Canoe Mining Ventures Corp. announced the appointment of Dr. Roger Laine as an independent member of the board of directors of the Company. Roger Laine, PhD., is a geological engineer with over 40 years of experience in advanced mineral exploration, development, geo-statistics and reserve estimating, copper and copper-gold porphyry deposits, underground and open-pit mines, grade, and quality control using advance computerized information systems. He has held senior roles with several mining companies working in the Americas, West and Central Africa and Europe. Dr. Laine has previously worked closely at the Board level with the Company's CEO Duane Parnham on three other publicly traded issuers, namely, Broadway Gold Mining Ltd., Giyani Gold Corp. and Forsys Metals Corp.