Silent Auction
CIRI Alberta will again host a silent auction and raffle during the event with proceeds going to the Miliken Ogden Community Association (MOCA).If you are able to donate an item for Silent Auction please contact Debbie Carver dcarver@bmir.com

This is the last event of the 2007/2008 programming year. Following the AGM and CEO panel discussion, enjoy a soiree of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and networking with your IR colleagues, compliments of your Alberta CIRI Chapter.

This event has been cancelled due to timing conflict.

What is happening with the markets? When is the other shoe going to drop? Come and join FRED PYNN, President and Chief Investment Officer of Bissett Investment Management , in a lively round table discussion to answer these questions, and more. This breakfast will have timely and useful news for the investor relations practitioner.

The Directors of CIRI Alberta would once again like to invite all members to share in the spirit of the holiday season. This social takes place in a relaxed atmosphere where we can network, catch up with our colleagues and welcome new members who have joined CIRI during the past year. We hope you will be able to join us! In keeping with the tradition, please bring an unwrapped toy to the event to be donated to the Children’s Cottage.

We look forward to seeing you on December 6 at Divino's between 4:30 and 7:30pm. Thank you for your continued support of CIRI Alberta!

THIS IS A MEMBER'S ONLY EVENT. PLEASE SIGN IN TO THE WEBSITE AS A MEMBER BEFORE REGISTERING

CIRI Alberta is proud to bring you an opportunity to network with your peers and with the financial community, and to learn about two very topical issues.

11:30am - 12:00pm
Every table will have one member from the Alberta financial community to answer any questions you may have. Lunch is served during this period.

12:00pm - 12:20pm
Patrick Armstrong will provide an update on M&A activity and capital markets.

Patrick Armstrong is a Director at Scotia Capital in the Calgary office and is responsible for business development and project execution.

Since joining Scotia Capital in 2000, Mr. Armstrong has held progressively senior roles in Calgary, with a particular focus on the Energy sector. He has been involved with a number of transactions including numerous equity and debt financings, and various advisory assignments, including takeovers, dispositions, mergers, fairness opinions, and advising Independent Committees. Prior to joining Scotia Capital, Mr. Armstrong was in the Corporate Finance and Treasury department of a leading Alberta energy utility.

12:20pm- 12:40pm
Cristina Lopez will discuss the effect of the Alberta Royalty Tax decision.

Ms. Lopez, Vice President & Director, Institutional Research, joined Tristone in 2004. Her most recent duties include the coverage of the Royalty Trust sector. Prior thereto, Ms. Lopez worked at a Canadian Investment Bank as an Institutional Research Associate with responsibilities in aiding in the coverage of various Oil & Gas Producers and Oil & Gas Service Companies.

12:40pm- 1:00pm
Q&A Session

Due to extraordinary demand we are pleased to welcome award-winning journalist and Financial Times of London Canadian correspondent, Bernard Simon, back for his outstanding writing workshop.

Come join Bernard and your peers as he teaches you how to write and communicate more effectively at this full-day workshop. Bernard will introduce you to examples of good and bad business writing – and explain the differences between them. You will learn “The Ten Commandments” of writing-it-right, with numerous tips on how to obey them. A substantial part of the day will be spent on hands-on quizzes, exercises and discussion. Space is limited to 20 participants, so register early.

Join CIRI Alberta members, investor relations (IR) professionals, and the investment and media communities for a gala evening of networking, and recognition as we honor outstanding contributions to the investor relations profession in Alberta.

This year we are pleased to announce Randall J. Findlay as our keynote speaker. Mr. Findlay is the past president of Provident Energy Trust and currently is a member of Provident’s board of directors. He is a director and chair of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation and past chair of the ACHF major gifts campaign. Mr. Findlay will speak about Business and the Community: The IRO's Role.

The Awards committee will be collecting nominations from CIRI Alberta members as well as from the investment and media communities. Watch your inbox for nomination information to follow shortly.

Once again, CIRI Alberta will host a silent auction and raffle during the event with proceeds going to the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation. Please consider donating an item forthis worthy cause.

In addition, there are various sponsorship opportunities available for groups of 8 or more. Contact the Sponsorship Committee Chairs for more information.

The CIRI AB Awards Gala was created to be a social gathering of IR professionals and the investment and media communities, to promote IR and to recognize outstanding contributions to the IR profession in Alberta. This is the 4th year of the event and last year over 250 participants from throughout Alberta were in attendance.

Help us to make this year even more successful than the last!

Order your tickets today, as this event will sellout quickly!

EVENT CANCELLED

This year's CIRI Alberta workshops focus on honing those skills essential to the successful IRO. Creating the message that accurately reflects your business and ensuring that message is heard requires proficiency in communication and a strong understanding of your audience and your competition. A detailed program will be provided in advance of the workshop.

