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ALBERTA 

• Duncan Milne has joined the Calgary office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP as an associate.

• Joan Chambers and Debra Finlay have joined Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP as partners in its Vancouver office. They were formerly with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

• Lauchlin MacEachern, Sean Murphy, and Chiara Woods have joined the Calgary office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP as associates.

• Jason Metcalf, Olga Kyselyova, Charles Roy, and Aaron Stephenson have joined the Calgary office of Macleod Dixon LLP as associates after completing their articles with the firm.

• Macleod Dixon LLP welcomes another group of associates to their Calgary office - Michael Bolitho, Sarah Goard-Baker, Heather Grab, and Caylee Rieger. All four recently completed their articles with the firm.

• Macleod Dixon LLP has announced that Thomas Collopy, Sarah Drummond, Allison Eng, and Brad Werenka have completed their articles with the firm and will continue on with the Calgary office as associates.

• Jenine Mak has joined the Calgary office of Macleod Dixon LLP as an associate after recently completing her articles with the firm.

• Loretta Bouwmeester and Chris Sabat have joined the Calgary office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP as associates.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

• Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP has made two additions to its Vancouver office. Michael Todd has joined as a national business law precedents lawyer, and Ellen Choi as an associate.

• John S. Haythorne and Karen Martin have joined Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Vancouver as partners.

• Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP announced that four of its articling students—Joanne A. Anderton, Ben J. Eberhard, Eric L. Goodman, and Eli C. Walker—were called to the bar on September 5th and have since joined its Vancouver office as associates.

• Wesley McMillan has joined Harper Grey LLP as an associate in Vancouver.

• Susan Ben-Oliel and Helen Yu have joined the IP group of Bull Housser & Tupper LLP in Vancouver as associates. Janet Grove has rejoined the firm as a partner in the business, technology, and health care groups, after most recently serving as vice president, corporate counsel, and corporate secretary with the biopharmaceutical company, QLT Inc.

• Lawson Lundell LLP welcomes eight new associates to its Vancouver office. Amanda M. Kemshaw (formerly with Torys LLP) and Angela J. Bespflug join the litigation group. Kirstin L. Danielson, David R. Gedge, and Michael C. Snider  join the corporate commercial group. Megan S. Kaneen joins the pension & employee benefits group. Elliott Y. Mak joins the corporate finance and securities group and Kimberley A. Robertson (formerly with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP) joins the banking & insolvency group.

• Helena Plecko has moved from McCarthy Tétrault LLP to the Vancouver office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP as an associate.

ONTARIO

• Marc Jolicoeur has been announced as regional managing partner of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP's Ottawa office. This is the second time Jolicoeur has held the position.

• Ogilvy Renault LLP has promoted Ottawa-based lawyer Renée Thériault to counsel.

• Borden Ladner Gervais LLP has announced the addition of several new associates. Ilana Lipkin, J. Julian Chamberlain, Janye Lee, Justin Baichoo, and Olivia A. Bautista join the Toronto office. Kate Glover, Stacey Saufert, and Jamison Young will be with the firm's Ottawa location.

• Crown counsel Ian D. Scott has been appointed as director of the Special Investigations Unit. He will replace James Cornish, who's term expires on October 15.

• David Dodge, former governor of the Bank of Canada, has joined Bennett Jones LLP as senior advisor.

• Talia-Shahira Wood has joined the Ottawa office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP as an associate.

• Brian Levett, formerly with Miller Thomson LLP, has joined the Toronto office of Macleod Dixon LLP as partner.

• McMillan LLP has announced that Lawrence J. Crozier has joined its restructuring group in Toronto as partner. He joins McMillan from Aird & Berlis LLP.

• Lerners LLP welcomes lawyers Nancy Ralph and Tammy Ring to its Toronto office.

• Andrei Marcu, former president and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association, has joined Bennett Jones LLP as senior climate change and emissions trading advisor.

• Lynne J. Poirier, formerly in-house counsel with Livingston International Inc. in Toronto and the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa, has joined the Ottawa office of Ogilvy Renault LLP as an associate.

• Cathy Ma, formerly with Simmons & Simmons in the U.K., has joined the Toronto office of Macleod Dixon LLP as an associate.

• Antoinette Bozac, formerly with Unisource Canada, Inc., has taken the role as vice president, human resources & legal affairs, and general counsel for Canada Lands Company CLC Limited.

• The immigration law firm of Mamann & Associates has been rebranded as Mamann, Sandaluk, reflecting the admission of Joel Sandaluk into the partnership. The firm also welcomes new lawyer Marc Remmling to their Toronto office.

• Henry Ohab, former in-house chief patent counsel for LeapFrog Enterprises, has moved to the Toronto office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP. Robert Maki, formerly with Bennett Jones LLP, has moved to Gowling’s Waterloo office. Both join as associates. The firm is also welcoming two new partners to their Hamilton office — Debi M. Sutin, formerly with Feltmate Delibato Heagle LLP, and Christa C. Wessel, formerly general counsel and VP legal for Siemens Canada.

QUEBEC

• Bernard Colas, Alfredo Moreira, Armand A. Kazandjian, and Hynek Zikovsky have joined to form Colas Moreira Kazandjian Zikovsky s.e.n.c.r.l./LLP, based out of Montreal.

• Jane Bogaty and Jean-Sébastien Dugas have joined Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP as partners in the Montreal office.

• Kiriakos Vanikiotis and Benoît Pepin have joined the Montreal office of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP.

• Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP welcomes three new additions to its Montreal office. Mathieu Champagne and Julie Vespoli join as associates, and Valérie Carrier as a patent agent.