---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-050060"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WCN"
cik: "0001318220"
company_name: "Waste Connections, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T02:54:27.702756+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Waste Connections shareholders elect all eight director nominees, approve say-on-pay and auditor

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected with majority support; Carl D. Sparks and Cherylyn Harley LeBon each got 99.17% votes for.
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved with 210,688,119 votes for (95.3% of votes cast, excluding broker non-votes).
- Appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as independent auditor for 2025 ratified with 228,301,261 votes for (99.87% of votes cast).
- No changes to Board composition or executive compensation; all directors to serve until next annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-050060
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WCN
- cik: 0001318220
- company_name: Waste Connections, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318220/000110465925050060/0001104659-25-050060-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318220/000110465925050060/tm2515384d1_8k.htm

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