Personally, I feel it's inappropriate for management to be on vacation again considering they only came back on vacation in January

Maybe they`re really not on vacation! Maybe that is a cover story so no one can talk with them right now. Amazing coincidence that all the key people that would be involved in negotiations would suddenly take vacations at the same time! Imo, if Teck were to make a deal the timing must be getting close for them to wrap this up. I can`t see them leaving this until April or May as this would be getting too close to the deadline and they still would have to give 45 days for shareholders to approve. My 2 cents.