Career History
After retiring from active politics in 1997, he was a senior vice-president and then executive vice-president of TransAlta Corporation from August 1997 to December 2004.
Dinning currently serves on the board of directors of four companies that are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. They are: Liquor Stores NA Ltd where he serves as Chair of the Board, Parkland Fuel Corp., Russel Metals Inc., and Oncolytics Biotech Inc.. Dinning also serves as chairman of the board of the Western Financial Group and Export Development Canada. He is the Chair of the Board of Canada West Foundation and he's Chancellor of University of Calgary.
Dinning was the chair of the Calgary Health Region from 1999 to 2001. He was a Governor of the Banff Centre, and served as a director of Finning International, Shaw Communications Inc., the Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN), and the Alberta Energy Research Institute. Dinning has also served as chairman of the Canadian Clean Power Coalition, which comprised major power producers such as ATCO, Epcor, TransAlta, Luscar, SaskPower, and Nova Scotia Power.
The University of Calgary honoured Dinning in 2002 with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. In 2011, he joined former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein when together they were honoured by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation with their Tax Fighter Award. http://taxpayer.com/federal/taxpayers-federation-honour-ralph-klein-and-jim-dinning-taxfighter-award
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