base Plant that will provide steam generation to produce 800MW of supply into the grid, representing 8% of Alberta’s demand

+ Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there. – William Penn Adair

+ Apologies don’t mean anything if you keep doing what you’re sorry for. – unknown

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+ Agrios Global Holdings Ltd. closed $8.113 million first tranche of convertible credit facility

+ Algernon Pharmaceuticals Inc. is on the market to raise $2.5 million in equity

+ Aurora Cannabis secured $360.0 million syndicated credit facility

+ Bank of Montreal is on the market to raise $1.0 billion in subordinated debt

+ Bell Canada is on the market to raise $550.0 million in debt financing

+ DelphX Capital Markets Inc. closed $1,623,300.0 equity financing

+ DelphX Capital Markets Inc. closed $620,000.0 convertible debt financing

+ Northland Power Inc. is on the market to raise $315.0 million in equity

+ PayBright closed $34.0 million equity financing

+ Pembina Pipeline Corporation is on the market to raise $1.5 billion in sr. unsecured debt

+ Restaurant Brands International Inc. is on the market to raise $500.0 million in sr. secured debt financing

+ SpeakEasy Cannabis Club Ltd. is on the market to raise $2.0 million in equity by private placement

+ Talisker Resources Ltd. closed $4.159 million final tranche of an equity financing by private placement

+ Trisura Group Ltd. is on the market to raise $40.0 million in equity

+ Trisura Group Ltd. is on the market to raise $12.0 million in equity by private placement

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+ Government of BC is going forward with a Burnaby Hospital project; $1.3 billion project will upgrade and redevelop the project – two towers to be included; completion by 2027

+ Northland Power Inc. agreed to acquire the Colombian regulated utility Empresa de Energía de Boyacá for $1.05 billion

+ designed for life in space; seriously, show homes soon on the Moon and Mars …

+ HOK focusing on design for those who are ‘differently-abled’ …

+ put some weed in your cement – save the planet!

+ in Edmonton, Imperial Equities Inc. sold its Ashworth Building property; terms not disclosed

+ in New Jersey, ‘The American Dream’ 3,0 million sq. ft. mall complex is set to open October 15^th in the Meadowlands area; developed by Edmonton’s Triple 5 Group

+ in Phoenix, The Blackstone Group sold the 396.0 acre /950-key JW Marriot Desert Ridge Resort & Spa to a JV of Trinity and Elliott Management Corp.s’ fund – for US$602.0 million

+ Regional Group acquired Hazeldean Mall in Kanata, ON from BentallGreenOak; terms not disclosed

+ Chick-fil-A opened its first Toronto outlet in Toronto; company says it intends to open 15 stores in Toronto within the next five years; previously the chain had two outlets (they closed) in Calgary

+ The Brick opened in West Edmonton Mall, occupying the former/vacant Sears store

+ CPPIB invested US$115.0 million to acquire an equity interest in Delhivery Pvt Ltd., India’s leading third-party logistics provider

+ Shopify Inc. acquired 6 River Systems, a warehouse robotics company, for US$450.0 million

+ Artis REIT agreed to sell two office properties (Toronto, Ottawa) for $161.0 million

+ CAP REIT closed the purchase of apartments in London and Sarnia, Ontario for $68.8 million and a building in Charlottetown, PEI for $7.2 million – 595 apartments added to their portfolio

+ George Van Noten to COO @ Minto Apartment REIT

+ Glen MacMullin to Chief Investment Officers @ Minto Apartment REIT

+ Slate Office REIT agreed to sell an office property (5500 North Services Rd) in Burlington, ON for $52.2 million

+ Summit Industrial Income REIT is acquiring 121,456 sq. ft./100% leased building in YYC Logistics Centre for $15.9 million; FedEx Ground occupy 75% of the building

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