In the course of celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday, we want to take the opportunity to thank every person that has contributed to the breadth and diversity of our 41 CBA Sections in southern Alberta. This especially includes the members of the Section Executive Committees, who have spent considerable time striving to design and coordinate worthwhile programs for their Section members, all of the individuals that have volunteered to speak or present at the hundreds of Section meetings each year, and all of the very hardworking staff at the CBA office that facilitate every event we have. Most importantly, we want to thank all of our fellow CBA members that have participated in the Sections. There are many forums available for professional development and networking, so our success today is truly based on the ongoing participation of our CBA members. Thank you, please continue to participate in our Sections, and please provide us with feedback whenever you can.
Now with the summer upon us, in addition to some vacation time for (hopefully!) all of us, this can be an opportune time to reflect on our professional development needs for the coming year. To that end, we hope the CBA section will continue to play an important role. This could mean you continue to participate in your regular Sections, experiment with attending or joining a new section, volunteer your time to speak, or seek to participate on a Section Executive Committee. For more information, please see the link to Alberta South Sections at www.cba-alberta.org, or send us an email at sections@cba-alberta.org.
We would like to remind everyone that Section registration will open for the 2017-18 year in mid-August. Keep an eye out for an email from CBA Alberta, which will have all the details you need to register for your preferred sections.
As a final note, we would like to express our gratitude to Sean FitzGerald for completing his second term as CBA Section Coordinator. Sean is very dedicated to his pursuits at the CBA, and is a pleasure to work with. We welcome Bianca Kratt who will be joining Andrew Bateman as a section coordinator for the coming year.
We look forward to seeing all of you back in the fall.
Andrew Bateman is a partner at Felesky Flynn LLP, where his practice includes personal tax planning, corporate tax planning, commodity tax, trust and estate tax planning, and tax representation and litigation. Andrew is a past chair of the Tax Non-Specialist Section.
Sean FitzGerald is a partner with Miles Davison LLP in Calgary, where he primarily practices in general civil litigation. Sean has previously sat on the executive committees of the Civil Litigation, Employment Law and Insolvency Law sections.