Alberta Star Development Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ASX)(OTCBB: ASXSF) is pleased to report that the Company has received assay results from the final eleven holes from the summer/fall drill program and continues to intersect significant poly-metallic mineralization at Mile Lake, NT. The Company has intersected poly-metallic breccia's and veins that are rich in copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc, silver and tungsten from the Mile Lake Breccia, the Thompson Showing and the J1 target area situated on the Company's Contact Lake property on the south side of Echo Bay. Preliminary drilling of the Mile Lake Breccia has yielded significant poly-metallic drill results from drill holes 1 & 2 (NR Nov 16, 2006) and from the balance of 6 dri...

Alberta Star Development Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ASX)(OTCBB: ASXSF) is pleased to announce that the Company has received its preliminary report from SGS Lakefield Research Ltd. ("SGS"), which conducted mineral processing and metallurgical testing of silver & uranium tailings collected by the Company during the summer of 2006 from the Eldorado & Echo Bay silver and uranium mines. The SGS report included an investigation of the mineralogical properties, physical characterization, tailings composite, and an assessment of the leachability of the tailings to determine the potential recovery of uranium, silver, cobalt, nickel and copper. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the nature and mode of occurrence of ...

Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. ("Goodman & Company"), manager of diversiTrust™ Income Fund, diversiTrust™ Stable Income Fund, diversiTrust™ Income+ Fund, diversiTrust™ Energy Income Fund, diversiYield™ Income Fund and diversiGlobal™ Dividend Value Fund (the "Funds"), announces the following cash distributions payable on November 14, 2006 to unitholders of record on October 31, 2006: Goodman & Company, manager of the Funds, is a leader in the income trust market, managing a broad range of core and specialized income trust mutual funds, including: Dynamic Focus+ Diversified Income Trust Fund, Dynamic Focus+ Energy Income Trust Fund and Dynamic Focus+ Small Business Fund. Goodman & Company also manages several industry-leading global equity mutual funds, including Dynamic Global Discovery Fund and Dynamic Global Dividend Value Fund. Barry Allan of Marret Asset Management Inc. is sub-advisor for the diversiYield™ Income...

Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. ("Goodman & Company"), the manager of diversiYield™ Income Fund (TSX: DYI.UN) (the "Fund"), announces a normal course issuer bid. In accordance with the terms of its initial public offering, the Fund intends to purchase, through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX"), up to 1,111,044 trust units of the Fund (the "Trust Units") representing approximately 10% of the public float. The public float of the Fund as of October 12, 2006 was 11,110,436 Trust Units.

The Trust Units may be purchased for cancellation commencing on October 23, 2006 through to October 22, 2007 through the facilities of the TSX and may be purchased when the net asset value per Trust Unit exceeds its trading price. A Notice of Intention to Make a Normal Course Issuer Bid has been accepted by the TSX effective as of October ...

Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. ("Goodman & Company"), manager of diversiTrust™ Income Fund, diversiTrust™ Stable Income Fund, diversiTrust™ Income+ Fund, diversiTrust™ Energy Income Fund, diversiYield™ Income Fund and diversiGlobal™ Dividend Value Fund (the "Funds"), announces the following cash distributions payable on October 16, 2006 to unitholders of record on September 29, 2006: Goodman & Company, manager of the Funds, is a leader in the income trust market, managing a broad range of core and specialized income trust mutual funds, including: Dynamic Focus+ Diversified Income Trust Fund, Dynamic Focus+ Energy Income Trust Fund and Dynamic Focus+ Small Business Fund. Goodman & Company also manages several industry-leading global equity mutual funds, including Dynamic Global Discovery Fund and Dynamic Global Dividend Value Fund. Barry Allan of Marret Asset Management Inc. is sub-advisor for the diversiYieldTM Income Fun...

Alberta Star Development Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ASX)(OTCBB: ASXSF) is pleased to announce that it proposes to complete a brokered private placement of up to 5,800,000 million flow-through units ("Units") of the Company at a subscription price of $1.90 per Unit, for total gross proceeds of up to (Cdn) $11,020,000 (the "Offering"). Each Unit shall consist of one (1) common share ("Common Share") to be issued on a "flow-through share" basis, in the share capital of the Company and one half of one common share purchase warrant ("Warrant"). Every whole Warrant is exercisable into one additional Common Share at an exercise price of $2.15 per share on or before eighteen months after the initial date of closing of the Offering. The c...

Advanced Explorations Inc. (the "Company") (NEX: AXI.H) is pleased to announce that it has retained Don Hryhor, Allan MacRae, & Jim Gouveia as Advisors to the Company. As advisors, they provide a unique set of experience and expertise in the petroleum industry, and will assist the Company in the due diligence assessment of Laser Diagnostics International Instruments Inc.'s (LDI3) LiDAR technology. The Company anticipates implementing a program, with the Advisors' assistance, to: demonstrate the application of the LiDAR technology to map oil seeps for exploration purposes, in the areas of technology assessment and validity, as well as project risk management.

Don Hryhor: Don is President of Thunder River Energy Inc. and President/CEO of CIMA Holdings Inc. He has over 30 years of hands-on experience in various disciplines of the oil and gas exploration industry, initially training with Hryhor Geophysical Ltd., a consulting firm founded in 1966 by W. J. Hryhor, P.Geoph. Hryhor Geo...

Alberta Star Development Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ASX)(OTCBB: ASXSF), is pleased to report that the Company has successfully completed a Regional High Resolution Aeromagnetic Gradiometer-Radiometric Survey over the entire Eldorado uranium belt. This airborne geophysical survey consisted of 16,708 line-kilometers at 100 meter line spacings and was completed under ideal weather conditions. The Company believes that the airborne high resolution radiometric survey will provide valuable information which will further enhance uranium exploration capabilities by clearly showing high definition conductive uranium targets.

Tim Coupland, President & CEO commented, "We have now completed a radiometric survey over the entire uraniu...

Garda World Security Corporation (TSX: GW), a North American leader in security and investigations services, is pleased to announce today that it has acquired Intertec Security LTD and a subsidiary, effective July 1, 2006. Headquartered in Toronto, with a branch office in Hamilton, Intertec Security has annual revenues of $16.5 million.

Intertec Security is a Canadian owned and operated security services company with over 650 employees in the Greater Toronto Area and in the region of Hamilton. Founded by Harold Ball 35 years ago, the company offers physical security services such as security officers, mobile patrols, executive protection and parking control.

"Consistent with the integration plan of our latest acquisitions in the physical security sector in Canada, this transaction helps us to continue to strengthen our base operations and our leading position i...

Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. ("Goodman & Company"), manager of diversiTrust™ Income Fund (TSX: DTF.UN), diversiTrust™ Stable Income Fund (TSX: DTS.UN), diversiTrust™ Income+ Fund (TSX: DTP.UN), diversiTrust™ Energy Income Fund (TSX: DTN.UN), diversiYield™ Income Fund (TSX: DYI.UN) and diversiGlobal™ Dividend Value Fund (the "...