With less than a week to Canfor’s privatization vote, investors balk and analysts debate. Meanwhile: Western Forest Products and its striking workers head back to the table—but why the delay; NAFTA 2 is done—here are the changes and the US Homebuilder’s response. Companies in the news include: Fortress Paper’s cash crunch; Northern Pulp’s ‘nuanced’ effluent impact; Structurlam’s Walmart connection; and Christmas curtailments at Canoe Forest Products and Corner Brook Pulp & Paper.

In other news: Quebec repurposes some Caribou protection lands; Ontario’s forest strategy supports wood construction; a new report on BC’s 2012 sawmill explosions; and UNDRIP’s First Nations energy opportunity.

Finally, how the 2008 financial crises is pushing up the cost of a Christmas tree.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor