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Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Indices

Date 25/08/2003

Standard & Poor's will make the following index changes after the close of trading on Tuesday, August 26, 2003:

MI Developments Inc. (TSX:MIM.A and MIM.B - GICS Code 40401020 Real Estate Management & Development) will be added to the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Capped Financials, the S&P/TSX Capped Real Estate and to the TSX 200 Indices. Magna International Inc. (TSX:MG.A) has spun off 100% of MI Developments as a publicly traded real estate business.

Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.

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