Join CIRI Alberta members and the investor relations and financial communities for a gala evening of networking and awards presentation as we recognize outstanding contributions to the investor relations profession in Alberta.

This year we are pleased to announce that Catriona Le May Doan, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, seven-time World Champion in speed skating and one of Canada's most successful and highly decorated athletes, will be the guest speaker.

The event will again include a silent auction to raise funds for the Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta, and its programs, the Walk In Closet and Making Changes. MCEAA is a local organization that works to empower unemployed and underemployed women to be successful in job interviews and integration into the workplace.

Nominations for the 2006 CIRIAL Awards are currently being collected from CIRI Alberta members as well as from the investment and media community nation-wide. The awards categories are:

• IR Heart & Hustle
• IR Leadership & Innovation
• IR Hall of Fame Inductee
• IR Professional of the Year
• Management Team of the Year
• Best Financial Reporting
• Friend of IR

Individual tickets for the Gala cost $100 plus GST; $800 plus GST for a table of eight. You can order your individual tickets or tables online by clicking on the link at the top of this page, or contact Kali Ann Brummitt of CCNMatthews at 403-266-2638 or ciriab@ccnmatthews.com.

Order your tickets today as this event will soon be sold out!

The CIRIAL Awards Gala was created to be a social gathering of investor relations professionals and the investment and media communities, to promote IR and to recognize outstanding contributions to the IR profession in Alberta. This is the 3rd year of the event and CIRI Alberta hopes to build on the success of last year which was attended by over 200 participants from the investor relations and financial communities, media and corporations throughout Alberta. Come help us to make this year even more successful than the last!

If you are interested in donating an item for Silent Auction please contact Mike McLeod of Georgeson at 403-444-5626 or mike.mcleod@georgeson.com

We would like to invite you to attend the Annual Meeting of the Members of CIRI Alberta for the following purposes:

1. To approve the fixing of the number of directors of CIRI Alberta at 15;

2. To elect the Directors for the 2006/2007 year; and

3. To transact such other business as may properly be brought before the Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

In addition, we have put together a panel of institutional portfolio managers so that we can pick away at them and learn their secrets to our success. Too often we spend time trying to anticipate what aspects of our company story they want to hear rather than what matters to them and what does not. This is the time to find out their perspectives on corporate governance, SOX, shareholder activism and all the hot topics of the year.

We hope you will be able to join us!

Event Sold Out

54-101? 51-101? SOX? Bill 198? How much to disclose, governance guidelines and guidance. What makes a solid corporate sustainability report? Internal controls? These areas seem to be constantly changing at a fast and furious pace. Keeping up with it is a challenge for IROs - and the rest of the corporate team.

Join CIRI Alberta for a breakfast seminar on the changing corporate governance and regulatory landscape with both Canadian and U.S. issues being addressed. Find out the why and how of sustainability reporting. Come and listen to the experts share their perspectives and best practices.

4th Annual CIRI Alberta Member Social

The Directors of CIRI Alberta would once again like to invite all members to share in the spirit of the holiday season. This social is in a relaxed atmosphere where we can network and catch up with our colleagues and welcome new members who have joined CIRI during the past year. We hope you will be able to join us! In keeping with the tradition, please bring an unwrapped toy to the event to be donated to the Children’s Cottage.

We look forward to seeing you on December 1 and thank you for your continued support of CIRI Alberta!

Companies often struggle with what to say, how much to say and when to say it. Under FD guidelines, how much information should you provide to analysts and investors? Broad guidance provides flexibility, but does it satisfy the street’s needs in terms of measuring your performance? What is the best way to deal with news, both positive and negative? What is the risk of not providing guidance? Join this panel to hear differing views on what the cutting-edge IROs are doing, and those that differ from it!

FULL - This event is fully booked
To be placed on the waiting list, please contact Sheldon Bailey at CNW Group (403) 269-7925

Join CIRI AB in the jungle for a fun evening of awards and networking. The second annual CIRIAL Awards will continue on last year's success - honouring the best in the IR business in Alberta and offering IROs and members of the investment community a chance to connect with colleagues.

Your emcee will be lively and entertaining, the room will sparkle with professionals, and the night will buzz with the silent auction and award event. Don't miss your chance to come network your way through the jungle!

If you would like to become involved in this event - and assist CIRI AB in making it better in 2005 - please contact Tim Jeffery at (403) 699-5322 or tim_jeffery@nexeninc.com.

CIRI Alberta's AGM will be business as usual, except with a spin. This year CIRI has invited a panel of portfolio managers - purely for your entertainment! Ask the questions you always wanted to know about what makes these people tick. How do you get their attention and more importantly keep their interest and investment in your organization. Learn what keeps these people up at night and what their priorities are when making investment decisions.

Our panel guests include:

Martin Ferguson, Director, Canadian Equities, Mawer Investment Management Ltd.

