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

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes:

• On Friday, August 26, 2011, trading on TSX in Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX:TRE) was halted by order of the Ontario Securities Commission. The S&P/TSX index committee has determined that Sino-Forest no longer qualifies to be a constituent of the S&P/TSX Composite Index. As a result, the company will be removed at zero price from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion and the S&P/TSX Capped Materials Indices after the close of trading on Friday, September 16, 2011, as part of the quarterly review of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.

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.