News Releases

- Ramblers the ninth team vying to win 2012 BMO Team of the Week Championship, which includes a $125,000 prize towards a field refurbishment

- Team planning to volunteer as grocery packers to raise money for the Food Bank

- Team vying to win grand prize including $125,000 field refurbishment

- Team has chosen the BC Children's Hospital Foundation to receive $500 cheque on their behalf

According to Statistics Canada, 1.7 million Canadian men are self-employed in Canada - accounting for 65 per cent of total

- 82 percent of men would like to start their own business

- 83 per cent of Canadian men say having access to role models or mentors will be important to their success

- There are over 104,000 new small business start-ups each year in Canada

- New funds respond to investor appetite for income-based products

- Strategies include covered calls, laddered bonds and use of income-based Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

- BMO study: almost three-quarters of Canadians are interested in generating more income from their investments

BMO releases report on Windsor - outlook for economy, housing and labour market

- Unemployment rate expected to drop to pre-recession levels

- Non-residential construction a bright spot for the coming years

- Positives in auto sector, with higher production

- BMO offering support to Canadian businesses by making an additional $10 billion in credit available over next three years

Combined entity will expand BMO's investment advisory and manager research capabilities in the U.S. and create a leading integrated wealth management firm serving affluent clients

- Large companies planning to grow staffing levels more than smaller businesses

- Post secondary education a major asset to applicants

- The official bank of the Calgary Stampede for the past 100 years prides itself on its focus on families - BMO Farm Family Awards and BMO Kids' Day

- Family Financial Tips offered each week until the start of Stampede

- Alyson Schafer will be in the BMO Kids' Zone for BMO Kids' Day on Wednesday, July 11 to talk to parents and children about basic money management skills

- Historic 1958 "Hitching those bucks to the B of M" advertisement in the Stampede souvenir programme offered banking services onsite

- Winnipeg's Valley Gardens Girls vying to win grand prize which includes a $125,000 prize towards a field refurbishment

- Girls U-9 team participates in charitable events such as the Walk for Muscular Dystrophy

- 6,500 BMO employees will take part in the bank's first North America-wide volunteer day

- 400 projects across Canada and the U.S.

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