FACILITYCalgary

+ June 24; Canaccord Financial Inc., Vancouver, Annual General Meeting

+ June 28; Leader Energy Services Ltd., Calgary, Annual General Meeting

+ June 30; Torque Energy Inc., London, Ont., Annual and Special General Meeting

+ July 7; Western Financial Group Inc., Special meeting Of Shareholders to Approve Amalgamation with Desjardins Financial Corporation Inc.

+ Sept. 9; Homburg Invest Inc., Halifax, Annual General Meeting

+ Derren Newell to CFO @ CE Franklin Ltd.

+ Don Herring, Pres. @ Canadian Associations of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, retiring

+ Gerry Elms to CFO @ Calvalley Petroleum Inc.

+ Ken Chapman to Executive Director @ Oil Sands Developers Group

+ Mark Hopkins to Managing Partner @ Knightsbridge Executive Search

+ Myka Osinchuk to CEO @ Alberta Cancer Foundation

+ Patricia Jones to CEO @ Catholic Family Services

+ Susumu Fukuda to Consul General Of Japan In Calgary

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“Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.” – Bobby Orr

+ Carillion joint venture Hospital Infrastructure Partners  will finance, design, build and maintain the new Oakville, ON hospital

“Tom's tee shot off the first tee hooks horribly and skips off the clubhouse roof. He decides it's not worth chasing so he tees up another ball and plays on. As he's making the turn at nine, his friend comes running out of the clubhouse, "Tom, wait up!" "Yeah, what is it?" "Did you see what happened to your ball from the first tee?" "Well, I hooked the ball off the clubhouse roof but I didn't see what happened to it." "Let me tell you, it richocheted off a van's window which went out of control and hit a school bus. The bus tumbled down an embankment and burst into flames! Three kids are in critical condition at the hospital!" "Oh my God! What should I do?" " "Well, I think if you just open your club face a little bit . . ."

+ energy prices live link to Bloomberg.com commodities data ; prices have softened, now down 15% from April highs

+ ERCB announced 2,300 successful oil wells were drilled in 2010, more than double the 2009 volume

+ Greece teetering, credit rating downgraded

+ IMF shortlisted two candidates for the Managing Director job; Christine Lagarde and Agustin Carstens

+ Maple Group Acquisition Corp. launched formal hostile $3.8 billion takeover bit for TMX Group

+ SITQ unit of Ivanhoé Cambridge Group sold its 48.5% interest in five Westin hotels; Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver & Toronto

+ Air Canada strike deadline looming

+ Bellstar Hotels & Resorts launched a real estate division

+ BluEarth Renewables Inc. acquired 8 hydro projects in Ontario for $640 million

+ Canada Post unions staging rotating strikes across Canada

+ Goldman Sachs Group exited the U.S. housing market be selling off its mortgage business to Ocwen Financial Corp. for $600 million

+ Rainbow Pipeline outage extended to end of June as Plains All American Pipeline work to restore integrity of the line

+ Sasol closed its $ 1.034 billion shale gas acquisition with Talisman Energy Inc.

+ Statoil ASA agreed to sell a $3.16 billion stake in its Gassled network to a consortium involving the Canadian Pension Plan Board (45%)

+ Total Energy Services Inc. doubled its 2011 CapEx budget to $71.3 million

+ Trinidad Drilling Ltd. agreed to sell its well servicing rigs to Central Alberta Well Services Corp. for $38 million

+ weekly economic update from ATB Financial

+ bullish predictions of Canadian bank economists have made interesting reading lately, as their predictions of continued prosperity here, in Calgary and in Alberta generally – based on real job growth but overlooking the delicate balance of the economy of the entire world outside Calgary.  There may or may not be a bubble growing here, but there are an increasing number of pins around . . .  stay tuned

+ Century Mining Corporation closed $1,520,186 debt financing

+ Flint Energy Services Ltd. $175 million debt issue

+ Intact Financial Corporation closed $ 961,975,000 equity financing

+ Ivanhoe Energy Inc. closed $50 million unsecured debt financing

+ Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. is on the market to raise $1billion in an IPO