Disagreement

• The Company has retained a leading executive search firm to help with the search for a permanent replacement.
• Mike has brought value to Inogen as an accomplished CFO and partner to me, and I am pleased to welcome him back to the company.
• He brings expertise working across business functions, including with the CEO and Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Compensation and Governance Committee.
• Inogen is reaffirming expectations for 2023 annual revenue of $315 million to $320 million and Adjusted EBITDA loss of $20 million to $25 million for the full year.

• Congress has just 11 days when it’s in session before the next federal fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2023.
• And in that time, it will need to enact all 12 appropriation bills to ensure that government agencies and departments have funding to keep programs going – or face a potential government shutdown.
• This is due to the magnitude of the differences not only between the two parties but also between the House and Senate.

One down, many to go

• But just before the House broke for August recess, it passed one appropriation bill, for military construction.
• The problem is the military construction bill is traditionally the easiest to pass, as it is very small – this year it stood at US$19.1 billion in spending.
• This is substantially less than the largest bill, which is usually the Labor, Health, Human Services and Education bill.

Ideological impasse

• These will be vehemently opposed by Democrats and potentially create an impasse in negotiations.
• Another complicating factor is that, recently, the administration submitted to Congress a request for a $45 billion supplemental appropriation that includes $24 billion for the war in Ukraine.
• In the past, these measures would often be attached to either an individual appropriation bill or what is known as a continuing resolution.
• While, constitutionally, appropriation bills must start in the House, they have to be reconciled with whatever version the Senate passes.

A history of shutdowns

• This approach has been endorsed by the White House to give time to negotiate a permanent solution.
• But the Freedom Caucus has indicated it will oppose such a measure unless it can attach many of its ideological riders.
• Since the 1974 Budget Act, there have been 22 such gaps or shutdowns due to the inability of Congress to enact all the appropriation bills.
• This shutdown lasted 35 days – the longest in history.

A record shutdown?

• Politically, the Republicans received virtually nothing beneficial from the 1995 or 2018 shutdowns, and were in fact blamed for both.
• Similarly, Republicans received little in 2013 but also seemed to receive less blame.
• Congress has just 11 working days to pass these bills, and that seems virtually impossible, especially in the current political climate.
• I even wouldn’t rule out a much longer shutdown of a couple of months that exceeds the record 35 days during the Trump administration.

• Candidates sparred over the idea of a federal abortion ban during the Aug. 23, 2023, Republican presidential debate.
• And abortion is likely to figure prominently in the November 2023 contest for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
• White men controlled people’s reproductive rights during the 20th century, too, with the American eugenics movement.
• As a researcher who specializes in the history of race and racism in the U.S., I study historical issues related to race, gender and social justice.

Enslaved women forced to reproduce

• With this shift, enslavers stepped up the forced breeding of enslaved women.
• White men raped the Black women andgirls they enslaved, and then enslaved the children born from those rapes.
• Because the Black midwives and enslaved women often were blamed for or suspected of using birth control and abortions to resist forced pregnancy and the enslavement of their offspring, enslavers turned increasingly away from midwives and to white male doctors to figure out why nearly half of enslaved infants were stillborn or died within their first year of life and why so many enslaved women were infertile.
• The forced breeding of these enslaved women was linked to the profitability of southern economies.

Eugenics and control over women’s bodies

• Thirty-two states, between 1907 and 1937, enacted forced sterilization mandates to prevent births by people eugenicists considered socially inadequate.
• For example, in North Carolina, which had the country’s third-highest sterilization rate, far more women than men were forcibly sterilized.
• Between 1930 and 1970, close to 33% of the women in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, were forcibly sterilized.
• In California, between 1997 and 2003, 1,400 female inmates, mostly Black, were forcibly sterilized.

The post-Dobbs era

• The Census Bureau projects that in the 2040s, non-Hispanic white people will no longer make up a majority of the U.S. population.
• Black women represent 39% of the country’s abortion patients, but many live in communities that have limited access to family planning clinics.
• As a result, Black women - who experience higher maternal complications and mortality rates - will be forced to give birth to more babies.
• This is another period in the country in which the reproductive health decisions made by mostly white men will harm Black women.

• CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canacol Energy Ltd. ("Canacol" or the "Corporation") (TSX:CNE; OTCQX:CNNEF; BVC:CNEC) announces that it has changed its auditors from KPMG LLP (“Former Auditor”) to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“Successor Auditor”) effective August 14, 2023.
• At the request of the Corporation, the Former Auditor resigned as the auditor of the Corporation effective August 14, 2023, and the board of directors of the Corporation appointed the Successor Auditor as the Corporation’s auditor effective August 14, 2023, until the next Annual General Meeting of the Corporation.
• There are no reportable events including disagreements, consultations, or unresolved issues as defined in National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations (“NI 51-102”) (Part 4.11) between the Corporation and the Former Auditor.
• In accordance with NI 51-102, the notice of change of auditor, together with the required letters from the Former Auditor and the Successor Auditor, have been reviewed by the board of directors of the Corporation and filed on SEDAR.