Author: Jason Dunn

Are You a Promissory Note Holder With Wealthstreet?

As I mentioned in this previous blog post, for one year I was a promissory note holder with Wealthstreet here in Calgary. We loaned Wealthstreet the money, and got it back with 10% interest on top, and that was the end of it. They asked us if we wanted to re-invest it, and we declined. Others chose to re-invest, or invested for the first time within the past year, and now with Wealthstreet shutting their doors the holders of those promissory notes are wondering what they can do to get their money back. The building that Wealthstreet formerly occupied was purchased by a numbered company owned by Dave Jones, meaning it’s an asset with real value. If you are a holder of a promissory note from Wealthstreet and would like to get organized to take action, please send an email to ***@***. This email address does not go to me – that email address forwards to someone who is a current promissory note holder who is interested in hearing from other promissory note holders who want to take collective action.

UPDATE: The above email address no longer works. The person to whom it went has informed me that she’s no longer seeking other promissory note holders; she’s got a group of them together and they’re taking collective action.

Ernst & Young Calls Town Hall Meeting for Concrete Equities Investors

For those investors that haven’t yet been contacted, here’s the time and location of the next meeting for Concrete Equities investors:

Ernst & Young Town Hall Meeting
Nov. 10th, 2009, 7:00 PM
Telus Convention Centre
120-9th Ave. S.E. Calgary
Exhibition Hall D / E & Annex

I’ll be there, and am cautiously optimistic based on the tone of the email sent out by the steering committee.

Tofino, BC 2009 Photos

Ashley’s sister Chelsea Skolny married Ryan Fornataro in Tofino, BC, in August of 2009. We flew into Comox, rented a car, and drove to Tofino. The wedding was lots of fun! I didn’t take any photos of the wedding because they had a professional and I was busy filming it…speaking of which, I really have to get back to editing that video! Here are a few selected photos from the event.

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Object Collection: Canadian Coins

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Canadian 1 cent (penny) coin heads
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Canadian 1 cent (penny) coin tails
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Geocities is Closed, And Now This Awesomeness is Gone Forever

Geocities is no more, but as I was scanning and archiving a really great Wired article (scanning a bunch of images to a PDF file is slick!), I came across a PDF file I made back in 2001, eight whole years ago…it was pulled together from a site, hosted on Geocities, that was one of the most hilarious prank/hoax sites I’ve ever seen. It’s so well done that when I first saw it I thought it was all real. It looks like I’m not the only one wanting to make sure this great site doesn’t fade from memory, but I figure I’ll post this entry anyway just for fun… 😉

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The Blind Side

I’d never heard of this movie until today, but after watching the trailer above, I have to admit I got a little quite misty-eyed by the end…I’m a sucker for football movies, and true stories where someone’s life is changed for the better, so when you combine the two it just gets me. The actor who plays “Big Mike” is 6 foot 10 inches!

UPDATE: Apologies for the fact that the video starts playing automatically…I removed it because of that. Check out the trailer over on the site.

David Humeniuk’s Teluric International Investments Ltd.

Look what I found on the Alberta Securities Commission Web site:

“Calgary-based Teluric International Investments Ltd., the Teluric Diversified Fund, David Humeniuk and Elizabeth Humeniuk have provided an Undertaking to the Executive Director of the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC).  The Undertaking comes after ASC staff identified that the parties failed to disclose in a Teluric Diversified Fund offering memorandum information required by Alberta securities laws.  No sales occurred pursuant to the offering memorandum, nor are any sales contemplated in the future. The Undertaking states that Teluric International Investments, the Teluric Diversified Fund, David and Elizabeth Humeniuk agree they will cease all trading and refrain from any further trading of Teluric Diversified Fund securities until such time as the Executive Director releases them from this Undertaking.”

Who’s Dave Humeniuk you might be wondering? Why, he was a Director at Concrete Equities of course! Some truly interesting things have been said about the Santa Clara Mexico investment in court documents involving Dave Humeniuk and Vincenzo De Palma (sort of a “he said, he said” thing), and I’m planning on publishing those in the next week or two. Court documents aren’t libel because they fall under Absolute Privilege. Any lawyer reading this knows that. The document relating to the above ASC action can be found here – in short, it says that Dave Humeniuk needed to “Disclose any penalty or sanction (including the reason for it and whether it is currently in effect) that has been in effect during the last 10 years against (i) a director, executive officer or control person of the issuer, or (ii) an issuer of which a person referred to in (i) above was a director, executive officer or control person at the time.”

It seems he didn’t do that, and that’s against the rules.