(AlbertaIndex, August 3, Friday) --- Charles Baillie, former TD Bank Financial Group chairman and CEO, has been named the chairman of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation’s inaugural board of directors. George Gosbee, chairman, CEO and president of Tristone Capital Inc, is vice chairman of the new corporation. 

            (AlbertaIndex, August 2, Thursday) --- The Alberta government has stopped public access to part of the province’s forest in the south west from August 1 due to what it calls extreme wildfire hazard conditions.

            (AlbertaIndex, August 2, Thursday) --- An Alberta MLA is in Beijing, China to discuss energy and trade matters with Chinese experts at the Energy Council’s China North American Energy Dialogue meeting from July 27 to August 3.