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This episode we are joined by Mr. Bob Dhillon & Trina Cui - CEO & CFO of Mainstreet Equity - a TSX listed real estate company with a market cap of ~$2 billion.

Mr. Dhillon has been awarded numerous awards including: Appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal 2022 and Diamond Jubilee Medal, Appointed Honorary Consul General of Belize for Canada, Entrepreneur of the Year Prairies Real Estate and Construction (Ernst & Young 2015), Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards (Royal Bank of Canada, 2015), & Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People (Alberta Venture Magazine, 2011).

Mr. Dhillon sits on numerous boards including Strathcona Resources, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), Advisory Council for the Canada-India Business Council & Invest Alberta Corporation.

Mr. Dhillon received a Master of Business Administration - Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. 

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Trina Cui is Mainstreet's Chief Financial Officer, responsible for the complete financial oversight of the company including external and internal reporting,  capital allocation, business performance management, commercial management, and investor relations. 

Trina's expertise and her experienced perspective are informed by her CPA-CGA designation, her Bachelor of Commerce (High Honours) degree from Carleton University (double major in Accounting and Finance), and her Master of Business Administration degree from Queen's University. 

Among other things we learned about Mainstreet's Q1 2026 Results Summary.

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This episode we are joined by Mr. Bryan Gould - founder & executive chairman of Aspenleaf Energy - a private energy company producing ~25,000 BOE/D. 

Aspenleaf operates assets in the Swan Hills, Leduc and Twining regions of
Alberta, having acquired Arcan Resources Ltd in 2015, NEP Canada Ltd. In 2018
and Huron Resources Corp in 2020.

Mr. Gould was born and raised in Toronto. He attended the University of Toronto and graduated in 1982 with a Master of Applied Science (Chemical Engineering) degree. Upon graduation, he joined Shell Canada as a reservoir engineer and moved west to Calgary. 

Mr. Gould has experience in development and operations of
conventional oil and gas assets, oil sands and unconventional resource plays.

Mr. Gould is a seasoned oil and gas executive with more than 25 years of experience with Royal Dutch Shell/Shell Canada and more than three years with Athabasca Oil Corporation.

Mr. Gould has a track record in strategy implementation, and has
completed over $30 billion of transactions, including corporate and asset
acquisitions and sales, and joint ventures with large international organizations.

Mr. Gould is involved with numerous efforts to advocate for sensible energy strategy and policies. He is also deeply involved with The Alliance for Responsible
Citizenship; a global effort aimed at preservation of the fundamentals of Western
Civilization.

Among other things we learned about 29 Years at Shell & Growing to 25,000 BOE/D. 

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This episode we are joined by Mr. Toby Rice - CEO of EQT - a NYSE listed energy company with a market cap of ~$35 billion. 

Toby Rice was named President and Chief Executive Officer in July 2019, when he was also elected to EQT’s Board of Directors. Since May 2018, Toby has served as a Partner at Rice Investment Group, a multi-strategy fund investing in all verticals of the oil and gas sector.

From October 2013 until its acquisition by EQT in November 2017, Toby was President, Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Rice Energy. 

Previously, he served in a number of positions with Rice Energy, its affiliates and predecessor entities beginning in February 2007, including President and Chief Executive Officer of a predecessor entity from February 2008 through September 2013. 

Among other things we learned about How EQT Grew To 1 Million BOE/D. 

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This episode, we are joined by W.Brett Wilson - CEO & Chairman of Prairie Merchant Corp - a private merchant bank which finances key personal investments in five major areas - energy, agriculture, real estate, entertainment and sport.

Prior to founding Prairie Merchant Corp, W.Brett Wilson co-founded investment banking advisory firm, Wilson Mackie & Co., in 1991, and in 1993, co-founded FirstEnergy Capital Corp. in Calgary, Alberta with Rick Grafton, Jim Davidson, and N. Murray Edwards.

W.Brett Wilson was a season 3, 4 & 5 panelist on CBC Television's Dragons' Den.

He has written regularly on entrepreneurship for publications including Oilweek, Alberta Venture and the National Post, and in 2012, he published the book titled Redefining Success: Still Making Mistakes.

His sports interests include ownership in the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League. 

W. Brett Wilson has supported hundreds of charities including, The Southern Alberta Institute of Urology, the David Foster Foundation, Right to Play & the Wilson Centre for Domestic Abuse Studies at the Calgary Counseling Centre.

W. Brett Wilson obtained a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Calgary.

In 2010, W. Brett Wilson received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Royal Roads University. In 2011, he was awarded the Order of Canada and subsequently received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2012.

Among other things, we learned about FirstEnergy ~1992 & Dragons' Den Lessons.

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Greetings & welcome back to the podcast. 