Fred Pynn, Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager, Bissett Investment Management

Josef Schachter, Principal, Schachter Asset Management

The numbers of retail investors are growing every day as investors take more control over their investment decisions. This is particularly true in the royalty/income trust environment. How does a retail investor base affect the valuation of your company in the market? How can you better communicate with a large retail base in order to keep them loyal and improve your company's value? CIRI Alberta will provide key points to consider when communicating with your retail investors.

We've all heard it before; you can't manage it if you can't measure it. So how do you measure and evaluate your IR program? And more importantly, how do you translate that measurement into meaningful proof of the value you add to the organization? Learn what senior management expects from an IR program. Leave this session with some concrete action plans that will elevate your ability to track your results and compare them with past performance and help set future expectations.

Institutional investor relations is becoming increasingly more complicated in today's regulatory environment. Despite these challenges, institutional investors can provide a stable and loyal shareholder base. Join CIRI Alberta in a review of the core components of an institutional investor program. Learn how to leverage the sell-side and build credibility with the buy-side. Gain insight and further your knowledge regarding the regulatory environment and how recent changes are affecting the way you plan and execute your institutional investor relations program.

For those of you who work with issuers that are thinking about raising funds privately or from the public, going public or are already public, you have no doubt found the myriad of rapidly changing securities laws and regulations to be very confusing. Join CIRI Alberta as we review new and upcoming changes in securities regulation and learn how they might affect your company. What's next? Peer into the future and gain insight into the securities regulatory changes that are on tomorrow's horizon.

Back by popular demand, the Directors of CIRI Alberta would once again like to invite all members to share in the spirit of the holiday season. This social is in a relaxed atmosphere where we can network and catch up with our colleagues and welcome new members who have joined CIRI during the past year. We hope you will be able to join us! In keeping with the tradition, please bring an unwrapped toy to the event to be donated to the Children's Cottage.

We look forward to seeing you on December 9 and thank you for your continued support of CIRI Alberta!

Increasingly, investor relations practitioners are working on a daily basis with members of the finance and legal community. In order to effectively communicate with these specialized groups, you need the tools and the knowledge to be able to understand them. What should someone in investor relations focus on when talking to the investment community? To legal professionals? CIRI Alberta will help you to improve your ability to 'talk finance and legalese'!

Start your lunch off with “The Alphabet Soup of Finance”
Do financial terms sometimes leave you in the dark? Do you ever find yourself faking it? Well, help is here. This segment will give you an alphabet full of often used (and mis-used) finance terms. Ross Bentley, a lawyer with Blake, Cassels and Graydon, will define these terms, simply and completely. Learn the ABCs and gain the confidence to communicate with your board and shareholders -- on their terms.

Finish off your lunch with a slice of “News Release Pie”
Get a better understanding of the legal ingredients that comprise a news release. Understand how timely disclosure affects the contents of a news release and provides answers to investor’s questions (i.e. who, what, where, when and how). Let Bill Maslechko, Senior Partner and James Kidd, lawyer, at Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP, unravel the legal underpinnings of a news release with straightforward advice -- at a cost you can afford.

Increasingly, investor relations practitioners are working on a daily basis with members of the finance and legal community. In order to effectively communicate with these specialized groups, you need the tools and the knowledge to be able to understand them. What should someone in investor relations focus on when talking to the investment community? To legal professionals? CIRI Alberta will help you to improve your ability to 'talk finance and legalese'!

Start your lunch off with “The Alphabet Soup of Finance”
Do financial terms sometimes leave you in the dark? Do you ever find yourself faking it? Well, help is here. This segment will give you an alphabet full of often used (and mis-used) finance terms. Ross Bentley, a lawyer with Blake, Cassels and Graydon, will define these terms, simply and completely. Learn the ABCs and gain the confidence to communicate with your board and shareholders -- on their terms.

Finish off your lunch with a slice of “News Release Pie”
Get a better understanding of the legal ingredients that comprise a news release. Understand how timely disclosure affects the contents of a news release and provides answers to investor’s questions (i.e. who, what, where, when and how). Let Bill Maslechko, Senior Partner and James Kidd, lawyer, at Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP, unravel the legal underpinnings of a news release with straightforward advice -- at a cost you can afford.

** Please note that our printed brochure incorrectly shows this program on October 14; it is taking place on October 21. We apologize for any confusion.Year-end increases the amount of work and activity for public companies, and generates a surplus of additional responsibilities for the investor relations practitioner. CIRI Alberta's half-day workshop will explore several facets of year-end activities such as annual report trends and best practices. With the surplus of new regulations that have come into effect and are approaching, we will obtain advice from the experts and discuss the effects of regulatory changes that come into effect in 2005.

This workshop will offer a grab-bag of ideas and information that will get you thinking about your annual report alternatives in new ways and prepare you for the upcoming regulations in 2005. A panel discussion will follow at lunch that will help further your understanding on this topic.