Leisure Canada fka LCN

[december]

I think we are going to see news here on LCN. The buying is steady. They are trying to suck out stock here.

Cramer is hawking BNS as a Cuba play and CUBA on the NASD has done real well but LCN is the only pure play on Cuba.

I think we could see a break to .70.

[december]

Next leg up is coming

[december]

Quiet but steady @ .45

[december]

Hey Fringe, What do you think of WHD on the TSXv?

[december]

Closed strong @ .45. Great week.

[fringe_remnant]

Yeah, My Coffee LOL...

ZavBar over on the P_Shift posts a few good Canuck plays. We also have DYTB, DPDW and VSHC running, or starting to.

fringe

[december]

Tks Fringe

Anything look good to you today

[fringe_remnant]

LCN.V Ascending Channel on the Weekly Chart

may be on the verge of being left behind as the PPS breaks out of it to the upside. That system.

fringe

[december]

A change to the system? I don't what that means exactly but I like the sound of it. Tks Brother

[fringe_remnant]

LCN.V Trend

The chart I showed here earlier described a mini-ascending triangle within a channel system, implying a possible change to that system. That seems to be occuring now.

[december]

Have u seen LCN this a.m. ?? Wow ! Weird pop.

[december]

Big volume....story is gaining steam

[december]

220K in Volume ........ Last @ .40

[december]

HAVANA (Reuters) - The latest rumor whispered on the crumbling streets of Havana is that ailing leader Fidel Castro cannot appear in public because he lost his hair -- and his famous beard -- to chemotherapy for cancer.

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Cubans searching for reasons for the almost six-month public absence of the 80-year-old revolutionary can only speculate about what's wrong with him, for lack of official word. They do not know what he has or even where he is being treated.

Cuba's communist leadership has kept water-tight secrecy around Castro's health crisis and told Cubans nothing other than reiterations that the "comandante" is recovering slowly and will be back.

There have been no leaks from Castro's inner circle and his doctors have reportedly been sequestered since his emergency surgery in late July.

A Spanish newspaper report on Tuesday that Castro is in "very serious" condition due to infection following three failed surgeries on his large intestine has gone unreported in Cuba's state-controlled media.

El Pais, citing sources at the same Madrid hospital where a surgeon who examined Castro in December works, said he suffered from diverticulitis, or inflamed bulge in the intestine, and not terminal cancer, as U.S. officials have speculated.

Castro's close ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speaking in Ecuador, denied the report the Cuban leader's condition was serious, but said his recovery from surgery was slow and had risks.

Cuban officials decline to comment on news reports from abroad, the only source of information about Castro for the few Cubans who have access to Internet or get to watch Miami television stations on illegal satellite dishes.

Cubans, whether they support Castro or not, are worried about their country's future in the vacuum he will leave. Some are angry they are not being told the full story.

"It is not right that we have to learn about his health through a foreign newspaper, but it has always been that way," said Dalia, a student hitching a ride to Havana's university. "The press here says nothing."

"Cubans think Fidel is immortal. The thought of him dying frightens us," said Rafael, a self-employed odd-job man who, like most Cubans interviewed, declined to give his full name. "There is no information. That's why there is so much gossip."

U.S. THREAT

Since the emergency surgery that forced him to relinquish power to his brother Raul on July 31, Castro has issued only five messages to the nation, the last a New Year greeting in which he said his recovery was "far from being a lost battle."

The last time Cubans saw him was in an video clip released on Oct 28 showing a frail Castro walking with difficulty.

Castro has justified the dearth of news about his health saying "bad news" would only help his longtime ideological enemy, the U.S. government, which has stepped up pressure for political change in Cuba.

"Given the specific situation facing Cuba and the plans designed by the Empire, the information about my health condition becomes a state secret that cannot be continuously disseminated," he said in a message to Cubans on Aug 1.

Castro, who claims there have been 600 plots by the CIA and exiled foes to assassinate him, has always been secretive about his movements, and his private life is a taboo subject in the Cuban media.

Foreign diplomats in Havana say the secrecy surrounding his health crisis serves to gain time for the consolidation of his brother's leadership and the survival of Cuba's one-party state when he is gone.

"It also keeps adversaries in doubt," said a European diplomat. "They want to disclose information on their own terms, making it fit their plans."

Asked about earlier assertions that Castro was dying of cancer, one U.S. official declined to comment on what is known about his condition within the Bush administration. But he said evidence of the physical wasting was clear.

"His condition plainly is serious indeed. That hasn't changed," the official who spoke on condition of anonymity said.

(Additional reporting by David Morgan in Washington)

[december]

Big bang coming on LCN

[brief case]

still think when he goes stocks like LCN will pop

[december]

By MAR ROMAN, Associated Press writer
1 hour, 27 minutes ago



MADRID, Spain - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has had at least three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection and faces "a very grave prognosis," a Spanish newspaper reported Tuesday.

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A Cuban diplomat in Madrid said the reports were lies and declined to comment.

"It's another lie and we are not going to talk about it. If anyone has to talk about Castro's illness it's Havana," the diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of official policy.

The newspaper El Pais cited two unnamed sources from the Gregorio Maranon hospital in the Spanish capital of Madrid. The facility employs surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, who flew to Cuba in December to treat the 80-year-old Castro.

