FACILITYCalgary

+ May 10; Compton Petroleum Corporation, Calgary, Annual General Meeting

+ May 10; Keyera Corp, Calgary, Annual General Meeting

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

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

+ May 11; Oncoloytics Biotech Inc, Calgary, Annual Shareholders Meeting

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

+ May 17; Cominar REIT, Quebec City, Annual Meeting of Unitholders

+ May 17; Connacher Oil and Gas Limited, Calgary, Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 17; Contact Exploration Inc., Calgary, Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

+ May 17; TransForce, Toronto, Annual 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

+ May 20; ENMAX Corporation, Calgary, Annual Meeting of the Shareholder

+ May 24; First Capital Reality Inc., Toronto, Annual Shareholders Meeting

+ May 26; The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, Winnipeg, Annual Meeting

+ May 30; Essential Energy Services Ltd., Calgary, Annual and Special Meeting

+ May 30; Technicoil Corporation, Calgary, Annual and Special Meeting

+ June 7; Nabors Industries Inc., Hamilton, Bermuda, Annual General Meeting

+ Joseph Iannicelli, Pres. & CEO @ The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada stepping down

+ Paul Fenton to Chief Economist @ The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

+ Yankick Desnoyers to Deputy Chief Economist @ The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

 [send us your firm’s appointment notices to:  research@maxcomm.ca ]

+ Canadian Tire Corporation agreed to acquire The Forzani Group Ltd. for $771 million

+ energy prices live link to Bloomberg.com commodities data ;

+ TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone pipeline is shut due to a fitting failure at Ludden, South Dakota pumping station; 500 barrel leak

+ Home Capital Group Inc. closed $150 million debt financing

+ TC Pipelines LP closed $338 million offering of new equity

+ Vantex Resources Ltd. closed $193,400 new equity issue

After a particularly poor game of golf, a popular club member skipped the clubhouse and started to go home. As he was walking to the parking lot to get his car, a policeman stopped him and asked, "Did you tee off on the sixteenth hole about twenty minutes ago?"   "Yes," the golfer responded.  "Did you happen to hook your ball so that it went over the trees and off the course?"   "Yes, I did. How did you know?" he asked.   "Well," said the policeman very seriously, "Your ball flew out onto the highway and crashed through a driver's windshield. The car went out of control, crashing into five other cars and a fire truck. The fire truck couldn't make it to the fire, and the building burned down. So, what are you going to do about it?"   The golfer thought it over carefully and responded...  "I think I'll close my stance a little bit, tighten my grip and lower my right thumb."

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and had the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” – Winston Churchill

“Fear – Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.” – Larry Kersten

+ Agrium Inc. acquired Cereal Toscana SA for $27 million

+ Blockbuster Canada Co. has been placed in receivership

+ CanElson Drilling Inc. acquired Eagle Drilling Services

+ Mullen Group Ltd. agreed to acquire Hi-Way 9 Group of Companies

+ Plains All American Pipeline LP had a rupture on its Rainbow line in northern Alberta hat leaked 28,000 barrels of oil, largest spill in 36 years; line remains shut until repairs and cleanup are completed

+ Precision Drilling Corp. increased its CapEx Budget to $514 million to acquire new rigs

+ Stantec agreed to acquire The Caltech Group of companies

+ TC Pipelines LP closed its acquisition of 25% interest in Gas Transmission Corporation LLC and Bison Pipeline LLC

+ weekly economic update from ATB Financial

+ TransCanada Corp. commissioned and started its $500 million Coolidge Generating Station in Arizona

+ kudos to this year’s Alberta Order Of Excellence awards – Patricia Blocksom (Calgary), Martin Cohos (Calgary), Bruce Hogle (Edmonton), Walter Paszkowski (Sexsmith), Eric Rajah (Lacombe) and Aritha van Herk (Calgary).

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