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Donald Coxe, Global Portfolio Strategist, BMO Financial Group and Chairman, Harris Investment Management Inc., will speak at an Economic Club of Toronto lunch event on Tuesday, November 29, 2005.

Mr. Coxe will speak on the future for world oil markets, with a speech entitled “Why the News Will Remain Good for Ralph Klein and Hugo Chavez”.

The presentation will take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 701A, South Building, 222 Bremner Boulevard in Toronto, with lunch starting at 11:45 a.m. EST.  To arrange an interview with Mr. Coxe, please contact Peter Scott at (416) 867-3996.

Tickets can be purchased by contacting Mark Adler of the Economic Club of Toronto at (416) 306-0899 or by visiting the Economic Club of Toronto website at www.ecot.ca.

With three decades of institutional investing and money management experience in the United States and Canada, Donald Coxe has a unique background in North American and global capital markets.

Mr. Coxe, Global Portfolio Strategist for BMO Financial Group in Canada and for Harris in the US, publishes a monthly institutional portfolio strategy journal, ‘Basic Points’, which is distributed in North America and Europe. His weekly institutional strategy conference call is followed by 15,000 investors.

He maintains a highly visible presence in major business communities through his speaking engagements, writing, conference calls, and regular appearances in North American print and broadcast media. He is a columnist for Maclean's magazine, Canada’s foremost current affairs journal, and author of ‘The New Reality of Wall Street’, published in May 2003 by McGraw-Hill.

Prior to entering the investment business, Mr. Coxe served as Associate Editor of National Review magazine in New York, and practiced law in Toronto. He holds a B.A. in Modern History, University of Toronto and LL.B. Osgoode Hall Law School.

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