March 31st

It was The Battle of the One Liners! AL: “The biggest problem with chasing the lowest offer is catching it.” JB: ”Did you hear that Shopper’s Drug Mart is going to brand their marijuana, President’s Choice ?” KK: “If you’re basing your choice of a realtor on lowest price, maybe you’d be better off working with one much less experienced than me.” JB: “ Have a good day Just don’t have it here.”

Members:

Brett Bain. 

Sean Baylis. There may indeed be some life in Canada’s economy after all. • Meanwhile, keep an eye on your assets and how they’re being taxed under the new regime. • Used to be you could switch from one mutual fund to another (in the same family) without paying for Trudeau’s coif. This ends on October 1st. So it may be time for a balanced fund.• Insurance used to be a good dodge when used as an asset, to take advantage of small business tax rate. That’s now changed, too. See Sean’s email with pdf attachment. Or go see Sean before taxes eat your gains.

Jim Bladon. Pretty excited about ATB’s new Centre for Entrepreneurship. It’s opening later this month and he’ll arrange a Bird event there. • He notes that net migration in Alberta was, for the first time in years, a minus number in 4Q/2015.

Paul Boucher.  Enjoying the ATB Capital Ideas events. • Listen close and you will hear Paul promoting Honda Power Tools and also, the Banff Park ’red chair’ ad. Both on TV.

Greg Callander. 

Ian Campbell. 

Matt Dart. 

Don Davis. 

Todd Dean.  Google man likes LinkedIn strategy. He is going to walk us through it at some breakfast, soon.

George Doherty. 

Don Doolan. He sees some life in the economy, here and there.

Ken Eades. 

Tony Fisher. X-iron Mills is being reno’ed. • He mentions that Chinook is doing well with average sales at $1200 sq ft. (Compare this to Canada’s top mall, Eaton Centre in TO at $1500.)

Gord Forsyth . To Sean: “If, as my doctors says, Shoppers’ Drug Mart is the most expensive place for prescription drugs … does this make buying their stock (well, Loblaw’s) a good idea?” That’s be a yes, says Sean.

Mel Gibson.   Want to really piss your wife off? Install a New Driver Intelligence app on your car. It analyzes the driving patterns of the driver for safety etc. (When you have the data, share it at a large family gathering. Warning: this could shorten your life.)

Henry Heuver. So now’s a good time to fertilize. Pruning trees is still ok but do it soon. Like right now. Otherwise, wait till next year. If thinning out shrubs like Spirea, work from the bottom. Leave the tops alone as that’s where the flowers flower. Be careful with May Day trees – black knot can do lots of harm. Also, watch out with elm trees.

David Hicks.  Has good things to say about Hawaii. Also about  his business. (It’s his attitude, eh.)

Bill Hoogstratten. 

Dan Kennelly.  Somewhat ticked off at customers who like to tell you that you’ll get paid when they get paid.

Keith Kozak. If you want to see how easy it for thieves to jack your car, watch Marketplace on TV tomorrow evening.

Matt Litke. He delivered the eulogy at his grandfather’s funeral. Like it has for others, it made an impression on Matt

Andy Lockhart. Will it? Could it be? Might it happen? Will the long and hard fought hotel/apartment project for the DI pass the next stage? Or will some anonymous, city slicker try to kill the project? Stay tuned.

J.D. MacDonald.

Michael McLennan. Golf lessons work, he says. Sort of • Scanners with OCR are making document storage and retrieval easy.

Ross Mikkelsen. Went to New Orleans to see … a BBQ trade show.

Mike Mikkelson.

Bruce Roblin. 

Dwayne Vink. Celebrated his son’s 16-week ski program by skiing Lake Louise with him. They used the hill’s App that lets your iPhone tell you all kinds of ski performance things including, where your ski buddy is.

Bob Wiggins.

Chris Wright. 

George Roberts.  Words work when written well.