This episode we are joined by the co-founder of Doomberg– an independent publication that provides a lateral-thinking approach to topics in energy, finance, geopolitics, and the broader economy.

Doomberg has grown to one of the top paid finance newsletters on Substack, with over 350,000 subscribers. 

Among other things we learned about Venezuelan Oil & Why Energy Is Abundant.

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This episode we are joined by Dr. Chris Keefer - President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy Association, ER Physician & host of The Decouple Podcast - which focuses on energy technology and its ecological impacts. 

Dr. Keefer holds a bachelors degree from Guelph University & Medical Doctorate from McMaster University where he completed his residency program. 

Dr. Keefer completed his Emergency Residency Program at the University of Toronto in 2013. 

Among other things we learned about ~600 TWh & Why Power Demand Is Growing.

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This episode we are joined by Mr.Don Simmons - CEO of Hemisphere Energy - a TSX listed energy company with a market cap of ~$200 million. 

Mr. Simmons has extensive experience in petroleum geology and a proven track record of discovering oil and gas in Western Canada and internationally. He became President and Chief Executive Officer in February 2008. 

Prior to joining Hemisphere, Mr. Simmons was a Geologist at Sebring Energy, private oil and gas company, and before that he spent five years with EnCana (now Ovintiv) working on various projects in southeast Alberta and Ecuador. 

Mr. Simmons holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Sciences from Queen's University and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. 

Among other things we learned about Heavy Oil & Polymer Floods: Scaling to 3800 boe/d.

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Stockwell Day was successfully elected nine times over 25 years at two levels of government and in two separate provinces. From 1986 to 2000, he served in the Alberta Legislature as Government House Leader, Minister of Labour, Minister of Social Services and Minister of Finance. 

In 2000 Stockwell Day won the leadership of the Canadian Alliance and became Leader of Canada’s Official Opposition. In the general election that followed soon after, the Canadian Alliance increased the number of Official Opposition seats in the House of Commons and increased its popular vote by over a million people. 

In 2002, he was appointed Foreign Affairs critic, as well as Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights. In 2003 the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada merged to become the Conservative Party of Canada. In 2006 Stockwell Day was appointed Minister of Public Safety and to the Cabinet Committee on Priorities and Planning. 

Upon his re-election in 2008, he was appointed Minister of International Trade, Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Chair of the Cabinet Committee on Afghanistan. In 2010 Stockwell Day was appointed President of the Treasury Board. He did not seek re-election in the 2011 general election. 

He operates a consulting agency, Stockwell Day Connex Ltd., serving clients and organizations globally in the private and public domain. He is a regular media commentator and speaker, known nationally and internationally. 

Stockwell enjoys marathon running and ocean kayaking. He and his wife Valorie have 3 married sons and 14 grandchildren. 

Among other things we learned about Lowering Taxes, Cutting Debt & 50 Years of Politics. 

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Greetings, and welcome back to the podcast. 

This episode we are joined by Heather Exner-Pirot - Senior Fellow and Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Special Advisor to the Business Council of Canada, Research Advisor to the Indigenous Resource Network, and Global Fellow at the Wilson Centre in Washington D.C. 

She has twenty years of experience in Indigenous, Arctic and resource development and governance. 

She has published on Indigenous economic development, resource politics and policy, energy security, Arctic human security, regional Arctic governance and the Arctic Council, Arctic innovation, First Nations equity and own source revenues, and more. She obtained a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary in 2011. 

Exner-Pirot sits on the boards of the Saskatchewan Indigenous Economic Development Network and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. She is a member of the Canadian Defence and Security Network and a Network Coordinator at the North American and Arctic Defense and Security Network. She is the Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook (an international, peer-reviewed annual volume), a member of Yukon's Arctic Security Advisory Council, and the former Chair of the Canadian Northern Studies Trust. 

She has published over 45 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, and presented at over 100 conferences and events nationally and internationally, in addition to authoring dozens of op-eds in Canada’s top publications. 

She currently lives near Calgary with her husband and two children. 

Among other things we learned about Canadian Energy Policy: MOU's, Pipelines & LNG.

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Greetings, and welcome back to the podcast. 

This episode we are joined by Mr. Dan Halyk - CEO of Total Energy Services - a TSX listed energy services company with a market cap of ~$550 million. 

Mr. Halyk is the founder of Total Energy and has served as a director since its inception in November 1996 and Chief Executive Officer since 2002. 

Mr. Halyk co-founded Trident Capital Partners in 1997, a private limited partnership that invested primarily in the energy and real estate industries until 2021. 

Prior to starting Trident Capital, Mr. Halyk was a corporate/securities lawyer with Bennett Jones in Calgary. 

Mr. Halyk received his Bachelor of Commerce (Finance Major) and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan. 

Among other things we learned about Cash Flows, Energy Services & New Markets.

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