In a report published on its Web site, El Pais said: "A grave infection in the large intestine, at least three failed operations and various complications have left the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, laid up with a very grave prognosis."

Cuba has released little information on Castro's condition since he temporarily ceded power in July to his brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro, until he could recover from emergency intestinal surgery, prompting much speculation and rumor in the country and around the world.

El Pais' report, which could not immediately be confirmed, was a rare detailed description from a major media outlet about Castro's condition.

The U.S. government had speculated that Castro could suffer from cancer — a supposition denied by Sabrido. Some U.S. doctors believed Castro was suffering from diverticular disease, which can cause bleeding in the lower intestine, especially in people over 60. In severe cases, emergency surgery may be required.

That idea was supported by El Pais, which reported that its sources said Castro had suffered a bout of the disease.

"In the summer, the Cuban leader bled abundantly in the intestine," El Pais reported. "This adversity led him to the operating table, according to the medical sources. His condition, moreover, was aggravated because the infection spread and caused peritonitis, the inflammation of the membrane that covers the digestive organs."

The recovery from the first operation, in which part of his large intestine was extracted and the colon was connected to the rectum, did not go well. The link broke and he released feces into the abdomen that caused another peritonitis, the report said.

A second operation to clean and drain the infected area also failed, the paper said. He was then hit with inflammation of the bile duct, an illness which has a 80 percent mortality rate, el Pais said. A prothesis made in South Korea was implanted and failed and later was replaced with one made in Spain.

El Pais said that in December, when Garcia Sabrido visited, Castro had an abdominal wound that was leaking more than a pint of fluids a day, causing "'a severe loss of nutrients." The Cuban leader was being fed intravenously, the report said.

Garcia Sabrido was not reachable at his home or at the Madrid hospital where he works as the chief surgeon. His secretary at his office said he was not planning to comment.

A statement attributed to Castro was released on New Year's Eve saying his recovery was "far from being a lost battle."

Cuban officials told visiting U.S. lawmakers last month that Castro does not have cancer or a terminal illness and will eventually return to public life, although it was not clear whether he would return to the same kind of absolute control as before.

[december]

Right now we have no sellers because the story needs to be re-ignited. If theydon't deliver some news in the next six months you might get selling.

[december]

Management needs to put out a PR and then we get some volume. I hope.

[december]

Going to be wild. The guys @ LCN have been in Cuba for a while. Patience is the key word here.

[fringe_remnant]

I Guess When Castros' Gone...

... everything's going to be up for grabs down there, including a lot of old scores to be settled. Will be a bit jumpy for a while methinks, during which time Ramos gets taken out, and the place gets upgraded. wouldn't necessarily want to be a part of that, as an innocent investor bystander.

fringe

[brief case]

I have been watching December on some other picks, seems like this is another good one to look at-when Castro's gone this could be a huge winner.

[fringe_remnant]

Accumulation

It is under accumulation, no doubt.

It is also very illiquid.

Getting ready to break methinks. Perhaps it will attract a higher dialy volume in the future.

fringe


Weekly Chart

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I would say 6 months and not a lot of volume so if sellers showed up the price would suffer.

[december]

Constant buying for the last couple of months

[Tackler]

What makes you think the stock is under accumulation?

[december]

Accumualtion and lack of selling.......supply an demand :)

[Tackler]

why is that?

[december]

Holding up well in the .30s ...should move from to the .40s soon

[december]

.39 this morning

[december]

Steady in the high .30s

[december]

Going to move higher on news

[december]

Dead board?? All alone :(

[december]

Slowed down here....need news

[december]

A little weaker today.

[december]

Holding well @ .40

[december]

Closed @ .41 Today........ Up 22%

[december]

Nice volume on LCN Today

[december]

Leisure Canada arranges $1.7-million financing


2006-12-22 14:18 ET - News Release

Mr. Ian Brown reports

LEISURE CANADA ANNOUNCES C$1.7 MILLION FINANCING

Leisure Canada Inc. is arranging a non-brokered financing for 6.8 million units at 25 cents per unit for total proceeds of $1.7-million. Each unit consists of one Class A share (common share) plus one-half warrant. One full warrant shall entitle the holder to purchase one additional common share of Leisure Canada for a period of 60 months after the closing date at a price of 35 cents per warrant share.

The proceeds from this financing will be used to finance operating capital commitments in Cuba for 2007.

[december]

Stock seems to bounce off of .25

http://www.stockscores.com/quickreport.asp?ticker=v.lcn

[Tackler]

Walter H. Berukoff - Executive Chairman
Mr. Berukoff, is an entrepreneur who has extensive background in hotel management and real estate development and financing. He has also been, for the past 30 years, the President of Red Lion Management, a private holding company that deals with merchant banking, real estate and business management. Prior to assuming the full-time role as President and CEO of Leisure Canada, Mr. Berukoff was the President and CEO of both Miramar and Northern Orion. Mr. Berukoff has pursued mining interests in Cuba as early as 1991 and was responsible for the development of Northern Orion's Mantua copper mine located in Pinar del Rio in Cuba, the first foreign mining deal ever consummated in Cuba. As part of the development of the mine, Mr. Berukoff was responsible for bringing the first foreign bank financing to Cuba. It was through the investigation of potential mining properties that Mr. Berukoff foresaw the immense potential to be gained from participating in the development of Cuba's tourism industry.

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