A track record of successful investing.

Current investments

Torrent Capital

Torrent Capital is a publicly traded investment company that provides shareholders with exposure to an actively managed growth portfolio. The portfolio combines long term core holdings with short term option strategies that generate income while capitalizing on market volatility. Torrent conducts deep research and analysis of its core holdings across sectors such as technology, resources, and digital assets. This diversified multi-sector approach provides an opportunity to capture asymmetrical upside while managing downside risk.

kneat.com, inc.

Founded in 2006, kneat.com, inc. allows regulated organizations to move from paper-based validation to intelligent, digitized, and paperless solutions. They provide expert, up-to-date, in-depth, and reliable knowledge and services about easy implementation of GMP solutions. The platform is now used by some of the world’s leading Life Sciences companies.

Coloursmith Labs

Coloursmith Labs is a company that specializes in developing optical filtering lens technology. Their proprietary light filtering technology can filter out specific wavelengths of light, enabling a wide range of vision care applications that can be custom-made for their partners in the vision care industry. They have developed nanoparticles that can be used in contact lenses to help people with vision problems such as deuteranopia, a form of color blindness. Coloursmith Labs is developing the world’s first contact lenses that mitigate the most prevalent forms of color blindness. Their goal is to help over a quarter of a billion people worldwide who suffer from color blindness.

Rayleigh Solar Tech

Rayleigh Solar Tech is a company that has developed thin, flexible, and lightweight perovskite solar cells. Their technology enables solar power to be used on practically any curved surface, making it possible to put solar PV on everything. With their patent-pending roll-to-roll printing technology, they manufacture flexible solar cells that do more at a lower cost. The company is dedicated to finding new ways to harness solar energy and make it useful unlike anything ever seen before. They are working to develop and commercialize the next generation of perovskite solar technology to support a greener future. Rayleigh Solar Tech is located in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Fortune Bay Corp.

Wade serves as Chairman of Fortune Bay Corp., a TSX-listed exploration and development company that holds multiple properties including the Goldfields gold deposit in Saskatchewan, and the Poma Rosa gold deposit in Mexico. The Company has a goal of creating shareholder value on a per-share basis. Fortune Bay Corp. pursues a disciplined, long-term approach that prioritizes capital efficiency, strategic alignment with investors, and meaningful value creation through discovery and early-stage development.

ReeXploration

ReeXploration is a Canadian company advancing critical mineral exploration to support clean energy, technology, and defense supply chains. Its flagship Eureka Project in Namibia hosts NdPr-rich rare earth mineralization, with testing confirming high-quality concentrate production. The company also identified a significant uranium exploration target that will be drill targeted in 2026. The company is building an ESG-focused platform for responsible, discovery-led growth in rare earths and other critical minerals.

OARO

OARO is leading global provider of biometric and cryptographic technologies headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Founded in 2017, Oaro technology is revolutionizing how leading organizations authenticate and authorize the flow of their digital information. Oaro recently deployed its automated, access control solution with Elevated Skin Temperature detection across 15 major Canadian airports in a contract with CATSA. The company was recognized as a Top 25 Up and Coming tech company by the Branham Group in the 2019 edition of the Branham300, the best-known ranking of Canada’s largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies.

WildBrain

WildBrain creates content for kids and families. With approximately 13,000 half-hour episodes of filmed entertainment, it is one of the world’s most extensive libraries of children’s shows. WildBrain’s brands include Peanuts, Teletubbies, Strawberry Shortcake, Caillou, Inspector Gadget, Johnny Test and Degrassi. Its shows are seen in more than 150 countries on over 500 telecasters and streaming platforms. WildBrain Spark, the Video on Demand segment of the company, offers one of the largest networks of kids’ channels on YouTube with over 168 million subscribers. WildBrain also licenses consumer products and location-based entertainment in every major territory for its own properties as well for clients and content partners. The television group owns and operates four family entertainment channels that are among the most viewed in Canada.

Antler Gold

Antler Gold Inc. is a Canadian gold exploration company, focused on the acquisition and exploration of gold projects in Namibia. Antler’s Erongo Central and Western Gold Project is comprised of seven exclusive prospecting licenses (EPL’s) which are located within the South Central Zone (SCZ) of Namibia’s prospective Damara gold belt. Both projects overlie similar lithologies and structures as the known Namibian Gold mines, as well as Osino’s recent Twin Hills discovery.

Success Stories

Resolute Health

The predecessor company to Resolute, The Snore Shop, was Established in 2005 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia by Dr. Neil Smith. The Snore Shop specialized in the testing and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. In 2017, Wade Dawe partnered with Dr. Neil Smith and Resolute Health was formed. Resolute subsequently expanded by acquiring clinics across the country, becoming the largest independent provider of sleep therapy in Canada. Resolute operated 72 clinics across 6 provinces. In early June 2022, Resolute was acquired by Kensington Private Equity.

Pivot Technology Solutions

Pivot Technology Solutions Inc. was a full-service information technology company that provided infrastructure and services to approximately 2000 customers, including many members of the S & P 500. Wade served as Chairman of the Board of this TSX-listed company for four years, which resulted in the acquisition of Pivot by Computacenter in November of 2020. Wade was a member of the Board’s Special Committee for the transaction and led negotiations for the cash sale of the company for approximately $105.8 million ($2.60 per share).

Brigus Gold

In 2010, Apollo Gold merged with Linear Gold to form Brigus Gold Corp. Wade served as CEO until 2014 when he negotiated the sale of the company to Primero Mining Corp. in an all share deal valued at $351 million. Brigus Gold was best known for operating Black Fox Gold Mine in Timmons, Ontario.

Salter Street Films

Brigus Capital was a significant shareholder in Salter Street Films, a Canadian television and film production company founded in Halifax in 1983. The company created multiple successes including This Hour Has 22 Minutes and producing Michael Moore’s Academy Award winning documentary, Bowling for Columbine.

Linear Gold Corp.

Linear Gold Corp. was a publicly-traded gold exploration and development company focused on acquiring, exploring, and advancing gold properties in Central America. Linear merged with Apollo Gold in 2010 to form Brigus Gold Corp., a transaction valued at $102 million.

Keeper Resources

Wade co-founded this Vietnam-focused oil and gas exploration company in 2003. Keeper Resources was sold for $51.6 million in 2008, in an all cash deal.

Major Drilling

In 2000, near the bottom of the commodity cycle, Brigus Capital acquired a sizeable stake in TSX-traded Major Drilling. Based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Major Drilling is one of the largest specialized drilling services operators in the world, primarily serving the mining industry.

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Dalhousie University is pleased to announce the launch of the new Senator Don Oliver Scholarship, which will provide financial support as well as access to mentoring advice and other support to African Nova Scotian students.

New scholarship honours Senator Don Oliver’s efforts to advance equity and justice

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