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The catalyst report · Monday, August 31, 2026

What went up, and what took it there

The Canadian small-caps that finished green on this session: catalysts whose reaction paid, insiders sitting above what they paid, and the day’s biggest advances on real volume. Releases carry a date but no time, so each catalyst move is measured from the last close before the event through the close of the session after it — capturing the reaction whether the news broke mid-session or after the bell.

Catalysts paid
4
Tickers
4
Median gain
+5.3%
Insiders up
6

Catalysts that paid

Ordered by the size of the gain, biggest first. Events that closed flat or red aren't shown.

LBNK.VLithiumBank Resources Corp.Financing Announced

LithiumBank Announces Closing of Upsized Private Placement - TMX Newsfile

$0.620 $0.750TSXVmkt cap $48.7M13.0× avg volumeevent 2026-08-28Release
+21.0%
day of +12.9%
next +7.1%
IVS.VInventus Mining Corp.Calculated Hold Expiry

Calculated hold expiry from: Inventus Announces Upsize of Non-Brokered Flow-Through Financing to $2.5 Million - ACCESS Newswire

$0.300 $0.320TSXVmkt cap $60.8M2.5× avg volumeevent 2026-08-28Release
+6.7%
day of +3.3%
next +3.2%
DRY.VDryden Gold Corp.Calculated Hold Expiry

Calculated hold expiry from: Dryden Gold Announces Upsizing of Its Equity Financing with Participation from Centerra Gold and Alamos Gold - TMX Newsfile

$0.260 $0.270TSXVmkt cap $64.0M3.2× avg volumeevent 2026-08-28Release
+3.8%
day of +1.0%
next +2.9%
MCC.VMorocco Strategic Minerals CorporationCalculated Hold Expiry

Calculated hold expiry from: Morocco Strategic Minerals Announces Upsize to Private Placement - GlobeNewswire

$0.180 $0.185TSXVmkt cap $36.7M2.7× avg volumeevent 2026-08-28Release
+2.8%
day of +5.6%
next -2.6%

Winners by event type

Green outcomes only, this session. n counts the event type's winners, not its events — samples are small by nature, so read n before the median.

Event typenMedian gainBest
Calculated Hold Expiry3+3.8%+6.7%
Financing Announced1+21.0%+21.0%

Insiders in the green

Open-market buys made in the last 90 days that are now trading above the insider's share-weighted average price. Option exercises, grants and issuer buybacks are excluded — only cash purchases by people count.

CGD.VCarlin Gold Corporation

2 insiders bought at an average $0.661last close $1.320

291,400 shares$193k bought7 filingslast buy 5d ago
+99.7%
HPL.VHorizon Petroleum Ltd.

Trevor Williams bought at an average $0.150last close $0.295

99,500 shares$15k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 68d ago
+96.7%
EBM.VEastwood Bio-Medical Canada Inc.

3 insiders bought at an average $0.980last close $1.900

18,800 shares$18k bought24 filingslast buy 20d ago
+94.0%
EDDY.VEdison Lithium Corp.

Amrit Paul Singh Gill bought at an average $0.050last close $0.080

418,000 shares$21k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 60d ago
+61.4%
BAG.VBlende Silver Corp.

Andrew H. Rees bought at an average $0.130last close $0.205

100,000 shares$13k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 69d ago
+57.7%
UVC.VIllumisoft Lighting Corp.

2 insiders bought at an average $0.722last close $1.030

93,600 shares$68k bought11 filingslast buy 38d ago
+42.7%

Volume gainers

The session's biggest advances among names that traded real money — a 40% move on $300 of volume is a print, not a market.

OILD.TO$15.9800.3× avg volume+646.7%
DEC.V$0.1709.3× avg volume+70.0%
ZNX.V$0.1805.5× avg volume+28.6%
DPRO.CN$7.5305.9× avg volume+25.1%
FRED.V$0.8505.8× avg volume+19.7%
DND.TO$0.8001.2× avg volume+17.6%
TELI.CN$0.5703.8× avg volume+17.5%
CTTT.CN$0.2200.1× avg volume+15.8%

Coming up · next 7 days

Hold-period expiries and announced financings dated ahead. Expiries only appear once the financing behind them was already public.

2026-09-01+1dNICU.VFinancing Announced$2.380
2026-09-01+1dMGM.VFinancing Closed$2.820
2026-09-01+1dGRSL.VFinancing Announced$0.390
2026-09-01+1dAFE.VFinancing Announced$0.185
2026-09-01+1dROK.VPrivate Placement$0.400
2026-09-01+1dALGR.VWarrant Exercise$0.630
2026-09-02+2dAGX.VFinancing Announced$0.920
2026-09-02+2dSVE.VPrivate Placement$0.440
2026-09-02+2dAFE.VFinancing Announced$0.185
2026-09-02+2dTSG.VWarrant Exercise$0.200
2026-09-02+2dEQ.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.940
2026-09-02+2dBAU.VFinancing Announced$0.220
2026-09-02+2dNICE.VFinancing Closed$0.490
2026-09-02+2dFTRC.VFinancing Closed$0.150
2026-09-02+2dWIL.VFinancing Announced$0.250
2026-09-02+2dRBZ.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.355
2026-09-02+2dSTRM.VPrivate Placement$0.480
2026-09-02+2dHASH.VPrivate Placement$0.060
2026-09-02+2dDOS.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.030
2026-09-03+3dMAI.VCapital Markets Event$4.330

25 more on the catalyst calendar.

This issue reports winners only: catalysts that closed green, insiders who are up, and names that rose on the session. The events, buys and moves that went the other way are filtered out, so nothing here is a hit rate or a representative sample of how these setups usually turn out.

Information only — not investment advice, and not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Event data is extracted automatically from public releases and may be incomplete, delayed or misattributed to the wrong issuer; verify against the company’s own filings before acting.