RE:RE:792,000 shares traded today Answering my own question, I found this from an article and confirmed it by looking through annual reports from Paladin on Sedar. They also bought back shares in 2012.
In 2007 and 2008, Goodman bought back 7% of its float. That isn’t a huge buyback effort, but keep in mind the environment he was doing that in – there were all sorts of options for a well capitalized company to buy at that time. And also keep in mind the return on those repurchases; Paladin shares traded between $10 and $12 in those years, and less than seven years later Paladin was sold for over $100/share.
Interesting enough, Goodman's main plan is to buy back shares when they are cheap and issue shares when they are expensive instead of using debt. He has stayed true to that during Knight's short life. It is worth noting that things are different today in regards to macro and so is the company.